Weekly Recap: Gobble Up These Signature E-Learning Dishes from the Articulate Community

Last week, many people in the US were off work for the Thanksgiving holiday, yet the Articulate community shared bountiful e-learning yummies all week long. In fact, the learning feast continues today with even more great recipes for e-learning success:

Community tutorials

• How to create photo-based illustrations with Powerpoint

Conversations in the community

• Storytelling ideas for policies and procedures
• Visual design ideas for code of conduct courses
• Selling e-learning courses
• Using video in learning and development
• Seeking ideas for designing visual cues
• Looking for portfolio sites for e-learning designers
• Demos: Image slider | ESL training | Formatting quiz backgrounds
• Jobs: Multimedia developer | Articulate software expert | Storyline designer | Storyline designer

New blog posts

• Here Are Some Free E-Learning Templates to Speed Up Your Course Design
• The Format Painter Turbocharges Your Workflow in Articulate Storyline
• Creative Uses for Slide Transitions
• Example: Interactive Hover Menu in Storyline
• Engage ’13: How I Built This Labeled Graphic Interaction
• How to Increase the Viewing Rate of Your Course Videos
• Connect the Dots Game in Articulate Storyline
• Here’s What Your Fellow Course Designers Brought to the E-Learning Feast

Seen on Twitter

• @PaulAlders shared a link to an interactive Advent Calendar designed in Articulate Storyline
• @eLearningJeff shared a link to Creating animated title pages for Articulate Replay
• @MattGuyan shared a link to his design process in Showing My Work #3
• @im_sarika shared a link to Articulate Storyline for Balancing Timelines and Budgets
• @kevin_corbett shared a link to How Visual Thinking Improves Writing  
• @elearningdave shared a link to Creating interactive and engaging e-content: Experiences with Articulate Storyline
• @pattishank shared a link to 3 Presentation Tools Teachers Are Now Using
• @Tracy_Parish shared a link to Glamor: A Chic & Modern Free Type Family

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