Connie at The eLearning Coach recently launched the Instructional Design Guru iPhone app. “It defines over 460 terms associated with learning experience design, drawn from the fields of instructional design, cognitive psychology, social media, multimedia, technology and law.”
Rapid Intake has many different content page layouts to choose from. Now they just released a now layout called “Visual Layout Page”. You can now either use a template page layout or start with a blank page. This new visual layout page allows you to put any media type on the page and have full [...]
Announcing…Captivate 5 Templates! Use our Captivate screen layouts and master slides to quickly build stunning online content. These Captivate Templates are a perfect addition to your eLearning toolbox. Use themes over and over again in many courses. Our goal is to provide templates that help you with the visual design or your courses. We also [...]
Brainshark is a quick way to get your PowerPoint presentations online and share them with others. We’ve tested our templates in Brainshark and they work great! Here are some samples of what we created. Demo Course This course combines our PowerPoint templates, flash interactions/games, and people cutouts. Course Screen-Shots Tutorial on How [...]
Looking for a great way to create scenarios and conversations in your course? Check out our latest product…Thought and Speech Bubbles! You get 300 different images in 6 different styles. The images all have transparent backgrounds and are ready to drop right into your course. (By the way, you also get the Illustrator files so [...]
Scenarios are a great way to make courses more engaging, effective, and fun. We’ve recently launched some new products that can be combined to make some sweet scenarios. Here are some examples that we created to “get your creative juices flowing”. To build these examples we used: Thought Call-outs and Bubbles Cutout People Pictures Notes [...]
The ASTD International conference was great! We met tons of training professionals and had a lot of fun. The grand prize winner this year got an orange eLearning Brothers Unicycle. Check out the conference video and pictures.
I’ve finally had a chance to download the free trial of Snap! by Lectora. It is basically a PowerPoint plug-in to build rapid eLearning courses. The product is going after the same space as Articulate and iSpring Presenter. After using it to build a sample course and trying out some of our templates, I’ll have [...]
Want to let everyone know that we’ll be at ASTD ICE next week. If you’re at the conference, stop by and say hello. Here is our booth information. We’re by Articulate and Allen Interactions. (Thought that would be a good place for eLearning geeks to hang out.)
Need some illustrated people for your next training course? We have just released packs of characters with transparent backgrounds. Just insert them into your course and you’re ready to go. Each pack includes: 45 poses .png files with transparent, cutout backgrounds Dimensions: 1200—700 (may vary slightly) Individual file size: 100 KB (may vary slightly) These [...]
A key point in instructional design is to “know your audience”. One of the reasons to do this is because you can tailor the content to the learner’s existing knowledge level. Connie at the eLearning Coach has done a great series of posts on how to design course content for experts vs. beginners. Tips when [...]
“In the beginning there was a blank slide. All eLearning designers dreamed of the endless possibilities. Wondrous content could spring into life. However, something went wrong… Bullet points sprang up like weeds. Clip art infiltrated the blank space. Bad color schemes and ugly fonts polluted the slide. The dream of engaging, [...]
It’s always fun to get on the radio! Yesterday we had the privilege of being featured on the Zions Bank: Speaking on Business Program. The interview ran on Utah’s top radio news station KSL 1160. Thanks to Zions Bank for the opportunity to be featured in our local community. Transcript: “April 19, 2011 This is [...]
