As instructional designers, we’re always trying to make our eLearning courses more interesting, effective, and engaging. But with a mountain of content to produce, tight deadlines, and a small budget, where do we even start? That’s why I decided to ask the leading eLearning industry experts to share their single best tip for creating engaging […]
What do you picture when I say the words “eLearning Quiz?” Are you seeing a question with multiple choice answers? Was there anything on the screen besides text? You probably didn’t picture something like this: Well, that’s the quiz eLearning great, Jackie Van Nice, designed for an Articulate Heroes Weekly Challenge on Spelling Bees and Interactive
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Film and television directors are masters of visual storytelling. You can improve your eLearning courses (or videos) a lot by incorporating some of the techniques they use. Today, I want to look at the camera angles that video directors use. I’ll then see if I’m able to recreate each of them using only PowerPoint and
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Download the source files [highlight]You can also [dlink link=’https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332114/eLearningArt_GiveAways/AssetsBlog/Angles-Film/Angles-Article-Giveaway/4-Tracking-Shot-Effect.pptx’] download the PowerPoint source files[/dlink] with the animations and the images included and follow along with the lesson.[/highlight] Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to re-create a tracking effect in PowerPoint. So let me just go
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Download the source files Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to create a dolly effect in PowerPoint using still images and let me just go ahead and show you the effect. So basically we will have a guy who is looking like he is
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Download the source files Video transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to do a zoom and pan effect in PowerPoint and save it out as a video. So let me show you the effect really quickly. This is what the effect would look like and
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Synopsis When building eLearning scenarios or stories, sometimes you need more than two people in a conversation. This tutorial outlines the best practices for building multi-person conversations and includes the source files so that you can follow along with the lesson yourself. Download the source files Click to [dlink galleries=477,457]download the source files[/dlink] for this
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Synopsis Overview tutorial showing the background and characters angles that I use when building a conversation in an eLearning course. Download Source Files Video Script Hi. This is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I wanted to show you how you can build conversations in your eLearning courses. This will be the overview video. I’ll
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Synopsis By mixing icons with voiceover, you can create a nice visual story that is a drastic improvement over text on screen. Watch this breakdown of how I used this effect in a sample course. Video Script Hey. This is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how I use icons to
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I started writing a blog post about how to embed eLearning content into conversations. It was ok. But I didn’t love it. Then I had an idea: why not take that same content and embed it into a conversation? I also included the original article below that. Let me know which style you prefer in
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