Holly MacDonald
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Creator of Instructional Products - specializing in building products for customer, member or professional audience. at Spark + Co.
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    Holly MacDonald Hero

    20+ years in the learning biz, independent consultant. I work on projects for employee training and customer training, and often bring a team of experts to the table.
  • British Columbia, Canada
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Tip for asset management - screenr included
"So helpful, both the screenr and Tom's point of marginalia. Am feeling like a good digital spring clean is in my future! Thanks for posti..."
  • 12 years ago03/17/12 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Very cool cartoon done in Power Point
"Finally got around to watching. Wish I had a few weeks to just play and experiment! James, where do you find these awesome samples? You s..."
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 2:37 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Copy portions of course?
"Thanks Peter, I knew there were easy steps, but hadn't done it before. It was easy peasy, lemon squeezy! Holly"
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 7:42 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Quizzes, Engage interactions and web objects go missing
"I've identified this issue is not on the publishing end, but on the server side. As far as we can tell, it isn't an Articulate issue (whe..."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 1:04 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Books vs. eLearning
"Christina - it may be useful to frame the discussion as "and" instead of "or". Does he have to choose? Is he open to thinking of a multi-..."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 8:32 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Quizzes, Engage interactions and web objects go missing
"Hi Justin, yes they play locally when published."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 8:25 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Quizzes, Engage interactions and web objects go missing
"Darn, yes they are swf files in the data folder, was hoping that was a quick solution, but it wasn't."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 8:02 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Quizzes, Engage interactions and web objects go missing
"Hi Sayuj, thanks for that suggestion, I'll look at that and see if that's the case on the published files."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 7:55 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Determining what can be and cant be e-learning?
"I agree with Brian, you may not be able to win every battle, but it is constant "education" in organizations. I have also found if it is ..."
  • 12 years ago03/13/12 at 7:54 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Customer - Time Sheet
"I am just testing a system from fanurio for time tracking. It is for freelancers, but only $59, so perhaps worth it in an organization as..."
  • 12 years ago03/08/12 at 9:21 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Online Course Design Course . . . of course
"Steven, you might be overwhelmed with suggestions, but this just popped up in my twitter stream and I remembered you were looking for som..."
  • 12 years ago03/08/12 at 12:06 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Determining what can be and cant be e-learning?
"I found it, this was a series by Ray Jimenez: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/248/rapid-e-learning-design-and-development-pa..."
  • 12 years ago03/08/12 at 9:21 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Determining what can be and cant be e-learning?
"Aaron, check out Connie's blog post as well: http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning_design/working-with-the-five-moments-of-need/, it's a..."
  • 12 years ago03/08/12 at 8:57 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion What do you do when it's not an elearning course?
"Love the practicality of these suggestions. Toolkits are often popular with my clients, these can be any kind of support, but a decision..."
  • 12 years ago03/05/12 at 8:16 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Audio Editing or Voice changing software?
"I could see the community setting up a "voice recording swap" - hm, I wonder if/how that might work (as per Dale's note above). For all t..."
  • 12 years ago03/04/12 at 8:45 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Advice on tracking users
"Hi Simon - thanks for that, I did actually sign up for scorm cloud to check it out but honestly felt a bit overwhelmed by it. They want t..."
  • 12 years ago03/02/12 at 7:38 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Should you build an elearning module Yes/No checklist
"OK, so this is my paper-based tool that I mentioned in an earlier post. Does anyone have any feedback for me? It is for organizations who..."
  • 12 years ago02/23/12 at 10:10 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion How do you Assess?
"Kat, one of the courses that I've designed is for facilitation skills and has an assessment that falls outside of the course. We didn't c..."
  • 12 years ago02/23/12 at 9:24 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Should you build an elearning module Yes/No checklist
"A couple of useful tools from the great Allison Rossett: http://www.colletandschafer.com/perfsupp/tool.html on whether or not perf suppor..."
  • 12 years ago02/20/12 at 11:07 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Printing results on survey question
"Hi Peter. OK, so I'm using Chrome not IE (is that the problem?) as my default browser, it automatically opens in that when I view file. D..."
  • 12 years ago02/20/12 at 10:49 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Printing results on survey question
"Here's what happens:"
  • 12 years ago02/20/12 at 9:55 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Ideas for a Technology Course
"Ah yes, check out Trina Rimmer's collection for inspiration: http://trinarimmer.com/2010/07/20/top-5-so-bad-theyre-good-training-videos/,..."
  • 12 years ago02/13/12 at 2:18 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Ideas for a Technology Course
"I think this could also be a good situation to use video: common craft style interactive choices (along the same lines as Natalia is out..."
  • 12 years ago02/13/12 at 1:45 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Ideas for a Technology Course
"Sounds more like a product knowledge need than a pure sales problem, and if they don't have the tech knowledge to begin with, it's likely..."
  • 12 years ago02/11/12 at 4:14 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Hot Spot in Powerpoint
"Isa Antepara said: Holly, I will look into that software. Thanks for the tip. Sorry Isa, that comment was for Sami's o..."
  • 12 years ago02/08/12 at 2:00 pm (UTC)