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 haveContinue reading "12 Apps of Christmas – Day 2 – PollEverywhere"

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 gladContinue reading "12 Apps of Christmas – Day 1 – Hemmingway App"

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

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. ]

The Fastest & Easiest Way to Arrange Multiple Slide Images

I just got back from a workshop where this came in SUPER handy. Especially when you are crunched for time and trying to hit a deadline this is a great trick to have up your sleeve.

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

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  

Kicking the Tires on Twitter’s Curation Tool

Recently, I stumbled across Twitter's new curation tool and wanted to give it a go to see how it worked. Here are the results from a recent Social Media workshop we did with the Greater Columbus Arts Council (Is my job fun or what!?) A Collection on Twitter https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js   While this is a coolContinue reading "Kicking the Tires on Twitter’s Curation Tool"

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

Friday 5: Dropbox Paper, Prezentt, Abobe Slate, Twitter Polls & Free Fonts

I'm back from a nice family trip to Disney and ready to get back into the swing of things. Here are five things that have queued up on the radar during that time, plus this week's tech tip. Dropbox Paper Dropbox has a new online, collaborative document authoring tool similar to Google Docs. While I'm aContinue reading "Friday 5: Dropbox Paper, Prezentt, Abobe Slate, Twitter Polls & Free Fonts"