Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Start by selecting the clip art image, ungrouping it, and making the customizations you need. I also like to save the new image as a.png. I try to stick with the same image style and remove all of the background items that make clip art look like clip art. Create Characters by Pulling Them Out of Stock Images.

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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. The free stock image sites are only there to point to for-pay stock image sites. Free Stock Images in the Community.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The cool thing is that all of these are created in PowerPoint; so you can learn to build your own. Then right-click on the graphic and save as an image. I’ll be presenting on building communities and how to build elearning courses with limited resources. October 25: Houston – Elearning Symposium. The steps are simple.

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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. It was a great time of meeting many of you and learning more about what you do. We discussed it in this blog post on finding free stock images. Just type in your search and you’ll see the older image search.

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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. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Register here. Register now.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

And they’re great for holding the images and multimedia we use. Plus, it’s a great way to learn more of PowerPoint’s illustration features. 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. I saved it as a PNG. Click here to view the demo.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 26, 2011

Creating the avatar is simply a matter of uploading an image and then applying the settings so that the mouth and eyes are detected. Considering how fast it converts the images to speaking avatars, I’m pretty impressed with the overall quality. Instead of a static image, you have a talking head. Create an Animated Avatar.

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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. The colors would cause streaking.

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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. Essentially, you want to find a viable sliver from an image or screen grab. Find a contextual image. Fill the header with a color picked from the top of the image.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2015

As far as the expressions, I’d probably build the expressions as images that I can copy and paste into faces. I quickly drew the images for this presentation on how rapid elearning is so simple that even a monkey can do it. Have you ever applied hand drawn images to your courses? Going to Devlearn?

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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. November 1: Las Vegas, NV (Elearning Guild)— Devlearn. Doing a pre-conference workshop and presentation at the conference. November 12: Los Angeles, CA (ISPI)—Articulate Workshop. Details to follow.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

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. To learn more & register, click here. How about you?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

If possible, start a blog to document what you’re learning and reflect on what others think. In any case, don’t depend on the occasional conference or workshop. Build Your E-Learning Skills through Practice. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And I feel honored that social signals came in granting my post on eLearning Strategy top spot. And interestingly several of the posts are around John Seely Brown’s keynote at DevLearn. Probably my favorite sessions today revolved around games in learning. Here’s some of what I found. When Tim Orielly coined the term Web 2.0,

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2012

But every time I do a workshop, I’m reminded that what may be old to me is often new to others. Tips on Creating Rapid E-Learning Courses in PowerPoint. Building an elearning course with PowerPoint is not the same as building a presentation. How I Built that E-Learning Scenario.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Today, I want to revisit some of those tips and show how they can help you on your next elearning course. If you look at the image below, you can see that there’s nothing on the master slides because I didn’t use any master slides. Working with image files is easier than working with vector shapes in PowerPoint.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 12, 2011

Starting with PowerPoint 2007, there are many features that make the rapid elearning process much more efficient. I detailed some of those features in this post on why PowerPoint 2007 helps you build better elearning. Tutorial : Using PowerPoint’s image editing features. Remove Backgrounds from Pictures.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A few years back, I was at a workshop where the PowerPoint team was showing some of the new features in the soon-to-be-released PowerPoint 2010. And that’s a pretty powerful feature, especially for rapid elearning developers. There are a number of features I use quite a bit when it comes to building elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 18, 2015

As noted in an earlier post, an easy way to build interactive elearning modules is by choosing a single image and adding interactive elements to it. The key is finding a single image that has a few potential content buckets. Finding images is relatively easy today. I look for images like the ones below.

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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. Start by thinking through the various screens common to elearning courses and then build the core structure. Perhaps it includes a table-like look with thumbnail image, title, and link. Flat Design for E-Learning Graphics (Recap #50).

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A lot of rapid elearning content finds its roots in repurposed classroom slides. And many elearning courses use characters in front of projection screens. Here are a few simple projection screen images that I created. Plus, the less detail the better they work with the vector images. Tutorial 1: a basic screen.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Click here to view the elearning example. Rapid E-Learning for a Rapid Response. Something simple like a form-based process interaction can be built in minutes and can be media rich using up-to-date images and video from the field. A Sneak Peek into the New E-Learning Heroes. 2015 coming soon.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Learning what you need to know, when you need to know it 2. Above are my slides for today’s keynote at the EDEN Research Workshop here in Budapest. Now, there is also Mixable (see image above). This really helps in creating engaging rapid elearning [.]. DevLearn (35). Mobile Learning (40).

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 10, 2015

Find a font type you like and type out the ABCs and save as an image. Then load the image into your drawing app and practice tracing over the letters. I ran into Kevin at Devlearn. Resources : Free PowerPoint templates , free elearning templates , and free e-books. Inspiration: Cool elearning examples.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I usually look for a single image that helps do that. In workshops we usually create a blank slide and then a box to represent all of those things above. The image below represents some common scenario layouts. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

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. To learn more & register, click here.

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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. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Register here.

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