Choosing the Right Painkiller

After recently having a health issue, I was overwhelmed by the amount of different pain medication that was on offer. I felt that if I had trouble picking the correct medicine to take that I could not be the only one facing this issue.

I decided to design and develop eLearning material to help with others to understand what the specifications for each pain medicine would be and when you would need to take it. I wanted it to be interactive where users would have to drag and drop the medicine to the correct patient. 

Having used the ADDIE model in my previous projects, I wanted to use a different model to help with the development of this one. I decided to use Gagne's nine events to take me through the production of this course. I knew the general outline of this project and using Gagne's model helped to flesh out the details of the course. I again knew that I wanted to use a drag and drop activity and have the basis of the project around this. 

Similar to the previous project, I was using a personal experience of mine and building a project from there. Once I knew that I was going to tackle a guide to pain management I used ChatGPT to build the characters and scenarios that each patient would be facing. I did not want to convolute the project. I wanted to showcase my ability to have a drag and drop activity whilst still highlighting the educational side. Once I collated this information I went on to the next stage of the process.  

Once I had the storyboard completed, I went to PowerPoint to create mock-ups of the slides required for this project. The visuals that I wanted was to reflect contemporary life. As this was a health/medicine project, I was trying to find colours that mirrored youth and vitality. This is why I chose a blue-aqua primary colour, I picked black as a secondary colour. To keep the contemporary feeling throughout, the icons that I chose had sharp lines. I also wanted this be echoed in the animations and slide transitions. This will be developed further in the full development stage.