Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not too late to sign up and you don’t need to attend the entire Devlearn event, if all you want to do is attend the Articulate User Conference. October 26-27 : Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. October 25 : Articulate User Conference. Check out the DemoFest.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It’s not too late to sign up and you don’t need to attend the entire Devlearn event, if all you want to do is attend the Articulate User Conference. October 26-27 : Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. October 25 : Articulate User Conference. Check out the DemoFest.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2015

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. But whatr about the various background images? 7 Ways to Overlay Text & Customize Free Stock Photos.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s not too late to sign up and you don’t need to attend the entire Devlearn event, if all you want to do is attend the Articulate User Conference. October 26-27 : Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. October 25 : Articulate User Conference. Check out the DemoFest.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2023

October 25-27 (Las Vegas) : Devlearn. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Come visit the booth and see what's new. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 8, 2023

It Starts with Prompts The secret to getting the right images is based on the prompting. I also look at what images people share in the AI community and when I find something I like, I try their prompts to see what I get. My goal is to find a simple way to get a good enough image. And then I work from there.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

October 25-27 (Las Vegas) : Devlearn. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Come visit the booth and see what's new. Getting Started?

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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. How to Create an Interactive Course Using a Single Image. It just requires an image that has clear potential content buckets. Going to Devlearn?

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NuggetHead

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

When sourcing images from stock websites, the image is associated with a file number and this document helps maintain the source if the image needs to be re-acquired. My week at DevLearn will follow this theme first in my pre-conference workshop, Storyboard to Storyline (not too late to register!)

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Take this promo I showed as part of the ID Challenge session at DevLearn a few weeks ago. Depending on the source, stock music can be expensive and in a climate in which it’s hard to get any purchases approved, it may be viewed as frivolous. Here are my top tips for finding and working with stock music. Show restraint.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I’ve been working on interactive scenarios for a few upcoming workshops and created some background images that we’ll use to build interactive branched scenarios. 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. Free Downloads.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

During the recent Articulate User event at Devlearn, Sarah Hodge from SlideSugar shared a really cool example that she built in Storyline. In her tutorial, you notice that she added a hover state for the bear signs and then grouped those with transparent shapes to activate the hover state over the entire bear image and not just on the sign.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. I’ve been learning about zombies in preparation for the upcoming DevLearn !) But usually not.

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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 25, 2018

October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. October 10 & 11 (Durham, NC): Articulate Roadshow.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Upcoming E-Learning Events. September 12 & 13 (Durham, NC): September 12 & 13. Articulate Community Roadshow. Register here. November 5 & 6 (London): E-Learning Roadshow.

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Inquisiq

JULY 24, 2013

Free Stock Photo Resources for eLearning. Creating media and images can be very time consuming and can also be expensive if you are hiring a full-time designer. One the other side you can always use stock photo sites, but many times they make you pre-pay for “image credits” and it can be a difficult task finding the right image.

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Inquisiq

JULY 24, 2013

Free Stock Photo Resources for eLearning. Creating media and images can be very time consuming and can also be expensive if you are hiring a full-time designer. One the other side you can always use stock photo sites, but many times they make you pre-pay for “image credits” and it can be a difficult task finding the right image.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. But usually not.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. October 10 & 11 (Durham, NC): Articulate Roadshow.

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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. 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. It was a great time of meeting many of you and learning more about what you do.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Presentation - ASTD OC 972 1 6 Risk of Identity Theft Due to Social Networking and Blogging 46 4 6 Time Spent on Blogging 16 2 6 Video Format Comparison - Flash - WMV - Quicktime - Real 880 2 5 Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations 814 8 5 DevLearn - Ken Robinson Keynote 276 5 5 eLearning 2.0 and eLearning 2.0

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2009

If you’re like many of us, you don’t have a lot of money to buy stock images or hire a graphics designer. It only takes a few clicks to get from one image to the next. For example, I may not be interested in all of the clip art images in a particular style. DevLearn 2009 : November 11-13 in San Jose, CA.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

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. Fill the footer with a color picked from the bottom of the image. Going to Devlearn? 30 Second E-Learning Templates. Add your content. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

You don’t need to be a graphics artist, but you should know the difference between a bitmap and vector image because they play a role in the quality of what you see on the screen. The ones that get pixelated are bitmap images. When you scale the image, you’re scaling the pixel. When you scale the image, you’re scaling the pixel.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Going to Devlearn? Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Join David Anderson and me for a fun and active hands-on workshop. This topic is by far one of the most popular of the ones we've covered in any of our workshops in the past. September 30 (Las Vegas). October 28 & 29 (Philadelphia).

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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? Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Going to Devlearn? Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Join David Anderson and me for a fun and active hands-on workshop. This topic is by far one of the most popular of the ones we've covered in any of our workshops in the past. September 30 (Las Vegas). October 28 & 29 (Philadelphia).

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Swing by the Articulate booth at Devlearn this week and check out all of the Articulate 360 goodness. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 15, 2023

In previous posts we looked at: What I Learned Creating AI Images for E-Learning Simple Tips on Creating Your Own Illustrations with AI Today, I’ll show some of the basic steps I use to create the illustrated characters I’ve shared in LinkedIn recently. For example, here are two images using the same text prompt.

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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. Going to Devlearn? Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. September 30 (Las Vegas).

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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. Going to Devlearn?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The good thing is that a single image often suffices to establish the scenario context. The free stock images I shared recently are perfect for building interactive scenarios and establishing visual context. Another reusable option is to insert a background image and then establish a number of states for that image.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 12, 2019

PhotoAbility : Authentic Disability Stock Images. October 22-25: DevLearn Pre-Conference Workshop & Concurrent Session. Recently, Bryan Jones ( @elearningart ) from eLearningArt invited me and a whole slew other eLearning people (59 of us) to share their single best tip for creating effective eLearning scenarios.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. September 12 & 13 (Durham, NC): Postponed due to Hurricane Florence. October 10 & 11 (Durham, NC): Articulate Roadshow. Register here. Sign up for one or two days. Register now.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I usually look for a single image that helps do that. The image below represents some common scenario layouts. It allows you to get rid of character images, buttons and a lot of the other clutter that you have using a single slide. October 23 (Las Vegas, NV): Articulate User Conference with Devlearn. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Cover images are mostly decorative. And because of the responsive nature of the Rise courses, the cover image gets cropped based on the screen’s aspect ratio. The key is keep the cover images simple. We’ll look at two ways to create the cover image animated.gifs. Understanding the Cover Image.Gifs.

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