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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

Verbal communication is the MOST important candidate skill

February 27, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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I want to shout this from the rooftops! The National Association of Colleges and Employers does a survey of employers each year, asking the most important skills they want from new candidates. They make this information available to colleges so colleges can teach those skills. Here’s what NACE announced on February 24, 2016 (just a year […]

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Filed Under: Resources, Surveys Tagged With: NACE, presentation skills, training, verbal communications

Discover PowerPoint Mix for interactive online lessons

January 17, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 9 Comments

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PowerPoint Mix is a new PowerPoint add-on by Microsoft. You use PowerPoint Mix for creating interactive online lessons. Teachers and trainers are widely using Mix. The basic process is simple: You create slides and can record audio and video. You can add quizzes. You upload the final result to the Mix website and share it […]

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Filed Under: Multimedia: Music, sound & video, Resources, Training Tagged With: lessons, Mix, SCORM, training

Create your own graphics with bursts and stars

April 21, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 8 Comments

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Do you need to create striking graphics for company newsletters, blog posts, posters, training materials, and so on? A nice way to do this is with one of the burst  or star shapes. Here you see an example. This is easy to create:

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Filed Under: Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: blog, burst, graphics, newsletter, poster, star, training

Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters

May 9, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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I recently did the second of two free webinars for the good folks at Training Magazine Network. The recording is now available…and still free, of course! The topic is a timely one: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders Into Powerful Presenters. In surveys, employers consistently say that verbal communication is the most important skill they […]

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Filed Under: Content, Delivery, Design principles, Resources Tagged With: leaders, train, training

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