Articulate Resources for "Making Cookies" Presentation from eACH Conference

Today I presented to the attendees at the 2nd Annual eACH Conference.  I'll spoke on 2 topics.  The first was a demonstration of some tips and tricks that can be used when creating courses using Articulate and the second is a 20 minute summary/highlights of the 2011 Horizon Report (published by New Media Consortium).

Since each of my presentation only have a limited amount of time, I'm going to list resources here that attendees will be welcome to use and explore further on their own.

"Cooking with Articulate/Making Cookies"
There are hundreds and hundreds of screenrs (1300+) demonstrating all sorts of wonderful tips and tricks that can be used within Articulate Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker and PowerPoint.  Thankfully someone bookmarks new ones daily for us.

I recommend following this social bookmark link for daily updates: http://groups.diigo.com/group/articulate-screenr or follow #Articulate through Twitter.

Screenr's that I used in making my course for the presentation included (each of the author's I highly recommend following for outstanding tips and tricks):

• How to embed an #Articulate Engage interaction within another interaction
• Modify the width of tabs in Engage Tab Interaction
• How to require learners to select a subset of choices, in the right order, in #Articulate Quizmaker
• Create a Quizmaker quiz that is transparent and shows the PowerPoint master background.
• Easy way to find usable assets inside free PowerPoint design templates
• Create an effect of a hand with pen, crossing off items on a list for #Articulate.
  
• Create a fun, topsy 3D-ish letter effect in #powerpoint for your #articulate #elearning courses and other projects.
• Don't under estimate the clipart you can create, you have the tools. #Articulate
• Interactive Layouts Using Video and Web Objects
• Use a player template that displays (In Project) in other presentations (Article on packaging)

Blogs to follow are: The Rapid E-Learning Blog by Tom Kuhlmann and May 24th's post was geared to those new to elearning.  Tom's blog is not focus on Articulate, PowerPoint or any other one tool, but is instead a fabulous all around elearning design and development site.

Word of Mouth - The Articulate Blog (Gabe Anderson) show cases the top tips from around the community each week. As well as the latest Articulate news and product updates.

The best overall elearning resource is to tap into and sign up for E-Learning Heroes.  This is a community of elearning designers and developers who are all willing to help and learn from one another.  It's a forum where you can find free resources, step-by-step solutions to building better courses, and get advice and opinions from industry experts.

I hope that those attending my session find it of value and inspiring as to what can be created with a little ingenuity and lots of help from the elearning community.

"Emerging Education Technologies for the Next 5 Years"

• 2011 Horizon Report
• The eLearning Guild - Mobile Learning: Landscape and Trends