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 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 started a new discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"I have a slide with a pictture (Pix 1) that has a hotspot. When the learner clicks anywhere on the picture outside the HS an error messa..."
- almost 11 years ago06/01/13 at 8:39 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 started a new discussion Corrupted files
"I think my Storyline files have been corrputed. Is there any way i can reinstall storyline on my desktop computer?"
- almost 11 years ago05/11/13 at 11:47 am (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.?"
- 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..."
- 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..."
- 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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Alan Landers started a new discussion Posting story.html files online for viewing
"When I publish a story I get a lot of files. I want to create a demo page on my website to show what I've done. Can I only post the sto..."
- 11 years ago05/01/13 at 12:50 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 started a new discussion New Program - Request for feedback
"Hi,
I just finished another .story and would like some feedback. Here's the link:
http://firststeptraining.net/pdfstoryline/Group_Develo..."
- 11 years ago04/27/13 at 4:31 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)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Can anyone tell me why a slide won't appear in the menu?
"I have a number of slides that are not appearing in the menu when I try to configure my menu. I've gone to each slide that is not appear..."
- 11 years ago04/25/13 at 5:05 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Inexpensive or Free eLearning resources for Storyline
"I was talking to Dave Anderson a few weeks ago at a SL workshop he and Tom K did in San Diego. We were exchanging resources and he asked..."
- 11 years ago04/25/13 at 1:46 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion add a trigger to show a layer at a cue point
"Doh! I finally figured it out. I think I have Storyline Limititus... I've been working on this so long today i'm going in and out of a..."
- 11 years ago04/21/13 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion add a trigger to show a layer at a cue point
"Okay, I'm having a Charlie Brown moment... well actually a CB hour. Uh, how do I trigger the showing of a layer at a cue point in the au..."
- 11 years ago04/21/13 at 6:13 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Motion Paths
"Tks, Tom. Maybe I'll create a .gif. Would that work?"
- 11 years ago04/20/13 at 8:59 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Motion Paths
"Hi,
Does SL have a feature like motion paths in PPT? I'd like to show an object moving from one part of a screen to another.
Tks,
Alan"
- 11 years ago04/20/13 at 8:12 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion add a trigger to show a layer at a cue point
"That's it. Tks As my friend Charlie Brown once said: "I never feel so dumb as when I'm trying to be smart.""
- 11 years ago04/14/13 at 1:01 pm (UTC)