PowerPoint Tetris Animation

PowerPoint Tetris Animation

A few days ago I created a PowerPoint slide deck on gamification that I published on SlideShare.  However, an animated introduction of the title was created to mimic the game of Tetris as shapes would fall down and form the name of the title.  This post discusses the creative process to replicate the same effect […]

Icons Designed in PowerPoint

Creating Quick Icons with PowerPoint

For this week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #78 the mission was to share some icons that would be used in elearning projects.  So, I refreshed some old school PowerPoint tricks to draw vector icons for this challenge.   PowerPoint has some cool features that can make designing these icons a fun a creative exercise.  On this […]

Slide Master Controls

Another 3 Ways to Rock Out Your Presentation

A couple of days ago I wrote a post on LinkedIn titled “3 Ways to Develop Better Presentations”. Today I offer a follow up with three more “hidden treasure” techniques in PowerPoint for my fellow trainers and presenters who want to sharpen their design skills. Do you find yourself always “building” PowerPoints from scratch? Do […]

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How to build an arrow shooting bow for quizzes in Articulate Storyline2

One of the great features available in Articulate Storyline2 (SL2) are the Slider Controls.  So, for the Elearning Heroes Challenge #70 which involved creating a Valentine’s themed elearning interaction.  I wanted to create an interaction where Cupid, the fabled roman god of love lend you his bow and arrow so you can answer questions on a […]

Football Billy Motion Paths

Cool engaging and fun games with Storyline 2: Football Billy

Once again, I had the pleasure of partaking in this week’s ELearning Heroes Challenge which was to create an elearning experience for football training.  For my global friends I mean American Football and since the Super Bowl was yesterday, this was an exciting sample to build.  The concept I came up with was very simple […]