To start, let me say that eQuixotic is not a hardware/gadget review blog. That said, hardware is used in the creation of eLearning and presentations. Thus, people creating eLearning and presentations purchase hardware, and are often faced with hardware buying decisions. Me, I love to research every product I purchase. Unfortunately, [...]

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Before I reflect upon today’s eLearning Hall of Shame nominee, let me state for the record that I love Lynda.com. Lynda offers a stellar catalog of narrated screencast-based courses covering a wide variety of software applications (mostly in the graphics design arena). And with a yearly all-you-can-eat subscription, I can easily jump in [...]

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Time for some blunt honesty here.  I promise I’ll be (mostly) polite.
If I see a Screen Bean in an eLearning course, presentation, or website in this, the year 2008, what the designer is clearly telling me, the viewer, is this:“I got nuthin’.”
Seriously people, let’s move on. Screen Beans were great OK 10 years [...]

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