learning – Page 43 – Mike Taylor

TWiB Notes

As a kid growing up with the dream of being a major league baseball player, one of my favorite shows was “This Week in Baseball”. It was a fun, fast-paced recap of highlights from recent games, interviews with players, and other regular features. I can still hear Mel Allen’s iconic voice and vividly recall the amazingContinueContinue reading “TWiB Notes”

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eLearning Guild Spotlight: Boosting Your Design Skills

I’m super excited to be part of the eLearning Guild’s “Boosting Your Design Skills” Spotlight coming up on June 7th. Who doesn’t’ want to boost their design skills? In my session, “Filling Your Design Toolkit: Premium Assets on a Shoestring Budget”, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite places for finding great looking design assets evenContinueContinue reading “eLearning Guild Spotlight: Boosting Your Design Skills”

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The Art & Science of E-learning

This was a fun 7-minute “lightning talk” I gave today at the Lectora User Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. If you’d like me to send you the links and resources contained in this talk, just drop your email here. UPDATE: You can catch the webinar version over on the Lectora site. Links & Resources: Performance Consulting:ContinueContinue reading “The Art & Science of E-learning”

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Free PowerPoint Visual Resume Template

Are you looking to stand out from the crowd? A visual resume might be something you should consider. To that end, here is a template created with PowerPoint that will give you a nice head start and help you avoid starting from scratch and recreating the wheel. https://app.box.com/s/jwq8qiesl8r65ybyfis3l56yqp7anakw Don’t forget that you can easily change theContinueContinue reading “Free PowerPoint Visual Resume Template”

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You Already Know How to Build M-learning

Looking to download the exercise files? Grab the link from here. —————– It is getting to be that time of year again. Time for my favorite learning conference, Learning Solutions. I’ll be leading a BYOL session on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 pm. Session #LS310 – You Already Know How to Build mLearning (You Just Don’tContinueContinue reading “You Already Know How to Build M-learning”

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My Favorite Learning Quotes

This is the last post in this year’s 12×12 Days of Christmas series. In case you’ve missed any of them here is a list of the previous posts. With today’s final post that makes 144 of the best things I can share. Hope you found at least one of them valuable. Top 12 Tools for LearningContinueContinue reading “My Favorite Learning Quotes”

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12 Free and Easy Ways to Learn from L&D Masters

As the holidays are rapidly approaching many folks will get some well-deserved time out of the office to celebrate with friends and recharge for a new year. One good idea for filling the down time between family visits, gift-giving and holiday meals is to spend some time learning something new. One of my favorite things aboutContinueContinue reading “12 Free and Easy Ways to Learn from L&D Masters”

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12 Little-Known Things You Should Know About

Here are 12 things many people have probably not heard of that I use all the time to help me get things done better and faster. Everything Search Engine Most of us have about a gazillion documents we regularly have to navigate to find exactly what we need. Instead of wasting time on fruitless quests,ContinueContinue reading “12 Little-Known Things You Should Know About”

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12 Super Useful Cheatsheets & Job Aids

Learning & Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Design Principles Based on Richard Mayer’s http://www.slideshare.net/tmiket/multimedia-learning-design-principles Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction Anyone who designs any kind of learning materials should bookmark this interactive guide to Robert Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction created by Montse Anderson (@mlearning) Multimedia Learning Design Resources This collection of resources will give you aContinueContinue reading “12 Super Useful Cheatsheets & Job Aids”

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Top 12 Things in My Presenter’s Toolkit

Many trainers and presenters, especially when they’re just getting started, underestimate the probability of something going wrong with the technical set up at their event. And trying to troubleshoot with a room full of anxious people watching your every move is nobody’s idea of fun. Anyone who does any type of speaking or presenting should haveContinueContinue reading “Top 12 Things in My Presenter’s Toolkit”