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How to Stay Relevant (and Sane) in Hard Times
The pandemic has resulted in a lot of people losing jobs, or being asked to take on new responsibilities. And even without a global health crisis, sometimes we can all feel overwhelmed and burned out by the demands of our careers. I created this little video to remind us all how we can rebalance the […]
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New eLearning Overview Built with Articulate Rise Featuring Fully Responsive Design!
It’s a great time to be creating eLearning; development tools continue to evolve, and a new player on the scene is a real game-changer–especially if you need high quality mobile learning. As if Storyline wasn’t great enough, with their new Articulate 360 suite, Articulate now offers us Articulate Rise. The main difference between Storyline and […]
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Recap of Recent ATD NYC eLearning SIG Sessions
As you may know, I’ve been co-chairing ATD NYC’s eLearning Special Interest Group (SIG) for a few years now; first with Enid Crystal of BlackRock, and now with Mark Cassetta of RBC. We put a lot of work into our sessions, and attendees tell us they get a lot out of them. In March, we […]
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Class Up Your Learning With Free Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
In case you missed this news item in February, I decided to do a quick blog post about it. Those of us creating a lot of eLearning content (and training materials in general) are always looking for inexpensive–or better, FREE–stock images to enliven our learning content. True, the new Articulate 360 Suite includes a Content […]
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In eLearning Images The Eyes Have It
What if I told you that a major global corporation made a surprising change to its policy regarding use of stock photographs in their company’s eLearning projects, against the advice of its own talent development team? What if I told you the new policy states that photographic images of people must not show recognizable faces. If any face is […]
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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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Supercharge Your eLearning By Including Custom Job Aids
On January 206h, my ATD NYC eLearning SIG co-chair Mark Cassetta and I partnered with Hal Christensen of the Performance Support SIG to offer another of what I’ve come to call “interactive roundtables”. In these roundtables, rather than inviting a speaker, we give ATD NYC members a little bit of “homework” on a selected topic, and then […]
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Giving Stock Photos a Unique Look for Your Learning Projects
Ever since Microsoft discontinued their clip art gallery, we’ve all been scrambling to find inexpensive or free stock photos. But in a way, this is a good thing. The images in that clip art gallery were looking dated and dull. And once you start checking out other options, you realize there’s a gorgeous world of […]
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Delivering Your Information With a Fun Soundboard
My schedule these days is busy enough that I’m not always able to take part in the weekly eLearning Challenge over on the Articulate Forums. But there have been a couple recently I couldn’t resist as a voiceover artist. For one challenge, the task was to create a simple example of a soundboard; in other words, a […]