I had the misfortune of attending a live Web-based class today on a new content management system being used by my organization. I’m sure you can correctly guess exactly how it went. One learner in the class brought things to a grinding halt as she fumbled with multiple windows and documents on her [...]

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Apple has had some memorable ads over the years, the 1984 Super Bowl ad for the original Macintosh of course being the most famous. But the Think Different ad was probably my favorite of all. Not because it pushes any particular product, but because it celebrates a particular mentality: that of using bold, [...]

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The term “Mac-like” is often bandied about when talking about software, including in my own ruminations here on eQuixotic. And while most Mac users will see the term and nod in contented understanding, those new to the platform (or those still peering over the fence curiously) may not yet “get it.” And frankly, [...]

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I love seeing creative ways of explaining new concepts, and a great example of this is Epipheo Studios‘ recent intro to Google Wave.
Simple, engaging, informative and entertaining: it’s a great example of eLearning done right. It’s nice to see folks like Epipheo and Common Craft hard at work creating un-sucky eLearning.
Alas, some might argue [...]

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After re-reading and pondering my last post, I believe I was intentionally vague enough to prevent getting exactly the feedback I need. For those of you who already commented on that previous post, let me apologize for not asking the question in the way I should have asked it. I’m going to try [...]

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I’d like to go to the collective experience of my peers for this development question.
You have a two-hour mostly soft skills classroom course you need to convert to eLearning. The content has already been written for the classroom but needs to be reformatted for online delivery. The course will be a basic HTML/javascript [...]

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First, allow me to apologize to any readers for my 3 month unintended hiatus. I’ve been stretching my creative wings with some eLearning development side work, and what I can say – there are only so many hours in the day. My “hobby” time used to accommodate my blogging. Now my “hobby” [...]

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Sorry to all for my recent lack of writing. Aside from the ever-crazy “life in general,” I was scrambling to finish my submission for the Articulate Guru Awards 2009 – a project I put together in my so-called “spare time” (much to the dismay of my wife and children), independent of my employer. [...]

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I’ve written at some length about the importance of fonts in visual design, mainly because so many eLearning developers and presentation designers fail to grasp it – to the great detriment of their products. My rule: use Comic Sans and instantly lose all credibility. But I digress…
I have no doubt that font selection [...]

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Please have a look at Tony Karrer’s excellent new eLearning information aggregator, eLearning Learning. For all the evangelizing we eLearning people do for communal information, I haven’t found all that many great examples for eLearning developers. Some great blogs (some product-specific) and a few online resources, but nothing like you can find for [...]

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