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In Presentations and eLearning Visuals are worth a thousand Bullets on a Slide

mLearning Revolution

Whether you are a presenter or developing eLearning, our job is to engage our audience and no other things does the exact opposite more than a never ending list of bullet points on a Powerpoint slide. In a blog post, Seth describes bullet points on Powerpoint slides as “ unemotional and sterile.

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Should Marketing Review eLearning Courses?

Association eLearning

Our profession does not guarantee that we know how to make a lesson stick so that it is applied on the job. Just because we think a course would be more visually interesting if more images were used on slides, doesn’t mean there is sufficient cause to add them. In short, we are not instructional designers.

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Workshop Pricing, Tools, Volunteering: ID Links 7/5/22

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes workshop pricing, useful tools and resources for L&D professionals, volunteering and internship guidelines, scenarios, games, and diverse stock images. This includes 9 hours for creating slides and materials, which clearly only includes adapting existing materials and not creating them from scratch.

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How to extract text from an image

BrightCarbon

Ever tried to edit text in a slide deck and clicked on the words only to find *gasp* it’s not text at all, it’s an image! You have a few options to extract text from an image – keep reading to learn more! Transforming these images into editable slides will make your life so much easier and your deliverable so much better.

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How to reduce text on your presentation slides

BrightCarbon

One major reason your audience is suffering from ‘death by PowerPoint’ is that you’re using slides that simply spell out what you’re trying to say. So, if your audience is trying to read text on a slide and listen to you speak, they end up either confused or completely ignoring you. Here’s another slide transformation.

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Make Helpful Images Not Just Beautiful Ones

TechSmith Camtasia

As L&D professionals, the aim is to put information in people’s hands, so that they know how to do their jobs better. That should be the driving force, not pretty images, and mind-blowing graphics. Rather than thinking things like: What should my slides say? What image should I add? What should my bullets say?

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Adobe Captivate 5 & 5.5: That Syncing Feeling

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Take a look at the image below. There are two objects on a slide and they appear as blue bars on the Timeline. I'd like the top caption on the Timeline to appear on the slide just before the 1.5 I could also use the Timing group on the Properties panel to control when the caption appears on the slide. second mark.