The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

With all that content, there's a good chance you might find some videos on YouTube that you'd like to put in your PowerPoint presentation. Here's how:  Find the video you would like to insert into your PowerPoint presentation on YouTube (or any other video site with an Embed code like Vimeo or MetaCafe).

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BrightCarbon

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Why would anyone want to change the slide size in PowerPoint? Well, it depends what you’re using PowerPoint for… Presentations are a powerful tool for communicating with your audience. Would you believe me if I told you can do all this and more in good-old-PowerPoint? Select the slide size you want to use.

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Fly Plugins

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I have both used Photoshop for years to help us create images for training courses, websites, blog posts, and social media. This option allows you to set a specific image size and begin with a blank canvas for your project, dropping in various elements such as text, images, shapes, etc.

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IT Training Department Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Once you’re at a place where you’ve cut everything anything unnecessary out of a course, it’s time to go back and cut some more. No, really, go back and cut even more out until you’re left with only the necessary information for employees to do their job, do it better, or fix what they’re doing wrong. Sounds easy right?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points Jane Bozarth : Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint. But will talk about how to make instruction more engaging, interactive and interesting. Why PowerPoint? How BAD can e-learning be? 73 slides of text. Not PPT 101.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 19, 2010

by AJ George I am often asked how to get YouTube videos into a PowerPoint presentation, and, unless you're using the latest version (PowerPoint 2010), it's an understandable question.   Insert YouTube Videos into PowerPoint 2007 with Internet. In PowerPoint click the Office button. and delete it.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning. Most PowerPoint templates are designed for standard bullet point presentations. This post will share with you my secrets for creating custom templates in PowerPoint. Here are three templates that I created for this blog post.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s important because it helps us organize and visualize how the course will look and what will happen. Storyboarding is like planning before creating an online learning course. It is a visual representation of the story, helping creators plan and organize their ideas effectively.

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Elucidat

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With some figures suggesting that around 30 million presentations are created daily, Microsoft PowerPoint still reigns supreme in many businesses. In this PowerPoint to SCORM guide, discover how to transform your passive slides into interactive elearning content that really resonates. Import your PowerPoint file 3.

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eLearningArt

AUGUST 2, 2017

PowerPoint is an extremely powerful tool when used correctly. But I decided to save you some time… I asked the world’s leading PowerPoint experts the following question: What’s your single best PowerPoint tip, trick, or hack? Powerpoint Presentation Approach Tips. Powerpoint Presentation Approach Tips.

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BrightCarbon

JANUARY 13, 2025

Today were calling out one of the major injustices of corporate rebrands across the globe PowerPoint falling to the bottom of the rebranding checklist! But, as a presentation agency, we see the consequences of forgetting about PowerPoint all the time. The new PowerPoint templates have (usually!) Dazzling insight, I know!

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BrightCarbon

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But once you’ve cut down your text and created those visuals, how do you make sure they look good on the slide? but everyone can borrow graphic design best practices to make slides really pop. This blog post explores how you can manipulate whitespace in presentations to create beautifully balanced slides.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 6, 2012

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use PowerPoint to create an artsy, collage style title clip… …and add a little animation applied to it via the Camtasia Studio Visual Properties! This tutorial takes a pictorial approach to show how my title clip image was created in PowerPoint. Before You Start.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about it: if you’re presenting to a live audience, there’s no point having a slide like this one – a bunch of bullets with loosely connected images: It doesn’t look professional, the visuals don’t mean anything, and your audience can’t read and listen at the same time, so they’ll probably tune you out as your read through the bullet points.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

Here’s a PowerPoint tip: build your e-learning course graphics in PowerPoint. PowerPoint is great for simple graphic design projects. In fact, I use it quite a bit for this blog and some of the graphics I need in my e-learning demos. All of those graphics were built in PowerPoint. 07:45 | Save slide as image.

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BrightCarbon

DECEMBER 6, 2019

BrightCarbon is buzzing with excitement, because we’ve just released BrightSlide – our incredible PowerPoint add-in. BrightSlide was created by our team of PowerPoint experts with input from our professional presentation designers. Match Size. First, use Match Size to make the small, awkward image into a full bleed image.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I just wanted to give you an idea of the type of work I do with clients and how eLearning can change the path of a company and their employees by taking the time to involve all of the stakeholders including the employees themselves. After this, I attended the mandatory three full days of training in the training centre.

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BrightCarbon

AUGUST 9, 2019

This two-part series will teach you how to make an effective infographic in PowerPoint. These guides will show you that creating a beautifully visual infographic in PowerPoint is much easier than you think. Creating an infographic in PowerPoint: MealCarbon. How do viewers know what to look at first?

