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Tip Guy: January 2011

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Saturday, January 15, 2011. 9 Things You Must Avoid in Your Courses. I was recently reviewing an elearning course (per the authors request) and some of things I saw is what inspired this post. Now Ill allow some latitude because the author only develops part-time and is somewhat of a newbee, but some of things I witnessed defied what I consider basic common sense. So without further ado I present to you 9 things that should be avoided in your e-learning course. Notice how I only have 9.

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Tip Guy: A Funny Thing Happened At The Lectora User Conference!

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Monday, March 18, 2013. A Funny Thing Happened At The Lectora User Conference! A funny thing happened at the 2012 Lectora user Conference. I found my new e-learning development software, and it's not Lectora. So there I was at the 2012 Lectora user Conference, visiting all the exhibitors, which were new at this conference, and I stumble upon the good folks at ' E-Learning Uncovered. That was being announced at the conference compared to the new Articulate Storyline. Product I had heard so much about.

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Tip Guy: January 2010

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010. My Arsenal of e-Learning Tools. I'm always curious what other developers have in their 'tools' portfolio so in the spirit of not being selfish, here is my e-Learning arsenal of tools. Although I have used this tool less when the newer version forced you to learn Actionscript, I still like it to create simple text and image animations, plus I like to snag free flash animations (there's a ton of them out there) and then manipulate them to my liking. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Tip Guy: August 2010

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Monday, August 30, 2010. I just got done checking out Lectora Inspire. The latest installment of Lectora by Trivantis. For those familiar with the Lectora product, it's basically Lectora bundled with SnagIt. For basic image capture and editing), Camtasia. For screen recording), and Flypaper. My favorite of the new features has to be Flypaper. Lectora still needs to work on their assessment engine (I still use Articulate Quizmaker for all my assessments). Figured I had to crow-bar that in.

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Tip Guy: June 2010

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Let's Make Some Glossy Text. Open a new document and slap some text on that bad boy. The thicker the font the better the effect comes out. Put a light gray ' Stroke. On it (About 2 pixels) and also put a dark 'Inner Glow. Until it looks something like this. Now you need to add an additional layer above your text layer. Now hold down the ' Ctrl. Key on your keyboard and click the original text layer so your text looks like this. From the top menu, choose ' Modify. Subscribe in a ...

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Tip Guy: The TipGuy Scoop!

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I've been an e-Learning developer for 10 years, and in my endeavors have used a variety of different tools, applied many techniques and created hundreds of hours of e-learning along the way. I really enjoy sharing and interacting with other developers so don't hesitate to leave comments (good or bad) on any of the posts, and feel free to shoot me an email. With site comments, post ideas or anything else that's on your mind. Enjoy the site and happy e-Learning! October 15, 2010 at 12:29 PM.

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Tip Guy: February 2012

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT! This particular post isn't going to teach you much, or provide a ton of insight. This is a ' rant. Fueled by recent events that forced me to change Verdana to Arial, change ' Biggest Strength. To ' Core Competency. And totally replace a fun scenario-driven interaction with a traditional and ' safer. Or ' difficult to work with. Now I understand that we all have to change things we don't want to, take the 'human' element out of our courses ...

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Tip Guy: September 2010

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010. At the conclusion of this blog post you will be able to:. So at what point did the practice of having lengthy Objectives describing exactly what the learner will be able to do at the conclusion of the course become the gold standard de-facto approach to elearning design? Is there a better way of doing this? Are these Objectives really necessary? I mean will the whole e-Learning universe explode if I don't have an "Objectives" page? When e-Learning was in its infancy more expl...

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Tip Guy: DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT!

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT! This particular post isn't going to teach you much, or provide a ton of insight. This is a ' rant. Fueled by recent events that forced me to change Verdana to Arial, change ' Biggest Strength. To ' Core Competency. And totally replace a fun scenario-driven interaction with a traditional and ' safer. Or ' difficult to work with. Now I understand that we all have to change things we don't want to, take the 'human' element out of our courses ...

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Tip Guy: July 2010

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Friday, July 16, 2010. Create a "Roll" Effect in Articulate! This video will show you how to create a "Roll" effect using Articulate Presenter and PowerPoint. There's definitely room for improvement here so leave a comment if you can find a way to improve this effect. Monday, July 12, 2010. Inspiration is Everywhere, Just Look Around! Saturday, July 10, 2010. Captivate and Lectora Can Interact! I had this post previously with text and screen shots and decided to replace it with this SCREENR. You just put...