Broaden Your Horizons with 15 ELearning Insights from the Community

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

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One of the best things about an e-learning community like this one is that it’s a gateway for all sorts of new ideas. A lot of times you end up learning or trying stuff that you might never think of, if you were working solo. So take a few minutes to expand your horizons and check out some of the cool stuff that was shared around here during the past week. I bet you’ll find some things here that’ll stretch your thinking and spur you to try something new. And while you’re at it, I bet there’s a thing or two that you could bring to the party, too. The forums are a great place to share your favorite e-learning tips or resources, or to give others a gander at what you’ve been working on lately. Learn on, share on, and have a great week!

Notable tutorials:

• Buttons that load Web Objects with continuous narration in Articulate Presenter

• Use simple PowerPoint tools to add a page-curl to images or shapes in your course

Conversations in the Community:

• E-learning developers share about the most practical courses they’ve built

• The community helps a fellow Articulate user find ways to make an information-heavy course less overwhelming

• A course with three branches, three quizzes, and a final quiz: how to build it

• Getting buy-in from your learners

• The community helps a fellow e-learning designer to craft her own job description

• What’s your professional development plan for 2011?

New blog posts:

• Your Favorite Rapid E-Learning Posts of 2010

• Tablets and Articulate

• E-learning Storyboarding 101

• Getting Creative with Articulate Engage: Add 2 Interactions to 1 Slide

Seen on Twitter:

• @JayLambert shares tips on practical storyboarding for e-learning

• @tomkuhlmann shares a neat way to exchange learnings with others in 2011: a Twitter book club experiment

• @tmiket shares a link to 3 great screencasts on less text in e-learning