Don’t waste time coming here to find everything. Get these and more right in your inbox by subscribing to my newsletter Jane Hart’s 11th Annual Top Learning Tools Jane Hart (@c4lpt) has been polling learning pros about their top learning for 11 years. This week she published this year’s edition and as always, it isContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | October 6, 2017”
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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”
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”
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”
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”
Friday Finds | August 18, 2017
School is back in session here and we’re celebrating our amazing daughter’s birthday. There is a lot to be thankful for including some of these things that surfaced on my radar this week. Cheers! Does eLearning Work? What the Scientific Research Says! What does the scientific research tell us about elearning effectiveness, particularly as itContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | August 18, 2017”
Advanced Eyedropper Tip + 29 More Expert PowerPoint Hacks
Most people who work in PowerPoint regularly, probably know how to use the Eyedropper tool. The Eyedropper too works really well for precisely matching colors from a shape or picture in your presentation to other parts of your deck for a consistent design. But what do you do if you want to match a colorContinueContinue reading “Advanced Eyedropper Tip + 29 More Expert PowerPoint Hacks”
Software Simulations the Free, Quick & Easy Way
BrightCarbon shared this slick little slide tip for simulating a cursor click that has been one of my favorites for a long time now. https://twitter.com/BrightCarbon/status/893131867578413057 My version is very similar except I don’t build my own cursor and use a float in / float out animation instead of a grow/shrink. I made a quick oneContinueContinue reading “Software Simulations the Free, Quick & Easy Way”
Friday Finds | July 28, 2017
August 11, 2017 Life long learning is becoming an economic imperative This Economist article by Andrew Palmer outlines how today’s technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment. I’d argue that this is not a new development but it is definitely accelerating. Considering the fact that we are tasked with educatingContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | July 28, 2017”
An Easy Hack for Finding the Free Stock Photos You Need
Did you know you can use those expensive stock photo sites even if your budget is totally busted? Many designers and developers are limited by small or non-existent budgets and are commonly forced to rely on using free source for their stock photos. While there are tons of great free options with more and moreContinueContinue reading “An Easy Hack for Finding the Free Stock Photos You Need”
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