In a previous post, I talked about 10 ways to use characters in your eLearning courses and also gave away 100 free character images. One of the uses I mentioned was the intro or “splash” screen. I’ve said it before, but the intro screen is the slide that I spend the most time designing in a […]
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It’s been another great month at eLearningArt… We published a bunch of new blog posts and video tutorials. Our members enjoyed the 101st week in a row of new characters being released. Plus, for those of you who are looking for free… we’ve got you covered. I’ve highlighted some of the best updates for March
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If you’re building a good eLearning course, you don’t want to cover EVERYTHING (even if your SME tells you that learners need ALL the information in the history of mankind). You’ll highlight the important stuff, like what do DO with the information and how to connect the learner to outcomes. And then you’ll link out to
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Download the source files Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I am going to show you how in PowerPoint you can link from any shape or picture to another place in your presentation or to an external resource. And I will give you the source files so you can actually follow
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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 build a background in PowerPoint. It’s going to be this background that’s you see here and it’s going to be done all just with rectangles and a few other slight modifications. So let me
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It’s been another great month at eLearningArt. For the first time in 7 years of blogging, I released a post every week in a month. To put it in perspective, in all of 2015 I only published 2 posts. In all of 2014 I released 3 posts…total! Yikes! But 2016 is a different year and
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When I develop eLearning courses, there are many common elements that I use over and over. By identifying patterns, I can create a reusable framework that reduces development time on future courses. Tom Kuhlmann had an interesting analogy of an eLearning course being like a sandwich with the top and bottom slices of bread being the
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I recently had the opportunity to interview the great Jane Bozarth, eLearning author and speaker on such topics as building more engaging training and using social as a learning tool. For the next few days, I’m doing a giveaway of 5 copies of her book, Show Your Work. This book is beautiful, with lots of
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Ok. So if you signed up for the free character image giveaway I announced in last week’s 2015 recap post, you have all of these images…but how do you actually use them? Let me share examples of how I’ve used characters in my own projects and how I’ve seen other designers use them as well. That should
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Synopsis Microsoft’s EMF format has some great benefits and some drawbacks that you should be aware of. Video Script Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I wanted to show you a little bit about what the EMF format is and some of the benefits and drawbacks to it. So let’s go ahead and
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