DevLearn 2019 – Day 4

DemoFest Showcase

eLearning Guild will be posting the best of the best on their eLearning Guild website in the next few days. Some of the winners were — a training for Crane sales reps for The Home Depot (first person branching); Escape Room (training lesson), and others!

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Building Point-and-Click Learning Games in Storyline
– Daniel Powers

Powers Presentation

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Catch More SMEs With Honey: Sweet Ideas & Tools for Project Success
– Deanna Fischer

Fischer Presentation

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30 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know PowerPoint Can Do
– Randy Meredith

Meredith Presentation

So many fantastic ideas. Most instructional designers keep PowerPoint open on desktop just for playground purposes.

1. Slide Masters
2. Customize Your Ribbons
3. Quick Access Toolbar
4. Selection Pane
5. Embed Fonts to Share PPT
6. Photos – Remove Backgrounds
7. Photos – Corrections
8. Photos – Color Correction
9. Photos – Artistic Effects & The Rest
10. Vector Graphics – Importing EMF
11. Vector Graphics – Creating & Combining Shapes
12. Vector Graphics – Editing Points
13. Draw
14. Adding Animated GIFs
15. Transitions
16. Morph Transition
17. Morph Shape
18. Animation – Animation Ribbon
19. Animation – Timing
20. Animation – Combining Animations
21. Video Output
22. Design – Break Up Smart Art
23. Screen Recording
24. Audio Recording
25. Resize Slides for Print Projects
26. Compress Pictures
27. Design Ideas
28. Templates
29. Translations
30. Duplicate
31. Bonus Items!

There’s so many tools I haven’t played with — Randy emailed slides (see presentation below), but he covered over 30 tips in less than 1 hour. Everything from morphing, taking out background, customizing for ease of use, compress, translations, etc. etc. Important to embed fonts, so that whoever views — can see finished results regardless of if they have font installed on their computer.

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Other Sessions

• Articulate Rise
• Better Audio and Video on a Budget
• Building a House wo a Blueprint
  • Handout
  • Presentation

• Buzzword Bingo
• Capturing Peer-to-Peer Content
• Comics for Learning: Use Case in Cultural Awareness
• Crafting Beautiful Blended Learning Solutions Using Campaigns
• Crash Course on Designing for any Virtual Classroom
• Creating Amazing Learning Experiences
• Creating Driveway Moments
• Effective Microlearning in Record Time
• Elevating L&D’s Value
• Getting Leaders to Own Their Role in Employee Training
• How Design Thinking Elevates Adult Learning
• Improve Learner Experience
• Maximizing Accessibility with eLearning Authoring Tools
  • eCourse Accessibility Checklist
• Optimizing Teams to Build Games
• Pitching New Ideas to Stakeholders
• Project Management
• Strategies for Tackling Learning Challenges – presentation
  • Strategies for Tackling Learning Challenges – handout 1
  • Strategies for Tackling Learning Challenges – handout 2
• Tools, Apps, and Online Resources: Community Favorites
• Transforming ID on a Shoestring
• Training Solution Evolution
• Using Power BI to Track, Analyze, & Visualize Training Data
• Using Design Thinking to Frame Performance Issues
• Using Storytelling Strategies – Presentation
  • Using Storytelling Strategies – Handout
• Vanquish Copyright Fears
• What’s Your Problem? Using Design Thinking to Frame Performance Issues
• When Learning Engineering Meets Instructional Design
• Why Viewers Stop Watching Your Videos & What You Can Do About It