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A lot of rapid elearning hinges on PowerPoint. That means your success building courses is influenced by how well you know PowerPoint. To help you learn more about PowerPoint I pulled together a solid list of PowerPoint resources.
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Here are a few posts that cover some of the essentials tips and tricks required for successful PowerPoint-based rapid elearning.
I get lots of questions from those who are just getting started with rapid elearning. They want to know what they can do to build good elearning. In today’s post I’d like to offer a few tips to those of you who have the same question with links to some books and previous posts.
1. You are where you are.
When I first pick up a video camera, I don’t expect to create Hollywood movies. The same goes for elearning. Accept ...
I like to keep things simple so I usually package ideas around three key points. It all started when I was taught that there are three steps to getting things done:
The other day I had to re-install the webcam software for my Dell laptop. Usually I don’t install all of the other junk that seems to get bundled with software these days. But what I noticed in the Dell webcam software is that it came with Creative’s Live! Cam Avatar Creator. So I installed it.
The avatar creator is basically a simplified ...
Whenever I travel I like to spend some time hanging out with blog readers to answer questions. At a recent session someone asked, “How do I measure the success of my e-learning?”
That’s kind of a tricky question. While we may all use words like “e-learning” we don’t always mean the same thing. On top of that, just because it’s built with an e-learning tool doesn’t mean that the output is really an e-learning course.
Generally we think ...
I get a lot of questions about upgrading to PowerPoint 2010. Most people who ask are still using PowerPoint 2003. Starting with PowerPoint 2007, there are many features that make the rapid elearning process much more efficient. I detailed some of those features in this post on why PowerPoint 2007 helps you build better elearning.
PowerPoint 2010 has built on that success and added a lot of features that will make the ...
Because of my job, I look at quite a few elearning courses. One thing common to many of them is that they lack graphic design structure. This makes sense on a few fronts.
First, most of the people I talk to don’t have a graphic design background. So they tend to do very basic design work, if any at all. In addition, even if they wanted to do more, most don’t have a budget to hire a graphic designer ...
Last week I spent a couple of days in San Jose at mLearnCon. Lots of interesting stuff. One thing that stood out was that most people haven’t jumped into the pool yet. Lots of interest, but not a lot of implementation.
The challenge for many people is figuring out what mobile learning is and what they can do to get started. And they don’t want to spend a lot of money doing so. The cool thing is that while you’re still figuring ...
Last week I shared a free PowerPoint template that was inspired by the iPad’s notebook app. Hopefully, you can find a use for the template. If not, check out some of the other free templates that are available in the Elearning Heroes community.
In last week’s template, I purposely only included the final template and not the original source file. The reason is that I want to show you a few production ...
With a budget you can hire a graphic artist who can come up with some different design ideas for your elearning courses. But that's not the case for many of us. So we’re usually stuck with courses that all start to look the same.
One reason is the same person is designing all of the courses. For the most part, we tend to stick with the same design ideas and are limited by our graphic design skills. And because of that, we get courses that all kind of look the same.
In earlier posts I've discussed how you ...
PowerPoint’s a great authoring environment for elearning. If you can step away from the “bullet point” mindset and all of the complaints, you’ll see that PowerPoint’s got a lot to offer those who build elearning courses.
I’ve been traveling a lot lately, which means lots of extra time sitting in airports. I like to take that time to doodle and play around with ideas. Here’s one I got while messing around with my iPad.
In case you’re not familiar with the iPad, it works like most smart phones. The bulk of the screen contains icons that when clicked open various applications. At the bottom of the screen is a row of favorite applications. These are present regardless of what page you’re on as you ...
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