Friday Finds | October 20, 2017

Data Viz Project What do you do when you’ve got a big pile of data and need a way to display it? If you didn’t have an immediate response to that question, you’ll be glad to know about the Data Viz Project. The Data Viz project is a collection of over 150 data visualizations toContinue reading "Friday Finds | October 20, 2017"

Friday Finds | October 13, 2017

Want to get these and more right in your inbox? No sweat! Subscribe to my newsletter First Impressions Matter: How Designers Can Support Humans’ Automatic Cognitive Processing This article by Therese Fessenden of the Norman Nielson Group, explores how the first visceral reaction to a site’s design influence how users perceive relevance, credibility, and evenContinue reading "Friday Finds | October 13, 2017"

Find Your Slides & Office Files Faster By Saving a Preview Image

If you are anything like me and have to wade through a lot of PowerPoint or other Office files to find what you're looking for, being able to see a preview of what is actually in the file can be super helpful. Think art gallery versus card catalog. (If you're not old enough to knowContinue reading "Find Your Slides & Office Files Faster By Saving a Preview Image"

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

Keep up on designing for brains, retrieval practice, big guide to curation & more

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"