David Ward
David Ward
Management Consultant at Ward Consulting
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"I often see instructional designers writing long strings of prose to describe visual elements in instructional design (ID) documentation...."
  • over 8 years ago08/24/15 at 1:28 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Do you have a model for elearning modalities?
"I'm seeking a model that categorizes elearning into modalities based on the assumptions that: the model covers only formal elearning, ..."
  • over 8 years ago07/21/15 at 6:52 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion When and why revise a curriculum?
"It can take a lot of time, effort, and money to develop a new version of a curriculum. Therefore, I make sure I have objective criteria t..."
  • over 8 years ago07/15/15 at 4:27 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Creating a Test Plan for Elearning Development
"Benjamin Franklin once said, “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” In spite of this wisdom, few elearning development projects..."
  • over 8 years ago07/08/15 at 4:16 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Quality assurance in courseware development
"How do you implement quality assurance (QA) when developing educational courseware? Some people think of QA as having a few testers revie..."
  • over 8 years ago07/06/15 at 6:36 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Managing Elearning Development Projects
"What project management approach do you use for elearning development and why? Do you think it's a lot different than managing software d..."
  • over 8 years ago07/01/15 at 3:11 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion QA starts at the documentation
"Here's a QA approach I present in an E-Learning Instructional Design Practicum I teach that focuses on documentation: Validating Curricu..."
  • over 8 years ago06/29/15 at 7:06 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Triggers not behaving as expected
"The triggers in my courseware upgraded to version 2 are not behaving how they used to when I developed it in Storyline 1.  As far as I ca..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/10/15 at 10:10 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Problems with trimming a video
"I am trying to trim the end off of a screencast I recorded.  I enter Edit Video mode and click the Trim button on the toolbar.  I set the..."
  • 9 years ago03/01/15 at 9:51 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Alternative text and variables
"If I enter a text variable into the "Alternative text:" field of an object's Alt Text configuration and check the "Object is visible to a..."
  • over 9 years ago09/08/14 at 10:45 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Text box and caption with screen readers
"Jeanette wrote an enlightening chapter on Alt Text in Using the Size and Position Window. I did not know that a screen reader ..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/05/14 at 5:03 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion How to play audio when lightbox closes?
"I created a slide that plays an opening narration then opens a lightbox.  After the lighbox content closes, I want the slide to play a cl..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/02/14 at 10:36 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Play audio when lightbox closes
"I created a slide that plays an opening narration then opens a lightbox.  After the lighbox content closes, I want the slide to play a cl..."
  • almost 10 years ago05/23/14 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Advanced color editing of player properties
"I would like to change the colors in the player properties to non-standard colors that I specify.  When I view the "Edit item:" drop list..."
  • almost 10 years ago04/14/14 at 8:10 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Transfer Storyline license to a new computer
"I own a Storyline license and have it installed on both my desktop PC in my office and on my notebook PC.  I just bought a new desktop PC..."
  • 10 years ago03/20/14 at 12:25 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Courseware accessibility
"How can I insert closed captioning into a slide or add alternate text to an image so the courseware supports screen readers and is access..."
  • 10 years ago02/05/14 at 10:21 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Gradient stops
"I don't fully understand what a gradient stop is.  Subsequently, I'm also unclear on what exactly the gradient stop configuration setting..."
  • 10 years ago02/05/14 at 10:12 am (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Triggering "< PREV" button
"I was Previewing the most recent project I've been working on when I discovered the "< PREV" button wasn't activating.  I realized the..."
  • over 10 years ago11/08/13 at 4:39 pm (UTC)
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David Ward started a new discussion Triggered layers skipped
"I created a slide with four layers.  I triggered the second through fourth layers to appear when the user clicks the Next button.  But wh..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/19/13 at 10:32 pm (UTC)