Association eLearning

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The question is becoming more and more common — “Should I use PowerPoint (PPT) or Prezi?” But whereas PowerPoint tends to progress linearly from one slide to the next in a fixed sequence, Prezi uses “paths” to move between content by zooming out to reveal a big-picture overview, or zooming in to show details. Send via Email.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2021

Affinity Designer. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

Affinity Designer. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. To be a successful elearning designer means you have to know something about multimedia, graphic design, instructional psychology, and perhaps a little about Web and Flash technologies. E-Learning by Design : I like to recommend this one because it covers all of the basics well. 15 comments.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 17, 2024

Certainly, we know how to take PowerPoints and PDFs, put them up in a system, and add a quiz. Sizzle over steak We really don’t need any fancier design than that. We know how to make things flashy; we’ve got graphic designers for just that reason. Actually, evaluating impact, let alone design for it?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 13, 2024

Certainly, we know how to take PowerPoints and PDFs, put them up in a system, and add a quiz. Sizzle over steak We really don’t need any fancier design than that. We know how to make things flashy; we’ve got graphic designers for just that reason. Actually, evaluating impact, let alone design for it?

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LifterLMS

JULY 21, 2021

Learn how to create profitable online courses and membership sites even after failures along the way with Pete McPherson from Do You Even Blog in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett from LifterLMS. I’m joined by a special guest, Pete McPherson, from Do You Even Blog. Enjoy the show. Thanks for having me.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2015

Thou shalt know thy audience and context Good design is good communication. PowerPoint is used in a variety of contexts and despite the rigid and inherently presumptuous title of this blog post, the specifics of how to follow these rules might change based on the purpose of the presentation.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 6, 2023

Learning Design 3.0. In this article, Dr Philippa Hardman explores how to get & stay ahead of the learning design game in a post-AI world. This article from the Buffer blog shares 6 ways AI is already supporting content creation & some of the top tools in the game. Creating Custom Graphics in PowerPoint with Kevin Thorn.

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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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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

Everyone working in instructional design, learning experience design, or elearning should have a portfolio. This post on building an instructional design portfolio includes what to include and additional tips. iSpring Free is basically a PowerPoint presentation plus a quiz, but this might be an option for simple samples.

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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. > Which is your favorite e-Learning blog post for 2010? Thanks for the list, Chris.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 28, 2014

by AJ Walther      Want to design something that looks fresh and modern? You may want to consider Flat Design. Flat design is an aesthetic that rids the design of any three dimensional attributes. Here are a few examples of how clip art images can be reimagined into flat design.

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BrightCarbon

APRIL 19, 2024

Keep your message simple Design for the space you have Consider layout, flow, and transitions Keep your message simple Broadly speaking, the aim of any presentation is to persuade your audience to get from point A to point B. When designing for a big event, it’s important to think about the room you’ll be presenting in.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 15, 2024

Pilar Huffman – Nurturing the Nurturers: Elevating Learning Through Leading Rebecca Prejean – Food for Thought: Navigating Motherhood Cooking and Instructional Design Wow, right?! Cognitive Load, Student Attention, and PowerPoint Presentations Do you ever wonder how much of your slides learners are actually reading?

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 15, 2024

Pilar Huffman – Nurturing the Nurturers: Elevating Learning Through Leading Rebecca Prejean – Food for Thought: Navigating Motherhood Cooking and Instructional Design Wow, right?! Cognitive Load, Student Attention, and PowerPoint Presentations Do you ever wonder how much of your slides learners are actually reading?

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 15, 2011

Follow Us on Twitter Sign Up For Our Mailing List Subscribe to the RSS Feed Contact Us E-Learning Uncovered E-Learning Uncovered Home Concept to Execution Articulate Lectora Other Topics Blog Custom Development Review of Snap! by Lectora – a PowerPoint authoring tool à la Articulate. Today they announced their 1.1

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- It's Good for You. Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Blog 10. Or as Karyn Romeis & Barry Sampson both said - I've learned more via blogging over the past year than I learned in the preceding several years!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

this blog!). As they say, Powerpoint doesn’t kill people, bad design does. I note that this blog was contributing to Google C5 (according to a tool I can no longer find), for instance. This enabled some companies to make tools that could handle the backend, and so individuals could create. This was Web 2.0,

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. Screencasting is increasingly used to record PowerPoint presentations using preeminent software such as Camtasia Studio , which can enable an add-in to run the program from within PowerPoint.

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

eLearning Authoring Tool: PowerPoint. Many eLearning authoring tools use PowerPoint directly or are based on it. By themselves, however, PowerPoint files don’t use any eLearning standards like SCORM or xAPI. eLearning Authoring Tool Type: PowerPoint Add-ins. You essentially work in PowerPoint like you normally would.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 31, 2015

12+ Books for Instructional Designers. Learning Experience Design: A Better Title Than Instructional Design? 20+ More Books for Instructional Designers. No, I Won’t “Tweak” Your PowerPoint Slides. What does an instructional designer do? Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, as educators and instructional designers strive to create engaging, effective, and accessible educational materials, the choice of tools becomes paramount. In this blog, we will explore the best tools available for content authoring in education. In this section, we’ll explore some of the top contenders in the field.

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Paradiso Solutions

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

An essential tool for instructional designers, L&D specialists, and training companies, an eLearning authoring tool is a crucial part of developing e-learning courses. The programme also has a large library of templates that can be used to quickly and easily produce articles, blog posts, and other sorts of content.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, as educators and instructional designers strive to create engaging, effective, and accessible educational materials, the choice of tools becomes paramount. In this blog, we will explore the best tools available for content authoring in education. In this section, we’ll explore some of the top contenders in the field.

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Fly Plugins

APRIL 2, 2024

They needed help with what happens after course production is finished… How to market and sell more courses We began creating our own courses almost 10 years ago and we’ve learned a thing or two along the way, so our plan over the coming weeks is to publish content designed to help you do just that… sell more courses.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2014

If you watch a video on YouTube to learn how to install Windows on your PC or how to bake a cake; if you read a blog to understand how to tether your mobile as a Wi-Fi hotspot, you are already micro-learning. Blog Posts. Blogs are also very useful when it comes to applying micro-learning for online training. Like our post ?

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Articles and Blog Entries of Interest. Matching the Right Design Strategy to the Right Content. Storytelling and Instructional Design. Information on how to add notes right within PowerPoint. Take Notes Right on a PowerPoint Slide from Karl Kapp. Matching the Right Game Type to the Right Strategy.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

PowerPoint gives people a lot of freedom,​ but in a large organisation this can be more of a curse than a blessing. Because users are given too much freedom when designing slides, there’s often a lack of consistency in corporate presentations. They’re probably amazing at their day-to-day design or marketing work, but PowerPoint?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 15, 2013

I recently ran across an article on the CommLab India blog  by Aruna Vayuvegula on Motivational Factors to Consider in eLearning and LMS Design. In doing so, I found a great post from Connie Malamed from a few years ago on  Motivating the Instructional Designer (hey, sometimes we're the ones who need the motivation!)

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BrightCarbon

JULY 16, 2021

Is it even possible to customise icons without special design skills? This blog post will show you how to source, create and animate custom presentation icons from within PowerPoint itself! How to tailor icons in PowerPoint. If you’re using Office 365, you’ll be able to access PowerPoint’s native presentation icons.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 4, 2018

We took a look at our most popular scenarios over the past year and thought it would be fun to share that here, along with a few more resources for designing scenarios. Our most downloaded scenario template for Microsoft PowerPoint was… “Copy Room Conversational” Scenario. Download for PowerPoint. Download for Storyline.

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BrightCarbon

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Underwhelmed by the built-in slide transitions in PowerPoint? PowerPoint has almost 50 transitions to choose from. Credit where it’s due, PowerPoint does subtle transitions well. But on the other end of the spectrum PowerPoint’s “exciting” transitions are downright cheesy and, for most use cases, distracting.

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BrightCarbon

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Check out this guide to using video in PowerPoint and this one on how to insert video into Google Slides. They even have a ‘Presentations’ option which means if you’re happy to stray away from PowerPoint and Google Slides, you can create and present your deck directly in Canva. Visit the website here 4.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2023

Further, you know how to take PowerPoint decks and PDF documents, and put them up on the web with a quiz that people will pass. Breaking them up appropriately sounds complex, and would upset our existing design processes. Then we’d have to change not only our design but our approach to work in general.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I run into that a lot in the community and with some of my old demos on this blog. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. It sure is a pain. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Here’s a collection of the popular posts and blogs from the past year. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective eLearning Designers. An eLearning Design Checklist with Development in Mind. 5 Content Troubleshooting Tips for Instructional Designers. An eLearning Design Checklist with Development in Mind.

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