Want a Quick Way to Improve the Scripts for Articulate or Captivate Presentations? Let the Subject Matter Experts Read Out Loud!

Read Out Loud

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When you are developing some sort of slideshows such as Articulate or Captivate presentations with voice-over and you want it to be more formal but you still want to keep it conversational and easy listening, there are some ways to prepare the scripts that like. For example, you can:

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Edit the Voice-Over to Make It More Attractive: A Quick Tip for E-Learning Development

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Many e-learning projects use professional voice artists to record the voice-over for self-paced programs, rather than having the subject matter experts or the authors to do so. This is in fact an efficient way to develop the program, and it is a common practice for corporate training.

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An Online Self-Paced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program on Anxiety Disorders for Health Professionals

I would like to share with you the slides that I used for a talk in the MEDFAC E-Learning Showcase 2011 where I introduced an online self-paced CPD program on Anxiety Disorders for health professionals. . . . → Read More: An Online Self-Paced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program on Anxiety Disorders for Health Professionals

MEDFAC E-Learning Showcase 2011, 23 November 2011, New Law Theatre 026, University of Sydney

I will be presenting a self-paced online CPD program I recently developed in the MEDFAC E-Learning Showcase 2011. In my ten minute presentation, I will talk about the background of the CCRE Anxiety Education Project, the design methods, the main features of the e-learning program, and the future directions. If you are interested in medical-related e-learning projects, you are welcome to attend this free event at New Law 026, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, at 12:30 on the 23rd of November 2011. This free event will be showcasing e-learning (broadly defined to include LMSs, multimedia, use of social media etc.) within Sydney Medical School – not just innovations but also work in progress, planned etc.There will be 15 e-learning projects presented. . . . → Read More: MEDFAC E-Learning Showcase 2011, 23 November 2011, New Law Theatre 026, University of Sydney

An Impressive Help with Watering the Plants in My Office While I Was Away

Water every 2nd day

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上个月,我拿了2周的年假,与家人一起去渡假。临放假之前,我交代一位日常负责行政管理的同事帮忙给我办公室里的花草浇水,因为她有每个人的办公室的钥匙。她问具体要求是什么,我就说大概两天浇一次就可以了。 渡假完毕回来上班的那天早上,我在办公室里发现一张小纸片。它让我十分感动,也让我对那位同事留下了非常良好的印象。帮忙浇花的这么一件小事,她可以管得非常妥当。 在那纸片上,她预先列出了每一次浇花的具体日期,每次她进我办公室浇花完毕后,就在相应的日期上打个勾。其中有一天本来是需要浇花的,是星期四(9月8日),但那天她请病假了,于是当她星期五(9月9日)回来的时候就把日期改了,马上补浇。 就是这么一件小事,它能透露出行政管理中的三个重要事项:

第一,有任务,但没有具体要求,就要把具体要求搞清楚,再行动;

第二,执行任务时,要有计划,有安排,有提醒,有监控,有记录;

第三,出现问题时,要灵活处理,尽可能作补救,努力继续按原计划执行任务。

做到这三点,进一步来说,还能意味着什么呢?——假如虽然按照要求浇花了,但是花死了,那么责任就不在于执行者身上,而在于决策者。这果然是拥有多年行政管理经验的人员的行事作风!与这样的同事一起工作,办事起来,我会感到很放心。 我们在日常的工作上和生活上做的各种小事都在给别人一种什么印象呢?这个小故事,值得大家借鉴!在此附上那张小纸片:

Managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions: a presentation at Informa E-Learning Summit

I was invited to give a presentation at the Informa E-Learning Summit in Melbourne last week. My talk covered the best practices for managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions, the instructional rationale behind the e-learning development, and the implications for enterprise architecture design. Below are the on-site voice recording and the PowerPoint slides. I look forward to a further discussion with those who are interested in this topic. . . . → Read More: Managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions: a presentation at Informa E-Learning Summit

Five Top E-Learning Skills for 2011: Are You Ready?

