Archive for December, 2009

Portfolio: Pet Jeopardy (like) Game

Dec 31, 2009 No Comments by

This Jeopardy (like) game was developed for one of our “hairiest” clients of the year. Petomundo.com was great to work with and we had a lot of fun developing this Flash game for them. The game was a customization of one of our eLearning templates. We added Randomization to the questions, changed the game characters to [...]

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Awesome Games and Interactions for Articulate Presenter

Dec 22, 2009 No Comments by

If you’ve been coming to this site for awhile you probably know that we build a lot of custom flash games/quizzes/interactions for eLearning developers. I want to take a moment and focus on how the templates work with Articulate. eLearning Games Each of the games is created in Flash and has scoring and looks amazing. [...]

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Training Prison! (Can we free them?)

Dec 22, 2009 No Comments by

The other morning I was sitting in the office and got a text message from a friend. Basically it said, “I’m in class right now…dieing of boredom.” (This was at about 8:45am) Another text later said, “It’s a tax class. Even worse there is someone from the IRS speaking.” This was mandatory training and he [...]

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Portfolio: Pet Pyramid Game

Dec 21, 2009 No Comments

This Pyramid Challenge game was developed for one of our “hairiest” clients of the year. Petomundo.com was great to work with and we had a lot of fun developing this Flash game for them. The game was a customization of one of our eLearning templates. We added Randomization to the questions, changed the game characters to [...]

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Really…Were These the Best Images We Could Find?

Dec 17, 2009 1 Comment

JOIN THE CRUSADE…NO MORE CHEESY, ANIMATED CLIPART! How many times have you seen images like these? Images are an important part of online courses. The trick is that the images we use must enhance the instructional qualities of the content. The images must also look professional and give the learner confidence that the material is [...]

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Free eLearning Storyboards

Dec 15, 2009 No Comments

I ran across free storyboard templates on TheELearningCoach.com and thought that I share them with you. Connie has created a Storyboard Depot: “These storyboard templates have been donated by the eLearning community for you to download and use for projects. There are a variety of types so you can pull features from one and add [...]

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Portfolio: Web Product Ordering Course

Dec 13, 2009 1 Comment

This quick course is a guided tour (also a marketing piece) that shows how to order supplies from the customer’s portal. It begins with a brief company introduction and then tours the product portal. View the course

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eLearning Templates Biggest Bundle

Dec 09, 2009 No Comments

(Updated 3/2011: This bundle has been enhanced. Checkout the new Biggest Bundle.) These are PowerPoint and Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). All you have to do is open Flash, paste your text, publish, and insert into [...]

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Is Classroom Training More Credible than Online Training?

Dec 09, 2009 7 Comments

Recently at a round-table discussion about eLearning in the Commercial Lending industry an interesting point surfaced periodically: “Why is classroom training perceived as being more credible than online training?” I think that this varies a bit by industry (and commercial banking is not known to be pioneers in the latest technology) but many people believe [...]

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eLearning Templates Bigger Bundle

Dec 08, 2009 4 Comments

Flash games, interactions, quizzes, PowerPoint and MORE! These are Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Just open Flash, paste your text, publish, and insert into your favorite eLearning development tool. Made to work within most rapid elearning [...]

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Portfolio: BootCamp Challenge

Dec 08, 2009 No Comments

This Flash BootCamp Challenge is one our eLearning template games. We just wanted to take a moment and highlight it as one of our new products that we developed in 2009. If you’re familiar with our flash templates, you know that pretty much every element in the template is customizable (we give you the Flash source [...]

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Knowledge vs. Information Which is it?

Dec 08, 2009 11 Comments

Is there a difference between Knowledge and Information? As training professionals are we sharing information, teaching knowledge, or both? Last week I was discussing Commercial Lending training with various designers from financial institutions and someone mentioned how we aim to give knowledge not information. The comment made me start to think about how courses are [...]

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eLearning Templates 8 Flash Games

Dec 07, 2009 No Comments

(Updated 3/2011: This bundle is now call the Flash ALL Games Bundle) 8 Flash games included in this bundle! These are Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Just open Flash, paste your text, publish, and insert into [...]

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