elearning

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Using Improv’s Principle of Agreement to Create Better Screencasts

Screencasting

Last week I was watching Screenr’s Public Stream when I noticed a common theme in the screencasts: They were all perfect. Now I don’t mean perfect in terms of audio [...]

Flash CS4 for Elearning Production

Flash Elearning

One of the features my team is most excited about in Flash CS4 is the new object-based animation. This should significantly reduce a lot of basic elearning production times for [...]

Rapid Development: Campaign Social Networking Style

Rapid E-learning

We all know how templates enable design teams and their customers to jump over much of the upfront drudgery and focus on the important part: the content. Should it then [...]

Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Conferences

Spent the weekend putting the final touches on my Elearning Guild sim for my Espresso Learning session this week on Second Life and virtual worlds. Espresso sessions are meant to [...]

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Captivate vs. Camtasia: Blend for Best of Both Worlds

Screencasting

The latest versions of Captivate and Camtasia confirm the screencasting & video tutorial industry is quickly evolving. As someone who’s created web-based video tutorials for almost ten years, I’ve tried [...]

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Creative Elearning via Email

Creative E-learning

Lately I’ve been working on identifying some alternative and cost-effective ways for delivering training. It’s an important area of focus for my group right now. So tonight, while reading through [...]

Harper Collins, iTunes and Learner Control in Elearning

Multimedia Learning

Kudos to Harper Collins for recently embracing the iTunes model and beginning to offer consumers the option to purchase individual chapters of books (Wall Street Journal). As someone who purchases [...]

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Made to Stick – Going the Extra Step in Elearning Design

Creative E-learning

One of the more meaningful books I read last year was Made To Stick. If you’re a learning professional, you need to read this book. There are many great examples [...]

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Powers of Ten, Multimedia Communication and Flash Components

Creative E-learning

Just listened to last week’s podcast of Science Friday. Ira interviewed a guest who specializes in “big numbers” and who talked about how one goes about communicating such indescribable values. [...]