Category Archives: learning

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 thanContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | September 22, 2017”

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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 onContinueContinue reading “3 Easy Ways to Cut Text And Upgrade Your Slides”

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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, considerContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | September 15, 2017”

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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 andContinueContinue reading “Converting Keynote to PowerPoint”

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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 aContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | August 8,2017”

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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.” InsteadContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | September 1, 2017”

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My 2017 Top 10 Learning Tools

It’s my favorite time of year again. School is back in session, the summer heat is giving way to comfortably cool evenings and it’s time to make my annual contribution to Jane Hart’s Annual Learning Tools survey. 1. Feedly [ Personal, Workplace ] Simply the best way to keep up with the things you’re interestedContinueContinue reading “My 2017 Top 10 Learning Tools”

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Friday Finds | August 25, 2017

What a wonderful week! We got to see the eclipse and get into a bunch of fun cool stuff. Here are a few of the good things that passed across my radar.  Cheers! The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals Why is it that some people seem to be hugely successful and do so much, whileContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | August 25, 2017”

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