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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: More on PowerPoint and Instructional Design

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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. And this: Few stage plays begin with all the actors on stage.

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Learner Experience Design with Julie Dirksen #ASTDTK12

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Steve Krug’s books on usability testing: Don’t Make Me Think; Rocket Surgery Made Easy What it isn’t: not user acceptance testing, focus groups, demos, sending out for feedback. Keep it quick and dirty – if people get hung up on “it’s the wrong font” then you’re having the wrong conversation. It IS watching someone using your application.

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Learning to Work, Working to Learn

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PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlman's got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. Audio : I've been learning the basics of using Adobe Audition for sound recording and have been creating narration for a course we're currently building.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning to Work, Working to Learn

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PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlmans got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. Audio : Ive been learning the basics of using Adobe Audition for sound recording and have been creating narration for a course were currently building.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

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She taught me the basics of instructional design, although looking back it wasnt much: Instruct, Demo, Practice, Assess. Lots of simulations. My boss had an educational technology degree from Harvard.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better

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Heres what I recall: They created a set of powerpoint slides. For example I like Tom Kulhmann's demos because the audio is very natural and demonstrated expertise :) 12:01 AM Sumeet Moghe said. I dont have the specifics and Ill try to track him down to find out more because the results were fascinating.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: E-Learning Project Reality: Guerrilla Instructional Design

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Ive got the PowerPoints and Word docs to prove it. My word "template" consists of a few tables with color coding for audio, or software demos, etc. Courses range from 15-30 minutes each and are geared towards my clients external clients. No assessments or formal testing. Lots of software interactivity. Relentless schedule.