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 …
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While working on another project involving webcam, I had to mix my webcam with screen recording. I suddenly found myself with Camtasia recording my screen and so decided to do a proper tutorial. In this video tutorial, I showed how to create the Power Navigation button and the Exit button using PowerPoint.
Recently, I received a mail from a friend of mine telling me about this online MOOC on Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. I checked it up, went through the course overall details and decided I was going to be a part of it. It turned out to be a good decision! So I …
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As I engaged Computer Softwares and tools for my learning this year, a few tools have been very useful for me. I will attempt a list of those tools in no particular order. Thanks to Jane Hart who has requested that we write about our top 10 tools for learning, as a contribution to the …
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This week’s Articulate e-Learning challenge was all about e-Learning storyboard templates before design. It was a great week as I learnt what it means to storyboard a plot before launching the actual authoring tool to design the course.
In the past few weeks and days, I have had cause to make use of Dropbox to share files. I needed to upload a .mp3 audio file to my blog for download only to discover that WordPress doesn’t allow such files. I wanted to send a video to a friend and yahoo won’t allow me …
It’s another week of learning and creating after the two-week non-design break at the articulate e-Learning challenge. This week’s challenge was to design a call center interaction. I almost gave up on being a part of this one due to several physical challenges but then I suddenly remembered… Consistency in learning is key, even if …
This week’s Articulate e-Learning challenge was to showcase my e-Learning portfolio and create images for sharing on different social media. It was a great time and as usual, packed with many things to learn… I couldn’t refuse participating, at least I will play around with images a bit. It was fun and challenging! There were …
Last week’s Articulate e-Learning challenge engaged e-learning designers in sharing great audio tips for building great e-Learning courses. Since I am very new to e-learning, I have not done much of audio narration nor included audio in any of my courses. However, it was a great week learning so much from others as they share …
It was another great week at the e-Learning heroes community with several awesome creative entries in response to this week’s challenge – creating a virtual tour of a fictitious or a real location. I must confess this time that these challenges have actually helped in developing skill in e-Learning tools and several other things.
