Creating Interactive Animated Gifs for E-Learning
May 12th, 2020
Recently I shared some free animated gif resources: animated icons and backgrounds. If you're using Rise or Rise.com it's as simple as inserting an image. They're great for novel attention-getters or simple instructional procedures.
If you're using Storyline 360, with triggers and state changes you can do a bit more to control how the animated gifs work in your course.
Animated gifs are great, but they do loop. Thus, when you insert them in the slide they ...
Who doesn't like free and animated .gifs? They're great for e-learning courses. Use them to 
These are great to use in your 
SVG is an image format that is becoming more common. The challenge is that it's not always easy to preview the SVG images you have on your computer.
What is an SVG?
SVG stands for 
Many of you are currently creating new health and safety training focused on the Coronavirus (COVID-19). It's not always easy to find the images you need. Here are some free images and resources to help with your training programs. And here's a link for 
These stock photos are provided courtesy of Icons8. They're free to use. However, you may need to offer some attribution.
Many of you probably do lots of writing using online applications. This is especially true as many of us are spending a lot more time working remotely. If you do a lot of writing, odds are you can use one of those handy browser extensions to help with spelling and grammar.
I've used 
Many e-learning developers are usually on a small team. But most I know, are a team of one. This means lots of projects, 
First, if you're using Storyline 360, then 
Of course your 
There are so many 
Effective e-learning is more than putting together screens of information and presenting them to learners. Instead it’s a process of curating content and then communicating it in a way that the learner understands and ultimately can apply.
The challenge sometimes rests in how the content is communicated, which then determines the level of understanding for proper application.
In a previous post, we did a 
We often build a single course to suit all learners. This presents possible challenges to the learning process. Let’s take a look at why and discuss a few options to help remedy some it them.
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E-learning courses generally fall into one of two buckets: tell people something or show them how to do something. One is all about the information and the other about performance. Both approaches have value.
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For example, generally you don't have an organization full of sexual harassers and then present a course on sexual harassment and all of a ...
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