Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 8, 2013

I actually used one of the backgrounds for a recent workshop on interactive elearning. 7 Interactive Downloads. It’s a Storyline template with six different tabs interactions. She also gave away a pretty slick drag and drop interaction. Other files shared by your peers in the community: Clotheslines template (PowerPoint).

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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. Recently, community member Efrat Maor shared a bunch of displays and free PowerPoint templates that she created. Download the PowerPoint template here. Hope you enjoy the free graphics and PowerPoint templates.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2012

If you’re interested in having a workshop in your area, have your local ISPI or ASTD chapter contact me. PowerPoint’s No Longer a Slideshow Freak! Learn a bunch of PowerPoint tips and tricks. Two workshops: Rapid E-Learning (AM) & Build Interactive E-Learning (PM). August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ).

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2011

PowerPoint’s designed as a presentation tool. 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. PowerPoint has similar versatility which I’ve shown repeatedly on the blog.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Save Time with These 3 Rapid E-Learning Tips : You’ll only save time and make your job easier with these three PowerPoint elearning tips. You can also download a PowerPoint template. 3 Ways to Define Interactive Rapid E-Learning : Are your courses engaging and interactive? It’s not as hard as you may think.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

If you’re building rapid elearning courses, then most likely you’re using PowerPoint. Despite all of the lamenting about bad PowerPoint presentations, the fact remains that PowerPoint the application is quite powerful and offers a lot of flexibility (and capability). See How Easily You Can Create Graphics in PowerPoint.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It would be cool if every course we build was highly interactive with decision-making branches. Whether the course is linear or interactive it’s merely a solution. If we do that, we’ll find that there are plenty of times when a linear course is preferred over a more interactive one. Learning is Bigger than E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2011

It never fails that when I show people a few tricks in PowerPoint that they’ll say they never knew that was possible. Understanding the features and what they allow will open the door to all sorts of creative ideas and interactivity. E-Learning Heroes Community : tutorials, PowerPoint templates, and free downloads.

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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. November 12: Los Angeles, CA (ISPI)—Articulate Workshop. November 14: Minneapolis, MN (ASTD)—Articulate Workshop: Build Interactive E-Learning…Rapidly.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In a recent post we looked at ways to build interactive elearning even if using PowerPoint to build the courses. So in today’s post I’ll show you how I created the PowerPoint interaction. This lets us look at some essential production tips when using PowerPoint to build interactive elearning.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 19, 2011

And besides, the rapid elearning tools are so easy to use there’s not much of a difference in production time between creating a job aid and converting a PowerPoint file to Flash. November 12: Los Angeles, CA (ISPI)—Articulate Workshop. November 14: Minneapolis, MN (ASTD)—Articulate Workshop: Build Interactive E-Learning…Rapidly.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Many organizations have rules on using PowerPoint. How you use PowerPoint and its features is different; and so is the output. However, it never fails that once someone knows you’re using PowerPoint to build the rapid elearning course, they apply the same rules to your elearning course that they’d apply to presentations.

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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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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. PresentationCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around the topic of presentation design and delivery.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Here’s a common issue: your client gives you a PowerPoint file that doesn’t look all that great. In PowerPoint you can build as many master slides and layouts as you need. PowerPoint has a feature that lets you find and replace fonts. The Replace Fonts feature is one of those that are kind of buried in PowerPoint.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 12, 2011

I get a lot of questions about upgrading to PowerPoint 2010. Most people who ask are still using PowerPoint 2003. Starting with PowerPoint 2007, there are many features that make the rapid elearning process much more efficient. PowerPoint lets me add all sorts of cool effects and shadows. Well in PowerPoint 2010 you can!

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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. The PowerPoint developer demonstrated how to customize the ribbon toolbar in PowerPoint. Creating custom shapes is buried in PowerPoint and not easy to find.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A great way to get out of the PowerPoint look is to create screens that hold content in different ways. They also included the original PowerPoint files. And if you want the PowerPoint files to deconstruct them, you can download from here. November 12: Los Angeles, CA (ISPI)—Articulate Workshop. Tutorial 3: a gel screen.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 17, 2016

Many of them do a great job given their limited resources, but to build courses that are engaging, interactive, and meet learning objectives requires more than a basic understanding of PowerPoint and learning to find free clip art. And of course, participate in your local ATD , ISPI , and STC chapters. May 30-31 (Sydney, AU).

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2010

Top five tips for creating effective interactions - Spicy Learning , June 14, 2010 Interactions pose a dilemma to all instructional designers. It’s worth taking the time to get your approach to interactions right because they’re key to making e-learning effective. ISPI) would miss the same things it misses.

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