As I was out walking today I tried to think back over 2012 and those accomplishments that I can look fondly back upon and be proud of their completion.  That too brings to mind those things that I believe I could have done better.  Which leads to those items that I wish to approve upon for 2013 and those items ...

Just sat in a great presentation from Connie Malamed.  This is the second one of her presentations that I have attended and I just love the visual method by which she presents.  The information she has to share is always interesting, informative and inspiring.  Not to mention the hundreds of resources she has on her site "The eLearning Coach". I figured listening ...

A colleague asked me to scan through a presentation that someone had passed to her today.  As I flipped through the monstrosity, 138 slides (Egad!), I was appalled that the entire thing was all most all text.  If I had a nickle for every full sentence bullet point in the document I’d be rich.  There were a few "process flowcharts" ...

Here are a some fantastic resources that you can become familiar with that will really excel you to an advance user of Articulate Studio.  The tips and tricks shown below are easy to learn but less well known to most users. My take of each of these tricks and more can be found under my Freebies section in the: Tips ...

I had to come up recently with a solution to be able to have a learner follow one of 2 paths through a course.  The first time they take they course they are to choose Path A.  The second time through the course, say for re-certification, they are to choose Path B.  Path B takes them directly to a knowledge check ...

Yes, seems like a strange title, but once you have the context I know it will make sense to you. Yesterday I sat in the first of many live sessions of MIT’s Media Lab Learning Creative Learning Open.  This course is being offered for the first time online as and OpenCourse.  That right there excites me.  Over 7000 people have ...

I sat in on Trina Rimmer‘s fantastic presentation during this month’s Elearning Guild Online Forums. Trina presented some interesting ideas around the topic where instructional designers and SMEs may clash heads. The items that frustrate each side of the project may be no more than communication issues that with some clever rewording can be addressed or even avoided. I’d strongly ...

Recently I’ve been working with Storyline to create a course for our public site instead for just our internal staff.  This meant I finally got the opportunity to use some audio and voice over tracks within the course. One particular slide is a bit stale with just bullet points of information for the person to look over.  So I created ...

I just finished reading Clark Quinn‘s piece on "Barrier to Scale?" and he has some fantastic points especially around the face that if enriched learning is centred around social learning, collaboration, and meaningful challenges "…. that you simply cannot make a quality learning experience that can be auto-assessed.  It needs to be rich, and mentored, scaffolded, and evaluated." This made me think ...

Last week it occurred to me that the last several months of LMS upgrading would have lead to my utter demise if I didn’t have my LMS buddy. Much like a really good friend that you’ve known since you were little, an LMS buddy is there for you always. They listen to your troubles during bad times. They are encouraging ...