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Great little tool for picking colors! top Clipart Two of the best Microsoft Clipart - Great resoure! Images download directly into your Microsoft Clipart Library FotoSearch - One of the best for Clipart. Good resources, if popups annoy you set your popup blocker before visiting these - lots of ads. Free-Clipart-Pictures Hassle Free Clipart Free-Clip-Art Free Graphics 1 Clipart top Cartoons Andertoons - Free business

Look how they are laid out, their use of colours (and lack of bullet points). Do not use cartoonish clipart , what does it add (distraction). If you need an image to support a point, use real images, you can download many images from  Microsoft's  clipart page.  Just I use Powerpoint in some of the workshops I run, not all, but when it suits the audience, venue and most importantly learning objectives. I

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They're just standard clipart from Microsoft Office. So last week I tweeted an example of immersive learning scenario built entirely in Powerpoint and published using Articulate Presenter . Given that I saw the tweet travel a fair bit, I thought it might be a good idea to share some of the related ideas on this blog. Does Rapid eLearning mean Crapid eLearning?

few things I'll ask you to keep in mind: Keep in mind the CRAP Guidelines ; When positioning/ selecting/ composing visuals, remember the Rule of Thirds ; Avoid Clipart; use Stock Images. I was recently part a discussion on the ThoughtWorks Trainer Community, where we were talking about the problems of having to put together a course with 2-3 days in hand. Usually the only recourse in such a situation is to quickly slam together something in Powerpoint.

Colors are drawing your eyes in many directions, text fills the screen and is hard to use, buttons work sometimes and not others with no indication of why, the interactivity does reinforce the message, the visual (often clipart or a stock photo) are irrelevant and distracting...these Tom Crawford is a person I consider to be a friend, colleague and really good person. He has a wonderful background including being director of eLearning at Root Learning and working for Masie organizing events.

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In other words, he has filtered out the juice from his own experience and expertise to compile a great list of online resources, which can be accessed by intuitive categories such as: Blogs & Wikis - This section contains information on setting up your own blog, wiki, pod/web cast and web site. ClipArt - This section contains link and descriptions of site with pictures and/or clipart that is available free or under a Creative Commons licence. Graphic Tools - This section contains downloadable and web applications for creating and editing photos, pictures, images

So, using nothing more than Microsoft PowerPoint and some clipart, I created a customer-centric explanation of what we do: Pictures… Diagrams… Charts… They don’t just look pretty.