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Infographic Template for Nonprofit Annual Report: Just in time! A fantastic template to create an infographic in pikochart of your nonprofit’s impact for the past year. MORE
For the most part I have just used templates or very simple layouts. If this site is popular, it is because of the content, not the design. I have not put much effort into the design and visual art is definitely not one of my skills. MORE
We developed this Learning Plan template to lead them through the process. Learning Plan Template in pdf | Learning Plan Template in MS Word. Goals provide the motivation for self-directed learning. Writing down career goals makes it more likely you will attain them. MORE
CMS, templates, classifieds, and cloud hosting, among other features. Bulletlink Templates and allarently free hosting, $59/month. Templates would have to be rewritten, as they're not very good. Here's a demo of the newspaper template. Drupal & Hosted Drupal Newspapers Running on Drupal This is a demo site showcasing newspapers running on Drupal, a popular open source content management system. MORE
A colleague who I like and respect recently tweeted: “I can’t be the only L&D person who shudders when I hear the word ‘template'”, and I felt vulnerable because I’ve recently been talking about templates. To be fair, I have a different meaning than most of what’s called a ‘template’, so I thought perhaps I should explain. Templates don’t have to stifle creativity, they can serve to improve quality instead. MORE
Putting off doing something by writing a templated bit of business fluff. I remember the sinking feeling those words triggered. You knew that you had lost their attention and they were resorting to diversionary tactics. So many documents are diversionary. Reading yet another fictional case study rather than inspiring your own. Faffing about with formatting and fonts rather than taking the leap and sharing what you have written. MORE
I created a page called 'Course Newsletter' and it publishes to course_newsletter.htm For templates I'm using page_header and page_footer. Again, normally I would use a specialized email template to fix this. We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready. MORE
The position was exacerbated by time spent getting the new keynote template to work, but that is something I enjoy, sad although I know it to be. For those interested in content or template for that matter, the slides are here. I was living on the edge this morning with my keynote. MORE
My role was to develop the initial template that the rest of the content fit. Note that this isn’t a template for tarting it up, but instead a template about what the necessary elements and details around them were to ensure that the elements (e.g. In each case, we created an overall template for the learning, and then detailed what the elements for the template were, and the critical components. MORE
Many moons ago I developed a basic template based on the Water Engineer’s Story which we use to improve communication. It involves a workshop based approach in which teams of people assemble anecdotal data into a template and tell and retell it to different audiences until it becomes natural. MORE
You give it a picture to include in the generated image, choose a template that you want to generate, choose the size of the generated image and it generates a fun resulting image. Fun way to generate signs, magazine covers, etc. at FotoTrix.com. MORE
You can see this illustrated in organizations that have created templates that can be used in multiple courses. If you''re creating a course, for instance, you just need to integrate whichever template you want and then modify pieces of content as desired. MORE
We discovered that the biggest barriers companies face to producing effective responsive learning content are Skills, Tools, and Templates. Tailor the responsive template to meet your branding needs, without web development skills. . MORE
This is helpful information because Avery doesn’t have nearly as many ready-made templates for Pages as it does for Word. Avery doesn’t have a Pages template for its Beige Design Filing Label, Clear, 30 per sheet (# 5029 ), so you made your own? MacWorld ran an article on how to set up Apples Pages to print out Avery labels. So the article walks the reader through the page and table settings. Excellent. MORE
Often, we get stuck in meeting design ruts where we blindly follow the same template or recipe. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. This section includes templates for meeting processes. MORE
Or, they are "toolkits" for loading your own content into JavaScript templates. You need an integrated authoring, workflow and publishing environment, not simply a collection of tools or a framework that allows a developer to produce "HTML5" templates. MORE
That’s why we create external tools like checklists and templates to support good design. Instead, we could be using checklists or templates to ensure we get the right elements. Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. And I think that simplification is a path to bad learning design. MORE
I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. I found I disagreed with Kate’s view on a number of points, and stand on the other side of the fence from her argument for a number of reasons. MORE
Format Templates , Content Asset Organizing Tools, and scheduling software that covers this whole process. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets. MORE
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts come through eLearning Learning that provide eLearning templates or toolkits or other kinds of interesting resources. MORE
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It has the out-of-the-box gRSShopper template and contents. So I need to edit the page_header template to use the course mascot image, and then to create a contents box (I could just put it in the template but I want to be able to reuse it wherever I want). MORE
Sticky note templates for web and mobile design. Signposts is back after a brief hiatus. We've got some good ones this week. Amazing video of Bach's Cantana 147 played in a forest, on a giant wooden xylophone, with gravity and a little wooden ball. Stone tables in Japan serve as warning of the risk of tsunamis across generations. Updates to iOS enable fascinating visuals and frightening implications. MORE
The US military four-question AAR, for example, could serve as a template for any organisation to help embed a culture of reflection. (I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. MORE
