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Storyline: Optical Illusion Drag-and-Drop

2010/06/14 By David Leave a Comment

 

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Creative Process: Designing a Hollywood Movie Poster

2010/06/01 By David 4 Comments

As many of you know, the Academy Awards of E-learning, aka Articulate 2010 Guru Awards, is coming up. The Guru Awards are a great opportunity for e-learning designers to showcase their best Articulate work while competing for fame and prizes. One of the biggest challenges for many e-learning designers is coming up with a visual […]

Filed Under: Creative E-learning, Visual Voice Tagged With: Articulate, design, Guru Awards, hollywood, movie poster, visual voice

Articulate Jam Session – May 27 in Austin

2010/05/26 By David 1 Comment

Articulate E-Learning Jam Session I’m hosting an Articulate Jam Session this Thursday in Austin, TX. What’s a jam session? Articulate Jam Sessions are an informal user group meeting designed to bring together  local Articulate users for some practical tips & tricks training on all things Articulate. It’s a free event but space is limited to […]

Filed Under: Articulate Tagged With: Articulate training, Austin, rapid e-learning workshop, user group

E-Learning Slide Makeover: 5 Design Ideas to Rock Your Learners Into Compliance

2010/05/24 By David 19 Comments

Rock Your Learners Into Compliance Let’s face it, no one takes compliance e-learning seriously. Slide after slide, learners glaze over the rules and regulations while unconsciously clicking the next button. The problem is that most compliance e-learning uses the same visual and narrative voice across all their courses. That’s like using the stop sign for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Visual Voice Tagged With: slide makeover

Backing up, restoring and reinstalling GoDaddy WordPress blogs

2010/05/03 By David 11 Comments

Restoring GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Like many of you, my GoDaddy WordPress blogs were compromised (again) this weekend. In fact,  I found hundreds of tweeps experiencing the same issues. Unfortunately, GoDaddy’s phone support refused to acknowledge any problems and even admonished me for using weak passwords and not keeping my blog software updated. Overall, I’ve been happy […]

Filed Under: E-learning Development Tagged With: back up, database, GoDaddy, malware, reinstall, virus, WordPress

(future) Rapid E-learning Designer

2010/04/22 By David 5 Comments

To do: 1. Get the gear and look the part. 2. Branching and hidden slides.

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E-learning Production Efficiencies

2010/04/01 By David 1 Comment

E-learning Production Efficiencies Working for a small company has its benefits: flexible schedules, creative freedom and an opportunity to directly contribute to the company’s success. But there are also downsides. Smaller companies don’t have the kinds of budgets to throw around willy nilly like larger companies. Costs are scrutinized and every decision affects the lifeline […]

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How to Design Branched E-Learning Scenarios

2010/03/31 By David

Building Branched E-Learning Scenarios Here’s a six-part screencast series demonstrating how to build branched e-learning scenarios in PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter. You’ll work with core features including  branching, hyperlinking, slide masters and customizing player templates to create multi-path learning paths using Articulate Presenter. About the video workshop The idea was inspired by an Articulate community user looking to simulate […]

Filed Under: Articulate, elearning scenarios, Rapid E-learning Tagged With: Articulate, branching, course, e-learning scenarios, interactivity, linear, navigation, Presenter, rapid, scenario, screencast, simulate, templates

Macbeth Motion Comic as E-learning Scenario Model

2010/03/23 By David 2 Comments

If you’re an e-learning designer looking for examples of engaging scenarios, visual storytelling and learner control all in one asynchronous course, you’re in for a real treat with this Macbeth motion comic. “Macbeth? As in Shakespeare Macbeth?” Yes, that Macbeth. Admittedly, Shakespeare knew a thing or two about writing and storytelling. But before you say, […]

Filed Under: Creative E-learning, Featured Tagged With: comics, motion comic, web comic

Example of IRS E-learning Storyboard

2010/03/21 By David 3 Comments

E-Learning Storyboards: IRS Example When it comes to e-learning examples, I’m always looking for new and creative demos I can add to my collection. Sometimes I’m inspired enough to try to recreate the examples just to test my skills. Having mostly worked in corporate e-learning, I was excited to find this post by the EFF […]

Filed Under: E-learning Examples Tagged With: design document, e-learning, examples, IRS, storyboards

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