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What can online course creators learn from other sectors?

December 20, 2024 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

In my many years reading about and working on presentation training, I’ve seen a trend that not many people talk about — the separation into silos — or sectors — of course creation into educational training, corporate training, and personal training. I’ve come to think that these sectors could learn from each other. Just to […]

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Filed Under: Content, Delivery, Education, Training Tagged With: courses, online courses, sectors, training

Choosing a platform for your online course

May 15, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

When you’re ready to get your knowledge out to the world with an online course, you have many decisions to make! An important one is which platform you’ll use. The platform houses your course content. The platform is sometimes called a Learning Management System (LMS), but in truth, you may not even need an LMS. […]

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Filed Under: Content, Education, Review, Training Tagged With: Choosing a course platform, choosing an LMS, learning, learning management systems, online courses

Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars

March 30, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 9 Comments

Note: I originally wrote this in 2013 but I’m updating this during the Coronavirus pandemic because more people are presenting online now. Webinars are a powerful way to communicate from afar. They have opened up many possibilities for marketing, meetings, and training. But only if you do webinars right. If you simply show slides with the […]

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Filed Under: Delivery, Design principles, Events, Training Tagged With: webinars

Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint

March 4, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 3 Comments

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If you want to create a series of short training or promotional videos, it’s useful to have an intro that you put in front of each video. This might include your company’s branding or just create a theme that viewers associate with your videos. Since you’ll be adding a video, it looks better when you […]

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Multimedia: Music, sound & video, Training Tagged With: animated intro, animation, intro, outro, promotional video, sales video, training video, video

It’s about the audience

September 20, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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You’re always presenting for your audience. Your presentation shouldn’t be about you. What type of presentation will give your audience the most value? Ask yourself… What do they need and want? Your content needs to be relevant to the needs and wants of your audience. Sometimes that’s hard to know but if you can survey […]

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Filed Under: Content, Design principles, Images, Training Tagged With: attention, audience, audience-centered, audience-centered presentations, call to action, image superiority, impact, inspire, PowerPoint, presentations, remember, retention, understanding

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