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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

Podcasting for E-Learning: Putting it all together

August 7th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve been discussing one of the lesser-covered aspects of podcasting: delivering effective voice-over narration. So far, we have covered three of the four ‘P’s’ of engaging your audience:

Pace
Pitch
Projection

Today, I will talk investigate the art of the Pause.
In my view, narrators are afraid to take advantage of a dramatic pause. Anyone who has worked in media [...]

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Podcasting for E-Learning: Emphasize to Enhance Meaning

August 6th, 2009 · No Comments

In over the last few articles, I’ve discussed voice techniques to assist e-learning content producers create more effective, engaging, and immersive podcasts.

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Podcasting for E-Learning: Inflecting the voice?

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Pace is not enough to encourage listener engagement with your podcast. Working in symphony with it are the three “other” ‘P’s’ – pitch, projection, and pausing.

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Why is podcasting so successful if 93 percent of communication is nonverbal?

August 4th, 2009 · No Comments

This post on podcasting for e-learning professionals will consider some aspects of narrative, and debunk an urban myth.

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Tags: authoring tools · content authoring · content delivery · content production · podcasts

Podcast Authoring: Understanding and Remembering

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Control over the rate at which ideas are presented is completely in the hands of the instructional designer and the content author

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Producing Podcasts: Some Considerations for Content Creators

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Podcasts – like blogs – develop a distinctive ‘personality’ according to the characteristics of the source material, the type of audience that material is aimed at.

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Tags: audio editor · authoring tools · blogs · content authoring · content delivery · content development · content production · content types · informal learning · podcasts

Shooting Video for E-Learning Use – eLearning Guild

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments

The eLearning Guild have just published an informative primer called Making a Demonstration Video for E-Learning Use.

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Tags: e-learning · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · flash · principle of demonstration · video · video podcast

What’s on your e-learning bookshelf?

March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

What do you keep on your E-Learning Book Shelf?

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Capture that E-Learning Demo: Update

February 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Given the number of responses to the E-Learning Demo comparison articles, I have decided to combine them and make them available to all as a downloadable whitepaper (PDF format) of that review can be viewed in one easily-accessible document.

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Tags: Camtasia · adobe captivate · authoring tools · e-learning

Upload Adobe Presenter content to a Learning Management System (LMS) – more

January 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Having only just installed Presenter 7, and while I have published some test presentations locally, I have yet to upload any PDF-formatted content to an LMS. So, I have no idea how well this output type functions in comparison to the more traditional XML, SWF, and HTML-formatted e-learning content package when it’s deployed from an online or networked platform.

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Tags: content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning