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06 May

Building Your Personal Brand

A few months ago I was invited to be part of a panel discussion on personal branding at the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) national conference. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend so I asked Michelle Ockers (who lead the discussion) if it would be ok if I wrote a blog post on the topic, using some of her discussion questions as a basis of the post. She kindly agreed and so here are my thoughts… Michelle defines a personal brand as: “While we associate brands with large corporations and products, the idea of having a personal brand...
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02 Apr

Getting Started with Curating Content

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

Curation. Whenever I hear the term I always think of a person working in an art gallery carefully selecting pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition. But I’m also seeing it as a skill needed for modern L&D folks… “We need curators and community managers, rather than course designers” Charles Jennings …and certainly it’s an area (along with community management) that I want to explore more and build my own capability in. But how can I do this? What is curation? The starting point in wanting to learn more about how to do something is to know what it means....
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07 Mar

Sliding Along with the Force

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, My Portfolio, Show Your Work, Storyline |

A few weeks ago I was delivering a Storyline 2 session in Brisbane and we were looking at the slider interaction and how you can use a slider to change the state of an object and also use it to show layers. In the change of state example we were looking at, you slide the thumb along the track and the colour of an image changes. One of the participants asked if it were possible to change the colour of the thumb to match the colour of the image and my response was “I’m not sure, I haven’t tried that...
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25 Feb

My Word for the Year

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, Motivation |

A few weeks ago I saw a post by Helen Blunden where she was talking about her ‘word for the year’. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a post like this – Dr Jason Fox and Renee Robson also wrote about their words of the year. After reading Helen’s post, I spent some time thinking about my goals for the year and what my word could be now that ‘focus’ was taken ;-) So my word for 2016 is: Build The word build can mean building something completely new from scratch or building on the existing or knocking down some...
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26 Jan

Looking Closer at Images

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, My Portfolio, Show Your Work, Storyline |

E-Learning Heroes Challenge #114 – Interactive Video: Zooming and Magnifying Images in E-Learning. The brief: This week, your challenge is to share a solution to allow learners to zoom in or magnify parts of an image, graphic, document, or video. This was one of those challenges that I wanted to have a go at because even though Storyline has built-in zooming (which is pretty cool) to make parts of an image larger or to get a close up of a section of a scene, I wanted to try to create a way of making parts of an image larger without...
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Learn. Show. Repeat.

Building Your Personal Brand

Getting Started with Curating Content

Sliding Along with the Force

My Word for the Year

Looking Closer at Images

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