Rapid eLearning

APRIL 26, 2011

So I’m always looking for ways to help people get more out of the tools they have. Business Time PowerPoint Template. Bluegreen PowerPoint Template. Subtle Sky PowerPoint Template. Community PowerPoint Templates. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. They’re pretty cool.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PowerPoint is hot. This makes sense because it’s the most popular elearning tool out there. And once you understand how to use it to build rapid elearning courses , the sky’s the limit. In an earlier post I listed all of the ones that dealt with PowerPoint. Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template.

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NuggetHead

AUGUST 12, 2009

The fun part of my job is having a plethora of tools in my ‘elearning development’ toolbox: Adobe Creative Suite, Captivate, Visio, Lectora, and now Articulate. As many do, we storyboard projects in Word and PowerPoint. I would honestly double that time for anyone not familiar with working in these type tools.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! Click to download the free PowerPoint template.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2011

With a budget you can hire a graphic artist who can come up with some different design ideas for your elearning courses. In many ways their screens are similar to those we might find in an elearning course. Below are a couple of images from the PowerPoint template I quickly mocked up. You can see an example in the demo below.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 05, 2007 More on PowerPoint and Instructional Design Continuing the PowerPoint conversation begun yesterday here and picked up by Clive on Learning: Dont blame PowerPoint.and Quintus Joubert PowerPoint vs. Interactive Learning.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 6, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, April 06, 2007 David Byrne and PowerPoint Remember back in 2003, when David Byrne published a book (described by AP Technology Writer Rachel Konrad as a " coffee table book for nerds ") called E.E.E.I. Here, here. Take the Survey!

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2010

Had a great time last week in Indianapolis presenting to the Central Indiana ASTD chapter. So I had time to kill and decided to pull together a free elearning template for the blog readers. Click here to view the elearning template. If you want to succeed at rapid elearning, you have to develop your PowerPoint skills.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, April 04, 2007 NewsFlash: PowerPoint Bad For Learning Found via SlashDot , an article in todays Sydney Morning Herald " Research points the finger at PowerPoint." The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points Jane Bozarth : Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint. Effective design using PPT as a tool. Why PowerPoint? Not PPT 101.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2012

To ease your burden, I put together a list of all of the posts from 2011 where I shared free elearning assets. Here’s a Noteworthy PowerPoint Template (and It’s Free!). Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & Font. 5 Free PowerPoint E-Learning Templates. Check Out This Free PowerPoint Template & Tutorial.

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LearnDash

APRIL 18, 2013

In order to be a Certified Professional in Learning & Performance (ASTD), or a Certified Performance Technologist (ISPI), one has to continually take courses to improve and hone their skills… which is good for you! If they only say MS PowerPoint and Word – RUN! If they only say MS PowerPoint and Word – RUN!

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Kapp Notes

JULY 26, 2007

Around the same time, the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog had the July "Big Question" which was "Choosing Tools" which is actually a series of questions: How does the eLearning design process need to change to accommodate such a wide variety of tools? How does the tool selection process need to change?

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 1, 2013

I’m always sensitive to the elearning developers who have to work with limited resources and usually by themselves. This year’s 2012 wrap up post features the tips & tricks shared during the past year that can be applied to your elearning courses right away. Here Are 3 Tools That You Already Own. PowerPoint Tips.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2012

I’m always asked what skills a rapid elearning designer should have. Because of this, an image editing application should be in your tool chest. But before we explore the free tools, a good budget-friendly option is Photoshop Elements. It’s relatively inexpensive and should be able to do what most people need for elearning.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

As I was at ASTD last week, I missed doing my Hot List for the week. Hot List - 1/17/2009 - 1/31/2009 Posts Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Building a Learning Portal YouTube videos inside Slideshare Learning 2.0

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 31, 2012

Aviary has a few image editing tools and offers a pretty complete solution for most of what you need to do. Aviary Feather is a basic image editing tool. I find it really easy to use and one of my favorites of the online tools. They also offer Pixlr Express , a streamlined editing tool. Simpler Tools. Louis (ASTD).

