Rapid eLearning

JULY 10, 2012

And since a website and course design is very similar, there’s probably a lot you can glean from your company’s site. How is the content on the site framed? Once I review the site and make notes on what I can use, I assemble the template. One video goes through the site and looks for inspiration. Content containers.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

There are all sorts of computer monitors available through the office online site. In today’s post, I’ll show you how to build a laptop monitor inspired by the free laptop image file you can get from the psdGraphics site. And at the end of the post you’ll find the original PowerPoint file for you to download and deconstruct.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

Free templates & downloads from the E-Learning Heroes community. PowerPoint Online Help : Microsoft updated the Office Online site and offers all sorts of tips and tricks. If you’re at the ASTD event check out one of the sessions or swing by the Articulate booth. October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 26, 2011

If you have a Dell computer, here’s a link to download the file. Use the free images you get with Microsoft Office Online or buy some from sites like istockphotos. Here’s a list of upcoming conferences and presentations: August 3-4: Madison, WI–Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning. Click here for details.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Now that the elearning community is complete, I’ve been moving old demos and templates over to the site. Whatever I create for the blog and conference demos, I try to make available for free. Pick through the downloads and feel free to use what you want. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2011

On a side note, you’ll notice that the download links go to the new community site’s download section. I now have a place to put all of the blog downloads so it’ll be easier for you to find resources that I’ve shared in the past. Download rounded speech bubbles here. Download squared speech bubbles here.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2011

If you want the template, you can download it here. Those are also available in the downloads section and work well with this type of template. Feel free to download and use the template as you wish. June 27 : Austin, TX—SITE Annual Conference: Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro: Articulate Style. Details coming soon.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 30, 2011

The site lets you build simple surveys. If even you don’t use the Urtak site, there’s something in how it’s structured that can help in your own course design. Here’s a quick tour I did of the Urtak site to point out how it works. October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar. The other day I was playing around with Urtak.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2012

Depending on the site you use for inspiration, creating a template can be just a matter of a few seconds. If it’s your company’s site, that’s probably OK. If you’re interested in having a workshop in your area, have your local ISPI or ASTD chapter contact me. August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ). Super easy, huh?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Most people have heard of sites like Groupon or Living Social. They’re social buying sites that have some sort of “deal of the day” where you can make discounted purchases as you recommend them to others. Did you know that there are similar sites for technology and web design? Here are a couple of the sites I subscribe to.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve had fun with travel across the country and getting to meet so many blog readers at various conferences. At the recent ASTD conference we demonstrated a bunch of elearning tips and tricks. For those who couldn’t make the conference, you can view the tutorials here. Download the files here.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The past few days I’ve been pulling some content together for a couple of workshops I’m doing at the ASTD TechKnowledge conference in San Jose. I also added links to Screenr videos and embedded some tutorials because it’s easy to get lost during the conference sessions. The file is about 20 MB because of the embedded video.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 28, 2014

Anyway, as many of you are probably aware the biggest training conference in North America, takes place May 4-7th, albeit most humans start off on May 5th. A couple of notes before I present my guide to ASTD exhibitors. I will be using Twitter throughout the day ( @diegoinstudio ), with live tweets using the ASTD hashtag #ASTD2014.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 29, 2012

Microsoft’s Online Office site is a great resource for free PowerPoint templates. Since many of you are using PowerPoint and the resources on the Microsoft site here’s a link to the Microsoft EULA. To save you some time, I dug through the PowerPoint templates on the Microsoft site. July 18: Knoxville, TN ( Smoky Mountain ASTD ).

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2011

Tidbits: I’m at the ASTD International Conference & Expo this week. Here’s a list of some of my other upcoming speaking events and conferences: June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. June 9 : Langhorne, PA (ASTD)— Tips to Becoming an E-Learning Pro. Here’s a rundown.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 19, 2011

If you have some expectation for them to do something like download more info or visit a link, you can track hits to the link or the number of downloads. If that is your goal, then you may also want to employ some of the landing page strategies that are used to entice traffic to web sites. I’ll be working the Articulate booth.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2011

In the case of “normal looking” you can make a list of the types of people in the course and then copy and paste images from Google image searches and sites like istockphotos. Tidbits: Here’s a list of some of my upcoming speaking events and conferences: May 22-25 : Orlando, FL— ASTD International Conference & Expo.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

They just updated the Office Online site and have some partnership with providers like Fotolio , iStockphoto , and iCLIPART. If you don’t want to learn to do the illustrations, you’re more than welcome to download them from the community since I’ve made them all available for free. October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2011

You can see the details below: June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. June 9 : Langhorne, PA (ASTD)— Tips to Becoming an E-Learning Pro. The conference is open to all. June 27 : Austin, TX—SITE Annual Conference: Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro: Articulate Style.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

There are thousands of tutorials on sites like Youtube and Screenr. Years ago if you wanted to meet industry experts you had to go to trade conferences or workshops. If you’re at the Learning Solutions Conference swing by the booth to say “Hello.”. March 21-23 : Orlando, FL ( Learning Solutions Conference ).

