Category: Writing and Editing
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Learn Rules and Tools of Engagement at Our Next ATD eLearning SIG Roundtable May 18th!
Does your eLearning start like this? Welcome to this training on X. It is important for the company that you understand all about X. Here are your objectives. There will be a quiz at the end. How appealing is that to your learner? What if, instead, you started your course in a way that stimulates […]
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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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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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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 […]
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Words, Words, Words! (and How to Use Them in eLearning)
IF YOU’D LIKE TO LISTEN TO AN AUDIO VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN! LORD POLONIUS What do you read, my lord? HAMLET Words, words, words. LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord? HAMLET Between who? LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. HAMLET Slanders, sir…. This odd exchange between […]
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My eLearning Guild Online Forum Session About Voiceovers is Now Available For Free!
I was delighted to receive a note today from Chris Benz, Director of Online Events for the eLearning Guild, letting me know that they’ve selected my presentation from last week’s Online Forum as their latest free sample of the kind of quality content that comes with Guild membership. I’m thrilled that my session was so […]
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More Communications and Simulations for MetLife
One of my projects this fall was partnering with the folks at MetLife on preparing communications pieces, job aids, and how-to guided tour simulations for the launch of their new internal MyLearning site interface. I created a series of communications pieces, from the executive e-mail announcement down to a series of monthly “did you know?” […]