PowerPoint Illustrations

Sometime last year, I participated in Blair Rorani’s twitter draw-a-thon challenge on #Everybodydrawnow. It was quite fun and just when we thought it was over, Jeff Kortenbosch continued the challenge but with a little twist on it. Jeff challenged us with 20 images to draw but we had to use Microsoft PowerPoint alone. I joined in that challenge …

Blurred Backgrounds for E-Learning

This week, David Anderson challenged us with creating blurred backgrounds for use in e-learning and several e-learning heroes came up with many great ideas for when to use blurred backgrounds. Use of blurred backgrounds. In e-learning, background images can be blurred to bring attention to the character or text on the screen, which would ordinarily have conflicted …

Getting Started with Twitter Chats

I’m sure you must have heard of “Twitter Chats” before now, and twitter chats are a good use of Twitter for professionals. I would just briefly give a simple description and show basics of what twitter chats are and participating in them. What’s a Twitter Chat? A twitter chat is a (usually) one-hour discussion, at …

Transparent Echo Technique for Background Images

Yes . . . I’m back to the e-Learning heroes challenges after several months of not being able to participate. Somehow, I could not just resist this particular challenge – it was both simple and fun! The Challenge David Anderson, the challenge umpire asked us to use what Tom Kuhlmann called the transparent echo technique to create background …

Let’s Learn to Say the Time

This week’s articulate e-learning challenge was to design an interaction to teach any math concept online. With several math concepts from simple additions, to number groupings, use of slide rule, right to complex permutations, it was both fun and engaging for me, to watch all entries pour in!

Best Holiday Attitudes in Marsala

A very exciting one for me as David challenges us this week to do anything with the newly declared Pantone’s Color of the year 2015 – Marsala. I must confess I didn’t think I’ll like the color when I saw it at first, though wine is my favorite color but working with it and using …

Favorite tips for aspiring e-Learning Freelancers

Everyone talks about the difference between a stable job and a contract kind of job. If you have to wait until you find work to do, your finances may not be as stable. And what if you don’t find work to do in a year? This can be a daunting fear for new e-Learning professionals …

e-Learning Character Graphics with Gate Screen

In the midst of plenty of work, I decided to stop to cater for two previous e-learning challenges – Create your own e-learning character and Gate screens in e-learning courses. That’s killing two birds with one stone, very possible!

My flat-tistic work environment

Visual design can be both fun and challenging for me and David Anderson, the e-Learning heroes challenge anchor gave me that opportunity this week to engage in a fun-filled challenge, creating a flat-design graphic image of our work-desk. The contributions this week displayed the creator’s strengths, focus and uniqueness, it’s worth checking out here.

My Portfolio Images for sharing

This week’s Articulate e-Learning challenge was to showcase my e-Learning portfolio and create images for sharing on different social media. It was a great time and as usual, packed with many things to learn… I couldn’t refuse participating, at least I will play around with images a bit. It was fun and challenging! There were …