I’ve been developing online courses for over 12 years. I’ve been fortunate to have a wide variety of experience with many different types of courses and topic areas including: IT, software applications, safety, technical, engineering, security, leadership and more. As part of the Articulate community team, I have helped my fellow learning designers build better courses by…
Here is a brief representation of the type feedback I regularly receive. Passionate about helping others …you have such an obvious passion for certain areas of your work, the capacity to take it and run with it, and you manage to find the time to read volumes on the info aside from many other commitments…
Couponomy This presentation was featured as a “Most Popular” item on Slideshare and is nearing 25,000 views. I designed these slides for a presentation my wife’ gave on how to save money by couponing for our local library. Slide deck and associated handout. Principles of Learning Design This was a deck I created for our…
I have extensive public speaking experience and absolutely LOVE doing it. Here are a sampling of the sessions I’ve done. Getting BETTER Results by Doing LESS Training Presented at Learning Solutions 2012 Stakeholders often come to us asking for courses, but the courses are either overkill or aren’t what is needed. And sometimes they do need…
Practical, easy to read tutorials & instructional designs I have a long history of creating practical, ‘plain English’ tips and tutorials. I’m now in my seventh year of publishing a tip of the week series on Microsoft Office and other common software topics. This started as a way to help colleagues in my immediate work group…
Stakeholders often come to us asking for courses, but the courses are either overkill or aren’t what is needed. And sometimes they do need “courses,” but only to check off a box. But in either case, developing courses ties up resources (including learners’ time) that they could use for better purposes. When we are asked…
Spending time engaging and connecting with other learning professionals is extremely invigorating and energizing for me. I am a big believer that the more you give, the more you get and the learning community is an amazing example of this at work everyday! An ideal environment for me is one that connects an amazing collection of talented and…
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No Photoshop Required Originally posted October 8, 2012 at https://tmiket.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/no-photoshop-required/ Ethos3 recently posted a ‘How to’ on how they made their cut out images in Photoshop for their fabulous “Simplify, Simplify, Simplify” deck. I saw a question asking if this could be done using ONLY PowerPoint and the answer is yes and it’s super simple. Here…
Shading Alternate Rows in Excel Originally posted October 12, 2007 at https://miketips.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/41-shading-alternate-rows-in-excel/ Have you ever had trouble reading across a large spreadsheet? One row blurs in with another when you’re trying to match what’s in Column A with something clear over in Column Q. Here’s a good trick that can help improve the readability of your…
1000 Words Worth of Pictures Originally posted January 4, 2013 at https://miketips.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/1000-words-worth-of-pictures/ Sometimes showing someone exactly what you see on your screen is the quickest, easiest and best way to communicate what you need them to know. It seems like I take screenshots virtually everyday for a wide variety of reasons. Whether you need them as…
Originally posted September 9, 2011 at https://miketips.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/5-things-excel-fill-handle/ The fill handle is one of my all-time favorite and most used Excel functions.The fill handle is quite powerful, capable of filling thousands of rows in the blink of any eye – you just need to know a few secrets to maximize its value. For those of you…
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