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19 Feb

10 Blogs Every eLearning Professional Should Read

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design, My PLN |

Recently my friend Ryan Tracey posted a list of 10 journals every e-learning professional should read in response to my list of 5 Books Every eLearning Professional Should Read which was in response to his 5 papers every learning professional should read (this feeling like the blogging equivalent to a game of tennis). So I’m returning the ball with a list of blogs that are worth checking out if you are an eLearning professional and you are looking to improve your craft as each blog is written by someone working in the field. They’re a mixture of writing styles and content –...
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22 Jan

My Word for 2017

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, Motivation, Reflections |

Towards the end of last year I starting thinking about my word for the coming year. I’ve seen posts on this before and recently I even came across the hashtag #oneword. Essentially, you choose a word that will guide your actions over the coming 12 months. Last year, I chose ‘build’ as my word which you can read about here. I felt I had mixed results with what I wanted to achieve last year so initially my word for this year was going to be ‘habit’. But on reflection, habits don’t just happen, I really need to develop the behaviours that...
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12 Dec

Looking Back at 2016

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, eLearning, Reflections |

Another year is almost over and it’s time to look back on the year that was. At the beginning of 2016 I chose a word for the year which was ‘Build’. Specifically, my aim was to build my skills in some different areas which I’ve listed here as well as some reflections on what I did and didn’t quite do: Coding I stared an online HTML 5 coding course via Code Academy which I began in earnest. There we small lesson that started with some simple programming and gradually built from there. Unfortunately, I didn't keep up with it and...
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04 Dec

4 Ideas for Combining Text and Images in eLearning

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, Show Your Work |

E-Learning Heroes Challenge #152 – Combining Text and Images in E-Learning. The brief: This week, your challenge is to share an example to demonstrate how text and images can be used in e-learning. For this challenge I shared four simple ideas that were all created within Storyline. Click the image below to see what I shared for the challenge: Slide 1: Text coming out of the image For the title page, I wanted the text to look like it was coming out of the skyline and to create this effect, there’s actually two of the same images placed exactly on...
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26 Nov

5 Books Every eLearning Professional Should Read

Posted by Matt Guyan | Instructional Design, My PLN |

Even though we live in a digital world I still love reading paper books. This post has been floating around with me for a while and the idea for it came from a post by Ryan Tracey called ‘5 papers every learning professional should read’. This post is pretty much the same but with books instead of papers. I’ve chosen each book because they’re easy to read (over a period of time rather than one sitting), they provide useful strategies that you can implement and they provide a great reference that I go back to. I’ve listed them here in no...
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