17 E-Learning Resources to Start Your 2011 Off Right

This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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As you leap out of the starting blocks into 2011, isn’t it cool to know you’ve got a team of e-learning comrades right here in the Articulate community to keep you going strong all year? Even throughout the past couple weeks of holiday busy-ness, folks in the community found time to share plenty of noteworthy e-learning resources, ideas, and reflections to start your year off with a bang! We’ve collected lots of highlights for you below.

Happy new year — we’re looking forward to a great 2011!

Notable tutorials:

• Tips to increase the readability of bulleted text in your e-learning course

• How to do screen captures with the free snipping tool in Windows XP and later

• Changing the background color on a standalone Articulate Engage interaction

• Simulate multiple true/false questions on one quiz slide in Articulate Quizmaker

• How to add an Articulate Engage interaction as a web object in Presenter and an example of this technique in action: Add a movie, with player controls, to part of your slide

Conversations in the Community:

• Ways you reward yourself at the completion of an e-learning project

• Techniques for working with clients (internal and external)

• What’s on your hardware wish list?

• Community members give feedback on a designer’s first Articulate Engage project

• Compliance training: buy or build?

New blog posts:

• How to Design an E-Learning Course on a Budget

• Using PowerPoint to Create Backgrounds for Articulate Engage Labeled Graphics

• More Than 100 PowerPoint Tutorials & a Free Template

Seen on Twitter:

• @efronters shares a list of free e-learning books

• @endersdesign shares a collection of free audio & video loops

• @onEnterFrame shares a course completion widget he created