Apr212014
You’re in the home stretch of your project, but just… can’t… quite… get… there… Running low on creative fuel can happen to anyone, and it never happens at a good time. Luckily, you can tank up before your long haul projects at E-Learning Heroes. Over the past week, your fellow community members shared premium-grade tips for storyboarding courses, motivating project teams, creating certificates, and lots more! So fill your reserves with these highlights from last week:
Community tutorials
Conversations in the community
New blog posts
Seen on Twitter
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Apr142014
If you’re looking for a great source of practical, innovative e-learning finds, E-Learning Heroes is the place to look. As usual, this past week was chock-full of community insights and advice on topics like: managing courses, showcasing your portfolio, using clipart, and much more.
Take a peek at some of the bright ideas that Articulate community members shared throughout the week:
Community tutorials
Conversations in the community
New blog posts
Seen on Twitter
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Apr72014
Happy Monday, E-learning Heroes!
Feeling a little learner-shy? Stuck on a vexing scenario? Takes and retakes getting you down? Then come check out the most helpful e-learning tips and insights from the Articulate Community to get your e-learning course rolling.
Over the past week, the Articulate community shared visual design tips, techniques to customize your course player, a whole bunch of free stuff to energize your e-learning, and lots more!
Want to share a tip or trick with the community? Post in the forums, record a quick Screenr, or, tweet a link using the #Articulate hashtag. Below is a recap of last week’s e-learning action:
Community tutorials
Conversations in the community
New blog posts
Seen on Twitter
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Apr22014
At Articulate, we sell software, of course; but we’re also committed to helping you be successful using it. We want to empower you to build the best courses you can. To that end, we offer all sorts of free resources:
One of my favorite community activities is the weekly challenge. Instead of yacking about learning theory and what e-learning should be, we present mini challenges that help you learn more about the tools and encourage you to play around with ideas that could help you build better e-learning courses.
But sometimes all of that community goodness just isn’t enough. Many of us prefer to have the resources right at our fingertips, literally. In those cases, we tend to turn to books.
E-Learning Uncovered: Articulate Studio ’13
Following on the heels of E-Learning Uncovered: Articulate Storyline, Diane Elkins and Desiree Pinder have released E-Learning Uncovered: Articulate Studio ’13, a new book in their successful series.
Like the rest of their books, it’s filled with detailed and practical information that will take you through the basics on all four Studio ’13 applications.
This book covers how to: use PowerPoint and Presenter ’13, create quizzes in Quizmaker ’13, build interactions in Engage ’13, and record video presentations with the new Replay ’13.
Five things I really like about the book include the:
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Amazing details. You’ll find practical step-by-step instructions for all of the features and common-use cases.
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Design tips. They include lots of design ideas that are more than simple explanations of the features and will help you get more out of the software.
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Time savers. Throughout the book you’ll find time-saving tips and ideas.
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A "Warning, Will Robinson!" approach. Best practices are developed over time and often the result of trial and error. The book does a good job pointing out some of the common issues when building courses so that you don’t have to go through the trial and error yourself.
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Insight from actual e-learning developers. It’s one thing to write a book about e-learning, but it’s quite another to actually build an e-learning course. Diane and Desiree build real courses with the tools they write about. That’s a plus for anyone looking for practical help.
Win a free copy of the book:
The authors are giving away five free copies of the new book. To enter to win one, add a comment and tell us what you like about the Articulate community at the bottom of this post.
We’ll do a drawing on April 30th and announce the winners in the following Weekly Recap.
Good luck!
Post written by Tom Kuhlmann
Mar312014
If your e-learning project is starting to swerve and fishtail toward the breakdown lane, then it’s time to make a pit stop at the largest e-learning repair shop: E-Learning Heroes. You’ll find skilled course technicians who can quickly diagnose, troubleshoot, and restore everything from e-learning fender-benders to completely totaled courses.
And while you’re there, browse around the Articulate Community garage to see what other work’s going on. You’ll learn how to fix deflated courses, rotate and balance content, align interests, and tune up your e-learning engine to get more mileage out of the courses you develop.
Check out the week’s recap right here:
Community tutorials
Conversations in the community
New blog posts
Seen on Twitter
Get more e-learning tips by following us on Twitter and joining our E-Learning Heroes community.
