Judith Blackbourn
Judith Blackbourn
Instructional Designer and Trainer at Volt Workspace Solutions
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    Judith Blackbourn

    Late bloomer; began as a technical writer in my 40s and have over 20 years experience. As a consultant, have had some experience designing and developing content for e-learning. Latest project gave me the opportunity to design and build an entire eLearning curriculum! Oh joy! That's when I disco...
  • Milwaukee, WI
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Aligning Images in PPT 2007
"Bob S has a good idea, but I would put it in a master slide. Even better for controlling graphics in PowerPoint (or Word) is to create a ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Resized PPT Bullets & Vertical Alignment
"Another way to handle bullet alignment in PPT is to put the list in a table. Bullets go in column 1 and text in column 2 (one row for eac..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 3:08 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Does anyone document their slide settings?
"Hi worms, Angie Martinez has created a presentation that lets the user return to where he stopped. Gauged Responses Example Hope that helps!"
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 2:59 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Does anyone document their slide settings?
"Hi worms, Your response doesn't seem to relate to my question. You might want to repost your message as a separate thread with a differen..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Slide Order
"OK, will do."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 8:29 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Custom navigation pane - duplicate masters, manual actions
"Hi all, The custom navigation I'm working on has a graphic with the lesson names arranged vertically on a background graphic. To make e..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 8:04 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Interesting lists
"I usually have a bullet list of topics at the beginning of a lesson, but your comments make me realize that they don't necessarily have t..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 7:27 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Interaction with text entry step
"Yes, thanks. Sorry, I should have posted here that i found a solution! Still learning the ettiquette!"
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 7:08 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Does anyone document their slide settings?
"As a reference or style guide, I'm thinking of using an Excel spreadsheet to track stuff in Storyline. I would track jumps to and from --..."
  • over 11 years ago11/15/12 at 3:28 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Interesting lists
"Don't know how you can make them more interesting with only one choice of bullet style!"
  • over 11 years ago11/15/12 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Slide Order
"My slides haven't moved lately, but i find it difficult to change the order of my slides when I want to. I can't seem to do that in the N..."
  • over 11 years ago11/15/12 at 2:45 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion A challenge for Storyline experts
"Rebecca. are you working on software used for interior design? I can imagine an image of a room, and then see it change as you make your ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/15/12 at 2:23 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Choosing a story size/user screen size
"Hi Fiona, I like to use a wider slide size (12 in. x 7.5 in) for self-training. Since the sizes aren't shown in inches, I guessed (!) I'm..."
  • over 11 years ago11/15/12 at 9:55 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Software training eLearning
"Thanks so much for your tips, Angie. I looked at the Allen Interactive demo and liked some of the interactions they used. Now I have more..."
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 11:55 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Name trigger to advance
"Thanks so much, Jeannette. Watching and listening to your demo (posted for Karen E on Nov 2) helped me to fix my text entry problem  . I ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 3:22 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion eLearning Promo Video!
"Hi Nicky -- Really loved all the effects you used, but it was a bit fast-paced for me. I'm just an old gal, and maybe cannot absorb infor..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 2:22 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Software training eLearning
"Thanks, Rich. My questions were actually more about slide design.  What is the best way to combine step by step instructions and the scre..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 1:25 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Interaction with text entry step
"Sure, I'll post it again. The problem is in the Try scene between slide 2.3 and 2.4. In 2.3, I want the user to type the password. Then I..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 1:13 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Software training eLearning
"Hi all, Does anyone else develop software training? Most of the examples I've seen are for soft skills or  completely straightforward tas..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:05 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn commented on the download Storyline: Optical Illusion - Drag and Drop Puzzle Game
"Must be missing something, but how do you drag the circles over the box? I wasn't able to grab or double-click any of the circles."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 10:26 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Adding audio to Try screen simulation
"Thanks, Nancy, that works! Now if I just get my voice back, I'll be good to go!"
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn replied to the discussion Interaction with text entry step
"Actually, I don't want to have the user hit the Enter key, I want them to immediately click Login after entering their password. How can ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 2:42 pm (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Interaction with text entry step
"Hi all, Actually, when I say my step by step simulation works correctly, that's not quite true. For a login, you double-click the icon, e..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 10:50 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Adding audio to Try screen simulation
"Hi all, I finally got my video to work correctly in the Try mode, but would like to add some audio to each slide. It didn't record my aud..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 10:48 am (UTC)
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Judith Blackbourn started a new discussion Numbered list from PowerPoint
"Hi, just imported PowerPoint file into Storyline and am a little frustrated with the restrictions. Numbered lists are my main problem rig..."
  • over 11 years ago11/08/12 at 9:54 am (UTC)