Sarah Newman
Sarah Newman
eLearning Instructional Designer at Springs Window Fashions
  • About

    Sarah Newman

    I am a mid-level instructional designer originally from Lexington, Ky, now living in Madison, WI. Growing up, I always knew that I wanted to teach people, and I have been fortunate enough to stumble my way into the expanding field of instructional design - a field I have fallen in love with. For me, instructional design started as just a job, my first position straight out of graduate school. I was hired by a company in Northern Virginia - PerformTech Inc - that was searching for creative humanities majors on the job pages of Craigslist. At PT, I was able to work with some fantastic senior ISDs and really learn the field. After moving to Wisconsin for my fiance's PhD, I was hired by Springs Window Fashions as the company's only eLearning Instructional Designer. I hope to really grow in this role and take on more of my own graphics and authoring work. My fiance and I have 6 pets, are addicted to nerdy games of all kinds, and are getting married on 7-9-11. :)
  • Madison, WI
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Animating bulleted objectives
"Hi all, I'm working on my first course in Storyline and just finished recording my narration. Yay! However, I can't get my bullets to ani..."
  • over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:21 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion One big bullet...
"I've done that, actually. As I said in my original post, I've tried changing the font size (selecting the entire line of bulleted text or..."
  • almost 12 years ago08/02/12 at 1:14 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion One big bullet...
"I'm working on my first course in Storyline after moving up from Studio '09, and I'm having trouble with my bullets. Unfortunately, my bu..."
  • almost 12 years ago08/02/12 at 12:50 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Course Won't Advance Past First Slide
"Hi everyone, After publishing a course (a systems tutorial) and posting it to our website, I've come across a strange issue. Although the..."
  • 12 years ago05/02/12 at 11:12 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion PowerPoint Font Size Issue
"Hi everyone! I realize that this is a PowerPoint question and not an Articulate question, but I thought I'd check the forums to see if an..."
  • over 12 years ago11/26/11 at 5:28 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Transparent background not working...
"I'm currently working on an Engage Flipbook interaction and I want the background to be transparent. Unfortunately, I keep changing the t..."
  • over 12 years ago10/28/11 at 7:07 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Can't hyperlink to two of my slides
"Ah, that must be the problem. Although I have to say, what's the purpose of preview mode if you can't actually preview the functionality ..."
  • almost 13 years ago08/05/11 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Can't hyperlink to two of my slides
"Correction. Now none of the hyperlinks I make are working. The existing ones work, but new ones don't."
  • almost 13 years ago08/05/11 at 12:19 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Can't hyperlink to two of my slides
"Hi all, I'm having some issues with hyperlinking in a course I'm almost finished with, and frankly it's driving me completely nuts. Basic..."
  • almost 13 years ago08/05/11 at 12:11 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"Thanks for checking it for me! Blargh... knew I'd need to learn how to program Flash one day. :-/ I'll definitely look into the Web Objec..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 12:01 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Are you using dual monitors? If so, how?
"I'm super super jealous of Craig for having three monitors! I have two and I could NEVER go back to one. In fact, I started my current jo..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:59 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion First "full-length" course - looking for feedback
"Hi Beth, This is the perfect course for Tom's template - great choice on your part! I like your choice of slide background color, but I ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"I'm not sure how to tell if that's the problem or not since I didn't create the videos. I've uploaded one if you have a moment to take a ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:22 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"I just checked those guidelines and from what I can tell, this movie fits them all. When I preview or publish the file, I see a Flash ico..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:05 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"Hi everyone, I've been trying to add a video from our company's website on how to measure a window, but for some reason the video won't p..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 10:46 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion New & looking for feedback
"Kris, I'll jump on the bandwagon and say that this is definitely a great first course! It's on par with what I've seen a lot of veteran a..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/31/11 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Change the color of the caption background in media tour?
"I'm working on a course that uses a particular color of gray in the visual design, and I'm wondering if I can change the color of the cap..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/23/11 at 2:03 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Music Loops Skipping/Sticking
"Also, I'm wondering if there's a way for users to decide whether they want to hear the background music or not. I think that (when it's w..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/09/11 at 7:44 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Music Loops Skipping/Sticking
"Hi Brian, Yes, I am using a playlist for the music loop. I have one song, about a minute long, and I have that playlist set to loop throu..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/09/11 at 7:28 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Music Loops Skipping/Sticking
"Hi all! I'm working on polishing up my very first Articulate course, and I'm having a bit of trouble with my music loop. If I play the en..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/09/11 at 7:06 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Audio Files Disappeared
"I already reviewed that article. None of the solutions provided helped. My files are all on my local hard drive, so that's also not a pro..."
  • 13 years ago05/02/11 at 8:49 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Audio Files Disappeared
"I'm working on publishing my first course using the Articulate suite, and after spending hours working on my narration, my files disappea..."
  • 13 years ago05/02/11 at 8:35 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Using flash buttons in the Presenter panel...Help!
"Nevermind... I figured it out. I have to go to the Articulate tab and insert a flash movie. There it gives the option to insert the movie..."
  • 13 years ago04/12/11 at 7:40 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman started a new discussion Using flash buttons in the Presenter panel...Help!
"I'm pretty new to Articulate, and I'm working on creating some standards for the eLearning developed in Articulate at my company. One of ..."
  • 13 years ago04/12/11 at 7:00 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Subway Commercial Inspiration
"Doug, that is such a cool design! You really did a great job of taking the Subway inspiration and making it work in PowerPoint and Articu..."
  • 13 years ago04/04/11 at 9:21 am (UTC)