Experiencing eLearning

MAY 28, 2024

PowerPoint design tips Cognitive Load, Student Attention and PowerPoint Presentations Results of an eyetracking study of PowerPoint slides with tips on how to design slides so the information attracts attention and is easy to scan.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 2, 2019

This is a recording of a presentation I gave to the Online Network of Independent Learning Professionals on March 21, 2019. I reorganized the structure and added some slides for my presentation at the Learning Solutions Conference on March 27, 2019, but the content is essentially the same.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The PowerPoint slides just need to be tweaked—editing the onscreen text, adding some animation, prepping the script for voice over recording, and syncing everything together. ” “It’s about 200 slides. ” “OK, I’m looking over the slides now.” “Hi, Christy, it’s Lynn.

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Raptivity

JUNE 15, 2020

However, creating bewitching digital presentations is an art. Here are some tips that you can follow while creating your next presentation. Content is the core of any presentation. Without good content, even an extremely fascinating slide deck is of no use. Nothing puts off your audience like the clichéd agenda slide.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2021

An attendee at one of my recent presentations asked me why I’d bother creating something in Twine rather than just storyboarding directly in Storyline, especially if I was using character images. Animation and Media: Storyline is great for timed animation, special effects, and controlling exactly what each slide will look like.

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BrightCarbon

MAY 9, 2022

One major reason your audience is suffering from ‘death by PowerPoint’ is that you’re using slides that simply spell out what you’re trying to say. So, if your audience is trying to read text on a slide and listen to you speak, they end up either confused or completely ignoring you. Wave goodbye to presenter props.

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BrightCarbon

MARCH 13, 2020

What makes online presenting different? What makes online presenting different? Sadly, we’re not talking about a lift and shift here, and to understand how content needs to change, we need to understand the differences between in-person and online presentations. . A presenter, their slides, an audience.

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BrightCarbon

MAY 26, 2022

Think of PowerPoint’s Presenter View like the cockpit of an aeroplane (or airplane for our American readers!). Presenter View in PowerPoint works best if you have two monitors. On one monitor, you can display your slides for your audience to see. How to start using Presenter View in PowerPoint: – Open your presentation.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I usually get something from clients to read and review: PowerPoint presentations, policy guidelines, technical documentation, etc. With a note on a specific example] Slide 11: is this information important? For the example in this post, I received a PowerPoint presentation used in their current training.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 5, 2022

This includes 9 hours for creating slides and materials, which clearly only includes adapting existing materials and not creating them from scratch. Slides from Bianca Woods’s presentation on “The Secrets Video Games Can Teach L&D About Crafting Scenarios and Simulations That Work.” Diverse stock images.

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Infopro Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

A standard slide in our webinar deck is “Who Is Out There?” Energetic classroom facilitators are wonderful at being able to bring up the next slide in their presentation deck at just the right moment. Also, read my article on Presentation Skills , for how to have a great learning experience with presentation training.

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IT Training Department Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Content overload is a very real issue when it comes to eLearning because people can become overwhelmed when presented with too much information all at once. The key to success for eLearning development is to take an intentional approach to combatting content overload by presenting only necessary information.

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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 26, 2021

Share your stunning presentations in person, virtually or export your slides for use in other software. Join this presentation, led by Laura Overton, award-winning L&D analyst, to uncover how learning innovation can improve business value. Learn tips, tricks and techniques to make the impossible.

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BrightCarbon

MARCH 28, 2022

Every single slide in your sales presentation needs to earn its place. However, at BrightCarbon we see certain “filler” slides cropping up again and again. It’s time to look at your sales presentation with a critical eye and get rid of slides that aren’t pulling their weight! Delete the slide!

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Brilliant Teams

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Sensory Overload While it’s tempting to make your eLearning course visually striking, overcrowded slides can lead to sensory overload. This mistake often occurs when too many elements—such as images, animations, and text—are crammed onto a single slide, overwhelming the learner.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

I have attended and presented at LSCon every year since 2017 (including the online events in 2020). Tuesday Presentation Roulette I always try to attend Presentation Roulette because it’s generally a highly entertaining start to the conference. Doing Presentation Roulette was honestly so much fun!

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LearnDash

MARCH 19, 2020

However, if you’re just starting out, a free platform would let you refine your presentation as you grow your course. Multiple presenters. Working with a co-presenter not only takes some of the pressure off your shoulders, it’s more interesting for the viewers as well. Create and/or review your slides.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

An instructor is responsible for managing the classroom, presenting, handling the technical aspects and for keeping learners engaged. A Moderator often assists with these tasks such as handling the technical side of things, moving through slides during presentations and responding to comments in the chat section.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 2, 2021

If they were preparing a presentation on this topic, how many slides would they create? We already have slides on this.”. If this is not in the project plan, consider asking questions up front that will validate the SME’s intuition. They may even currently be facilitating sessions!

