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Not Just for Slides: Using PowerPoint for Graphic Design

A significant part of my job involves creating graphic designs. While I can make my way around Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere well enough when I have to, PowerPoint is my tool of choice for 99% of my design projects. I’m not telling you that PowerPoint can do everything those other tools can do but IContinueContinue reading “Not Just for Slides: Using PowerPoint for Graphic Design”

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Friday Finds | July 21, 2017

A bumper crop of good stuff for graphic design, instructional design, along with some nice tools and resources for telling your story. Don’t wait a whole week to see all the good stuff I’m finding. Subscribe to my daily newsletter.  Digital Story Tools A handpicked list of tools and resources to help you build yourContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | July 21, 2017”

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Friday Finds | July 14, 2017

Is been a rainy, dreary week here but that isn’t going to stop us from brightening your week with the best things I’ve found this week from the intersection of learning, technology, and social media.   Training Tips Weekly by Chris Mattia Whether you’re a corporate trainer or a teacher, Chris Mattia can help youContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | July 14, 2017”

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Friday Finds | June 30

Here are a few of the things I’m kicking around this week, as we head into a holiday weekend here in the U.S.: Vivaldi browser I’ve been test driving the Vivaldi web browser this week and so far I like it. It has some nice features and unique ways to handle tabs and so farContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | June 30”

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The Quest for a Perfect Icon

Icon Resources Icons can often play an important role in the things you are designing. They are great for helping to reduce text, call attention and a host of other nice benefits. Fortunately, there are a lot of great resources for finding exactly the icon you need. Some of my favorites include: Flaticon Icons8 IconmonstrContinueContinue reading “The Quest for a Perfect Icon”

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Friday Finds | June 16

More great stuff this week to share with you. Don’t want to wait until Friday for a peek at what I’m finding? Subscribe to my daily newsletter.  Biteable The democratization of multimedia creation tools is steaming full speed ahead. Biteable is one of the latest examples of free, online tools that lets anyone create “pro”ContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | June 16”

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The Road to Finding the Best Stock Photos Starts Here

These days, it seems we are all crunched for both time and money. We’re trying to do more with less and still continue to get ever improving results. In the course of navigating this challenge myself, I’ve compiled a list of “go to” design resources. There are the places I start when I need designContinueContinue reading “The Road to Finding the Best Stock Photos Starts Here”

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Friday Finds | June 9

This week, I’ve found a huge motherlode of great things to share with you. Don’t want to wait until Friday for a peek at what I’m finding? Subscribe to my daily newsletter.  Write and Organize for Deeper Learning: 28 evidence-based and easy-to-apply tactics that will make your instruction better for learning (Make It Learnable) TheContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | June 9”

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