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eLEARNING DEVELOPMENT: Audio, Text, or Both?

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Over the years, I’ve taken a lot of eLearning courses; and at this point, I’ve seen it all. Some of the courses I’ve taken were clearly PowerPoint presentations and designed to be eLearning. by Kelly Barett, COTP. The "courses" were usually  text-heavy affairs and visually boring.

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Editing the Custom Dictionary in Word and PowerPoint

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Technical terms, program names, proper names, and acronyms can light up your Word or PowerPoint screen with red zigzag underlines, causing not only annoyance but also a risk that you will overlook an actual misspelled word. But the Custom dictionary, which Word and PowerPoint share, can actually help clean up the mess.

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How do you build eLearning?

B Online Learning

When it comes to building eLearning, how do you do it? Do you import a bunch of PowerPoint slides, add a player skin with the obligatory Next and Previous buttons, attach some word documents as resources, and then hit publish? Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2003. Find out more here or contact us on 02 95716888. [1]

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7 Things About eLearning Your CEO/Executive Director Wants to Know

Association eLearning

If you’re thinking about repurposing an old PowerPoint presentation with tons of text (there was a lot of information to cover), you might want to consider hiring an instructional designer. An instructional designer knows how to present information in a way that makes sense to your learners.

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These PowerPoint Experts Can Make You a Star

Rapid eLearning

Last week I was at PowerPoint Live 2009 in Atlanta where I spent some time with people in the PowerPoint community. I met a few blog readers, many of the PowerPoint MVPs that I’ve followed over the years, and was reminded of a few tips and tricks that I can use in my rapid elearning courses. PowerPoint MVPs.

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Editing with Acrobat: Get the Comment Pane's Numbers to Match Acrobat's Page Numbers

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Or do you need a reliable way to get feedback from several people on a document or PowerPoint deck? Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending Jennie's  Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class.

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Microsoft Word: To Track or Not to Track Changes

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For example, what if you are editing the text when you notice that PowerPoint has been spelled incorrectly as Power Point. Even if a reviewer of the edited document wanted Power Point to be printed with a space, you would not allow it, because PowerPoint is the proper name of the software.

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