Dig in to the Community’s Hottest E-Learning Tips of the Week

This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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Before you tackle whatever’s on your e-learning plate this week, treat yourself to the helpful tips, examples, and ideas the Articulate community dished out over the past week — we’ve gathered up the really good stuff right here. It was especially cool to see more folks continue sharing about their experience of building their Articulate Guru Award entries. Be sure and dig into their learnings & examples, as well as the many other great insights that your fellow community members shared.

Notable tutorials:

• Easily extend an image’s background for an e-learning scene

• Add a Vimeo video to an Articulate Presenter slide

• A clever way to give learners clues in Articulate Quizmaker: Part 1 | Part 2

• Add a TimeRime timeline into Articulate Presenter: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

• Use a web object to include an ActionScript 3 SWF in your course

• Quickly delete the edit-points on a PowerPoint shape

Conversations in the Community:

• More learnings from the Articulate Guru competition

• How to embed a Screenr video into an Articulate community forum post

• The community offers strategy & design help for a developer’s course ideas

• Ideas for breaking out of the “corporate slide” mentality

New blog posts:

• Three Sure-Fire Tips to Build Better E-Learning Courses

• Vote for Best of Elearning 2010

Seen on Twitter:

• @mikehighfield shares a tip for developers who use videos in their courses

• @tomkuhlmann shares the Training Magazine Network link to his recorded webinar on PowerPoint and e-learning

• Articulate users share the courses they entered in the 2010 Articulate Guru Awards:
  @lmilstid | @mikehighfield | @jenisecook | @endersdesign | @learnnuggets