Friday Finds | October 6, 2017

Don't waste time coming here to find everything. Get these and more right in your inbox by subscribing to my newsletter Jane Hart’s 11th Annual Top Learning Tools Jane Hart (@c4lpt) has been polling learning pros about their top learning for 11 years. This week she published this year's edition and as always, it isContinue reading "Friday Finds | October 6, 2017"

A Look at Over Ten Years of Top Learning Tools

This week Jane Hart (@c4lpt) published the results of this year’s Top Learning tools survey. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely pop over there and take a good look. Alternatively, I’ve included her slide deck for your convenience. I've contributed every year since the first one back in 2007. Here is whatContinue reading "A Look at Over Ten Years of Top Learning Tools"

Friday Finds | September 29, 2017

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Marketers Know About the Lizard Brain. Do you?

Are you speaking to the lizard brain? You should be!

Friday Finds | September 22, 2017

Enhancing Learning Through Graphics and Emotional Design I’m a big advocate of instructional designers or anyone creating content for learning, understanding the design principles that enable them to create multimedia learning elements that can promote and facilitate learning. Too often, many people tasked with this job are unknowingly creating things that do more harm thanContinue reading "Friday Finds | September 22, 2017"

3 Easy Ways to Cut Text And Upgrade Your Slides

Reading your slides is public enemy #1 when it comes to presenting and your audience hates it more than anything! And if you do it because you want to reach visual learners, there is no such thing. Research shows that when people both hear and see the same verbal message they have trouble focusing onContinue reading "3 Easy Ways to Cut Text And Upgrade Your Slides"

Friday Finds | September 15, 2017

I'm enjoying my favorite time of year. The weather is turning cooler but the great stuff in learning, technology, and social media is still as hot as ever. Here are a few of the best things that flew across my radar this week. The college lecture is dying. Good riddance. As you read this, considerContinue reading "Friday Finds | September 15, 2017"

Converting Keynote to PowerPoint

There are so many great designers sharing their work these days. For example, this beautiful Keynote presentation template popped up in my morning reading yesterday. There are times like this when I'd really like to pull this over to use it or some of the elements in PowerPoint. Fortunately, there is a super quick andContinue reading "Converting Keynote to PowerPoint"

Friday Finds | August 8,2017

If It Ain’t There, It’s Broke! If you’re not subscribed to the 3-Star Learning Experiences blog, stop what you’re doing and go do that right now. Seriously! Get on over there and get plugged in. I’ll wait until you're done to continue…..... ….OK, welcome back. This blog by Paul Kirschner and Mijam Neelen is aContinue reading "Friday Finds | August 8,2017"

Friday Finds | September 1, 2017

It's a beautifully cool day here in Ohio and I've got some even cooler things to share in this week's learning, technology, and social media roundup. Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time” By far, the biggest excuse I hear from L&D practitioners is “I don’t have time for that.” InsteadContinue reading "Friday Finds | September 1, 2017"