Our work uses templates to allow large groups of people to create narratives from fragmented experiences, a very different proposition. MORE
Templates, output options, and customization options. There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.” MORE
I work at a University and one of our first task’s is to work on a template that might meet 80% of an Academic Departments needs. I’m wondering in your search if you’ve come across others who may have created a more customized template that better suits the needs of a department vs the out of the box templates that you might be able to share. In fact, I don’t believe these are even called templates, so … What would you call what this person is looking for? MORE
Thanks to Mirek Sopek, the folks at Mako Lab diagnosed why my new WordPress blog template was going all wonky in Internet Explorer 9. Even after I’d discovered that the problem was that I was declaring the HTML page with Quirks , I’d put the type declaration in the wrong spot. I put it at the top of header.php, thinking that would put it at the top of the HTML page that WordPress assembles out of various files. You have to put it at the top of the index.php file. D’oh! MORE
Outline * Participants: A note about the learners and educators involved. Who provided the solution, for whom? Context: A note about the context, e.g. socio-economic conditions, geographical region, rural vs. urban, available internet access, * Solution: Please give details of the solution here. * Key Barriers: Please give some of the key barriers to access addressed by this solution. Ideally referring back to our list of access issues.) o Access in terms of awareness. MORE
Brobst Systems - Ready-made Website Templates and Themes - Free Samples Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management | Intelligent Agent. Martin De Saulles » SMEs and the Web - Executive Summary. SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to SEO - Single Page Version. MORE
Content output templates. Learning teams can use an LCMS to develop content using design templates, reusing content elements across courses and learning departments, importing and integrating content from other authoring tools, and publishing the content to multiple outputs and devices. MORE
Access to other files, such as background images, other stock photos, and templates all formatted for eLearning That’s not to say that traditional stock sites have no value. Back in 2007, I provided a long list of sources of stock photography for eLearning. MORE
IDs can use an LCMS to develop collaborative content with design templates, reuse content nuggets across courses and learning departments, import content from other authoring tools, and publish the content across multiple outputs and devices. Content Output Templates. ?. ?. MORE
In a complex system you need to define your identity focal points and manage your connections, rather then get out the flow charting template and create excessive structure. MORE
From this we get a range of practical techniques – the use of parables to convey complex learning in organisations is fairly easy to organise (we do it with templates) and the artwork of people like Gaping Void can throw you into a different perspective very quickly. MORE
This fetish with uniformity over effectiveness sucks you into an over complicated world of not quite right templates, rigid corporate style guides, and endless hours faffing around rather than thinking or communicating. I recently installed Windows 10 on my Mac. Don't ask, but it had to be done! MORE
Studio, Xyleme’s Authoring platform, allows teams to author collaboratively, create consistent branding with templates, and author once in XML and publish to any web, print, or mobile format. Feb 12th 2018 – Xyleme, Inc. was named by Training Industry a 2018 Top 20 Authoring Tool. MORE
The picture which opens the post is by David Spencer Both published under a creative commons licence, and have been cropped to fit the template on this page. One of my better ideas last year was to put together the first Cynefin Centre Retreat in Snowdonia. MORE
I’ve been looking for free, low cost, easy-to-master tools and templates to reduce some of the sweating. And, ironically, the templates are just pretty, but they help guide you in planning and designing your infographic. MORE
Cut Wasted Time by centralizing content and using templates you will cut time spent on process, allowing more time to author courses collaboratively. MORE
Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. MORE
What they did know, however, was that they had specific business problems to solve and that those problems weren''t going to be solved with a new PowerPoint template or yet another rapid eLearning course. MORE
You choose templates, add text, images, audio, video and quizzes, then publish for web and mobile. About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. MORE
Sticky note templates for web and mobile design. Signposts is back after a brief hiatus. We've got some good ones this week. Amazing video of Bach's Cantana 147 played in a forest, on a giant wooden xylophone, with gravity and a little wooden ball. Stone tables in Japan serve as warning of the risk of tsunamis across generations. Updates to iOS enable fascinating visuals and frightening implications. MORE
Templates Related Topics Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 1, 2015
A colleague who I like and respect recently tweeted: “I can’t be the only L&D person who shudders when I hear the word ‘template'”, and I felt vulnerable because I’ve recently been talking about templates. To be fair, I have a different meaning than most of what’s called a ‘template’, so I thought perhaps I should explain. Templates don’t have to stifle creativity, they can serve to improve quality instead.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts come through eLearning Learning that provide eLearning templates or toolkits or other kinds of interesting resources.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 20, 2010
I work at a University and one of our first task’s is to work on a template that might meet 80% of an Academic Departments needs. I’m wondering in your search if you’ve come across others who may have created a more customized template that better suits the needs of a department vs the out of the box templates that you might be able to share. In fact, I don’t believe these are even called templates, so … What would you call what this person is looking for?
