Grow Your E-Learning Skills with This Week’s Community Tips

This guest blog entry was written by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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April showers bring a lot of really good ideas and tips from the Articulate community. Below are some of the highlights of this week. If you’re looking for more, why not check out the Community Tutorials page? It contains a great collection of screencasts, each five minutes or less, covering all kinds of how-tos from the community.

Notable tutorials:

• Customizing the launch button when launching a course in its own window

• Why it’s a good idea to use transparent shapes for hyperlinks in your e-learning course

• Using PowerPoint’s notes master to control the look of notes in your e-learning course

• Create a cool design element for your courses with this newspaper generator

Conversations in the Community:

• How do you use humor in your e-learning courses?

• Sound effects for your e-learning courses

• E-learning groups: which to join?

• Versioning your e-learning projects (creating an updated course while preserving the original)

New blog posts:

• How to Design the Visual Elements for Interactive E-Learning Courses

• From Business Launch to E-Learning Award Winners in Just 1 Year

• Articulate Earns Brandon Hall Honors for Excellence in Learning Technology

Seen on Twitter:

• @gabeanderson shares a source for video clips to use in your e-learning projects

• @jeanettebrooks tells how to find recent forum posts and how to subscribe to an Articulate community forum

• @joe_deegan shares a link for advice on choosing images

• @cammybean shares her recent interview with Tom Kuhlmann, Articulate’s VP of Community