I also write posts frequently at Blog.CentreLearn.com, the blog of CentreLearn Solutions, LLC where I am the director of education. A few of my favorites from September on the CentreLearn blog: New online training courses for EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters Kinds words from the Epilepsy Foundation CentreLearn Morning Mug and PowerPoint Design Tips Test Security […]
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Before EMS World Expo I shared a bunch of presentation and PowerPoint tips. After presenting Online Education Trends for Emergency Responders and Using Social Media to Market Your EMS Agency last Thursday I have a few more to add to the list. 1. Arrive early. I heard that the Wednesday morning presenters arrived in their […]
Slides from my 2011 EMS World Expo presentation, Trends in Online Emergency Responder Education. Trends in online emergency responder education View more presentations from Greg Friese. If you are interested in having me present this or other topics at your conference please contact me.
I was asked by a first-time EMS World Expo presenter for presentation tips. At EMS World I invariably have found myself in a massive room with 400 seats which dwarfs the size of the audience for my niche topic presentations. Usually my room is bordered by Steve Berry and Ken Bouvier and their audience is […]
Create a moving spotlight of a specific part of a PowerPoint slide by setting a transparent color and applying a motion path. This is the screencast that shows how to create the object with the transparent color to make the spotlight.
My production process to create online education for emergency responders uses these tools: Basecamp from 37signals.com for project management PowerPoint for lesson storyboarding, narration writing, slide design, and slide animation Articulate Engage to develop custom flash interactions for lessons Audacity for recording a .wav of the audio narration Nikon D50 camera for custom photography Flip […]
I used PowerPoint to animate a game show type spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates my process. Another ScreenR user @onEnterFrame made a screencast that demonstrated a better and easier way to make the game show spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates his process. What is intriguing for me is that a free web based tool, ScreenR, gave me […]
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3 Books on E-Learning Design
When I first started designing and producing continuing and refresher education programs for EMTs and Paramedics I jumped right in by applying knowledge I already had about adult education and PowerPoint design. Along the way through a lot of trial and error I have steadily improved the instructional design process I use. This process includes […]
PowerPoint tips to resize objects and images with drawing guides and aligning objects
I create narrated flash movies that are the result of converting PowerPoint to flash with a program called Articulate Presenter. One of the most common questions I receive is “How many PowerPoint slides should I have in a 30 minute elearning program?” They are rarely satisfied with my answer, “The number of slides doesn’t matter.” […]