Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2021

My Storyline development times aren’t especially speedy, but I do tend to write branching scenarios quickly. Time to plan and write. As noted above, these are my actual examples; your time to write may be different. The actual writing took under 5 hours. The actual writing took under 5 hours. hours to write.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional designers and training managers sometimes ask me, “How do I train SMEs to write better branching scenarios?” I believe SMEs shouldn’t write branching scenarios. Instead, I think we as instructional designers and LXDs should interview the SMEs as part of our analysis, and then we should write it.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We need to do aanalysis, writing, working with SMEs, visual design, etc. AI voices While instructional design overall isn’t going to disappear, the voice over field is going to be hit hard. AI voices are much better now than they were even a year ago, and I continue to see new tools and improvements all the time.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 27, 2024

ChatGPT was #4 on the list last year, and I expect that more AI tools This image, like many on my blog recently, was created in Midjourney, with text added in Affinity Designer. I have primarily been using it for my blog and for personal samples and experimentation, but I have started using it for client projects as well.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell. To Autoplay or Not to Autoplay Because audio narration can overlap with a screen reader voice, the standard is not to autoplay any audio or video. The University of Hartford also has a useful one-pager.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. The scenario itself is about using ChatGPT for writing multiple choice assessments. Respeecher Voice Marketplace AI voice generation is an area where new tools keep being released. This is a voice cloning tool where you can copy an existing voice.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2024

You’ll hear her AI voice clone in the introduction. Read more on how to use AI As I experiment with using AI to create branching scenarios, I have been publishing blog posts about what I learn, what works, and what doesn’t work. Joanie’s experimenting with an AI cohost, Jo Jo AI.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I missed my anniversary by a few days, but I’ve now been blogging for 8 years. Voice Over Scripts: Writing Style Tips. Voice Over Script Pitfalls. Formatting Tips for Voice Over Scripts. Voice Over Script Review Checklist. Image Credit: Graphic Stock Filed under: Blogging , Lifelong Learning'

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Blogging is one of the oldest marketing tools on the Internet—and still one of the best. Yes, I am talking about blogging. The blog has been a foundation of Internet culture practically since its inception. However, your blog doesn’t have to be massively popular as a blog to be wildly successful as a marketing tool.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 11, 2024

I had planned on writing a different blog post today, but I ended up spending a lot of time playing with AI music generation. An acoustic song with a female voice telling a story about an instructional designer working with a challenging subject matter expert (SME) Suno: Generate songs fast The first tool I tried is Suno.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2024

When I talk to people about starting a blog, newsletter, LinkedIn posts, or other content marketing, they often confess that they’re worried they don’t have anything to write about. They ask how I come up with ideas, especially when I’ve been blogging so long. My ideas for posts come from several sources.

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Thinkdom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Google Workpace : Cloud-based platform that allows for collaborative writing and designing of documents and presentations. Jasper : An AI-powered writing assistant designed with in-built templates that generates content based on specific needs. These tools make it easy to work with teams and organize complex ideas.

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Thinkdom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Google Workpace : Cloud-based platform that allows for collaborative writing and designing of documents and presentations. Jasper : An AI-powered writing assistant designed with in-built templates that generates content based on specific needs. These tools make it easy to work with teams and organize complex ideas.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When I work in Storyline, I often use the TTS voices for the alpha version. That automatically generates captions that can be retained when replacing the audio with real voices, but again, the captions break awkwardly. My blog posts are written manually by me unless I post something like this; everything above is my own writing.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 8, 2014

I’ve been blogging for several years now, and a question that continually pops up is why do I do it? I blog primarily for myself. I use writing as a vehicle for my thinking. The tag line of my blog is provoking deeper thinking. Comments are the lifeblood of blogging. I welcome comments from my peers.

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Making Change

MAY 2, 2012

It also emulates the way we learn in the real world — from experience, not from a disembodied voice that immediately tells us “incorrect.” ” But quizzy questions take less time to write! Now you can play with the menu from a two-day workshop in the resources section of the blog. New forum and resources.

