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MICROSOFT POWERPOINT: Adding Transparency to Photos

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

However, you've only got one photo you're allowed to use. PowerPoint won’t allow you to adjust the transparency of a photo so you'll need to scrap that plan. Here’s how to get from Point A to Point B, including an extra bit to accommodate if your photo has a background you’d like removed.   Don't get angry!

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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

And while instructional design is a vital component to the effectiveness of an eLearning course, other elements can either help elevate your course content or detract from it. Here are 10 free stock photo sites that I use on a regular basis when I’m designing eLearning. #6: 8: Bad Stock Photos. 6: Mismatched Fonts.

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MICROSOFT POWERPOINT: Adding Transparency to Photos

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

However, you've only got one photo you're allowed to use. PowerPoint won’t allow you to adjust the transparency of a photo so you'll need to scrap that plan. Here’s how to get from Point A to Point B, including an extra bit to accommodate if your photo has a background you’d like removed.   Don't get angry!

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Shutterstock vs. iStock for presentation photos

BrightCarbon

Previously, we’d pretty much exclusively been using iStock for our commercial-use presentation photos. Often in a presentation, when trying to tell a visual story with lots of relevant images, our designers want photos that work well as a sequence. This means that we can easily use Shutterstock photos in presentations to tell stories.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.

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SBL Research, Twine, LXD, Tools: ID Links 9/28/21

Experiencing eLearning

Study looking at how feedback and reflection affect the effectiveness of scenario-based learning in improving self-efficacy and classroom readiness for student teachers. Providing automatic feedback and opportunity to reflect had the biggest effect. A significant positive effect on self-efficacy was found for intervention group 2.

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6 Visual Design Tips to Make Your Course More Effective

LearnDash

Old typewriters used to be monospaced, and some fonts follow this design choice to achieve a retro effect. Dated stock photos can make your course look old and out of touch, and can subtly suggest to learners that it isn’t as trustworthy. The post 6 Visual Design Tips to Make Your Course More Effective appeared first on LearnDash.

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