Need Innovative E-Learning Ideas? The Articulate Community Has ’Em

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

---

We’ve got some cool new ideas from the Articulate Community to share with you in this week’s recap. Although Tom’s donkey screencast didn’t quite make the cut, there are still lots of helpful tips for you to check out below.

And don’t forget that there’s more March Madness on the way! Keep an eye on the Word of Mouth blog the rest of this month for plenty of great rapid e-learning tips. We’re featuring several more guest bloggers whose posts you won’t want to miss.

Notable tutorials:

• A cool snapshot focus effect for images in your e-learning course

• How to use Dropbox as a free web server to share projects with colleagues & employers

• Two ways to create a torn paper effect: Stephanie’s version | Mike’s version

• Clip art tip: getting perfect fade-ins on your clip art images

• A simple & effective follow-the-line effect

• Build a filmstrip effect as a menu or to feature key characters in a course

Conversations in the Community:

• The Community helps an e-learning developer create a convincing scene for a course

• Ways to approach and build icons for your navigation menus

• An interesting animation challenge: buckets and logs

• Adding a Star-Wars-style effect to text

New blog posts:

• 10 Things to Consider Before Your E-Learning Course Goes Live

• 6 Tips for Managing & Developing Your E-Learning Projects

• 3 Quizmaker Tutorials You Need to Know About

• Creative Ways to Enrich Your E-Learning with Toolbar Tabs

• How to Get Articulate Support, Training, and Tutorials

Seen on Twitter:

• @pharmakon shares a neat color-to-image tool

• @joe_deegan shares how he resolved a Moodle challenge with his SCORM course

• @onEnterFrame shares how he adds custom flash items to the Presenter player’s toolbar

Oh and by the way, if you happen to be at Learning Solutions 2010 in Orlando next week, make sure to stop by booth 405 at the expo and say hi to Tom, Mark, David, and me. We’re also hosting three sessions at the conference — you can find all the details in our calendar.