Mike Taylor

12 Apps of Christmas-Day 3- The Great Suspender

Day 1 – Hemmingway App (Writing help) Day 2 – PollEverywhere (PowerPoint audience participation add-in) Day 3 – The Great Suspender (Chrome add-in) Too many browser tabs. If you’re anything like me, by the end of the day you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,375 browser tabs open. (I’m only slightly exaggerating.) But even if youContinueContinue reading “12 Apps of Christmas-Day 3- The Great Suspender”

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12 Apps of Christmas – Day 2 – PollEverywhere

This is the 2nd in a series “12 Apps of Christmas” Hemmingway App PollEverywhere PollEverywhere If you do any presenting you owe it to yourself and your audience to know about PollEverywhere. PollEverywhere gives you options for live audience participation and displaying responses right in your slide deck. (with a working internet connection-so always haveContinueContinue reading “12 Apps of Christmas – Day 2 – PollEverywhere”

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12 Apps of Christmas – Day 1 – Hemmingway App

Day 1 – Hemingway App This is one of my very favorite apps. Hemingway can make you’re writing better. Personally, I am challenged to keep my writing active and avoid the passive voice. Hemingway helps keep me on the right path. Just paste your text into http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ and see what suggestions you get. You’ll be gladContinueContinue reading “12 Apps of Christmas – Day 1 – Hemmingway App”

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Curated Collection of Design Resources

I put this together for a recent learning design workshop and wanted to share it with everyone. NOTE: Download the PDF to access all the clickable links in the document. Check out a bigger, broader collection of tools and resources on this page curated by Tracy Parish. https://e-learning.zeef.com/tracy.parish

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Multimedia Learning Design Principles

I created this handout for a recent workshop from Richard Mayer’s Principles for Multimedia Learning. [ Click the Linkedin icon down at the bottom right to download a copy. ]

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The Fastest & Easiest Way to Arrange Multiple Slide Images

Originally posted on Work Smarter Not Harder:
Have you ever built a slide with multiple images that were all different shapes and sizes? If so, you might have done a lot more manual effort than you needed to. This great tip will have you done with that job quicker than you can say SmartArt. I’ve never been a…

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Free Download: Storyline Elearning Navigation Menu

As I was browsing through my morning reading recently, I came across this nifty navigational demo on the codyhouse.com website. I think this makes a nice addition to an online course so I crafted a quick example in Storyline. View Demo | Download Storyline file

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Sharing Some PowerPoint & Elearning Slide Designs

As I recently cleaned out some old files, I came across these PowerPoint slide designs that I never used. Since its International Work Out Loud Week I thought I’d share these for anyone who might be able to use them for a presentation or online course. Download PowerPoint Slides

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Friday 5: PowerPoint Social Sharing, Curated Design Resources, Trello Integrations, Skype For All, New Image Format

PowerPoint Social Share Plug-in If you do any presenting at conferences, etc you probably already know about the #backchannel. Now you can easily share all or part of your PowerPoint presentation directly to Twitter & Facebook with the new Social Share plug-in. The Microsoft Garage project lab has released Social Share, a free plug-in forContinueContinue reading “Friday 5: PowerPoint Social Sharing, Curated Design Resources, Trello Integrations, Skype For All, New Image Format”