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Going through stock image and template sites is a good way to come up with design ideas. Louis (ASTD). March 21-23 : Orlando, FL ( Learning Solutions Conference ). April 10 : Jacksonville, FL ( NEFL ASTD ). April 17 : Virginia ( SEVA ASTD ). This is the annual Articulate users’ conference hosted by Leeds.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 10, 2012

I know there are people who will visit the conference’s expo section, where the vendors are listed, prior to the show. The expo site often is nothing more than a small blurb, the vendor’s web site and some shows now enable the vendor to have a contact/e-mail form. You can download the map. Hence, always ask.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

I’m coming off of back-to-back-to-back conference sessions and elearning workshops. In a recent activity, they had all of the restaurant greeters videotape their best customer greeting and then upload the videos to their internal video site. December 8 : Charlotte, NC (ASTD)— Rapid E-Learning Design. Louis (ASTD).

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I usually get my images from Fotolio or iStockphoto but there are dozens of good stock image sites. The new Microsoft Office site has a lot of the same images you’d buy from vendors like Fotolio available for free. Download the free assets from the elearning community. They also have some free stuff on their site.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 17, 2011

Tidbits: Here’s a list of some of my upcoming speaking events and conferences: May 22-25 : Orlando, FL— ASTD International Conference & Expo. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. Here’s a rundown.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 1, 2010

If you record in a conference room next to the copy machine or at your office cubicle, odds are that you’ll have sub-par audio. If you want to learn more, go to the site and check out the demo and tutorials. Here are a few sites that offer sound effects and free music. At the conference, we did a bunch of mini sessions.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 29, 2011

I just got back from the Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando. At the close of the conference, I participated in a panel presentation with some really smart people (not sure how I got invited). If you’re not familiar with them I included links to their sites below. I truly appreciate the enthusiasm and kind feedback.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

If you want to look at other multimedia examples for inspiration, David does a great job collecting them at his elearning examples site. Louis (ASTD). March 21-23 : Orlando, FL ( Learning Solutions Conference ). April 10 : Jacksonville, FL ( NEFL ASTD ). April 17 : Virginia ( SEVA ASTD ). February 22-23: St.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2010

Then I suggest getting inspiration from web design sites. Download the video as an.MP4. By downloading the.MP4 video file and inserting the video into the slide, the learner won’t need Internet access. Then download the.MP4s and edit them in Microsoft MovieMaker. Here’s an example of what it looks like.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Click to download the free PowerPoint template. Wordle site. Here are a few upcoming events where I’ll be speaking: ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco on January 6. Training 2011 Conference & Expo in San Diego on February 7. ASTD TechKnowledge in San Jose on February 2-4. 100+ PowerPoint Tutorials.

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eFront

OCTOBER 31, 2010

OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or users. Guys the most of you find these posts a valuable resource for the e-Learning community.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

This is a good place to start especially since they’ve recently updated the site. Stock Image Sites. There are a dozens of stock image sites where you can buy low cost images. There are many sites that give away open source content or images under creative commons licenses. Free Assets. Connect with the Community.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 1, 2011

Some sites probably just had text and images, and some may have offered more interactive media. Was the site providing what you needed to learn? You probably didn’t stick around long if the site didn’t offer what you needed. I get lots of links to YouTube videos and other sites. March 9 : Central Missouri ASTD ( webinar).

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 19, 2009

I found one site that had everything you could possible learn about crown molding. I tried another site that in four simple steps showed me how to cut the molding the right way. I tried another site that in four simple steps showed me how to cut the molding the right way. We’ll consider both sites “courses” on crown molding.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 11, 2010

Instead, too many people were surfing the web and visiting inappropriate sites. Tidbits: I’ll be at the ASTD conference in Chicago next week. Download your free 46-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. However, when I drilled down for more information, their real issue wasn’t security.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

Different roles from the same organization, when visiting a particular site, are likely to need different resources; so a field service engineer visiting a client site is likely to need different support than a sales person. That said, there are rich skill statements out of places like ASTD and LPI.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 16, 2014

Different roles from the same organization, when visiting a particular site, are likely to need different resources; so a field service engineer visiting a client site is likely to need different support than a sales person. That said, there are rich skill statements out of places like ASTD and LPI.

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