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You Already Know How to Build mLearning (You Just Don’t Know It)

Here are the slides from my recent FocusOn Learning session in Austin, TX You Already Know How to Build mLearning (You Just Don’t Know It) A big thank you to everyone who was there and feel free to share it with others!

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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

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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. ]

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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

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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

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No Photoshop Required

Ethos3 recently posted a ‘How to’ on how they made their cut out images in Photoshop for their fabulous “Simplify, Simplify, Simplify” deck. I saw a question asking if this could be done using ONLY PowerPoint and the answer is yes and it’s super simple. Here is one way it can be done: 1. RemoveContinueContinue reading “No Photoshop Required”

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Three simple things that will drastically improve your learning designs

via Modern Meeting Standard — a revolutionary new approach to meetings. When people don’t read your memos, it’s not because they don’t like you, it’s because your writing is dreadful. While reading this article, I realized many of these 14 writing tips also apply to a broader range of communications and learning design. Three thingsContinueContinue reading “Three simple things that will drastically improve your learning designs”

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Plain English

I just wanted to share this great little “Plain English Guide” that I discovered today. Among the wisdom in this 20 page gem are these writing guidelines: 1. Know your audience. 2. Get to the point. 3. Use everyday words. 4. Avoid jargon and abbreviations 5. Keep sentences and paragraphs short. It looks like they’veContinueContinue reading “Plain English”

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If Tom Peters can do it so can you

We all hear the excuses about why we can’t cut extraneous content and I’m not buying it. If Tom Peters can get the gist of his leadership wisdom into a 1 to 2 pager so can you. Period. 5 Days to Compose45 Years to Prepare | tompeters!. I challenge you toContinueContinue reading “If Tom Peters can do it so can you”

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Low Tech

Lately I’ve had a few conversations around low, or at least lower, tech options to online courses which is prompting me to explore what others may be doing in this regard. For example, one conversation with @pattishank, @abigrace & @jrandersoniii involved the question of using a document instead of a course. http://twitter.com/#!/pattishank/status/113658353124786177 If its just aContinueContinue reading “Low Tech”