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 started a new discussion It's DONE!!
"Yeah!! After a lot of trying to figure things out on my own, reading these blogs, and just plain thinking (what a concept!). I finally f..."
- 11 years ago02/19/13 at 5:09 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion idea for SL feature
"Just did it"
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 11:03 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion idea for SL feature
"Okay, for example, I have a story with three scenes (A, B, C). The last slide in scene A jumps to the first slide in scene B when the ti..."
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 10:02 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Best Approach for Internal Bookmarking
"Every time I read something like this, I realize how much I still have to learn. "
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 3:19 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Player template deletion and logo resizing
"Have you tried making the logo image smaller before you import it?"
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 3:09 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Hover over area caption box appears
"Hey Ken, Will has the answer... 1st create your caption or image, or whatever it is you want to appear. Make its state "hidden". 2nd, ad..."
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 3:07 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion I just want to pause and play a video
"That's it... Tks "
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 2:54 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion I just want to pause and play a video
"It's late. I'm tired. I'm old. And I forgot!
I put this nice little play and pause bar across the bottom of two of my videos about 90 ..."
- over 11 years ago02/14/13 at 1:41 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Images in Storyline disappear from presentation after publish
"Ah Ha, This is what was happening to me (see I can't believe it happened again). To the best of my knowledge, it has to do with scans do..."
- over 11 years ago02/13/13 at 11:59 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion idea for SL feature
"Hi,
It would be very helpful if I could preview the transition between scenes without having to preview the entire project.
Can you add t..."
- over 11 years ago02/13/13 at 4:02 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion it happened again!! I can't believe it!
"Hey Steve, I may just do that. Tks,"
- over 11 years ago02/07/13 at 1:54 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion it happened again!! I can't believe it!
"Thanks Peter. I submitted the request.
BTW, I've rebuilt most of the .story. I was up until about 4:30am working on it. Now, I'm just ..."
- over 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:02 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion it happened again!! I can't believe it!
"Thanks Leslie,
The good news is that I'm getting pretty fast at this thing The bad news is that I keep futzing with the program, adding..."
- over 11 years ago02/07/13 at 12:43 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion it happened again!! I can't believe it!
"Hi All,
I've spent over 100 hours learning SL and trying all sorts of things. I'd say that 60% to 70% of that time was in learning mode. ..."
- over 11 years ago02/06/13 at 7:56 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"Thanks Dianne, I'm probably going to do what you did and purchase some characters from freepsdfiles.com. Their cartoon characters seem p..."
- over 11 years ago02/05/13 at 1:15 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"Hey Frank, thanks for the link ot Character Builder. I knew of a similar company around 2000, but lost track of them. I really like their..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 11:54 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"I liked the lion thingamabob."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 9:34 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Hotspots, Quizzes, & A Bit Overwhelmed
"I think I figured it out... I had the state of the transparent boxes as "visited" and the state should have been "disabled".
To all, I'm..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 2:05 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion How do I enter several questions on a multiple choice quiz?
"Hi again, I'm trying his solution now, but having troubles. Tks"
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 1:51 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Hotspots, Quizzes, & A Bit Overwhelmed
"Hi Mike,
I tried your suggestion.
This is a part of the slide with the transparent boxes that trigger different layers when scrolled ove..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 1:47 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"Hi Alicia,
Sounds like a lot of work. My best to you...
Here's my take on mLearning. I really don't want to distribute eLearning, as su..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 12:48 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion How do I enter several questions on a multiple choice quiz?
"Thank you, Rebecca. I really like your example and the way Dave did it as well. I hope you don't mind if I ask another question...
Is t..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 12:33 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Hotspots, Quizzes, & A Bit Overwhelmed
"Steve, Thank you so much for the transparent shape idea. I worked perfectly.
Is there an "if ____ then ___" interaction? For example: I..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 12:14 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"Woops! it was you Alicia, who said the 5% thing. Apologies. But, I'm still working on making my projects more game like. Good luck wit..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 11:44 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Characters for elearning
"Interesting... I wanted some characters to go with a story I was creating that involved an explorer moving across a terrain. I wanted s..."
- over 11 years ago02/04/13 at 11:42 am (UTC)