Trivantis

MAY 26, 2014

This month’s post is packed with awesome topics, including gamification, instructional design and highlights from ASTD 2014 International Conference & Exposition. The Four Ps of Quality Audio. Find out the 4 Ps of creating crisp and clear audio that’s easy to understand in your e-Learning course. What One Thing…?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 23, 2006

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?

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Kapp Notes

JULY 26, 2007

Around the same time, the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog had the July "Big Question" which was "Choosing Tools" which is actually a series of questions: How does the eLearning design process need to change to accommodate such a wide variety of tools? you really need video or would audio work just as well.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

The PowerPoint presentation opens as a slide show and you click through and narrate the presentation just like you would for a live audience. Using Camtasia, you can add callouts, images, audio, Flash hotspots, animations, and even a quiz.).   The video automatically opens in Camtasia Studio and is inserted on the Timeline.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Frustration with eLearning: Becomes dumping ground for slides, text, content All the fun stuff kept for the classroom. 73 slides of text. It’s very easy to load content on slides – but it takes more creativity to move learner to actual understanding! ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2011

You only get visual and no audio, though. You load a web page and it will play it, audio and all. The way I use it with PowerPoint is to frame the window around a slide. Then record my audio. When I want to advance the slide, I just click the page-down button. Create your PowerPoint slides and save as images.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2011

Record and sync audio to animations. A key is to see each slide (which becomes a Flash movie) as a piece of information. Many of the slides have the same core content because usually only a few things change over a series of slides. Also, you can have more than one slide master. Animations. Multimedia.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 26, 2011

There’s a simple text-to-speech program, but I just recorded some audio and added the.wav file. Convert Static Images on the Slide: You can also add the image to the slide. August 16 : Atlanta, GA—ASTD: I’ll be doing two sessions, a pre-conference workshop on elearning (3 hours) and the other on elearning graphics.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

At the recent ASTD conference we demonstrated a bunch of elearning tips and tricks. 10 Free Audio Applications. Following are the ten audio sites that I profiled. Audio production: Audacity , Myna , and Levelator. I like the way David used the slide view to create an image-based assessment. Download the files here.

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Learning Visions

JULY 20, 2009

My weak connection probably contributed to my choppy audio delivery, but all in all things went smooth with DimDim. Stephens done a nice write up on the Kineo website and weve included the slide deck from the presentation. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 13, 2014

I should note this was the same issue at ASTD in Dallas, where your only options were “difficult to find coffee cart”, “bring your own” or “Starbucks” Guess what? Considering that plenty of smaller shows give free coffee, how hard is it for ASTD to do the same? The Starbucks line was big as well.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2010

I’ll probably make it my default microphone because it’s much smaller, sounds great, and it gives me three audio recording modes. Some people run their audio through a mixer. In fact, here’s my audio set up. The key point is that your audio should sound good. Related links: 4 Simple Tips for Recording High-Quality Audio.

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Rapid eLearning Microphone Tutorial PowerPoint 75

Rapid eLearning

MAY 17, 2011

The following example starts with a screen that has audio and instructs you to adjust it. In this case, she built the help instructions with the animations and audio in Quizmaker. I see plenty of courses that don’t teach me how to navigate the course until slide 7. If you want to advance you make one choice. Novelty Helps.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

Some design tidbits: Another colleague, Cliff Atkinson, who wrote Beyond Bullet Points , suggests taking most of your bullets off the slides entirely. For the same reason, you shouldnt project a complicated slide or diagram as one complete unit. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Found some cool little e-Learning nuggets: short Flash pieces with audio and callouts and beautiful images to teach you about the history and symbolism of various masterpieces. I laugh, remembering Art History 101 in college -- a darkened lecture hall, slides projected on the wall, me falling asleep in spite of myself, sometimes even snoring.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

28 Web Conference Training Tips - eLearning Weekly , July 10, 2009 Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but there is a lot more to training via web conference than just putting on a headset, dialing up an audio-conferencing bridge, and logging onto the application. So what LMS are you using? Original post.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

In the context of e-Learning (back then it was just plain old CBT), this meant you had audio/video on the screen with timed text bullets. The learner could listen to the audio if her preferred style was auditory, OR read the text if her preferred style was visual. I always tune out the audio and read ahead.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 11, 2013

When you type or draw into the app, a timestamp corresponding to the recorded audio is added to the note. That note then becomes a link to play the audio recording from that point. It allows you to go back and listed to just a section of the audio from a meeting or lecture without listening to the entire recording.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

