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Editing Motion Paths and Reusing Customized Effects - Captivate blog

This is an old post, but it still works in Captivate 8. Edit the points of a motion path. You can save this as a custom effect. Once you apply that effect to an object, it will appear in your custom menu and you can call it with an Advanced Action.

Imported from Diigo #captivate #elearning

·blog.lilybiri.com·Dec 19, 2014

Editing Motion Paths and Reusing Customized Effects - Captivate blog

5 Quick Tips Using Cutout People Images - eLearning Brothers

Tips for using cutout people in scenarios. I always forget about adding shadows, but it does look better when the characters are supposed to be in a realistic setting.

Use a drop shadow on a cutout person or object to give it depth, so it stands out in your eLearning layouts.

Use a drop shadow color to match the background.

<strong></strong>Use shadows below a standing cutout person, so they appear to be touching the ground.

 Use depth of field to isolate a subject from other elements in a photo by blurring the foreground or background.

Use multiple cutout images to show different points in your eLearning presentation.

Imported from Diigo #graphicdesign #elearning

·elearningbrothers.com·Dec 13, 2014

5 Quick Tips Using Cutout People Images - eLearning Brothers

External Follow Button — Support — WordPress.com

Create a follow button for a Wordpress.com blog that can be used on other websites

Imported from Diigo #wordpress

·en.support.wordpress.com·Dec 3, 2014

External Follow Button — Support — WordPress.com

10 Great Jobs Where You Can Work Completely from Home - Business Insider

Curriculum developer, online teacher, and SME are on their list. If we're designing learning that can be delivered virtually, there's no reason that we shouldn't be working virtually too. I wish more companies would see the benefit of this and allow more WFH.

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #onlineteaching #career #elearning

·businessinsider.com·Nov 28, 2014

10 Great Jobs Where You Can Work Completely from Home - Business Insider

This Week’s Learning Hero is Christy Tucker! | Growth Engineering

A very flattering article about me and my work

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #vanity #learning #freelance #elearning

·growthengineering.co.uk·Nov 21, 2014

This Week’s Learning Hero is Christy Tucker! | Growth Engineering

How to Choose a Career | Career Key

General tips on how to choose a career, including links to a career test based on Holland's 6 personality types. (The test isn't free, but you can find less reliable free versions elsewhere.)

Imported from Diigo #career

·careerkey.org·Nov 19, 2014

How to Choose a Career | Career Key

7 Questions You Need To Answer Before Becoming A Full Time eLearning Freelancer - eLearning Industry

Things to consider for those wanting to make the leap to freelance work

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #career #freelance #elearning

·elearningindustry.com·Nov 13, 2014

7 Questions You Need To Answer Before Becoming A Full Time eLearning Freelancer - eLearning Industry

E-Learning Portfolios: Share Your Work - E-Learning Heroes

Sample e-learning portfolios, submitted for an e-Learning Challenge. Good place to look for inspiration.

Imported from Diigo #portfolio #elearning

·community.articulate.com·Nov 13, 2014

E-Learning Portfolios: Share Your Work - E-Learning Heroes

Blank Cell Images - an album on Flickr

Cute idea for comics or scenarios--create scenes with lego people or other toys. These images are licensed CC-By-NC-SA. This photographer also has an album with some of the same images and talk boxes already added.

Imported from Diigo #comic #graphicdesign #images #photos #flickr #creativecommons

·flickr.com·Nov 13, 2014

Blank Cell Images - an album on Flickr

Why the Former Teacher May be Your Next Star Employee – Part II | James L. Simers

Comparing ATD's list of core competencies to the skills teachers already have. Teachers who want to switch careers might find this helpful for figuring out how to speak the language of business and explain how their skills transfer

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #newid #career

·jlsimers.com·Nov 3, 2014

Why the Former Teacher May be Your Next Star Employee – Part II | James L. Simers

OQAR :: Home

Online Quality Assurance Reviewer. Awkward name for a product, but it does similar functions to ReviewMyELearning. Reviewers can comment with each page of a course and IDs can collect feedback from everyone on the team. Unfortunately, they don't have a free trial, so there's no way to test it out and make sure it works for your courses without paying for it.

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #elearning #qualityassurance #tools

·elearningcontentreviewer.com·Nov 2, 2014

OQAR :: Home

What Instructional Designers Don't Want to Hear

What do we dread hearing from clients? All of these!

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #humor

·articulate.com·Oct 28, 2014

What Instructional Designers Don't Want to Hear

The True Cost of 1 Hour of Learning

Infographic based on Chapman's research on how long it takes to create different levels of e-learning, compared to ILT

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #infographic #elearning

·leanforward.com·Oct 25, 2014

The True Cost of 1 Hour of Learning

Setting up Preferences in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd

Lots of troubleshooting tips here with explanations of how to use the preferences.

Imported from Diigo #captivate #troubleshooting #elearning

·infosemantics.com.au·Oct 24, 2014

Setting up Preferences in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd

I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts

speed up production with captivate shortcuts

Imported from Diigo #captivate #tools #elearning

·iconlogic.blogs.com·Oct 21, 2014

I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts

id Layouts | eLearning Templates

E-Learning templates. Each template is available for purchase individually, rather than buying a package or subscription. Storyline and Captivate templates. The site is still new, but the library of options should increase in the future.

