The first was a demonstration of some tips and tricks that can be used when creating courses using Articulate and the second is a 20 minute summary/highlights of the 2011 Horizon Report (published by New Media Consortium). Cooking with Articulate/Making Cookies". There are hundreds and hundreds of screenrs (1300+) demonstrating all sorts of wonderful tips and tricks that can be used within Articulate Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker and PowerPoint. recommend following this social bookmark link for daily updates: [link] or follow #Articulate through Twitter. MORE >>

I had a blog reader ask about the best way to animate a table in her rapid elearning course. Her question did cause me to think about some of the different ways you can use tables in an elearning course. Simple PowerPoint Animations. Use PowerPoint shapes or images to point out things on the table. Also, if you want to print out the PowerPoint files, you have to remove all of the animations from the slide. This looks nice and is a bit easier to build and manage than the other types of PowerPoint animations. explain more below. The No Frills Approach. MORE >>

In a recent post I made this comment about rapid elearning tools: Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. We may say “elearning course” but it’s a term used loosely. The rapid elearning tools create all sorts of interactive multimedia that are not exclusively “elearning courses.” Quick just-in-time tutorials like this one on cropping images in PowerPoint. It’s a good question. MORE >>

And besides, many elearning courses use a similar layout which makes it easy to know what to do.  It’s more fun to create a custom look and feel for your elearning courses.  Many people who use Articulate Engage will create a drop down tab with detailed instructions for those who need them. It’s one thing if the elearning course has some novel interface that is a bit confusing.  But most elearning courses have the same basic structure.  There are a lot of ways to build navigation tips and prompts into your elearning course.  MORE >>

My final output in most cases will be using PowerPoint and then converting via Articulate so each row also represents a slide. The script can then be used for the Notes view if using Articulate or similar applications Provide some basic instructions about recording; - quiet place to record - how to use the script - type of microphone - how to avoid pops, hisses and background noise (pop shield?) This post is more of a reminder to myself more than anything else. Some of these actions I already had well in hand and some are as a result of the experience. Price? Software? MORE >>