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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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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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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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Are You Going to Lose Your E-Learning Job?

Rapid eLearning

All too often, I see courses that are nothing more than glorified and interactive PowerPoint slides. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. It's one of my favorite parts of the conference and features a lot of cool courses. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Convert PowerPoint to Google Slides: Compatibility complications

BrightCarbon

Have you ever attempted to speak a different language when you’re abroad, assumed you’re doing a great job, but then realised the person you’re talking to has no idea what you’re trying to say? We’ve been investigating what gets lost in translation when you convert PowerPoint to Google Slides. We’ve all been there! Fonts & type.

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Turn These Slides into eLearning

Integrated Learnings

However, scenarios benefit learning in so many ways, it’s hard to justify spending time picking out Clip Art to decorate slides rather than writing even a few simple scenarios. Describing a scenario can help learners recognize when to apply new knowledge on the job (i.e., to the content. scenarios help create “ah ha!”

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#ASTDTK14 Slides and Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are the slides I would have presented. Trainees’ gain higher confidence in applying learning from a training session to their job when the training is simulation game based. Unfortunately, the weather here in Pennsylvania did not cooperate with my desire to head to Las Vegas to talk about game design.

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