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BrightCarbon

MARCH 13, 2019

Wonky alignment and badly proportioned slides can easily distract your audience. Human beings can’t help judging a book by its cover – or the content of your presentation by how it is designed. ” But what has all this got to do with PowerPoint grids and guides? However, help is at hand! Why are grids important?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

a plan to create an awesome PowerPoint presentation about, among other emotions, anger.   Naturally, you want to illustrate anger on one of the slides.     The problem is—how? PowerPoint won’t allow you to adjust the transparency of a photo so you'll need to scrap that plan. by AJ Walther, COTP.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 19, 2020

When creating eLearning in TechSmith Camtasia, Adobe Captivate, or Articulate Storyline, one critical consideration is the physical width and height of your project (also known as the canvas size).   When I teach any of my eLearning courses, I encourage learners to consider their end-users when determining the size of the canvas.

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BrightCarbon

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

More accessible presentation slides can be the difference between your audience fully engaging with your content and your audience tuning out and missing out. Luckily, there are some easy steps you can take to increase the accessibility of your slides. Unhelpfully, there are no hard and fast rules about font sizes.

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eLearningArt

JULY 17, 2013

That’s why the intro, or “splash” screen, is arguably the most important slide in your eLearning course. While it doesn’t change performance, it does set the tone for the learner’s experience. I’d spend way too much time on the intro slide and often ended up with something that I wasn’t all that happy with. You’re in luck!

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Mindflash

MAY 23, 2012

This post first appeared on Brent Dykes’ blog, PowerPoint Ninja. If you work at a company with more than 100 people, you probably have an official corporate PowerPoint template. That’s too bad because all of their company’s PowerPoint users end up suffering. Font size is too small.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 19, 2012

A while back I shared how to be inspired by others and included links to two comic-style elearning courses. I got quite a few emails asking how to build a similar type of course. To keep it simple we’ll use PowerPoint, but the ideas should work regardless of the tool you use. Some comics use straight lines and even sized panels.

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Association eLearning

MAY 21, 2015

You know what a source of non-dues revenue this can be, and you know how popular eLearning has become in the association space. Do you know how to overcome the challenges that come with implementing such an initiative? How many people are in your education department? Have you anticipated the risk in online learning?

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In this post we’ll talk about how you can use a mood board to save time on your next instructional design project. Scope creep can occur for a variety of reasons ; one of the most common is that the client changes his or her mind by the time you get to the development phase. Font colors and sizes. A Mood Board Saves Time.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Tool #2: Wordle for Text-Heavy Slides. October 2010 did not disappoint!

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Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2007

Okay, I'm going to blame this on Karl Kapp, because in response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? Karl created a presentation and a blog post that inspired me to revisit a presentation I recently gave and try to improve it using some of his suggestions (and a few others that I've recently read). If so, how?

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Screen recording can be a very useful and powerful tool in your video arsenal, however, few people know how to utilize it well and, if you’ve never used it before, it can be overwhelming to know where to even start. Understanding how to start creating screen recordings is the first step to optimizing your screen recorded video process.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2012

For my demos, I decided to stick with PowerPoint to show that if that’s all you have, then you still can do quite a bit. How to Remove Backgrounds. PowerPoint 2010 comes with a background removal feature which makes it really easy. Older versions of PowerPoint have a simple feature that lets you make a single color transparent.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

a plan to create an awesome PowerPoint presentation about, among other emotions, anger.   Naturally, you want to illustrate anger on one of the slides.     The problem is—how? PowerPoint won’t allow you to adjust the transparency of a photo so you'll need to scrap that plan. by AJ Walther, COTP.

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BrightCarbon

JANUARY 7, 2019

Whether you’re a student, in business, or a software pro, there’s little doubt that you’ve heard of Google Slides. However, while the name may ring a bell, we know that many of you won’t have had the time to delve deep into Google Slides’ functionality. How to use this guide. Is Google Slides free?

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From the Coleface

JUNE 23, 2009

Some two years ago I was blogging about the analogy that buying e-learning by the hour is nearly as absurd as trying to buy a fitted kitchen by the cubic metre. The number of learning points that you can fit in depends on the size of the learning journey on which you’re taking participants. Why is this?

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BrightCarbon

JULY 16, 2021

This blog post will show you how to source, create and animate custom presentation icons from within PowerPoint itself! This blog post will show you how to source, create and animate custom presentation icons from within PowerPoint itself! How to tailor icons in PowerPoint. Absolutely.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2009

With that said, let me share some ideas on how you can use Screenr with your rapid elearning courses. Add Screenr Videos to Your Blogs, Wikis, and Slides. That means you can create a video and easily add it to your blog, wiki, or website (or any other place that takes HTML). The image quality is pretty darn good.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 1, 2023

If you're a veteran Captivate developer, you'll see that much has changed in this new interface, and many of the old standards have been removed (not changed or moved. The Canvas size is fluid, and your content will automatically reflow to fit any screen size. The Filmstrip is now simply the Slides panel.

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