David Weinberger
JANUARY 2, 2012
Thanks to Mirek Sopek, the folks at Mako Lab diagnosed why my new WordPress blog template was going all wonky in Internet Explorer 9. Even after I’d discovered that the problem was that I was declaring the HTML page with Quirks , I’d put the type declaration in the wrong spot. I put it at the top of header.php, thinking that would put it at the top of the HTML page that WordPress assembles out of various files. You have to put it at the top of the index.php file. D’oh!
Charles Jennings
JUNE 18, 2010
I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. I found I disagreed with Kate’s view on a number of points, and stand on the other side of the fence from her argument for a number of reasons.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Outline * Participants: A note about the learners and educators involved. Who provided the solution, for whom? Context: A note about the context, e.g. socio-economic conditions, geographical region, rural vs. urban, available internet access, * Solution: Please give details of the solution here. * Key Barriers: Please give some of the key barriers to access addressed by this solution. Ideally referring back to our list of access issues.) o Access in terms of awareness.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 1, 2015
We developed this Learning Plan template to lead them through the process. Learning Plan Template in pdf | Learning Plan Template in MS Word. Goals provide the motivation for self-directed learning. Writing down career goals makes it more likely you will attain them.
Euen Semple
OCTOBER 18, 2015
Putting off doing something by writing a templated bit of business fluff. I remember the sinking feeling those words triggered. You knew that you had lost their attention and they were resorting to diversionary tactics. So many documents are diversionary. Reading yet another fictional case study rather than inspiring your own. Faffing about with formatting and fonts rather than taking the leap and sharing what you have written.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 8, 2018
It has the out-of-the-box gRSShopper template and contents. So I need to edit the page_header template to use the course mascot image, and then to create a contents box (I could just put it in the template but I want to be able to reuse it wherever I want).
Beth Kanter
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Often, we get stuck in meeting design ruts where we blindly follow the same template or recipe. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. This section includes templates for meeting processes.
Xyleme
AUGUST 3, 2017
Content output templates. Learning teams can use an LCMS to develop content using design templates, reusing content elements across courses and learning departments, importing and integrating content from other authoring tools, and publishing the content to multiple outputs and devices.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
My role was to develop the initial template that the rest of the content fit. Note that this isn’t a template for tarting it up, but instead a template about what the necessary elements and details around them were to ensure that the elements (e.g. In each case, we created an overall template for the learning, and then detailed what the elements for the template were, and the critical components.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Studio, Xyleme’s Authoring platform, allows teams to author collaboratively, create consistent branding with templates, and author once in XML and publish to any web, print, or mobile format. Feb 12th 2018 – Xyleme, Inc. was named by Training Industry a 2018 Top 20 Authoring Tool.
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Many moons ago I developed a basic template based on the Water Engineer’s Story which we use to improve communication. It involves a workshop based approach in which teams of people assemble anecdotal data into a template and tell and retell it to different audiences until it becomes natural.
Xyleme
APRIL 4, 2014
We discovered that the biggest barriers companies face to producing effective responsive learning content are Skills, Tools, and Templates. Tailor the responsive template to meet your branding needs, without web development skills. .
Charles Jennings
JULY 28, 2016
The US military four-question AAR, for example, could serve as a template for any organisation to help embed a culture of reflection. (I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 12, 2012
Access to other files, such as background images, other stock photos, and templates all formatted for eLearning That’s not to say that traditional stock sites have no value. Back in 2007, I provided a long list of sources of stock photography for eLearning.
Xyleme
JULY 28, 2014
IDs can use an LCMS to develop collaborative content with design templates, reuse content nuggets across courses and learning departments, import content from other authoring tools, and publish the content across multiple outputs and devices. Content Output Templates. ?. ?.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 21, 2018
I created a page called 'Course Newsletter' and it publishes to course_newsletter.htm For templates I'm using page_header and page_footer. Again, normally I would use a specialized email template to fix this. We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready.
Dave Snowden
JUNE 8, 2018
The picture which opens the post is by David Spencer Both published under a creative commons licence, and have been cropped to fit the template on this page. One of my better ideas last year was to put together the first Cynefin Centre Retreat in Snowdonia.
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 1, 2017
In a complex system you need to define your identity focal points and manage your connections, rather then get out the flow charting template and create excessive structure.
