Weekly Recap: Strike E-Learning Gold

Still looking for that “Eureka!” moment with your e-learning project? Then rush on over to the Articulate community for a mother lode of course building tips.

Whether you’re an e-learning tenderfoot or seasoned prospector, you’ll discover a bonanza of course-building nuggets in E-Learning Heroes. Our e-learning alchemists will help you strike it rich, mining those valuable tips into e-learning paydirt.

Before you stake your claim, check out the latest lucky strikes from the past week:

Community tutorials

• Two Easy Ways to Create Drag & Drop Interactions in Articulate Storyline
• How to trim a mid-section from your Articulate Replay recording

Conversations in the community

• How do you make simple tips memorable?
• Inspiration Needed: Compliance Course
• My first Storyline course
• What’s in a font?
• High quality microphone recommendations
• Revealing a character’s thoughts using video
• Choosing content and topics: slides vs. video
• Change state depending on variable
• Demos & freebies: Inspiration | Media Tour interaction

New blog posts

• E-Learning Design Series: Visual Design Tidbits
• Distributing an Audio File Across Multiple Slides
• Create a Quick Media Gallery with Articulate Engage ’13
• Weekly Update: E-learning, Training, & Instructional Design Jobs
• Weekly Challenge: Create a Simple E-Learning Game

Seen on Twitter

• @Tracy_Parish shared a link to a simple branching scenario: Should I Google that Person
• @ScottSkibell shared a link to 10 Tips for Taking Better Portraits With Your iPhone
• @tmiket shared a link to Watching How-To Videos May Boost The Brain’s Plasticity, Enhancing Learning
• @eGeeking shared a link to the 28 best tools for choosing a colour scheme

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