E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Once PowerPoint detects that you have a graphics tablet plugged in, a new “Pens” tab is added to the ribbon that lets you draw just about anything you can imagine on your slides. Upcoming Events & Webinars. What I love about this is that anything you draw is editable within PowerPoint. Click here to download the PowerPoint file.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

This last week, I hosted a free graphic design webinar for non-graphic designers. Here are the main three graphic design tips I covered during my webinar. Selecting quality images shouldn’t be decided on a page-by-page or slide-by-slide basis. Upcoming Events & Webinars. Tip 1: Use More Than One Font.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 27, 2016

For example, what good is it to use effective graphic design techniques if you’re simply going to fill the slide with bullet points? When you start the development of your course, graphic design plays an important role as you initially create your slide templates or prototypes. Graphic Design for Non-Graphic Designers.

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 22, 2014

In previous versions of Captivate, if you wanted to hide the playbar or table of contents on a given slide, you had to go in and find an obscure variable. Upcoming Events & Webinars. June 13, 2014 | Free Webinar: Graphic Layering for Better E-Learning Design. Actions for controlling the playbar and table of contents.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 7, 2016

Carefully select the slides you want to show. Unless your course is only a few slides in length, you won’t be able to show the entire course. You have to pick the slides that are going to the most inspiring to others and provide the best wow-factor. Know exactly what you’re going to say. Know exactly what you’re going to say.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 31, 2014

You can find our slides from the presentation here , and feel free to email me if you’d like to see the file we used to whittle down the tools we rated (there were 200 of them!). If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch the E-Learning Guild’s free webinar showcasing all of the winners. It’s on Wednesday, April 2nd at 10:00 a.m.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 29, 2016

In recent free webinar on the 10 Lessons Learned My First Year in E-Learning , I talked about my realization that the field of e-learning is so much more than just the practice of instructional design. One of the unique aspects of the e-learning industry is how often it changes and how quickly you have to adapt to that change.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I usually had three types of material to work with: a PowerPoint presentation for the course, instructor and participant guides, and an audio or video recording of an instructor-led (classroom or webinar) version of the course. How does the instructor presentation compare to the slides or guide? What comes next?

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you are interested in this topic but won’t be able to make it to TechKnowledge, Diane will be presenting on the topic for the DC-ASTD Tech SIG in February – a free webinar, available to all. Registration is already open here. The other place you will be able to find us often is TechKafe, a new concept for this year’s event.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 11, 2013

You can also use your camera to add photos of slides or a blackboard to enhance your notes, and the photo acts the same way as the typed notes – just click the photo, and jump to that portion of the audio. Adobe Connect is a paid conferencing platform that can be used for web meetings, webinars, and e-learning. You’re welcome to join!

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

And some of the biggest motivation for me came from two pictures that were stuck in the back of the PPT that the client had previously used for webinars: The "safe" side of a fire-safe door that is performing as designed.and the devastation wreaked by a fire on the other side of that same door.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

And some of the biggest motivation for me came from two pictures that were stuck in the back of the PPT that the client had previously used for webinars: The "safe" side of a fire-safe door that is performing as designed.and the devastation wreaked by a fire on the other side of that same door.

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Diane and I had the pleasure of sharing some ways we have streamlined our production process in last week’s “Best of DevLearn” Webinar presented by The eLearning Guild, which you can view here. There were some great questions posed that we were able to address in the webinar, but there were several we weren’t able to get to.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Are bullets single-spaced on one slide but double-spaced on the next? Upcoming Events & Webinars. Jan 9 | Free Webinar: E-Learning Authoring Tools Comparison | Diane Elkins. Feb 20 | Free Webinar: Graphic Design for Non-Designers | Tim Slade. Another item to check is consistency.

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