Friday 5 – Top 100 Learning Tools, Your Personal Brand, WP Social Networking Plugin & more

Thanks for stopping by. Here are the things I’m noodling on this week. I share a whole lot more things like this on Twitter and save the better ones over in Diigo. Jane Hart's Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 Over 2,000 learning professionals from around the world contributed to the 9th Annual Survey of LearningContinue reading "Friday 5 – Top 100 Learning Tools, Your Personal Brand, WP Social Networking Plugin & more"

Friday 5 – Team knowledge sharing, Interactive presentation polling, Excel Fill magic

Thanks for stopping by. Here are the things I'm noodling on this week. I share a whole lot more things like this on Twitter and save the better ones over in Diigo. Guru Guru is a browser extension that facilitates knowledge sharing among teams. I'm giving it a try to see how well it works. IfContinue reading "Friday 5 – Team knowledge sharing, Interactive presentation polling, Excel Fill magic"

Friday 5 – Stock photo & video resources and easy graphics creation tools

Here are a few of the things I’ve noodled on this week that I think you should know about. Thanks for reading! Free 4K Stock Video Footage http://mitchmartinez.com/free-4k-red-epic-stock-footage/ This is an awesome collection of stock video that is free to use for "independent productions" and possible even commercial projects. Snappa.io https://snappa.io/app If you aren't graphically inclined andContinue reading "Friday 5 – Stock photo & video resources and easy graphics creation tools"

2015 Top 10 Learning Tools

It's that time of year again. Time to round up my top 10 learning tools for Jane Harts annual Top 100 list. Twitter - The best way to find, follow and connect with an amazing network of people. I am @tmiket PowerPoint - There is SO much you can do in PowerPoint, even including creatingContinue reading "2015 Top 10 Learning Tools"

Friday 5

Welcome to the inaugural edition of my Friday 5 posts. During the course of a normal week I read a lot and cover a pretty good size bit of the online world related to learning design, technology, presentations, elearning and other similar topics. I share a lot of these on Twitter (from Feedly via Buffer -Continue reading "Friday 5"

PowerPoint: Mac vs Windows

In my now, not so new role at Mindset Digital we have both Mac and Windows people. Both doing a LOT of work in PowerPoint.  In general, it seems that the odd of needing to share slide decks between Mac and Windows computers are much higher today than ever before. If you've ever compared PowerPointContinue reading "PowerPoint: Mac vs Windows"

Keep Up With Your Twitter Lists (and a whole lot more) in Flipboad

You know about Flipboard right? The super visual, great looking way to keep up on all the things you love and discover other new sources of news and learning? (If not, get over there now and check it out! )  Their iPad app is how I usually browser my Flipboard magazines, but you can callContinue reading "Keep Up With Your Twitter Lists (and a whole lot more) in Flipboad"

An ‘Edgee’ Way to Curate & Share Your Best Stuff

I've been experimenting with a new online tool called Edgee that is a different type of platform. Think of a cross between visual bookmarks ala Pinterest and a blog. This overview video below, gives you a good idea of how it works. https://vimeo.com/118015574 I like how easy it is to assemble a page around aContinue reading "An ‘Edgee’ Way to Curate & Share Your Best Stuff"

Connecting & Collecting Info the Easy Way

This post was originally published on my weekly tips blog which you can get in your inbox every Friday via email by registering here. There are a lot of us who at one point or another need to collect information from a number of different people. Traditionally, you send out an email asking for the informationContinue reading "Connecting & Collecting Info the Easy Way"

Get Things Done Faster With This Handy PowerPoint Toolbar

If you’re anything like me,  you love anything that enables you to do things more efficiently. (And who doesn't like that?) So with that in mind, I'd like to share the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) that I use in PowerPoint. The QAT is basically your own personalized toolbar that puts all your favorite and most usedContinue reading "Get Things Done Faster With This Handy PowerPoint Toolbar"