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

In a recent post, I shared my recent webinar with the E-Learning Guild and some of the conversation we had around rapid elearning. When I first started with elearning we’d have a team of people working on projects. It’s important to understand how people learn and how to build good elearning experiences. Instructional design.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

For the most part these characters can be created in PowerPoint so you don’t need other tools. Here are some posts that should help you do this: Little Known Ways to Create Your Own Graphics Using PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2010+ has a remove background feature that works well in most cases. Then regroup it.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Rapid elearning design is made up of three core functions: rapid authoring, rapid assets, and rapid instructional design. And this is a big challenge for many elearning developers. Having the authoring tools is one thing. Now that the elearning community is complete, I’ve been moving old demos and templates over to the site.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2011

PowerPoint’s a great authoring environment for elearning. If you can step away from the “bullet point” mindset and all of the complaints, you’ll see that PowerPoint’s got a lot to offer those who build elearning courses. It doesn’t need to have that PowerPoint look. Blank screen. Animations. Layers not linear.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2011

PowerPoint’s designed as a presentation tool. While the application is versatile and great for elearning, many people still struggle to get past the PowerPoint look because the features are designed to encourage the use of the templates. They’re Just Tools That Build Multimedia. Vendors design tools with features.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2012

This post on how to build an elearning template offers some good tips on where to look. I noted those areas that I could incorporate into an elearning course template. In the following image, you can see my mocked up screen and one way I could use it for an elearning course. August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ).

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 12, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! Take the Survey!

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 5, 2011

He got a couple of responses and a demo PowerPoint file to review. So tapping into that expertise can save you a lot of time trying to figure out how to do something with the tools you have. I also added the PowerPoint file to the downloads section if you want to play around with it or use it in a course. Free Image Generator.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 7, 2007

This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" PowerPoint Based Here is a presentation I did called Parts of the Stove. The reason for this presentation is to show what can be done with PowerPoint and a digital camera. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint. It is called the EPA Watershed Academy.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Odds are that during the summer months elearning wasn’t on the top of your list. So I decided to weed through some rapid elearning information and pull out a few posts that you may have missed. And of course, there are some free PowerPoint elearning templates, too. Tips on building content for your elearning portfolio.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 1, 2012

One of my favorite parts of going to elearning conferences is meeting so many of the industry’s thought leaders. During my recent trip to the Learning Solution Conference in Orlando I ran into one of my mentors and a real elearning pioneer, Dr. Werner Oppelbaumer. Lots of elearning people are using Twitter. Upcoming Events.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 15, 2012

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. A Tool’s Just a Tool.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two things always stand out during these trips: There is no one way to do elearning. Some people build courses, some create marketing material, and some use the rapid elearning software to create multimedia information. One of the sessions I did in Atlanta was on how to get the graphics you need for your rapid elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

3 Things You Can Only Learn from a Real E-Learning Expert : Learn to work with subject matter experts and the tech-savvy millennials; and get a definitive explanation of how to finally spell e-learning eLearning elearning leearning. 3 More Free Tools to Help Build Better E-Learning Courses : We’re all on a budget.

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Leaning Circuits - ASTD Everyone has something to say about e-learning, but are we communicating in the same language? E-Learning Glossary - Imperial College London Barrier-Free eLearning When participating with WSU, College of Engineerings Barrier-Free eLearning program, you may be introduced to new terms and concepts.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 15, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 My Top Ten Tools for 2009 Cammys Top 10 Tools of 2009 These are my favorite tools in support of my own learning adventures. My best column: eLearning, of course! What tools do you use? (I

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2011

I get lots of questions from those who are just getting started with rapid elearning. They want to know what they can do to build good elearning. The same goes for elearning. You won’t necessarily build world-class elearning the first time you build an elearning course. Learn to use the tools.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. e-Learning Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and When So youve heard about PowerPoint, Articulate, Captivate and Flash. There are lots of eLearning authoring tools out on the market these days.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Heres what Ive been doing lately on the job: Tinkering Ive been tinkering around with new and old tools, expanding my skill set. I wasnt at the eLearning Guilds Annual Gathering this year, but I felt close thanks to Twitter.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 2, 2009

Weekly Hot eLearning Hot List 5/22/09 - 5/29/09 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Clive on Learning , May 29, 2009 Text to Speech - eLearning Technology , May 28, 2009 Poll:What is your favourite eLearning software?

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