Let the Community Help You Stretch Your E-Learning Skills

This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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If you want to pump up your e-learning know-how, the Articulate community’s here to help! Week in and week out, your fellow Articulate users offer all sorts of tips and advice to help you stretch your e-learning skills and build better courses. And you hardly have to break a sweat — you can get the answers you need just by dropping by E-Learning Heroes. Here’s a sampling of some of the cool stuff that was shared in the Articulate community during the past week:

Notable Tutorials & Conversations in the Community:

• Adding a Screenr screencast as a web object in your Articulate Presenter course

• Your best questions to ask during SME interviews

• Community tips on choosing a color palette for a course

• Community members brainstorm design ideas for a course targeting driver’s license examiners

• Making optional content available to learners from anywhere in the course

• The community helps a new e-learning designer by offering feedback on her first course

New blog posts:

• More Than a Dozen Ways to Navigate an E-Learning Course

• Using Quizmaker ’09 to Build Magazine-Style Assessments

• Why ADDY, not ADDIE, Will Help You Build Better Courses

Seen on Twitter:

• @ArticulateDF shares a free tool to convert animated .GIF files to .SWF format for use in your rapid e-learning courses

• @tmiket shares a link to free editable PowerPoint maps

• @AkzoNobelGLD shares @JaneBozarth’s article on moving from classroom to online: think “transform,” not “transfer”