For more reading on millenials (see her slides, cuz I cant see them). Slides will be emailed. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f. Cant just read about them. Apply research.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 6, 2007

Check out some of the still slides from his work (I wish he would post the actual presentations.but I suppose even David Byrne wants us to buy his book). Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). Using Audio. I tried to make more effective use of audio. Avoided reading text heavy pages word-for-word.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 24, 2010

Some slides may or may not have audio. Those that do have audio can be adjusted using the volume control button. Below is a quick demo with a few different ideas on how you can approach the slide navigation instructions. The ASTD group in Baton Rouge extended the discount for blog readers to September 3rd.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

He cites a USA Today article which says, Students "dont like it for activities that can be done in a real classroom, such as lectures or slide shows. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Just to be fair, I’m no audio engineer and there are lots of options and considerations when it comes to recording. As an example, instead of a slide with three bullet points create three slides where the bullet point is on the business card. Haven’t tried either, but the reviews sound good. 7 Simple Rapid E-Learning Tips.

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Rapid eLearning Low Cost Microphone FAQ 80

mLearning Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2012

As users of these tools, we feel that unless we use all of these cool features in a Project (or on a single slide), we are likely behind the trend, and so we end up burying the real course objectives in a sea of animations. Here''s a recent Keynote Presentation I delivered for ASTD Houston: [link].

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Slide 22 of Stephen Downes presentation includes a diagram: Messy vs. Neat. The other thing Id add to your list in the sense of messy in a perjorative sense would be poor presentation skills: body language, speech, reading slides, lack of engagement, energy etc. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Blended Learning Authoring Tools Brandon Hall Instructional Design 100

Learning Visions

AUGUST 17, 2007

Karl explained some of the real basics to me as we went along -- how to do "Mouselook" for a better zoom (very useful if youre looking at a PowerPoint slide in SL -- the quality of the graphics is often quite poor); how to make your avatar laugh and do other gestures. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Second Life Moodle Instructional Design eLearning Guild 100

Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

159) The objectives page is one that I always click NEXT to slide right on by. I sat in on a couple of Michael Allens sessions at ASTD 2007 and when he advised us to spare our learners from learning objectives, it really surprised me. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

I think it might be helpful to include a slide upfront in your presentation clearly outlining all of the pricing options and whats available. Cammy, A fine idea to have a simple slide clarifying the pricing options. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Brent -- OK Obi-Won!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

List of 52 Emerging eLearning technologies: I just typed down some of these, youll have to view the slide deck for a full list. Audio/Video Pulseplanet 2 minutes sound portraits of the planet earth. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. This has been useful with literacy.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

That’s not including writing a script or recording audio. The content itself is in pretty good shape; there’s slides, a participant guide, and a facilitator guide, and it’s all fairly complete. Chapman’s study provides this breakdown of tasks and the percentage of time for each (see slide 18).

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

It means audio-based instruction that someone calls and receives from an automated menu system. It does not mean “shrunken slides.” Instead it means learning dictionaries where information can easily be looked up and retrieved. It means mini-games that reinforce learning.

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NuggetHead

AUGUST 16, 2010

Quizmaker hide & seek image shuffle Adding a background playlist, sound effects, video, audio narration, synched animation…all on the same slide! Importing an.flv movie with independent player controls. A little thing I like to call “Spider Branching.&#

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eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Slides from Keynote at Training 2010 - Social Enterprise Blog , February 3, 2010 Slides I had the great pleasure to present a keynote address yesterday at Training 2010. Strategy - Janet Clarey , February 9, 2010 I’m finally getting around to reading the ASTD State of the Industry Report for 2009 which was released in November.

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Case Study SharePoint Association Learning Management System Taxonomy 40

Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I get a lot of questions about number of slides or screen count per hour of instruction. Don’t Auto-Advance Slides. The problem with this is that if the person is a fast reader, it’s frustrating to wait for the slide to catch up. If the person is a slow reader, they won’t get everything they need before the slide advances.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

8 Time Saving Tips: Build Template Slides. However the core features and functionality can be established upfront and then saved as a template slide. Test Media Screen : This screen includes information on types of media, plugging in audio, and testing volume. There are a few core slides that are in most courses.

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Tips Rapid eLearning Course Slides 89

Learning Visions

JANUARY 26, 2012

My live notes from Cindy Huggett’s @cindyhugg session at ASTD TK12. audio – there’s an echo, it goes out; technology snafus – the link changes, etc.) She’s been doing virtual classroom since 2001. have a co-pilot – a producer or a co-facilitator – when you have shared responsibility, it makes it easier. be a proficient typist practice!

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