Mike Taylor

AUGUST 12, 2022

10 Copywriting Tips Based On Persuasion Science. Slidddo is a nice collection of presentation designs you can use as a swipe file for your slide ideas. Help me improve. How can you write persuasive sentences? Here are some clever techniques from Nick Kolenda that can optimize your copywriting. DocFly is an online pdf editor.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

APRIL 26, 2010

Basic Submission tips: 1) Be clear and convincing. There is a lot more too it, but I hope that helps a little. I'm hoping our past presenters will add some tips in the comments below.wink, wink ;-) Advanced Submission tips: 1) Record a YouTube video so I can see you and hear about the session topic you are proposing.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. Curious which work-related books were the most helpful, influential, and quotable among L&D practitioners? In this CreativePro Network article, Nolan Haims shares how to manage your slide content like a pro with the powerful features of PowerPoint’s Selection Pane.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 10, 2022

Researchers have discovered 22 catalysts that can help you prepare your environment and quickly drop into a flow state. How to Fill a Horizontal Slide With a Vertical Image. With top tips and some templates to get you started, you can say goodbye to ugly, dense posters forever. Help me improve. Watcsteven_kotlerh Video.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

To help you learn more about PowerPoint I pulled together a solid list of PowerPoint resources. Here are a few posts that cover some of the essentials tips and tricks required for successful PowerPoint-based rapid elearning. 5 PowerPoint tips essential for effective rapid elearning. Dozens of PowerPoint tips and tricks.

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Mike Taylor

AUGUST 19, 2022

Last week’s most clicked item: 10 Copywriting Tips Based On Persuasion Science. Drop Deck can help you make beautiful slides super fast. Help me improve. What I’m Listening to: This Sunny Day playlist has me thinking about getting outside in the sun again soon! (If If you’re on Spotify, you can follow me here.).

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The free download includes the original images as well as a folder with images cropped to 16:9 so they fit perfectly in 16×9 slides. Bonus Tip for Branched Scenario Images. One way to use the images, is to create a course file and insert all of the backgrounds on different layouts in the master slide. Free Downloads.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Last week’s most clicked item: Better Than Bullet Points: Alternative Slide Designs. Rich” Or “Bland”: Which Diagrams Help Students Learn Deeply? Tools & Tips. Top Learning Tools for 2021. Jane Hart has published the 2021 version of her annual Learning Tools list. And as she says, it “was the YEAR OF DISRUPTION!

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Limestone Learning

JULY 28, 2021

Join Chemène Sinson, founder and principal at Blackwater Projects, for this interactive session that will help VET trainers and instructional designers: Clarify what psychological safety is. Learn how to make simple yet engaging and professional slides quickly. Make professional slides quickly. See the latest in slide design.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Collect data to help make an informed decision. PowerPoint’s No Longer a Slide Show Freak. Learn tips and tricks that help you rethink PowerPoint’s role in your elearning. November 1: Las Vegas, NV (Elearning Guild)— Devlearn. October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 15, 2014

For this event, I had the pleasure of presenting my Top 10 Articulate Storyline Tips, Secrets, and Time-Savers. I thought it would be helpful to make these tips available to everyone, so I recorded a series of short videos to demonstrate each tip: #1: Cue Points. #2 6 Feedback Master fro Slide Layers. #7

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Mike Taylor

AUGUST 6, 2021

TL:DR: Traditional learning objectives might be better than nothing, but they’re not nearly as helpful as learning-objectives-as-pretests. Shane Neubauer shares some insights to help you with your curation efforts. Science-Backed Productivity Playlists To Help You Dive Into Deep Work. Tools & Tips. Check it out!

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Mike Taylor

MARCH 5, 2021

This weekend I’ll be working on some DevLearn proposals that I’m excited about. Formatting PowerPoint slides and making them “perfect” can be time consuming and frustrating. PowerPoint has rolled out a new feature called Autofix to help with that. 100 new tech tools and tips that hit my radar in February.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 14, 2019

While you’re at it, check out Jenny’s recent Learning Solution slide deck “Show Me What You Got: Simulation as Assessment”. Better Slides for People In a Hurry. Simple, quick, and easy tips for an easy upgrade to your PowerPoint slides by smartly using SmartArt. TDip your toes in to rethink your approach to assessments.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Here are some posts that should help you do this: Little Known Ways to Create Your Own Graphics Using PowerPoint. Free download to help you get started. I’ll give a plug to Blair’s newsletter where he offers some cool tips and. In Storyline , insert a character on the slide and then save as an image. Then regroup it.

