The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 11, 2014

by AJ Walther    Want more free images for your eLearning or PowerPoint presentations? In December of last year, the British Library released into the public domain a huge collection of scanned images from more than 65,000 books spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. See also: Recommended Free Image Sites.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2021

Plus, it’s free and open source, with an active developer community working to extend its functionality and user communities for support. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Many organizations use PowerPoint templates to ensure that lessons are consistent and correctly branded. By importing PowerPoint into Captivate, you can retain that formatting and branding in your eLearning lessons as well. Open your copy of PowerPoint, and open the file you want to import into Captivate. by Jennie Ruby, COTP.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 24, 2014

by AJ Walther    In my three-hour mini session on  Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning and Design , I discuss how to create your own eLearning characters using PowerPoint. I was not alone in creating my own PowerPoint eLearning characters! Search Google for images labeled for Commercial Use and Modification.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. I use it to create mock-ups of elearning layouts and occasionally for basic image editing. Affinity Designer. Work and self-development.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 10, 2018

When trying to find quality images for use in PowerPoint presentations or eLearning projects created with any development tool such as Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, or TechSmith Camtasia, most people turn to Google. With a quick search you are sure to find the image you’re looking for. And why not? There’s hope. Go

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 28, 2014

by AJ Walther    In my  Optimizing PowerPoint Design for eLearning & Presentations  class I like to sing the praises of  Microsoft's free online image gallery. I went to pull an image from said image gallery, and was met instead with this:  Do you know what this is?

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mLearning Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2012

Whether you are a presenter or developing eLearning, our job is to engage our audience and no other things does the exact opposite more than a never ending list of bullet points on a Powerpoint slide. In a blog post, Seth describes bullet points on Powerpoint slides as “ unemotional and sterile. Amen to that. Amen to that.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Many organizations use PowerPoint templates to ensure that lessons are consistent and correctly branded. By importing PowerPoint into Captivate, you can retain that formatting and branding in your eLearning lessons as well. Open your copy of PowerPoint, and open the file you want to import into Captivate. by Jennie Ruby, COTP.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The developer had imported a 60-slide PowerPoint presentation into Captivate and then added audio to each of the Filmstrip slides. Just as he was about to Publish his finished project, he was told to use a different PowerPoint presentation. Next, delete all of the imported PowerPoint slides.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 7, 2011

All I did was drag and drop the downloaded images from Design Comics and slap a text box on it. You could also ditch the comic idea altogether and just use these images as part of any eLearning course, even one with branching. This slide above took less than five minutes to build.   Easy, fast, looks nice, FREE. .

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Using motion paths in PowerPoint is fun, but also kind of complicated. You want an image on your slide to move using a custom motion path. On the next slide you want the image to move from where it ended on the previous slide to a new location. The problem is PowerPoint only shows you where the image begins in the motion path.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 10, 2018

When trying to find quality images for use in PowerPoint presentations or eLearning projects created with any development tool such as Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, or TechSmith Camtasia, most people turn to Google. With a quick search you are sure to find the image you’re looking for. And why not? There’s hope. Go

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 16, 2011

I have previously written about some good, free stock image resources. In response to that article, a reader asked me if the images on these sites were royalty free and could be used in courses that he planned to sell. Sometimes you can use the images, but only if you credit the original artist. "  

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BrightCarbon

MAY 12, 2021

We’ve been investigating what gets lost in translation when you convert PowerPoint to Google Slides. If you’re a Google Drive user, you’ve probably noticed that when you open a PowerPoint file from your Drive, Google Slides is the first recommended program. They will not change back if you open the file in PowerPoint later.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

by Kevin Siegel       If you have already created a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, it's very easy to re-purpose the presentation as eLearning content using either TechSmith Camtasia Studio or Adobe Presenter. TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8 and PowerPoint.   Adobe Presenter 9 and PowerPoint.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 2, 2011

.   I was recently asked if it was possible to change the measurement system in PowerPoint from inches to pixels. at least not from within PowerPoint. Simply put, you are stuck with PowerPoint's default measurement system, which is inches.  As I said, PowerPoint's default system is inches, which makes sense.

