James Brown
James Brown
College Prof. at Windy City U
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James Brown replied to the discussion Customer - Time Sheet
"That's not bad but as you grow think about an actual project management software such as MS Project where you can quickly see with pert a..."
  • over 12 years ago03/09/12 at 10:06 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Share your Power Point Inspirations
"Found a new site that gave me some really cool inspirations.Author talks about how to do various things in Power Point including drawing ..."
  • over 12 years ago02/29/12 at 9:03 am (UTC)
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"Dave, Rich is 100% on the money. I typically will use something like Gimp, Fireworks or some other app to resize the images and then imp..."
  • over 12 years ago02/29/12 at 6:11 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Share your Power Point Inspirations
"Shapes can be filled with images so find something shinny and fill your doughnut shape with it and add a drop shadow. For the inner circl..."
  • over 12 years ago02/24/12 at 2:24 pm (UTC)
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"If you are simply doing a company overview that has no real world task involved make it a movie. Unless you are teaching something there ..."
  • over 12 years ago02/17/12 at 2:47 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Content Security
"Or with Print Screen button..Snag-it, or a digital camera."
  • over 12 years ago02/17/12 at 2:37 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Project Development Stages????
"A.D.D.I.E. Analyze -- look at the materials and mind map them. Kathy Moore has a great way of doing this. Design --Storyboard it and dete..."
  • over 12 years ago02/16/12 at 6:06 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Morphing and Image
"I'd just use the fade animation in power point to create the effect.  Just get some photos starting with a baby, fading into a toddler, f..."
  • over 12 years ago02/15/12 at 8:10 am (UTC)
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"Heidi if you think about an online math course just think of a text book. They always give three to four pages of introduction that expla..."
  • over 12 years ago02/07/12 at 7:06 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Course Design Help Needed Please
"One person actually did something similar to this using a baseball analysis with the two companies (your competition) and your company fa..."
  • over 12 years ago02/06/12 at 8:33 am (UTC)
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"A very long time ago I bought a trigonometry tutorial and it was basically a step approach to trig. Basically it's like taking a text boo..."
  • over 12 years ago02/06/12 at 8:28 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Flash driven failure
"Jennifer as a techie I'll tell you that things just don't all the sudden start happening within software. There generally is a cause to t..."
  • over 12 years ago02/06/12 at 8:20 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion How do you keep your course size down?
"Have you looked at Jeanette's blog?  http://community.articulate.com/blogs/jeanette/archive/2010/11/19/here-s-a-cheat-sheet-on-optimal-v..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 12:36 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Free images
"Bruce, I could not agree with you more. I always try and make my own content and if I can't find it, purchasing it is the safest way to go."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 12:28 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Free images
"A word of caution.. http://sxc.hu/ may have images that are free but you need to ask permission for use in things you intended to sell. R..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 9:35 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Free images
"Flickr -- do an advanced search and search on Creative Commons. Graduated from the BoiseState Graduate  EdTech Program and one thing inst..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 9:11 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion What title / designation do you have?
"Have also heard "Learning Specialist" or "E-Learning Specialist"."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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"My inspirations sometimes come from experiences and a little from what others have done. Much of what I create comes from trial and error..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 9:06 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion fire extinguisher
"Here is one that I developed in power point. The extinguisher itself is down out of auto-shapes with a gradient fill pattern. I never tho..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 8:58 am (UTC)
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"Actually CRAP is what you get when you do not follow CARP. You also need to incorporate aesthetics which can only be learned by taking ar..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 8:51 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Design challenge of the week
"I like the game idea.. Get out of the building before it collapses.. For one.. Do you actually need an evacuation plan in e-learning or ..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 8:38 am (UTC)
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"When I design my e-learning covers I always try and apply the CARP principals. (Contrast - Alignment - Repetition - Placement). I also em..."
  • over 12 years ago02/03/12 at 8:28 am (UTC)
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"There is an old saying that you cannot judge a book cover but looks do play a huge role in everyday life. I know if I look at a book that..."
  • over 12 years ago02/02/12 at 7:40 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Hyperlinked slides in Presenter
"Idea.. add one more slide to the presentation with the three linked images so when you hit continue on the fish it goes back to the three..."
  • over 12 years ago01/31/12 at 6:02 pm (UTC)
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"Again you are looking for dynamic information which I am not sure Articulate can manage. This is easy to accomplish on a webpage or in Fl..."
  • over 12 years ago01/31/12 at 9:20 am (UTC)