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eLearning Weekly

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Below are the slides from my presentation at DevLearn 2009. The presentation had two main areas of focus: How micro-blogging can be used to help facilitate discussions and knowledge-sharing between employees. How Qualcomm is using Yammer to help employees connect across divisions and geographic regions.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Say hello to Presenter Coach, PowerPoint’s new AI-powered tool which will help you nail your next presentation. A few tips & tools to get started with curation. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions that I can help you with! 29 Great Slide Layouts – great to start or build your design swipe file.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2015

Here are some tips to help customize free stock photos to work with your courses. Nicole shared some good tips on how to overlay text on images. As you can see in the image below, the original photo I used was too narrow for the slide since the image was 4:3 and the slide was 16:9. Going to Devlearn?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The video is of a presentation at Ignite Boise , one of those fun 5 minutes and 20 slide events. By following some of the tips from the Hamster book, you’ll communicate better, you’re subject matter experts will be happier, and you’ll do a better job managing your emails. Just this tip alone will make your subject matters happy.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2015

Create a separate slide for each distinct area. In the example above I made slides for the computer, picture frame, book shelf, microphone, and calendar. Link from the main image to a slide of the isolated element. Community-based elearning workshops focused on practical tips & tricks. Going to Devlearn?

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 7, 2019

In Jane Bozarth’s ( @JaneBozarth ) latest Nuts & Bolts article on Communities of Practice, she talks about trajectories and the life of groups including some good points on why most struggle to survive beyond the initial launch and tips for making them better. 17 eBook Templates and Design Tips from Venngage ( @Venngage ).

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 19, 2010

And you can read some tips below on doing something similar. Then I imported the images into the slides. Store PowerPoint graphics on the master slide. In a previous post, I shared how you can use the master slide as a repository. They’ll help you come up with some elearning course templates.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 31, 2014

You can find our slides from the presentation here , and feel free to email me if you’d like to see the file we used to whittle down the tools we rated (there were 200 of them!). His tips were designed to help you become a more confident and successful e-learning professional.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

What were his thoughts about the technology side of DevLearn. As displayed in the SnapGuide piece I put together immediately afterward the conference (Journey Through DevLearn) https://snapguide.com/guides/journey-through-devlearn/ There was an app for that! First, it’s important to understand the DevLearn audience.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

We all work at the speed of business which means that we have to find tips and tricks that save time. This is one of David’s favorite tips and he shows how it works in this post on how he built an interactive quiz. The process is very easy: Create a slide with a header and footer shape. Going to Devlearn?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Bonus tip: If you want to add pictures or videos over the laptop image, then it’s probably a good idea to just fill the inside with black and square off the corners since the videos won’t have rounded corners. I also added the tutorial to the last slide for those who can’t access the Screenr tutorial. Click here to view the demo.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I met a few blog readers, many of the PowerPoint MVPs that I’ve followed over the years, and was reminded of a few tips and tricks that I can use in my rapid elearning courses. I’ll share some of the tips and tricks in some future posts. PowerPoint MVP Glen Millar shared quite a few animation tips. Thanks to Glenn for the tip.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They’re full of practical tips that you can use. At the recent ASTD conference we demonstrated a bunch of elearning tips and tricks. Going into the Articulate Guru Awards, I thought it would be a good idea to put together some information that would help those who weren’t sure what to do. Then follow the 6 tips in this post.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 26, 2011

Following are a few tips and tutorials to help you get started. Convert Static Images on the Slide: You can also add the image to the slide. November 1: Las Vegas, NV (Elearning Guild)— Devlearn. I tested it on my desktop without the webcam, and the software works fine. You’ll just have to do some digging.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This helps you get more value out of your applications. However, if you go outside the box and edit the questions in slide view, you can make the quiz look like anything. In both examples above, we used the blank slide feature for most of the content and then added a multiple choice question to do the branching.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

It’s worth spending some time on this because it will help you create the right visual context for your course content. Those are basic design principles that help direct the learner’s eye and use the visuals to assist in the communication process. You can do a search online for “CRAP design” and find all sorts of free help.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I'm preparing for my part of an upcoming session at DevLearn on LMS selection as part of The Learning Management Systems Symposium. I'm going to create notes in my blog as a series of posts as I think about what I'll present and then I'll turn them into slides. Help me make this presentation better. Hence my reservations.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 30, 2011

If even you don’t use the Urtak site, there’s something in how it’s structured that can help in your own course design. PowerPoint’s No Longer a Slide Show Freak. Learn tips and tricks that help you rethink PowerPoint’s role in your elearning. November 1: Las Vegas, NV (Elearning Guild)— Devlearn.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And interestingly several of the posts are around John Seely Brown’s keynote at DevLearn. I’m hoping that people will help out. Then you’ll want to read these tips. Related posts: Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators. And the slides I used for my presentation. I’ve really been striking out.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Not only can I answer the questions quickly, but I now can share those same tips with other blog readers and members of the community. There are many others also sharing their tips and tricks. However, like any new application, the more you use it the more you learn a few time saving tips and tricks. Extra Screenr Tips.

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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. While the advice was good, for me, more dos and don’ts aren’t really helpful.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I’ve been doing this PowerPoint stuff for so long that I often think the tips I share are common knowledge and everyone knows them. Over the years I’ve shared all sorts of PowerPoint tips and tricks. So in today’s post, I’ve included a list with every single PowerPoint tip shared in the blog up to this point.

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