So you want to share your online training portfolio from your WordPress blog? A lightbox option is an simple and elegant solution for keeping viewers on the current page while overlaying the content in a mini page. Get the plugin: Lightbox Plus for WordPress Here’s a quick example: View My Portfolio Example
How to Use Flash Rollover Buttons in Articulate
Everyone loves rollover buttons, right? I know I do. In fact I often lose my time playing with interesting and exaggerated rollovers. Years ago, before I knew “better,” I’d challenge my teammates to see who could create the most unique, animated buttons for our e-learning courses. Fun times. If you’re creating rapid e-learning in PowerPoint […]
Creative Process: Designing a Hollywood Movie Poster
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 […]
How to Design Branched E-Learning Scenarios
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 […]
Using Improv’s Principle of Agreement to Create Better Screencasts
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 quality, lesson structure, speaker preparedness or even content relevance. They certainly covered the range in those areas:-) By “perfect” I mean perfect in that they […]
Screenr – Screencasting Tool for Twitter
We released an awesome elearning tool this week. It’s called Screenr, it’s web-based, it’s completely free and the easiest screencasting tool I’ve used. Sure, because I now work for Articulate, you’re probably thinking I’m biased, and that’s fair, because I am. But I’ve also been screencasting for over ten years, produced some video training courses […]