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E-Learning Weekly近日发表了一篇文章,讲述适应2011年E-Learning发展趋势的E-Learning从业者所必需具备的5大技能。

Embedding Poll and Survey in Articulate Presentations on Moodle

If you are using Articulate Studio to develop your interactive e-learning course and using an LMS to host the courseware, you may want to do a poll and survey on relevant topics within the course in order to promote the students’ participation and interests. If you would like to embed a poll or a survey within an Articulate presentation, you may firstly think of using Articulate Quizmaker to develop the survey questions. However, many people are concerned about the reporting function of Articulate Quizmaker. With Articulate Quizmaker, you can develop graded quizzes or non-graded surveys. If you set the questions types as survey, you would find it difficult to deal with the reporting process. This blog post will provide you with a solution to embed poll or survey in Articulate presentations utilising the Choice or Feedback activity on Moodle. . . . → Read More: Embedding Poll and Survey in Articulate Presentations on Moodle

What Has Jiangmen No.1 High School Philately Association Given Me? (Chinese)

一中邮协能给我带来什么?相信这个问题,是很多同学初次接触邮协正想加入的时候会问的问题。有一些好处,是比较明显的,比如可以丰富课余生活、增长 见识、培养集邮兴趣、与志趣相投的会员们交朋友等等。然而,在我离开江门一中七年后的今天再回想当时我参加邮协工作的事情的时候,我就忽然想到,邮协给我 带来的,岂止这些?邮协还给我带来许许多多具有深远意义的能受用一生东西!而这些东西,却恰恰只留给想着“我能给邮协带来什么?”的人。我相信一中邮协这 个大家庭里,有许许多多这样的人。正因为有了这么多得力的会员、理事干部和校友的支持,邮协才得以不断地成长和壮大。值江门一中集邮协会成立二十周年之 际,我想对我至今所领悟到和体会到的我参与邮协工作的经历所带给我的受用一生的东西进行一次总结。 . . . → Read More: What Has Jiangmen No.1 High School Philately Association Given Me? (Chinese)

Neogication Skills

最近参加了澳洲计算机协会举办的一个为期两个晚上的关于谈判技巧workshop,培训师Felicity Mildon是澳航(Qantas)的前学习与发展经理,现在自己开咨询公司。在这里与大家分享一些我认为有用的东西。 . . . → Read More: Neogication Skills

EAD and Its Implications in an M.ICT Graduate’s Early Career

This is a presentation that I gave in University of Wollongong on 1 April 2010. It is about the impacts of Enterprise Architecture Design skills on IT graduates’ early career development. . . . → Read More: EAD and Its Implications in an M.ICT Graduate’s Early Career

Jiangmen No.1 High School Philately Association Visiting Zhuhai

On 1st May,2006, 23 members of Philatelist Association of Jiangmen No.1 High School went on a tour of Zhuhai, with Mr. Cai Ruosong’s & Chen Yingqi,their senior fellow apprentice’s piloting. They mainly visited Sun Yet-sen University Zhuhai Campus, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai and a famous statuary named “Zhuhai Fisher Girl”. As a former member of the association and now studying in Zhuhai, I’m so glad to receive my guests and to be their guide. Having seen my old friend Yingqi, my former Physics teacher Mr. Cai and the recent sessions of leaders, I felt excited, joyful, freindly and genial. Their short stay brought me to a world of secondary-school-times memory, in which I saw my teachers and classmates in secondary school, and remembered various circumstances there. . . . → Read More: Jiangmen No.1 High School Philately Association Visiting Zhuhai

a Special Mid-Autumn Day

At the night of Mid-autumn Day, other colleges held their own prosperous activities. But our college was just founded this year, and at the moment we don’t have any senior collegemate who may prepare for the festival better. So we these new students held small parties by class. However, we still enjoyed ourselves! Instead of just keeping seeing the performances quietly, most of our class participated in the the performances and the games. I think such a small lively party is better than those with big stages held by other colleges. Now please enjoy the photos taken in our party. . . . → Read More: a Special Mid-Autumn Day

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