Alan Landers
President
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FirstStep Training
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About
Alan Landers
My true loves, other than family, are instructional design and organizational development. I've been an instructional designer since 1978! I became an OD consultant in 1985 and worked with a wide variety of clients across the country and abroad.I started my own OD and Training company in 1989. I specialized in designing training programs that truly improved performance and changed organizations. That was possible because the up front needs assessments I did were a combination of OD assessments and Training needs analyses.Strong front end analyses allowed me to create meaningful KPIs, detailed implementation plans, and that led to determining Level 4 and even Level 5 results. Success allowed me to work closely with executive management making training an important strategic partner.I'm back to consulting now, but this time I'm focusing on training, more specifically instructional design for eLearning/mLearning, ILT. and experiential learning.I've always loved training technology and that led to Articulate and Storyline. I've known Dave Anderson for years and got to know Tom Khulmann this past year. I've been using a variety of authoring tools since 2003. I'm excited to learn from all of you and offer whatever help I can. -
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Issue with Initial States
"Thanks for the explanation James. There's always a reason someone does something the way they do."
- almost 11 years ago06/06/13 at 5:40 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion move on after 3 tries at drag and drop
"Thanks Ladies, No time tonight to try it and I'm busy the next two days. But, I'll give it a go on the weekend. BTW, the interaction i..."
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 11:48 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Exit Button??
"I couldn't get past selecting an avatar"
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Issue with Initial States
"Hi James,
I would have done this a little differently. I would have started with Dominic's office (the base layer), as you did. I would..."
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 11:06 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Hi Rebecca, Tim,
I truly appreciate all the help from both of you. It makes me feel really good about the program and the people who use..."
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 9:58 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Resource for learning more about variables and SL
"Thanks, David. I'll look at these today and tonight. I'm picking up a bit more on variables. That is my next big skill acquisition. I..."
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 9:50 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Thank you TIM!!!"
- almost 11 years ago06/03/13 at 10:17 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Thanks Tim. Can you give me a call 619 397-0275 or connect on Skype Alan.Landers1?"
- almost 11 years ago06/03/13 at 9:27 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Rebecca, Tim, This is going to work. Thank you both. Tim, where can I learn more about toggle variables? Actually, what or where is a..."
- almost 11 years ago06/03/13 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Sorry Rebecca, I can't show the original (privacy issues).
Your solution is quite elegant. However, I cannot use an "OK" button. I trie..."
- almost 11 years ago06/02/13 at 3:29 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"Rebecca, Mike, thank you for your ideas. I tried them and either didn't understand them or couldn't make them work.
Here's what I'm try..."
- almost 11 years ago06/01/13 at 1:37 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"I figured out how to do this, but I had to create a layer and couldn't do it on one slide. The layer made it easy because I could "preve..."
- almost 11 years ago06/01/13 at 8:57 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Corrupted files
"Hi Geert,
My program is running very very slow. For example when I insert a pix I cannot place it exactly where I want. The image hesit..."
- almost 11 years ago05/11/13 at 7:17 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Re-designing the Heroes Forum
"Do you think an algorythm could be created so the posts are automatically sorted by topic, date, time, etc.?"
- almost 11 years ago05/04/13 at 10:29 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Bullets, formatting and animations
"I'm not really sure what you are trying to do, but if you have a bulleted list that you want annimated and you're not happy with the bull..."
- almost 11 years ago05/04/13 at 10:20 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion how do i write this
"How about writing the sentence in Word, capture the sentence as an image, import the image and put a hotspot arount the part of the fract..."
- almost 11 years ago05/04/13 at 10:07 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Posting story.html files online for viewing
"So the answer is, I have to load all the files."
- 11 years ago05/01/13 at 1:57 pm (UTC)
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"Hey Bruce, where the heck are you? It's 4:30am here in San Diego."
- 11 years ago04/30/13 at 4:32 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Wanna talk gamification?
"I'm all about gaming! It's a lot of fun for the learner and fun for me to create. I'm not going to get into any serious, academic discu..."
- 11 years ago04/30/13 at 4:30 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Do IDs proactively make courses as REAL as possible for learners?
"Hmmm, please bear with me... this is a bit of a long story, but has a point...
Quite a while ago I was doing a lot of OD workshops focusi..."
- 11 years ago04/30/13 at 4:15 am (UTC)
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"Hi Caroline, Music is available on line. Some of it is free, but most of it costs about $1.00 per second. Unless the person or company..."
- 11 years ago04/30/13 at 3:41 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion FREEBIE: Gamify your course with Achievements
"Jeff,
Let me see if I understand what you've created... my learner is moving through my course of 3 sections. At the end of each section..."
- 11 years ago04/27/13 at 5:37 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion New Program - Request for feedback
"Sorry, that link was incorrect. Here's one that works:
http://firststeptraining.net/pdfstoryline/Group_Development/story.html
Alan"
- 11 years ago04/27/13 at 4:41 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Can anyone tell me why a slide won't appear in the menu?
"Thanks, Bruce. I appreciate you taking time to help. I finally figured it out. BTW, I'm going to be posting my next program tomorrow...."
- 11 years ago04/26/13 at 2:29 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Inexpensive or Free eLearning resources for Storyline
"Mike, - tks for the links. I'm trying to figure out how to download the .PSD files. I really like uiparade. Are those free downloads o..."
- 11 years ago04/25/13 at 5:21 pm (UTC)