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Interview with Carmen Simon – Part 2

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DE – in your presentation research, you talk about the “10% slide”—ways of reinforcing the key messages that you want to get across by, and repeating it throughout a presentation. In any PowerPoint template, I always advise people to use the opposite state in terms of the layout to enhance this 10% slide.

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Interview with Carmen Simon – Part 1

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I completed a project two years ago, in which the question was, “How much would people remember after 48 hours from a deck of twenty slides?”. I had included only one message per slide. In order to make a comment after going through thirty, forty, fifty slides—it means they are acting on those memories.

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3 Strategies for Developing Original Work Activities

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2) Work-document Activities: These activities require learners to create a document that would be a part of actual work, such as filling a form, creating a slide presentation or writing a specification. Slide presentations. A lot of eLearning programs require the production of word documents or presentations. Procedures. Spreadsheets.

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Graphic Design for eLearning Part 2 – Space

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A few decades ago, “slides” were prepared on acetate sheets for overhead projectors. There is a reason why captions and text boxes appear in particular places on slide templates, and why they are spaced the way they are. The reasons are varied. It’s partly due to the history of learning material design.

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The challenges of training remote teams

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If training amounts to sitting in front of a screen reading slides, attention will wander. Even those who have a dedicated workspace can get distracted by more pressing, or more entertaining, online activities. The draw of responding to emails or completing today’s Wordle may derail your training efforts. Solution: Increase engagement.

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Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning: Part 2

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Courses were prepared using software products that were almost all based, to a greater or lesser degree on the Microsoft PowerPoint model of slides, templates and bullet points. Tools like Gomo also have the advantage of offering a more responsive rather than merely an adaptive approach – but at the expense of some cosmetic elements.

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Guest post: Perfecting Your Video Lectures – 3 Quick Tips

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If creating video lectures aren’t really your thing or you want to try a more creative way to present information to your students, remember that you have other options as well, such as creating podcasts or “video sound slides” with some free services such as Animoto and Flow Gram.

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