Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint® -- Copyright -- Contents -- Website Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Getting the Most from This Resource -- What Will This Book Do for You? -- Why PowerPoint? -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- Things to Look for -- Technology Skills -- How to Use This Book -- What This Book Covers -- Section 1: Foundations -- Chapter 1: Creating e-Learning with PowerPoint -- Examples -- Multiple-Choice Quizzes -- Matching Exercises -- Game-Show-Type Quiz -- Mazes -- Case Studies -- Simulations with Branching Decision Making, with Embedded Audio and Video Clips -- Animations That Teach -- Let's Get Started -- Versions -- One More Thing -- Next Step: It's About Design, Not Software -- Chapter 2: It's About Design, Not Software -- Who Are Your Learners? -- Objectives and Strategies -- Cognitive Load -- About mLearning -- Choosing a Treatment -- Writer's Block? -- Can You Find a Story? -- From Classroom to Online: Think "Transform," Not "Transfer" -- Cut-n-Chunk -- What's Working? What's Not? -- Inventory Your Assets -- Why Storyboard? -- Types of Storyboards -- Next Stop: The program Interface and Architecture -- Section 2: Interface and Content -- Chapter 3: Graphic User Interface and Course Architecture -- Graphic User Interface -- GUI Basics -- Learner Control: Some Decisions -- Navigation Tools and Action Buttons -- Eye Movement and Placement of Items -- Building the GUI -- Create a Slide Master -- Examples: Creating the GUI -- Architecture -- Next Stop: Designing for Impact -- Chapter 4: Designing for Impact -- Use Graphics with Soul -- What Conveys the Message? -- Example 1: Civil Rights Timeline -- Example 2: Vietnam Vets -- "Let Me Show You What I Mean" -- Is There a Visual Here? -- Blunders -- Dreadful Design -- Decoration.

Noise -- Demeaning -- Text -- Chunk Content and Use White Space -- Next Stop: Creating and Editing Art -- Chapter 5: Creating and Editing Art -- Bitmap or Vector? -- Working with Shapes and ClipArt -- Set Transparent Color -- Transforming Clipart -- Editing Photos in PowerPoint -- Removing Backgrounds from Photos -- MS Paint -- Using Paint to Create and Edit Art -- Editing Photographs with Paint -- File Size: Compressing Images -- New Horizons -- Next Stop: Animation -- Chapter 6: Animation -- Animation Should Support Instruction -- Animation Basics -- Animations That Teach -- Process/Stages -- Demonstration -- Realistic Movement -- Order/Sequence -- Charts, Timelines, and Diagrams -- Annotating Graphics -- Providing Worked Examples -- Combining Animations -- Trigger Animations -- Next Stop: Interactivity -- Chapter 7: Interactivity -- It's All About Hyperlinking -- Levels of Feedback -- Quizzes-Some Shaped Like Games -- Basic Quizzes -- Types of Quizzes -- Timed Quizzes -- Board Games -- Linking to External Games and Quizzes -- Simulations -- Case Studies and Stories -- The Skinny on Hyperlinking -- What About "Gamification"? -- Mazes -- Treasure Hunts -- About Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) -- Next Stop: Add-Ons, Blending, Performance Support, and Job Aids -- Chapter 8: Add-Ons, Blending, Performance Support, and Job Aids -- Other Documents -- Site Samplers -- Add-On Software -- SnagIt -- The Template Issue -- Other Add-Ons -- "Blending" -- Performance Support, Job Aids, and the Nice to Know -- One-Time Tasks -- Sometime Tasks/Reference -- Locators -- History and Background Information -- Organization Charts and Company Directories -- Company Policies and Manuals -- Prompters of Process -- Next Stop: Adding Narration and Multimedia -- Chapter 9: Adding Narration and Multimedia -- Adding Narration -- Microphones -- Narrator -- Location.

Recording Voice: Step by Step -- Recording Narration: Another Option -- Adding Sound Effects and Music -- Recording Sounds-Another Option -- Adding Music -- Adding Video -- An Aside: Do You Really Need Video? -- Next Stop: Saving, Uploading, and Distributing Your Program -- Section 3: Delivery and Support -- Chapter 10: Distributing Your e-Learning Program -- Saving and Uploading Your Files -- 1. Upload It as Is -- 2. Save It as a PowerPoint Show (.pps) File -- 3. Convert It to an HTML5 or Flash (.swf) File -- 4. Do It Yourself -- Save It as a Video (MP4, WMV) or Other Format -- A Recap -- One More Option: Save as CD -- Tracking -- Test, Test, Test-and Launch! -- Summary -- Author's Note -- Appendix: PowerPoint Basics -- Summary -- References and Other Sources -- Other Resources -- Index -- About the Author.