Category: Learning resources
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Instructional design
I have written a few posts about writing and instructional design as well as a couple videos (one is shown below). To be a great trainer you need great content. Sometimes that is easy but often it means a great deal of effort, research and creative time. Read this post about writing is acting. It…
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Getting good images
One of the challenges for any trainer is getting good images for powerpoint, blogs, handouts or any other learning resource that are good quality as well as copyright free. This little application does a good job of finding good quality images for you that are covered by creative commons. You do need to download the…
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Sunday Learning
What did you learn this week? It’s truly a pitiful week if you haven’t learnt something. Life is far too complex and interesting not to have been exposed to something new, creative, interesting or intriguing. If you had slow week of learning then watch the video below. Time to update your knowledge of atomic particles.…
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Adult Learners
I was do a bit of cleaning during the wet long weekend and found this file. It is a good summary and reminder of all the things we need to remember when training adults. Hope it is useful for you. http://www.audiologynow.org/pdf/30AdultLearning.pdf
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A wet weekend
What do you do on wet weekends, long weekends for that matter. Me, catching up on some work and finding in the process some excellent resources. Here’s a great slideshow on making better presentations and another on sticky ideas. Hope they inspire. STEAL THIS PRESENTATION! View more presentations from Jesse Desjardins – @jessedee Making It…
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Narrating Elearning
I have been doing a lot of narrating on elearning projects lately and I admit that I find it challenging. This resource might help you when you have to record your voice. My own practical tips are: Always write out the script – it takes a while but it saves you a lot of time…
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E-Learning Tips
A quick post today. The elearning guild has released a new ebook, 58 Tips for Breakthrough eLearning Instructional Design Yes, its free, and yes you will need to go through the usual form filling process but it is worth the read, particularly of you are new to elearning design.
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Viral Training, is it possible?
I just liked this video (see below). I am puzzled by the whole viral thing though. Why does one video gets more hits than another? Some of my own training videos have had a lot of hits (nothing really compared to a viral video) while others have had very little and I can’t work out…
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Free Photo’s
There are many photo sites on the web, Some for free, some with CC licence and some that cost you money. Try out this new webpage which helps you to find free or Cc licence photo’s on flicker. I found it easy to use and I will go back and use on my…
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Do you want to be an instructional designer?
The title is a question but really the first question should be what is an instructional designer. How about we cut through the usual professional BS and just state that an instructional designer writes training material and resources. It doesn’t matter if it is print based, ebook, online or powerpoint it is all training material.…