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #Storyline #captivate #elearning

·idlayouts.com·Oct 18, 2014

id Layouts | eLearning Templates

Recovering corrupt Adobe Captivate projects | CP Guru - Adobe Captivate Widgets

This process did work for me in Cp8, although the restored file still didn't seem to have any of my lost work even though the time stamp was right.

Imported from Diigo #captivate #troubleshooting #elearning

·cpguru.com·Oct 14, 2014

Recovering corrupt Adobe Captivate projects | CP Guru - Adobe Captivate Widgets

KeelWorks - Learning to live: Living to Learn

KeelWorks is a non-profit that regularly engages ID interns. Right now it's a 12-14 week unpaid program for 5 hours a week. It's a good way for people to get some experience before their first ID job.

Imported from Diigo #newid #career #instructionaldesign #elearning

·keelworks.org·Oct 12, 2014

KeelWorks - Learning to live: Living to Learn

Demos and Examples on Interactive Stories

Vignettes Learning Story Impacts demos from ebook

Imported from Diigo #storytelling #elearning #scenario

·vftisys.com·Sep 23, 2014

Demos and Examples on Interactive Stories

Free eLearning Books - The Ultimate List - eLearning Industry

50+ free e-learning ebooks. I wish these were sorted by topic or purpose rather than date, and I wish the authors or sources were consistently included in the descriptions. The descriptions are generally copied and pasted from the source, so no additional insight is added in the post. It's still a useful list though.

Imported from Diigo #free #instructionaldesign #gamification #elearning

·elearningindustry.com·Sep 15, 2014

Free eLearning Books - The Ultimate List - eLearning Industry

Microsoft Office Mix review – a potential new player in digital learning? | eLearning Instructional Design Specialists in Articulate Storyline, Lectora and LMS | Learning Tech, Auckland, NZ

Microsoft's entry into the e-learning world is a lightweight but free PowerPoint add-in. You can record presentations and do basic quizzing. They have their own reporting tool, but you can't use it in an LMS.

Imported from Diigo #tools #free #elearning

·learningtech.co.nz·Sep 13, 2014

Microsoft Office Mix review – a potential new player in digital learning? | eLearning Instructional Design Specialists in Articulate Storyline, Lectora and LMS | Learning Tech, Auckland, NZ

Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

Tips on drag and drop interactions in Captivate. If you've seen drag and drop actions continue when you expected them to pause, read this post.

Imported from Diigo #captivate #elearning

·blog.lilybiri.com·Sep 13, 2014

Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

Why choose Standard over Simple action? - Captivate blog

Lieve Weymeis explains why she recommends using standard actions even for actions like Show and Hide that can be completed as simple actions.

Imported from Diigo #captivate #elearning

·blog.lilybiri.com·Sep 13, 2014

Why choose Standard over Simple action? - Captivate blog

Articulate - Word of Mouth Blog - 5 Tips to Launch Your Career as an E-Learning Freelancer

Summary of tips from the Articulate freelancer community

1. Find your focus.

2. Save some money first.

3. Set up an online base of operations.

<strong>4. Create an online portfolio.</strong>

5. Track your time.

Imported from Diigo #freelance #career #instructionaldesign #elearning

·articulate.com·Sep 11, 2014

Articulate - Word of Mouth Blog - 5 Tips to Launch Your Career as an E-Learning Freelancer

SCORM Watch

Tool for troubleshooting SCORM files that lets you actually analyze the errors. It's not cheap, but if you're spending lots of hours with trial and error guessing at what might fix a problem, it's probably worth it.

Imported from Diigo #scorm #tools #troubleshooting #elearning

·plattecanyon.com·Sep 10, 2014

SCORM Watch

Will at Work Learning: Triggered Action Planning

Easy tip for improving follow up actions after training

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #goals

·willatworklearning.com·Sep 5, 2014

Will at Work Learning: Triggered Action Planning

Guest Posts

This summarizes some of my own discomfort with guest posts but articulates it more clearly than I could.

Imported from Diigo #blog

·jarche.com·Sep 1, 2014

Guest Posts

Quandary

Freeware application for creating "action mazes" or branching scenarios

Imported from Diigo #freeware #branching #elearning #scenario

·halfbakedsoftware.com·Aug 23, 2014

Quandary

Build a Better Online Training Team | Talance Blog

Overview of what roles need to be filled to develop e-learning. Some of these roles can overlap and be filled by the same person.

Imported from Diigo #elearning #instructionaldesign #sme

·talance.com·Aug 20, 2014

Build a Better Online Training Team | Talance Blog

The Institute for Performance Improvement - IDBadges

Badges for instructional designers in various areas. Not sure if employers would actually care about this or recognize the organization, but it's an interesting idea for peer-reviewed credentials.

Imported from Diigo #instructionaldesign #badges #certificate

·tifpi.org·Aug 18, 2014

The Institute for Performance Improvement - IDBadges