I’ve been slowly making my way through Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. He provides storyboard templates to help you create your initial structure, tips for writing and weaving a compelling story throughout. Whether you’re designing eLearning to be created in a PPT conversion tool like Articulate or Adobe Presenter – or working with a more custom, bespoke solution like Flash, I think you’ll find design principles that you can relate back to your own work. Mayer, Ed., MORE >>

In today's post, I'm going to share a rapid elearning demo with you and share some tips to make your project a success. I've used Articulate Studio '09 to create this demo, so a lot of advice applies to that platform, though I think most tips will translate to other Powerpoint based elearning too. So without further ado, here are my tips. And if you want to give your learners a limited sandbox to play with, think of how you can use Powerpoint's hyperlinking features to mimic the real world. Here are a few tips to create high-quality themes for your elearning. MORE >>

When I’m on the road, I try to squeeze in some informal Articulate jam sessions to answer quick questions or offer a tip or two. Many of these jam sessions produce interesting discussions with some tips and tricks that don’t require a full blog post. If you’re one of those people, here’s a tip: Don’t mess with your files; especially once the course is published. This is especially true when you have a bunch of large images on your PowerPoint slides. Here’s a simple solution, you can compress your images in PowerPoint. Below are a few tips and a quick tutorial. MORE >>

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. Having moved beyond the basics, I’m looking for  cool techniques and new tools to augment my PowerPoint designs and help me take them from good to great. Sometimes you can’t avoid a data-driven presentation and making nice-looking charts & graphs in PowerPoint is more than a bit tedious for those of us who don’t excel at Excel.  Tool #1:  Oomfo for Charts & Graphs. MORE >>

If you want to succeed at rapid elearning, you have to develop your PowerPoint skills. See what you can do with PowerPoint. You’ll be surprised to find that PowerPoint’s a pretty capable graphics tool. PowerPoint Tips. Create in PowerPoint and then save the images as graphic files. Here are some tutorials that show how I created the template with some additional tips. Screenr tutorials: Inspiration for the PowerPoint template. Click here to download the PowerPoint files in pptx and ppt versions. One is new and looks great. MORE >>