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Friday Finds — Cognitive Bias, Emotional Intelligence, Online Slide Sharing

Mike Taylor

What I’m Listening To: The Wallows is another discovery that I’ve made courtesy of my “official music consultant” (my daughter) Last Week’s Most Clicked: Using Images in Visual Design News & Notes Cognitive Bias Cheatsheet Our brains use cognitive biases as a way to save energy and cognitive resources. Check it out for free!

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Slide in Text with Lectora

Integrated Learnings

One way to be smart about using text is to have it slide in when you want it and slide out when you are done. In this example, I added a transparent PNG image. Since we want the text to appear to be sliding in, not moving in, the text should be placed so the Text Slider top is at the top of the page (i.e.

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PowerPoint: Create an Infographic

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Additionally, PowerPoint is often underutilized as a design platform and is surprisingly agile. One reason PowerPoint isn't the first program people think of for Infographics is that infographics are traditionally not the same size as a PowerPoint slide. First you'll need to design your infographic. Avoid Empty Spaces.

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An eLearning Workflow

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I am a designer at heart, so Adobe Illustrator is a natural starting point for me. I use Illustrator to lay out the basic look and feel of my eLearning course, choose colors and fonts, and solve my design dilemmas.    I then begin laying out the cover/transition slides for my courses and a sample content slide.

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Newbies: More PowerPoint Hacks for Your Cp Project: Using PowerPoint Template Backgrounds in Your Captivate Master Slides

Adobe Captivate

I don’t need the PowerPoint master slides, just the background image. Importing that PowerPoint background into my Captivate master slide applies the background to my title, content, quizzing, and all the other slides in the master slide series. PowerPoint will ask which slides you want to export.

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Editing Images with PowerPoint

Integrated Learnings

There is even basic layer management that can be used through the “Selection Pane” that comes in handy on a busy slide. It’s even possible to save as a PNG with a transparent background. This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company.

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How to steer your client away from an information dump

Making Change

How I designed and built the scenario. As I built the slides, I wrote the slide number by each node of the flowchart for future reference. To produce the slides and SWF, I used Keynote 08 ( not Keynote 09! ). Keynote is a slide editor for the Mac. Tags: Instructional design Scenarios and stories.

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