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Friday Finds — PowerPoint Productivity, Training Trends, Better Questions

Mike Taylor

Last Week’s Most Clicked Learning Styles Are More Toxic Than We Thought News & Notes BrightSlide: Supercharge Your PowerPoint Design Productivity Ever feel like working in PowerPoint takes forever to do what you want? sponsored Real-Life Examples of Bad eLearning Design It’s true that we learn from mistakes. No problem!

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | April 22, 2022

Mike Taylor

Expert secrets to building pro-level PowerPoint templates. Think you know about PowerPoint templates? Learn some top template tips from this post, based on the excellent book by Julie Terberg and Echo Swinford “ Building PowerPoint Templates ”. You might be surprised. How was this week’s newsletter? Help me improve.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 11, 2021

Mike Taylor

Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2021. This is a treasure trove of great reads from the Behavioral Science world. And if that’s not enough be sure to check out even more in their list of notable behavioral science books from 2020 here. 5 Behavioral Biases That Trip Up Remote Managers. Where You Can Find Me.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 5, 2020

Mike Taylor

Bogus behavioral psych fads, many of which you believe. Jesse Singal has investigated numerous famous frauds of social/behavioral psychology. PowerPoint’s New AutoFix Feature. Formatting PowerPoint slides and making them “perfect” can be time consuming and frustrating. Where You Can Find Me.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 19, 2020

Mike Taylor

Sometimes, superficially similar behaviors have fundamentally different consequences. Nudging, now more than a decade old as an intervention tool, has emerged as a noncoercive way to live better in a world shaped by our behavioral foibles. Sizle.io — Track when a PowerPoint file or other type of document is opened.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 12, 2020

Mike Taylor

Three Laws of Human Behavior. Only now in the twenty-first century are practitioners beginning to take seriously the findings and methods of behavioral science to harness them within industry. If you like this, you might want to check out her book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Where You Can Find Me.

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | March 18, 2022

Mike Taylor

Last week’s most clicked item: How to Use PowerPoint for Graphic Design. Using Data to Show Compliance Training’s Impact on Behavior. TICE Online – March 24 PACT Professional Portfolios – May Canadian Elearning Conference – June 16-17 Elearn Success Series: The EdTech Session – July 20. Thanks for reading!