Don’t Miss the Boat! Get Valuable E-Learning Tips from the Community

This guest blog entry was written by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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If you want free & helpful tips and resources for building awesome e-learning, your ship has come in, and it’s called the Articulate community. Below are some highlights you won’t want to miss from the past week. For even more great e-learning discussions, ideas, and freebies, head over to E-Learning Heroes to connect and share with others in the Articulate community!

Notable tutorials:

• Create a spiral notebook paper image in PowerPoint and make it look freshly torn

• Embed an Articulate podcast with player controls into another presentation: Part 1 | Part 2

• How to animate and fade a group of objects into a central object

Conversations in the Community:

• Designing courses for “generation Z”

• More discussion on how to build creative objective slides: what if your objectives aren’t very tangible?

• Ideas for exercises in a course on strategic planning

• Interaction ideas for a language skills course

• Customizing the font and other text attributes in a course’s slide notes

New blog posts:

• More Than 30 PowerPoint Tips from the PowerPoint Pros

• 40 New Open Enrollment Articulate Training Dates for 2012

Seen on Twitter:

• @nick_varney shares a link to @BrianHoule’s free Tabtronic custom Articulate skin

• @kelly_smith01 shares a link to 17 web resources for improving design skills

• @nicole_legault shares a link on e-learning and the issue of usability

• @pedroatamayo shares a link that asks: what does good e-learning look like?