Author Archives: Mike Taylor

Developing Online Training and Presentation Materials | Sun Learning eXchange

Developing Online Training and Presentation Materials | Sun Learning eXchange. Sun has lots of “2.0-ish” information including this video site. This particular video is a nice one about PowerPoint to video using Camtasia. The rest of the site has good info and examples of wikis, blogs, etc in a corporate setting.

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Facilitating Online Communities: Leigh’s Facilitation Skills

Facilitating Online Communities: Leigh’s Facilitation Skills. I’m participating in Leigh Blackall’s Online Facilitation course and this is a post from a fellow participant that points to 10 good facilitation skills. It’s a great list to reference if you facilitate any online activities. Thanks for the link Sylvia!

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What Stinks About Webinars?

Chief Learning Officer magazine – What Stinks About Webinars?. As I read this article I found myself nodding my head. I’m much like Antonia and Colleen in the fac that I too think of webinars as “…a low-risk, easy, quick and cheap way to stay current about the state of the field…” My personal experienceContinueContinue reading “What Stinks About Webinars?”

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Image quality in Articulate

http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-presenter/7238-quality-loss-screen-shot-images.html If you’re having issues with the graphics being distorted after publishing, you can refer to the Word of Mouth blog below: http://www.articulate.com/blog/optim…wser-settings/ This issue is related to how Flash handles non-vector images and small text (we don’t recommend including small text in images; you’ll see much better results if you type your text inContinueContinue reading “Image quality in Articulate”

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Go Big Always – Here’s my crap, please talk about it

Go Big Always – Here’s my crap, please talk about it. I think this is right on money and I”ve also seen this happen a number of times. Garbage in..garbage out. No technology will ever fix that. Here’ the crux of it: We have a ton of (documents, marketing materials, assets, whatever) and we wantContinueContinue reading “Go Big Always – Here’s my crap, please talk about it”

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20 Useful Bookmarklets – Stepcase Lifehack

I’ve been looking for this and it’s right under my nose. I’ve been using the Windows Live Writer add-on for Firefox but since it doesn’t work with FF3 I’ve been sort of at a loss for a quick and easy way to directly post from the site I want to reference. Alas, from this articleContinueContinue reading “20 Useful Bookmarklets – Stepcase Lifehack”

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We need more of us

http://lingos.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/a-60-minute-masters-in-instructional-design/ Link 1:  Clive Shepherd’s Presentation on “Why We Need More Instructional Designers” http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/30mins/player.html Link 2:  The “60 Minute Masters” Course (audio enabled; registration required) http://www.kineolearning.com/60minutemasters/ Link3:  The “60 Minute Masters” Course (no audio; no registration required) http://www.articulate.com/products/demos/blog/60-Minute-Masters-no-audio/player.html

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