David Barnes
David Barnes
E-Learning Product Manager at Packt Publishing
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David Barnes replied to the discussion Anatomy of a Screencast
"Thanks Brian. I enjoyed playing around with that font, which is from the Anatomy of a Murder movie poster. When sharing this template wi..."
  • over 12 years ago11/29/11 at 8:11 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Anatomy of a Screencast
"Hello you lot. I'm working on guidelines and templates that will enable Packt Publishing to develop a line up of video based, screencast ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/29/11 at 7:43 am (UTC)
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"Leslie I don't think you can do the tool tip but the rest should work. Try shoving this in: mailto:TYPE YOUR COLLEAGUE'S EMAIL ADDRESS HE..."
  • over 12 years ago11/16/11 at 4:00 am (UTC)
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"I just posted this as a new threat but you should definitely check it out. It's one very successful way that Compliance Training can be m..."
  • over 12 years ago11/14/11 at 8:44 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Compliance training inspired by The Office succeeds
"I found this over the weekend, pretty cool stuff: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/141/made-to-stick-the-power-of-razzle-dazzle.html T..."
  • over 12 years ago11/14/11 at 8:43 am (UTC)
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"Thanks for your thoughts. What I'm getting out of this: - For just in time and on demand software tutorials, video is great. Hop in, take..."
  • over 12 years ago11/10/11 at 2:20 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Video vs. "full" elearning for software training
"Hello again As I'm doing more research for turning Packt into an online training provider, I'm find that what appears to be the most succ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/09/11 at 9:04 am (UTC)
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David Barnes replied to the discussion Tutorial: Slide Design for Non-Designers
"Daniel, what I like about this post is that it's just a post not a book, and anybody can follow it. I've read some of Nancy Duarte's stuf..."
  • over 12 years ago11/03/11 at 9:19 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Tutorial: Slide Design for Non-Designers
"I thought you folks would enjoy this. Not specific to elearning but good advice on slideshow design: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-de..."
  • over 12 years ago11/02/11 at 9:44 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion CodeAcademy: inspiring online learning
"Take a look at www.CodeAcademy.com. It's a truly inspiring example of online learning that is fun and motivating. Even if you're scared ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/01/11 at 4:13 am (UTC)
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"Thanks Kevin. Yeah RoboHelp looks promising, but I'd sacrifice the SCORM angle and also I think the freedom to add more creative kinds of..."
  • over 12 years ago10/31/11 at 7:18 am (UTC)
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"I had a play with the Adobe Elearning Suite online trial, which includes Dreamweaver. I couldn't find anything like a "navigator" that I ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/31/11 at 6:16 am (UTC)
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"Thanks Charles. Looks like a bit of a hack. Ideally I'd like to use a tool that was purpose built for "this kind of thing". Are there any..."
  • over 12 years ago10/31/11 at 5:24 am (UTC)
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David Barnes replied to the discussion protecting my work
"Consider going the other way: share your work and encourage your colleagues to do the same. Other teachers save time by using your course..."
  • over 12 years ago10/31/11 at 4:57 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Tool chain for text heavy elearning & online training...?
"Hi I want to build a toolset for creating fairly text-heavy online training. The course content content will be primarily short HTML docu..."
  • over 12 years ago10/31/11 at 4:37 am (UTC)
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"I've played around with the Elearning Suite online trial and I'm still not sure if it's what I need. The examples of elearning that Dream..."
  • over 12 years ago10/28/11 at 8:16 am (UTC)
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"Thanks again Mark. I have no desire to adopt a DIY approach. If Adobe Elearning Suite does what I need then that's what we'll use. It doe..."
  • over 12 years ago10/28/11 at 3:45 am (UTC)
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"Mark, thank you. This is very helpful. I'm new to elearning and finding it hard to get a handle on the "architecture" of elearning. As I ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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David Barnes replied to the discussion Online training vs. elearning
"Thinking about this a bit more, online training is a particular kind of elearning. All online training is elearning (or maybe blended ele..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 11:41 am (UTC)
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"Hey thanks Mark. Weird: I discovered LCDS earlier this afternoon and have been having a play with it. There's a lot that's good about it,..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Online training vs. elearning
"Is there a difference? I'm building an elearning department in a technical publishing company. I've been using Google search records to s..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 8:20 am (UTC)
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"What is the course about Laura?"
  • over 12 years ago10/25/11 at 9:19 am (UTC)
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"Thanks for the further feedback! Having developed over 100 technical books myself I would very much enjoy tearing a few of them up. I've..."
  • over 12 years ago10/25/11 at 8:35 am (UTC)
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"This is a political problem not an elearning design problem. Your VPs and managers want a boring course. They probably don't want to thin..."
  • over 12 years ago10/25/11 at 4:06 am (UTC)
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David Barnes started a new discussion Software-training-specific elearning resources
"Hi I've been doing lots of research into elearning options the past few days. There's some excellent resources. Favorites so far, besides..."
  • over 12 years ago10/24/11 at 8:55 am (UTC)