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 17, 2020

In this presentation, I discussed why scenario-based learning engages participants. Since the TLDC community has several D&D players, this version of the presentation has some references and examples related to D&D. You can listen to the audio (which should still be meaningful, even without the slides). Meet Christopher.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 13, 2020

It’s not just getting someone to go on screen and say EXACTLY what is on the PowerPoint slide at the moment. Ask the question aloud, type it in the chat, and be sure you have a welcome slide with the question on it. 2) Create slides that are mini-activities by asking thought-provoking, open-ended questions. Less is more!

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2021

As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions. Sometimes we have a presentation (I’ve spoken to the group several times), but it’s usually a “community hour.” Work and self-development. This is my primary personal learning network.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

Space invaders – E-Learning Provocateur Ryan Tracey clarifies related and often confusingly overlapping terms related to the spacing effect for learning: spaced presentation, spaced practice, spaced retrieval, distributed practice, expanding practice, and more. Spaced learning. Learning objectives. Learning Objectives: GOAL!?! –

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BrightCarbon

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Take it from those who live and breathe presentations, these unhealthy presentation creation habits aren’t doing your decks any good! And finally, the content can’t be animated properly, meaning it’s harder to present and less engaging for your audience. Read more about using text and fonts effectively in presentations.

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BrightCarbon

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At BrightCarbon we’re big fans of taking a ‘less is more’ approach when it comes to text in presentations, instead letting your visuals do the heavy lifting. But once you’ve cut down your text and created those visuals, how do you make sure they look good on the slide? Not everyone’s a graphic designer (and it’s ok to admit that!)

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Tom started with a story about how he visualized his presentation. Brains switch off when we see a slide full of bullet points. Don’t start with the presenter intro. 3 tips for presenters: Stand up! Q: If not using bullet points in a PPT presentation, what do you use to display stories? Start with a story.

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Fly Plugins

MARCH 18, 2024

Research Collection and Course Outline Tools Mind Mapping Tools When we initially begin outlining our courses, we prefer to use a mind map to create a broad overview of the content we’ll be presenting and how lessons will be grouped. Lesson outro slides : This would be branded and presented consistently at the end of each video.

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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. And, if your audience miss out you miss out! Use legible fonts.

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BrightCarbon

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the nights grow longer and the air grows colder, we know that all you want to do is settle down near a roaring fire, and snuggle up under the blankets with a good book PowerPoint presentation. Maybe you’ll even want to share your precious presentation with your guests (the perfect captive audience) around the dinner table.

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Making Change

JUNE 26, 2018

The traditional approach would be to first present a bunch of slides about the policy. But why design slides to present information that’s already in a policy on the intranet? And now that we aren’t developing lots of information slides, we can create more activities. Present the policy over several slides.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

If we want to avoid doing slide presentations, we have to know what cognitive (and emotional) advantages these technologies have so we can leverage them for success. … We must be able to see the gaps in our instructional design, which learning science helps to support.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I will be presenting at several upcoming events in the next few months. Here’s where you can hear me present. This time, I’m presenting a collection of tips for making branching scenarios easier to create. Many of these strategies can be used regardless of what development tool you use. Session description.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

I used it to create the presentations for my Build Your Branching Scenario course. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions. Sometimes we have a presentation (I’ve spoken to the group several times), but it’s usually a “community hour.”

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LearnDash

JULY 6, 2021

When information is presented clearly and organized well, it’s easier for learners to understand and remember it. However, a key aspect of good instructional design is how that material is presented, visually. If you’re creating slides for a presentation, add more slides before you start cramming too much information onto one.

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Spark Your Interest

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s best to minimize lecturing or presenting slides in the session. Presentations. Keep your presenting to a minimum. And if a participant is presenting, make sure they know how to find the share feature button. Providing input on what has been presented. Student” presentations. Screen Sharing.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

AUGUST 26, 2024

I use PowerPoint for creating instructor-led training, marketing presentations, and webinars. PowerPoint makes it easy to create accessible presentations, whereas when I’ve used other tools, accessibility remediation took much more time. The key is to set up master slides to build in accessibility from the start.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In my personal experience as a speaker, I was on a joint presentation where the leadoff presenter seemed to forget that there was anyone else on the agenda! I’ve also seen people unaware that they were running long, and others unable to amend their presentation on the fly when they did become aware. Trim if necessary.

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