Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. But usually not.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

You don’t need to be a graphics artist, but you should know the difference between a bitmap and vector image because they play a role in the quality of what you see on the screen. The ones that get pixelated are bitmap images. When you scale the image, you’re scaling the pixel. When you scale the image, you’re scaling the pixel.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I then did a follow up post on how to quickly find images for your elearning courses. If you look at the images I recommended and the images I used in the course, you’ll see that I didn’t use the images I recommended. That’s where my earlier tip to find an image pack really works. That’s not ideal.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We discussed it in this blog post on finding free stock images. Just type in your search and you’ll see the older image search. Usually the local ASTD, ISPI, or STC chapters contact me about doing workshops. It’s not free, but it does a great job. Free Tabs Interaction Template.

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eFront

JANUARY 10, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/10/2011 Top 5 e-Learning books for beginners The most of you already know that I am a great fun of open source software and free e-Learning resources: 14 Free and Open Source Authoring Tools 8 Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (..)

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/02/2011 Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011 2011 is the e-Learning year! ClassTools.net - (Authoring Tool) Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Where can I get free elearning assets? If you do get a budget then you can stretch your money by purchasing the lower resolution images. You don’t need print-quality images for elearning courses. You don’t need print-quality images for elearning courses. By the way, Microsoft has a blog dedicated to templates and images.

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eFront

DECEMBER 26, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 12/26/2010 Top 10 e-Learning Blog posts for 2010 Getting new ideas and tips concerning e-Learning is important to me. Chris -- Thanks so much for including the aLearning Blog's announcement of our free tutorials!

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eFront

JULY 23, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 7/23/2010 The gradebook module The brand new eFronts gradebook module combines results from online activities (tests, participation, projects) and offline activities (written tests, teacher judgment,) to produce grades for users. (..)

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eFront

APRIL 8, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 4/08/2010 ADL accepts eFront as SCORM 2004 adopter eFront is an LMS commited to international standards. Through time we offered support for SCORM 1.2 and IMS Common Catridge and with version 3.6

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eFront

JULY 12, 2010

Before CSS3 we would need to work with images or javascript to produce a round box effect. images/css_images/gradient.gif) repeat-x top; height:25px; border-top: 0px solid #1f3349; border-bottom: 0px solid #1f3349 } Below you can find several screenshots from the theme (as is rendered on FireFox 3.6) describing the design choices.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Presentation - ASTD OC 972 1 6 eLearning Software 967 0 1 Better Conferences - Response Needed 959 38 16 Fun - Wheel of Fortune Graphic Generator 949 1 1 Do You WANT an LMS? Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective 1,655 6 98 Fun Headline Generator 1,503 0 1 Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog 1,500 22 52 Web 2.0

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eFront

APRIL 13, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 4/13/2010 Exclusive offers for eFront facebook fans In a step towards an integrated social media strategy, Epignosis has announced that will proceed to 26 successive biweekly exclusive offers just for the fans of the eFront (..)

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals.

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eFront

MARCH 30, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 3/30/2010 10 tips for using eFront Here is several practical tips for making your eFront experience more enjoyable 1) [professor] Zip and upload multiple images. Then just unzip on the server.

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eFront

AUGUST 24, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 8/24/2010 From version 3.6 to version 3.6.6 With the pace that new versions of eFront are released is easy to not get enough information of improvements and new futures that have been added since the initial version 3.6

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eFront

AUGUST 2, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 8/02/2010 Extensions on RSS module eFront had for some time now an RSS module that could fetch and present an RSS feed inside a lesson or on administrators panel.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

If you’re a licensed user of the Microsoft products you have free access to the many templates and media assets they make available. Stock Image Sites. There are a dozens of stock image sites where you can buy low cost images. For elearning courses, you don’t need to buy the high resolution images.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day. See what they think!

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eFront

JUNE 1, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 6/01/2010 Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3 eFront 3.6.3 which has just been released by the way) introduces a shift from a Lesson-centric to a Course-centric eFront.

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eFront

MAY 1, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 5/01/2010 E front v3.7 - architecture The eFront team is proud to publish a presentation on the eFront v3.7 Extensions Architecture: E front v3.7 - architecture View more presentations from Epignosis.

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eFront

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 9/22/2010 5 things you (perhaps) dont know about eFront Through time eFront has become extra feature rich.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 2, 2009

But since it’s hard to get your boss to fork over $5 for a stock image, you might not convince him to provide the money for a recording studio. Another trick is to make a portable sound booth like the image above. Feel free to share them by clicking on the comments link. Maintain a consistent environment.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/21/2010 The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs After a long research, I have created a list of the most updated and popular e-learning blogs regarding e-learning.

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eFront

MAY 3, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 5/03/2010 eFront Wins Learning Technology Award We are thrilled to announce that eFront won a coveted Brandon Hall bronze award for technology excellence in the Learning Management Technology for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses (..)

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eFront

MARCH 30, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 3/30/2010 eFront sites to check out Here are a few eFront sites you might check to get a few ideas about your own implementation.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 11, 2010

Who can provide assets like logos, images, and documentation? It’s a good idea to ask for a small budget for additional assets like stock images or even custom development. Tidbits: I’ll be at the ASTD conference in Chicago next week. Learn how to get into the expo for free. Get Access to All Relevant Resources.

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eFront

JUNE 9, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 6/09/2010 eFront Contests We are running 4 contests throughout this summer which brings a nice opportunity to get rewarded for using eFront. I copy here from the contest announcement.

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eFront

APRIL 22, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 4/22/2010 Interview on lms-selection.com Recently, we had the change to discuss with Sébastien Fraysse, the Webmaster behind lms-selection.com about eFront. You still provide both free and commercial editions.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Frankly a few deserve coal in their stockings. Avatars, Image characters, backgrounds that are business or work oriented. Audio editing – still no match to Audacity, a free program. Web Conferencing – You would think that all these services would have a native app for tablets. You would be wrong. Market as a whole.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

I think audio is very effective when you want to establish an emotional connection or when the visual is actually important to the content and needs to be described (as opposed to eye candy like stock photos). ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 24, 2012

Today, we’ll look at how to manage the images used in elearning courses. Essentially there’s no right or wrong way to manage your images. We can waste a lot of time looking for images and assets that are spread across multiple computers and network drives. And I can tag the images so they’re easier to search and locate later.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’m doing a session for the local ASTD. This is especially true when you have a bunch of large images on your PowerPoint slides. This happens to me when I’m working with high resolution stock images. Here’s a simple solution, you can compress your images in PowerPoint. Batch editing images is not that difficult.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So what typically happens is that we create elearning courses that either all look the same or have a discordant look where the images and typography are a hodgepodge of whatever we have available. Since I had no time to build the graphics I wanted, I decided to change the huddled family image to a framed photo of a family.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Change Your Background Image. Instead of a template, try adding a background images that matches the content of your course. The image above shows a quiz using the default background and one that uses a richer one. That background is a simple stock image and makes a perfect way to show off the art work in a museum.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2010

10 Free Audio Programs to Use for E-Learning - Rapid eLearning Blog , June 1, 2010 I’m no audio engineer. Course Content Authoring Tools – Open Source (Free) - eLearning 24-7 , June 7, 2010 Below is a list of course authoring tools – think “rapid e-learning authoring software&#. All software below is free. We all do it.

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