The Week’s Brightest E-Learning Ideas from the Articulate Community

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

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Another great week in the Articulate community, and another collection of bright ideas. Get the goods below.

And hey, if you’re in San Francisco this week for DevLearn 2010, take the chance to learn even more bright ideas at the many Articulate sessions — find session titles and links on our calendar, and be sure to swing by the Articulate booth (#214) to say hi! Captain Smiley will be waiting for you!

Notable tutorials:

• Create custom-shaped dropshadows in PowerPoint for your e-learning courses

• Disable YouTube video annotations on movies you insert into Articulate Presenter

• Build word clouds to fit within shapes on your e-learning slides

• An easy way to position annotations in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Building e-learning scenarios: community members share tips & examples

• An easy way to create Flash rollovers for your Articulate Presenter courses

• Creating an animated rubber-stamper effect

• Advice on recording great audio for your courses

New blog posts:

• How to Create Color Schemes in PowerPoint to Match Your Brand

• Check Out this Bronze-Winning Course from Pinched Head

Seen on Twitter:

• @reedyreedles shares a link to audio-editing tips for Audacity users

• @onEnterFrame introduces a muting/unlocking tool he built for Articulate Presenter users and also explains how he created it

• @slhice shares a link to some free tools for building animated e-learning avatars and objects