Freelance Heroes

Hi,

I'm new to Articulate-- actually in need of a developer here in Baltimore to help me with a small elearning project. A firm or freelancer would be fine. I am ready to begin immediately.

If you are near Baltimore and are interested, please speak up.

If I am asking this question in the wrong place, where can I find a skilled freelancer who fits the bill?

Thank you

Emerson

Hi Emerson, and welcome to Heroes.

This is absolutely the best place to find some help

Could you be more specific - Presenter/Engage/Quizmaker or Storyline?

Can you post some more details about your requirement/timescales etc. - the more details, the better the replies.

Once again - welcome to Heroes.

Bruce

Thanks, Bruce.

Regarding software, "I don't know." I'm here because my sense is this community is replete with skilled developers, which is my need.

My project is a small elearning project related to patient education, with up to 8 2-4 minute interactive videos/animations. Eventually, these will be sandwiched by me on camera, 15-second intro and outro for each clip.

I am the subject matter expert, and I have all the content outlined, including a number of slides. My need is for a skilled developer to confirm or improve my strategy, help me refine tactics (ie, interactivity, animations, etc), and then deliver, ie execute the graphics and interactive technology.

I am ready to begin the consultative phase now and the delivery phase as soon as we've confirmed the vision. For a pro, this project will be a snap. Depending on the success of the initial project, there could be additional follow-on work as well.

Again, I'm in Baltimore.

Any suggestions?

Emerson:

Bruce is right--this is the place to find a skilled freelancer. If there is a Baltimore freelancer on this thread, he/she should be private messaging you. You can check your inbox.

Hi, freelancers:

I just created a relatively brief demo of my top eight features of Storyline. Here's the link:

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http://brighamcommunications.com/Portfolio4/story.html

Why eight features? The usual--I ran out of time. I've also attached a ppt file that has the basic templates. Feel free to use as your own.

One of the great things about freelancing: sometimes, you have complete creative control. Best, Daniel

Love it

Great voice!

Bruce

With your help, getting better. That's all we have a right to expect, I guess.

Where's the 'LIKE" button?  : )  

Great work Daniel!  

Nice idea -- think I'll have to try out something similar as well.

Nice presentation. I played it on the iPad and it gets stuck on the intro slide for 3&4 which brings me to an important question... As freelancers how do you accomplish internal review and testing?

Thanks, Matthew, for that information. I'll see if I can replicate that on my end.

Daniel – Love the Storyline features demo!  Especially as I am (finally) about to take the plunge into Storyline myself.  J

Just as an aside, for anyone who is still using Presenter or just as a general PPT tip:  You actually can name your objects, shapes, and pictures in PPT, similar to the way you can in Storyline.  You just open the Selection Pane and do it in there – it transfers those names over to the Custom Animation pane as well.  The Selection Plane is absolutely one of my favorite things about working in PPT 2007/2010 as opposed to the earlier versions, so much easier to work with objects that are layered on top of each other…

OK Shelia - I'll bite

Please show me what the Selection Pane is in 2010, and how to open/see/use it!

Thanks

Bruce

Matthew: did you download the free Articulate mobile app from itunes? That's what Articulate recommends. Thanks for viewing.

Sheila: Very cool...I did not know that (obviously). Would you mind sharing a quick screenr on how to rename the objects? Or perhaps just an image or two on how to do it? Thanks again.

You can find the selection pane from the "Select" drop down.

Two slow clicks on each shape name allows you to rename them

Thank you Blair!  I was just about to say the exact same thing.  =)

That Editing menu is on the Home tab.

And this is really cool (IMHO):  if you click those eyes you see on the right in Blair's screenshot, it's a toggle that makes that item appear/disappear from view in the PPT - so you can mess with something that’s at the bottom of a bunch of layered images, without having to move the top images out of the way (and then try to get them back to where they originally were).  Just be careful to make everything visible before you publish!!

That’s a great site, David, thanks for sharing!

I do think if you’re going to be doing a lot of business or pretty big projects, it’s worthwhile to have an attorney take a look at your contract language – they don’t even have to write it from scratch for you, you could use one of these samples in the link David shared and ask an attorney to just check it over to make sure it covers you in your specific circumstances and locality.  There are all sorts of things to consider that I didn’t know about until I had my contract reviewed, and I think it's a lot stronger for having gone through that process. 

A lot of my clients also have standard MSAs that they use (so I sign the MSA once and then have a Statement of Work with more specific terms for each project) and I never sign one of those without having the attorney look it over and making changes as needed.

Thanks, Blair, for posting the marked up pic. I'll give it a shot. --Daniel

David,

Thank you for the link to the Legal Documents.  It is very helpful!

Very nice Daniel!  Thx for sharing.

David

Hi All,

I just created a Screenr on using the Selection Pane. It really is a very cool tool. I've been using it forEVER and can't imagine how I got along without it! Once you start using it, I bet you'll say the same thing.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/149067357

Thanks, Daniel, for the very nice "top 8."

You are welcome, David. Hope you can use some of the assets.

Rebecca: thank you for that screenr. I also like the way you can hide objects when they get stuck behind. I just didn't know these options were available. That's why we discuss, right? --Daniel

Helena,

I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this posted, it's been a crazy week.  In any case, I'm attaching a sample strategy.  I had to take out a couple of slides that had proprietary info, but it's mostly complete, so hopefully it will be helpful to you (if it's not too late...-Sheila

Hi Sheila,

Thank you SO MUCH for the Learning Strategy Sample.  I greatly appreciate it.  It is not too late and it will be very helpful!

-Helena