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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 20, 2021

Mike Taylor

How Content Consumption Can Help Upgrade Your Brain. Often, when working in PowerPoint, it can be really hard to quickly check what colors you’re using – especially if the slides in your presentation come from (or are pasted onto) different templates. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. You can send them here to sign up.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

Our brains have been wired over the last 2,500 years to learn through stories. Ugly: The Template Style PowerPoint. We’ve all faced “death by PowerPoint”, where each screen is a dump of information on a template style PowerPoint layout. Share this on LinkedIn. Often, we remember a story after only hearing it one time.

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | April 22, 2022

Mike Taylor

“Our memory is at best a photograph that is constantly being Photoshopped by our brain without our permission or awareness.” Expert secrets to building pro-level PowerPoint templates. Think you know about PowerPoint templates? Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Blindsight. Happy Friday! You might be surprised.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | May 21, 2021

Mike Taylor

Brain Research Confirms Stupidity Of Back-to-Back Meetings. Brain research now confirms what we have all experienced: back-to-back meetings are stupid. Building design presentation templates with Pitch by @femkesvs. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Most people have way too many meetings at work. This sucks.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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5 Ways to Get Rid of Designer’s Block

eLearning Brothers

Research shows that when we exercise, blood pressure and blood flow increase everywhere in the body, including the brain. More blood means more energy and oxygen, which makes our brain perform better,” according to the Scientific American. You can contact her via LinkedIn or Twitter. Take a walk. Look through a book.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | April 16, 2020

Mike Taylor

Smashing Magazine takes a look into templates and tools for building and designing HTML emails. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. A Complete Guide To HTML Email. I’ll admit that I think email can be good. I think well done emails are an underutilized option in everyone’s toolbox. How are you using email in your work?