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Free Animated GIFs to Motivate Your Learners
This week’s eLearning Challenge on the Articulate forums was to create an animated GIF image file. There was a further requirement that it be a “reaction” shot–the kind of thing you see all over the internet these days. I decided rather than using goofy footage from a popular film or television show (which can introduce…
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Free Your eLearning Navigation From the Straight and Narrow
This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge on the Articulate Forums was all about course navigation. And you know what? It’s always a good time to talk about navigation. If you are still creating all your eLearning courses with a strictly linear path, then you’re missing a major opportunity to engage adult learners. I know what you’re thinking:…
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Upcoming 5/13 ATD NYC Webinar: Common eLearning Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
As you may know, I’m co-chair of ATD NYC’s eLearning SIG (special interest group). Every other month, co-chair Enid Crystal and I put together a program exploring the challenges and rewards of including eLearning in your company’s blended learning solutions. Sometimes we invite speakers, and other times we host roundtable discussions on hot topics. On Wednesday, May…
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An Easy Way to Create Free Custom Icons for Your eLearning Course
This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge on the Articulate Forums was about creating custom icons for your eLearning courseware. It’s a great project; after all, you want icons that have the appropriate look and feel for your unique course, and even with all the great free resources available on the internet, there might come a time…
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Maybe You Don’t Need That eLearning Course
I’m contacted regularly by organizations who tell me they need me to create an eLearning course. After inquiring about the details, sometimes I surprise them by suggesting that they don’t really need a formal, full-blown eLearning course at all. You should always ask yourself the same question (or contact me, and I’ll ask!). If what you need to share…
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My New Interactive Sample Teaches Grammar With Humor
Admit it. Sometimes nice, bland characters aren’t all that interesting or engaging. I’ve been an actor for more than 30 years, and I’m a character actor, which means I don’t play those handsome, kind-hearted “leading man” roles. I play the offbeat people, which suits me perfectly. Ask any actor you know whether he or she would rather…
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Free Gamification Course on Coursera.com Starts January 26th!
Folks: If you’ve been wondering about the principles of Gamification and how to apply them to your eLearning and other projects, you really owe it to yourself to take this free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) by Professor Kevin Werbach on Coursera. It is fun, challenging, and will give you lots of understanding and ideas. It is…
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Fun With Flat Graphics and Manager Training!
I got carried away again. The Articulate eLearning Heroes Challenge (#50) for this week was actually very simple: create an image of a workspace using the very popular (thanks, Apple) flat graphic design style. Easy, right? This is actually not a style I’ve really embraced, so that made it a good reason to take on the…
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New eLearning Samples Page Overview Video
The latest eLearning Heroes Challenge (#49) on the Articulate Community Forum was all about using your webcam as a quickie teaching tool. Moderator David Anderson keeps coming up with such great and creative challenges! And while I love being creative, the practical side of me is always saying “Make something you can use on your web…
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Storyboarding 101 – Creating Your eLearning Blueprint
This week’s eLearning Heroes challenge (#48) on the Articulate Forum is all about the basics of Storyboarding. This is an essential topic, and one always worth revisiting! Here are the questions posed by moderator David Anderson of Articulate, and my answers: How do you define scripting, storyboarding, and prototyping? Scripting: I define “scripting” as the proposed wording…