Principles of Storyboarding for e-Learning design: A digital story

I have just finished a coursera online MOOC on Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. I have decided to write a series of blog posts to share my lessons learned, experience and finished story of the course. You may want to read earlier posts before going ahead with this. 1. Digital Storytelling: Introductory …

Audio Narration and Background Music in digital Storytelling

I have just finished a coursera online MOOC on Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. I have decided to write a series of blog posts to share my lessons learned, experience and finished story of the course. You may want to read earlier posts before going ahead with this. 1. Digital Storytelling: Introductory …

Best Holiday Attitudes in Marsala

A very exciting one for me as David challenges us this week to do anything with the newly declared Pantone’s Color of the year 2015 – Marsala. I must confess I didn’t think I’ll like the color when I saw it at first, though wine is my favorite color but working with it and using …

Favorite tips for aspiring e-Learning Freelancers

Everyone talks about the difference between a stable job and a contract kind of job. If you have to wait until you find work to do, your finances may not be as stable. And what if you don’t find work to do in a year? This can be a daunting fear for new e-Learning professionals …

My Digital Story: Gathering and Creating Image and Video Resources

I have just finished a coursera online MOOC on Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. I have decided to write a series of blog posts to share my lessons learned, experience and finished story of the course. You may want to read earlier posts before going ahead with this. 1. Digital Storytelling: Introductory …

My Digital Story: Topic, Script and Storyboard

I have just finished a coursera online MOOC on Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. I have decided to write a series of blog posts to share my lessons learned, experience and finished story of the course. You may want to read earlier posts before going ahead with this. 1. Digital Storytelling: Introductory …

e-Learning Character Graphics with Gate Screen

In the midst of plenty of work, I decided to stop to cater for two previous e-learning challenges – Create your own e-learning character and Gate screens in e-learning courses. That’s killing two birds with one stone, very possible!

My flat-tistic work environment

Visual design can be both fun and challenging for me and David Anderson, the e-Learning heroes challenge anchor gave me that opportunity this week to engage in a fun-filled challenge, creating a flat-design graphic image of our work-desk. The contributions this week displayed the creator’s strengths, focus and uniqueness, it’s worth checking out here.

Removing white backgrounds from images in PowerPoint

You need to do a PowerPoint presentation soon and because you know the importance of images in presentations, you decide to download and use some free images from the website. Alas…most images (icons, logos, charts, graphs etc) on the website were created on a white spreadsheet or background and saved as such. If you use such …