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Making Change

MAY 2, 2012

It also emulates the way we learn in the real world — from experience, not from a disembodied voice that immediately tells us “incorrect.” ” But quizzy questions take less time to write! Now you can play with the menu from a two-day workshop in the resources section of the blog. New forum and resources.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When I talk to people about starting a blog, they often state they don’t have anything to write about. They ask how I come up with ideas, especially when I’ve been blogging so long. As I approach my ninth anniversary of starting this blog, I feel like I have more to write about than I did after one year.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I can recall a time when the word “blog” would raise eyebrows and generate looks of suspicion. Its use was often followed by an explanation that “blog” is actually short for “weblog”, and it was a form of online journal. It seems that everyone, at some point, has started a blog. elearning'

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2023

A Guest Post by ReadSpeaker The Internet of Voice has arrived, and it’s changing the way we interact with our devices. But TTS isn’t just for fancy new voice computing applications. Then we’ll discuss a few ways businesses can leverage voice technology to achieve mission-critical goals. In 2021, nearly a quarter of U.S.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2021

The second point is that these folks write and talk about their models and/or approaches. Writing and speaking are the two obvious ways. Sure, you can host a channel: podcast, vlog, blog, but if you’re hosting other folks, you’re seen as well connected but not necessarily as the expert. Similarly, write.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

I have been reading Ashley Chiasson’s blog for years, so I was excited to get to meet her as well. This is a larger topic than I can address here; it needs its own blog post. I don’t do much voice over myself, since I’d much prefer to pay a good voice over professional to do it.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

I recently gave a presentation to the Online Network of Independent Learning Professionals about blogging to build your business. This is specifically about what I have learned about blogging to build your reputation as a learning consultant over my 9+ years of blogging. I’m not specifically writing to an audience of clients.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Instead of one voice acting as an instructor, this approach lets learners listen in on two characters who are talking about it. Less tiring to listen to: Let’s face it: Voice over, even good voice over, can be tiring to listen to for long periods of time. Advantages. Think about morning radio shows. Gender and Diversity.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JANUARY 6, 2021

By adding voice over to your PowerPoint slides you can share your presentation with a much wider audience. So, what’s the best way to record a voice over for your PowerPoint presentation? The Easiest and Fastest Way to Record and Edit Voice Over for PowerPoint! The easy steps for recording voice over for your presentation.

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

“How can I write a good narration script that makes sense with what the learner can see on the screen?”. For some of us, writing meaningful narration whilst describing what the learner can actually see on the screen can be difficult and can also take some time to create. Tip 2: Write your narration script first.

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LearnDash

MARCH 3, 2013

Write, write, write! That said, it’s not impossible, and writing for the industry is your best way to break into the internet profit! By creating your voice, you find that there are people who want to connect with you, who disagree with you, who agree with your views, and who generally want more.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 2, 2021

He can be found on Twitter as @LearnNuggets, on LinkedIn, or around learning and development communities teaching and facilitating workshops where he writes articles, reviews and shares tutorials. The second challenge is writing a script. Searchable voice technology takes this to yet another level. Eventually?

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

If you make videos — especially how-to and explainer videos — you will almost certainly need to record voice overs. In fact, depending on how many videos you create, you may have to do a lot of voice over work. For many people, the thought of recording their voice and sharing it with the world is horrifying.

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Making Change

AUGUST 5, 2013

I recommend you view this post in the blog. It’s the tiresome Omniscient One, the faceless, personality-free voice of the nobody who knows everything. Instructional design examples format choice humor motivation writing style' Let’s look at some techniques we can steal from a successful marketing video. ” 3.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

, but she triggered many thoughts about my writing approach. I thought I’d share how I deal with blogging, articles, and writing in general, as a ‘ show your work ‘ effort. It starts with my commitment to two blog posts a week. Regardless, I tend to write each in one fell swoop.

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Making Change

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The book walks you through action mapping in way more depth than I’ve been able to use in this blog. In the interests of working out loud , here are some advantages I enjoyed from writing a book instead of, say, a series of blog posts. Freedom to dig deep: I enjoyed having the room to write in depth. to your client.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

and transform it to one of the AI voices. I have live blogged notes from a webinar of Karin’s that I attended in 2014!) The only other in-person conference I have scheduled for this year is DevLearn, where I’ll be running another hands-on session on writing mini-scenarios for assessment.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. I admit my error and will make the whitepaper available freely to anyone (of course I have to write it first—it will be available end of May).

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Origin Learning

APRIL 20, 2018

From Facebook and Twitter chatbots to virtual voice assistants that are programmed to respond to basic queries; chatbots have grown in popularity. In this blog post, we look at how chatbots can be used effectively in eLearning solutions to offer an enhanced learning experience. Chatbots are all the rage now. Simulations and Avatars.

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CourseArc

APRIL 18, 2024

Use Active Voice Course enrollments must be completed by Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Tips to Write for Clarity and Understanding Put information in logical order, with the important details first. Use an active voice, with a clear “actor “in your writing. It’s a powerful writing approach in successful course design.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Of course, if you’re the main voice leading the forum, the content isn’t exactly “learner-generated.” Encourage your learners to write their own blogs. A more intense assignment for your learners might be to ask each to start their own blog and post weekly about what they’ve learned.

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