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The Basics of eLearning Themes

eLearning Brothers

A few of the words I came up with are: dog, leash-free, fire hydrant, truck/car, window seat, bones, walks, trees, gate made out of bones, Saint Peter is a Saint Bernard, Podium at gate is made from a bone (or other object), Holes under the gate is the way to get in?, You can also use mind mapping or any other word generation ideas.

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Interactive Games for Training Sessions

Unboxed

As you develop your curriculum, make sure you incorporate things like photos, videos, and graphics into your presentation. If you simply stand at a podium and talk for over an hour, chances are that many people will start to zone out quicker. Nail the Hook. You can do this by telling a story or a funny joke. Keep it Visual.

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Slide Makeovers: Before and After

Scissortail's Learning Nest

It uses a readable font, high contrast, and a relevant photo to illustrate the content. It’s colorful, uses a highly readable font, and illustrates each phase with a photo. In addition, the photos are grainy, and the boxes look a little dated (which is understandable, given the age of this file). Before (1 of 7). After (5 of 7).

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20 World-Class Experts Share Their Top Presentation Tips

eLearning Brothers

So when everyone uses great photos, how can you make yours stand out and have an impact on your audience? I recommend choosing photos that all use a similar style, subject, or other theme in common. See how I made a presentation using only photos of apples —really! A lot of speakers use photography to illustrate their ideas.

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My elements of style

Jay Cross

They didn’t have a curtain but that better conveys what was going on than my telling you I was whisked up to a veneer portable podium. I have 25,000+ photos on Flickr.) In the story of the speech above, there might have been thirty people in the room; there may have been a hundred. I don’t remember. Not in my book. The gist was right.