Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

In today’s post, I’ll show you how to build a laptop monitor inspired by the free laptop image file you can get from the psdGraphics site. 80 for an all day workshop is a good value and worth the trip if you’re close to Nebraska. I’m also doing a free Articulate jam session while in town. Below is the tutorial.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In today’s post I’ll show three easy ways to create templates for your elearning courses. 30 Second E-Learning Templates. I’ve featured this technique before in the post on How to Build a Template in 30 Seconds. And then stretch it to create your template. ” 10 Second E-Learning Templates.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In a previous post, I share 15 free display graphics that are commonly seen in elearning courses. Free Chalkboard and Whiteboards. I offered these in a post about a year ago where I showed how to create the display boards and included links to some free fonts that would work well with these displays. The steps are simple.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2015

Most of us are scrambling to find free assets to use in our presentations and elearning courses. The good news is that there are more than enough free stock images available, such as these three earlier posts where I shared 80 free stock photos , 45 free stock photos , and 60 more free stock photos.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 19, 2019

I´m looking forward to a mostly unscheduled weekend and some time to start working on the L&D Strategies from the Marketing Playbook DevLearn pre-conference workshop that Bianca Baumann and I are doing again this year. Let me know if you´ll be at DevLearn – I´d love to connect in person. Thanks for reading!

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

E-mail Love – Browse Email Inspiration, find Email Templates or discover Great Newsletters. link] – Convert, optimize, and resize your images online in only one easy click and for free. Free Learning While Working Global Virtual Conference September 24/25. Speaking and Workshop Information Sheet.

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 23, 2013

As usual, I had a great time at the eLearning Guild’s DevLearn conference, which was held last week in Las Vegas. In most major cities, these organizations have free or low-cost workshops and one-on-one assistance on how to get started. We’ve put many of the resources, templates, and checklists online for you to use.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2015

I found a free desktop image made available by Anastasia Kolisnichenko. I used the free image to create an interactive course prototype for an upcoming workshop activity. The template is free for you to download and use as you wish. Below is an example of the template in action. August 4 & 5 (Seattle).

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Between the workshops I run, blog emails received, and helping in the community, I get to see hundreds of e-learning courses. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The Internet is rife with free things, especially free stock image sites. However, there are usually three main issues with the free stock image sites: The free stock images aren’t really free. For example, free is confined to “free for personal use.” Free Stock Image Sites.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Download a master bundle of 35 “Design Thinking” templates for free. October 22-25: DevLearn Pre-Conference Workshop & Concurrent Session. Speaking and Workshop Information Sheet. A few other things just because I can. Tools & Resources. Huge collection of design tools & resources. Conference Roundup.

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Mike Taylor

MAY 24, 2019

20+ Free Creative PowerPoint Templates For Your Next Project. Material Icons Library – Free collection of 1000+ icons. October 22-25: DevLearn. Speaking and Workshop Information Sheet. This article prompted a serious question for me “Is Slack (or any other similar tool) helping or hurting the way you work?”

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 7, 2019

17 eBook Templates and Design Tips from Venngage ( @Venngage ). Get Apple’s new typeface, New York for free here. Background Burner is a free online tool for removing backgrounds from images. Create a free account and upload your files to begin. 5 Free Image And Photo Editing Tools For Non-Designers.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

[tools] Explore is a FREE online chart maker & visual data tool for all your spreadsheet data. powerpoint] 85 animated PowerPoint callouts free for download. design] BioRender: Create Professional Science Figures in Minutes with thousands of pre-made icons and templates from more than 30 fields of life sciences.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

More Resources and Free Templates. Free PowerPoint Templates. Templates from the PowerPoint team. Templates from the Rapid E-Learning Blog. Free templates & downloads from the E-Learning Heroes community. Microsoft’s PowerPoint Templates. Also doing a free jam session on the 17th.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I’ve just finished a number of workshops and capped it off with a session at Devlearn. At a workshop in Portland, Mike went outside and shot some video with his smart phone and then built this quick demo to show easy it is to build interactive video courses. We discussed it in this blog post on finding free stock images.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 4, 2011

And as far as conferences, I’ll be at the usual ones like ASTD ICE and Devlearn. Here Are More Than 200 Free Rapid E-Learning Tutorials. Rapid E-Learning Workshop: How to Create a Tabbed Notebook. Here’s a Boatload of Free Hand-Drawn Graphics. Bunch of Free Stuff. I’ve also included a bonus template.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I’ve bumped up against the limits of the free Mailchimp account that brings this to your mailbox. Create mockups online | Artboard Studio — Design, animate, collaborate and present your projects with an extensive library of assets and templates right in the browser. October 19-30 DevLearn DDX Conference. Where You Can Find Me.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2011

