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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | October 25, 2019

Mike Taylor

Research Reveals PowerPoint Is Not to Blame. PowerPoint doesn’t make bad slides and it doesn’t give bad presentations—people do. In this post, John Schwabis refutes the common “death by PowerPoint” arguments. After all, blaming a bad presentation on PowerPoint is like blaming a bad book on MS Word.

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Dabbling in QR Codes

eLearning Cyclops

you can create and copy the code to a web page, PowerPoint slide, add it to a manual, print it, etc. link] Here are a few ways I am starting to use QR Codes: Adding my contact information to my classroom powerpoints and manuals. Using a QR Code generator (e.g., Kaywa , Snap.vu , etc.), Adding codes in e-learning courses.

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Big Question - PowerPoint

The Learning Circuits

Due to some new research , the appropriate use of PowerPoint is again a topic of discussion. I went back to look at different opinions expressed in the past, and I'm not sure that there's much consensus on whether we should use PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. with lcbPowerPoint.

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The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning. Most PowerPoint templates are designed for standard bullet point presentations. This post will share with you my secrets for creating custom templates in PowerPoint. I don’t typically create a PowerPoint template. The Rapid Elearning Blog.

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Personal Publishing - Balance of Blog vs. PPT+Audio – Help Needed

Tony Karrer

Jesse saw a post where I pointed to slides from a recent presentation and he commented: A PPT slide deck is a horrible way to convey anything significant. How about a link to audio, or better yet something like an Articulate Presenter or Breeze presentation that combines the audio and the slide deck? Why am I willing to do that?

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Social Learning – What’s the Point? Time to turn the tables on the naysayers

eLearning 24-7

LMS/LCMS/Learning Portals (commercial & free), Social Learning stand-alone systems, hybrid system, content authoring tools, m-learning, web conferencing (already exists in many systems), virtual worlds, virtual meeting systems (already exists in some systems), marketplace exchanges (not affiliated with a system). Incorporate Social Q/A.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Create a simple 10 slide PowerPoint file. Social Web. del.icio.us. Google Bookmarks. If you’re not sure where to start, just start with the first drop down item or feature. For example, I get a lot of questions about the best way to get started with Articulate Presenter. Here’s my answer. StumbleUpon.