David Weinberger
APRIL 14, 2011
This is helpful information because Avery doesn’t have nearly as many ready-made templates for Pages as it does for Word. Avery doesn’t have a Pages template for its Beige Design Filing Label, Clear, 30 per sheet (# 5029 ), so you made your own? MacWorld ran an article on how to set up Apples Pages to print out Avery labels. So the article walks the reader through the page and table settings. Excellent.
Beth Kanter
AUGUST 19, 2015
Format Templates , Content Asset Organizing Tools, and scheduling software that covers this whole process. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.
Clark Quinn
JULY 23, 2008
Brobst Systems - Ready-made Website Templates and Themes - Free Samples Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management | Intelligent Agent. Martin De Saulles » SMEs and the Web - Executive Summary. SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to SEO - Single Page Version.
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Infographic Template for Nonprofit Annual Report: Just in time! A fantastic template to create an infographic in pikochart of your nonprofit’s impact for the past year.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Or, they are "toolkits" for loading your own content into JavaScript templates. You need an integrated authoring, workflow and publishing environment, not simply a collection of tools or a framework that allows a developer to produce "HTML5" templates.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 2, 2008
You give it a picture to include in the generated image, choose a template that you want to generate, choose the size of the generated image and it generates a fun resulting image. Fun way to generate signs, magazine covers, etc. at FotoTrix.com.
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 29, 2018
From this we get a range of practical techniques – the use of parables to convey complex learning in organisations is fairly easy to organise (we do it with templates) and the artwork of people like Gaping Void can throw you into a different perspective very quickly.
Xyleme
JUNE 6, 2014
You can see this illustrated in organizations that have created templates that can be used in multiple courses. If you''re creating a course, for instance, you just need to integrate whichever template you want and then modify pieces of content as desired.
Euen Semple
MAY 23, 2018
This fetish with uniformity over effectiveness sucks you into an over complicated world of not quite right templates, rigid corporate style guides, and endless hours faffing around rather than thinking or communicating. I recently installed Windows 10 on my Mac. Don't ask, but it had to be done!
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 16, 2014
The position was exacerbated by time spent getting the new keynote template to work, but that is something I enjoy, sad although I know it to be. For those interested in content or template for that matter, the slides are here. I was living on the edge this morning with my keynote.
Beth Kanter
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
I’ve been looking for free, low cost, easy-to-master tools and templates to reduce some of the sweating. And, ironically, the templates are just pretty, but they help guide you in planning and designing your infographic.
Xyleme
APRIL 19, 2018
Cut Wasted Time by centralizing content and using templates you will cut time spent on process, allowing more time to author courses collaboratively.
Xyleme
MARCH 28, 2014
What they did know, however, was that they had specific business problems to solve and that those problems weren''t going to be solved with a new PowerPoint template or yet another rapid eLearning course.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
You choose templates, add text, images, audio, video and quizzes, then publish for web and mobile. About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
That’s why we create external tools like checklists and templates to support good design. Instead, we could be using checklists or templates to ensure we get the right elements. Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. And I think that simplification is a path to bad learning design.
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 9, 2015
Our work uses templates to allow large groups of people to create narratives from fragmented experiences, a very different proposition.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 4, 2011
CMS, templates, classifieds, and cloud hosting, among other features. Bulletlink Templates and allarently free hosting, $59/month. Templates would have to be rewritten, as they're not very good. Here's a demo of the newspaper template. Drupal & Hosted Drupal Newspapers Running on Drupal This is a demo site showcasing newspapers running on Drupal, a popular open source content management system.
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving.
Harold Jarche
MARCH 10, 2014
For the most part I have just used templates or very simple layouts. If this site is popular, it is because of the content, not the design. I have not put much effort into the design and visual art is definitely not one of my skills.
Adaptive Path
APRIL 22, 2011
Sticky note templates for web and mobile design. Signposts is back after a brief hiatus. We've got some good ones this week. Amazing video of Bach's Cantana 147 played in a forest, on a giant wooden xylophone, with gravity and a little wooden ball. Stone tables in Japan serve as warning of the risk of tsunamis across generations. Updates to iOS enable fascinating visuals and frightening implications.
Adaptive Path
APRIL 22, 2011
Sticky note templates for web and mobile design. Signposts is back after a brief hiatus. We've got some good ones this week. Amazing video of Bach's Cantana 147 played in a forest, on a giant wooden xylophone, with gravity and a little wooden ball. Stone tables in Japan serve as warning of the risk of tsunamis across generations. Updates to iOS enable fascinating visuals and frightening implications.
Xyleme
AUGUST 16, 2017
Templates, output options, and customization options. There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.”
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