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BrightCarbon

APRIL 8, 2019

Using masking effects in PowerPoint is a great way to add some design finesse to your presentations, without needing a design qualification or several weeks to do it. Before we continue, if you want more masking fun you can click below to learn more: Masking effects in PowerPoint: 3 simple animation tricks. The face in the crowd.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 29, 2011

You've just completed a very slick PowerPoint presentation. On one slide you have an image fade in. Then when you click the image, it hyperlinks to another slide. But then the client contacts you and says they'd like to swap the image with another. After it fades in, it pulses for emphasis. There's good news.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I had a PowerPoint developer ask to use one of the audio clips in my Captivate project in his PowerPoint presentation.     From this point it was a simple matter of picking a save location and then emailing the file to the PowerPoint developer. The video was created using Captivate's Video Demonstration mode.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 21, 2011

PowerPoint's SmartArt allows you to visually communicate information. From the Group graphic drop-down menu, choose how you would like the image to be grouped for the animation. by AJ George. You can create SmartArt graphics that are lists, process diagrams and organizational charts. Adding SmartArt is simple.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Chantal Bossé is an international leader in the presentation community. She has an expansive breadth of knowledge covering all aspects of presentation creation and delivery, and she’s recognized as one of a handful of Microsoft North America PowerPoint MVPs. In the mid-90s PowerPoint decks were usually just walls of text.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

After posting the first article, PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation , I got a tip from one of our readers, Konrad Schroth , for an alternate way to create a spinning animation. This method shifts the center axis to the tip of the original image and changes the axis from which the image spins.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Have you ever tried to use PowerPoint to create a spinning animation (such as the ticking hands of a clock)? When your clock hands spin now they will do so properly and look more like the image below. by AJ George. To illustrate, let's say you made a clock, and it looks like the example below.

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isEazy

JULY 23, 2020

PowerPoint is one of the tools that is most widely used to collect and communicate knowledge in corporate environments, from executive reports to presentations on multiple topics or face-to-face training sessions. How many PowerPoints do you have on your computer? isEazy, Three Options for PowerPoint Integration.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 10, 2020

Instead it’s a process of curating content and then communicating it in a way that the learner understands and ultimately can apply. The challenge sometimes rests in how the content is communicated, which then determines the level of understanding for proper application. Overview of the Communication Process.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 7, 2014

While adopting an industrial process in the creation of training materials may sound like a stretch, I'd like to illustrate one simple way that I applied the Lean principles to a PowerPoint presentation I use in my classes. For example, in the image below notice that "Locating the Patient" is a dark purple on my agenda slide.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 3, 2011

by AJ George  Have you ever been working on a slide with text, images, animations and some shapes. From the PowerPoint ribbon, choose Home > Arrange > Selection Pane. So, let's say you have a tiny hourglass image that appears first on your slide before anything else. and then "lost" something?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 8, 2011

.  If you find yourself in need of a Venn diagram, there are a few basic Venn diagrams available via PowerPoint's SmartArt. Using the image above as an example, let's say you want the whole Venn diagram to appear. If you don't like those available via SmartArt, you can easily create your own. Animate a Venn diagram.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Last week I was revamping the presentation accompanying our Online Trainer Training: Engaging the Virtual Learner class when I ran into a bit of an animation shortcoming in PowerPoint. You will now be able to layer in other images to the drawing, such as the little people.     Adding the animation effect was not a problem.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 17, 2011

The color application will appear in the Sample image to the right. I've been asked if there is a way to set your custom color palette as the default color palette when you start PowerPoint. The Create New Theme Colors dialog box will open. Choose your new colors for your palette from the drop-down color selectors.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 21, 2011

by Kevin Siegel It's relatively simple to import a PowerPoint presentation into a Captivate project. You can import a presentation into a new project, or add PowerPoint slides to an existing project. Earlier I mentioned how you can create a new Captivate project using PowerPoint slides.

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BrightCarbon

JANUARY 31, 2019

Both PowerPoint and Google Slides offer some great image editing tools that are so easy to use you don’t need to be an expert to make your presentation look striking, but we’re going to focus our time today on what Google Slides image editing can offer. Choose the image you want to insert and click Open.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

PowerPoint gives people a lot of freedom,​ but in a large organisation this can be more of a curse than a blessing. They’re probably amazing at their day-to-day design or marketing work, but PowerPoint? Unfortunately, without a proper PowerPoint template, presentations can be a bit of a mess. That’s not their specialty.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 1, 2014

A recurring trend in flat design is the use of simplified icons in lieu of detailed drawings, images, or photos. Many icons can be found by inserting symbols or certain Clip Art images from within PowerPoint. Creating your own icons from scratch is also not terribly difficult.

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Fly Plugins

APRIL 2, 2024

However, since your online course is very likely a direct extension of your personality, experiences, communication style, and knowledge, nothing could ring more true! Clearly communicate that you have a solution to that problem. I’ve actually outsourced this task by hiring on Fiverr , too.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2023

I finally started paying so they didn’t show gross ads (you can now signup safely; they lie when they say the have ‘brand-safe’ ads), and fortunately my mail removes images (for safety, unless I ask), so I don’t see them. It’s a place where I can generally communicate with colleagues.

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