E-Learning Heroes Community : tutorials, PowerPoint templates, and free downloads. Templates are great for this. You can create templates to guide the look and feel as well as templates that help guide the interactive components. As you build skills, you’ll rely less on the templates. Click here for details.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Put your learners on a diet - consider a pull-based learning approach - Free as in Freedom , November 6, 2009. Use a Blog Template. DevLearn (65). DevLearn 2009 – Day 1 Recap , November 12, 2009. DevLearn 2009 - Ruth Clark’s session on Evidence Based Training , November 11, 2009. November 26, 2009.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Today there are all sorts of free resources to learn about course design and construction. In any case, don’t depend on the occasional conference or workshop. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Workshops & Events (2015).

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Some of the sub folders I have are: Quizmaker, Engage, Flags, audio, images, notes, fonts, templates, etc. Feel free to add your thoughts via the comments link. November 1: Las Vegas, NV (Elearning Guild)— Devlearn. Doing a pre-conference workshop and presentation at the conference. What do you do to avoid them?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

3 More Free Tools to Help Build Better E-Learning Courses : We’re all on a budget. Here are three free applications that may help you build elearning courses. You can also download a PowerPoint template. Tidbits: Just added the info for the free jam session in Atlanta on August 17. Give them something to do.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Templates, themes, debug tool (nice), translation tool (nice too). It comes with a “LMS” which is some analytics – similar to what is happening in the space (have to attend DevLearn to find out what that means. Custom learning paths, templates. Variables, actions, objects, free-form, templates.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2015

Here are some free stick figure downloads in various poses: Original Stick Figures. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Workshops & Events (2015). Community-based elearning workshops focused on practical tips & tricks.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

You can do a search online for “CRAP design” and find all sorts of free help. Microsoft Provides Free Resources. If you don’t want to learn to do the illustrations, you’re more than welcome to download them from the community since I’ve made them all available for free. Rapid E-Learning Workshop: How to Create a Tabbed Notebook.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While the application is versatile and great for elearning, many people still struggle to get past the PowerPoint look because the features are designed to encourage the use of the templates. In the demo below, I used PowerPoint to create an image template for quick knowledge checks. They’re Just Tools That Build Multimedia.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 5, 2011

On top of all of that, applications like PowerPoint provide a lot of free graphics and templates and it’s easy to rely on those for the design part of the course. 80 for an all day workshop is a good value and worth the trip if you’re close to Nebraska. I’m also working on a free, Articulate jam session while in town.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Part of this, that wasn’t well captured in my prediction, is that a lot of these solutions aim at providing Free content. Teach me less about communication and give me more templates for important, tough communication points. And I just posted about recent growth of eLearning Templates. Lectora is great at packaging.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 18, 2015

I used a different image for the tutorials and included a new free template for you to download. Here’s the new template in action: Click here to view the demo. Here are some tutorials that walk through how I created the zoom in and out effect in this elearning template. Free Interactive Image Templates.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

More Free Stock Photos. I just noticed that one of my favorite free stock photo sites, StartUp Stock Photos , released a bunch more photos. Download the free stock photos here. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Going to Devlearn? Getting Started?

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. This lets you quickly modify your slides by changing templates, color schemes, and fonts.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 31, 2017

Just check out one of this month’s free webinars. Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10AM – 11AM PST: Steps to Building a Culture of Appreciation with Those You Lead (Free for ATD members) Recently, ATD's research team identified five core sets of skills related to managerial success. Design virtual sessions for frequent participant engagement.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I’m did a workshop on simple ways to create animated.gifs for e-learning courses. In part of the workshop we play around with using them as header graphics for Rise courses. Examples of Free Animated Gif Headers. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And there are plenty more L&D practitioners on the case, serving up free webinars full of bite-sized information. have introduced newly designed theme templates that improve the user experience. Check them out! Moodle themes let you quickly establish a great-looking platform, without too much development time and resources.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

At a recent workshop I was chatting with someone about simple ways to speed up course design. 8 Time Saving Tips: Build Template Slides. However the core features and functionality can be established upfront and then saved as a template slide. Bonus Time Saving Tip: Create a Course Starter Template. Is something missing?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

With that said here are a few ideas from previous posts and those are followed with some new ones and free downloads. You can download many of these templates (and more) from the E-Learning Heroes community. Feel free to use them as you wish. Hope you enjoy the free resources. TV Monitor. Tabbed Notebook. Spiral Notebook.

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