My Courses

  • Edit PowerPoint Slide Decks with ChatGPT 4

    Edit PowerPoint Slide Decks with ChatGPT 4

    ChatGPT can be a game-changer for creating and editing PowerPoint slide decks. It streamlines the process by helping generate content ideas and suggesting visually appealing layouts and graphics. It can even create the PowerPoint file for you! Whether you’re looking to save time, improve the quality of your presentations, or simply inject some creativity into…

  • AI as Personal Career Counselor

    AI as Personal Career Counselor

    Can AI help you achieve your dream career? Maybe! I’ve gotten some fabulous ideas to aid career hunters from the Superhuman newsletter (all AI, delivered everyday!) and today’s newsletter did not disappoint. One of the things I love/hate about AI is that it’s encouraging a whole new form of thinking and creativity. I’m not used…

  • Adobe Firefly: The Best Gen AI Image Creator You Didn’t Know You Had!

    Adobe Firefly: The Best Gen AI Image Creator You Didn’t Know You Had!

    Have Adobe Creative Cloud? You have Adobe Firefly! Don’t have Creative Cloud? You still have Firefly (25 images/month for free!) Firefly is unique as an AI image creator because it was trained only on Adobe-licensed and public domain content, making the resulting generated images safe to use anywhere (copyright-wise). Its tools for creating customized images are…

  • Paper to Slide Deck in 5 Minutes with ChatGPT 4

    Paper to Slide Deck in 5 Minutes with ChatGPT 4

    As a doctoral student with two part-time jobs, I’m pretty busy. I’m always looking for ways to save time, particularly on tedious tasks. Last week I was signed up to present my doctoral project in a semi-formal environment, an after-hours mini-conference, so that I could get feedback on my ideas. I know my project well.…

  • Postcard from an EdD | First Year Down

    Postcard from an EdD | First Year Down

    First year of my doctoral program down and only…two and a half to go?!? Whose idea was this, anyway? In actuality, this three year+ program is moving by quickly. Keeping my head down each evening and weekend to study leads to the months flying by. This next year will consist of regular courses but then…

  • Why I’m Leaving MSIDT

    Why I’m Leaving MSIDT

    It’s time: I’m moving on from teaching full-time in Cal State Fullerton’s M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology (MSIDT) program. Fall 2023 was my last semester. I had a good run! I started teaching part-time for MSIDT in 2016 and was so privileged to be hired on full-time in 2018. That’s seven years of helping…

  • Force Learner to Complete Interaction Before Moving on in Articulate Storyline Course

    Force Learner to Complete Interaction Before Moving on in Articulate Storyline Course

    Storyline’s triggers and variables are what makes this software so powerful! In this demo, I show you how to use both to force a user to complete click-to-reveal interactions before being allowed to move on to the next slide. Download demo file for this project. It’s really helpful when using triggers and variables to name…

  • Building Custom Navigation Into Your Storyline Projects

    Building Custom Navigation Into Your Storyline Projects

    Want to have your own custom, onscreen navigation buttons in your Storyline project? No problem! Just disable the default next and back buttons and customize the look of your player. It’s quick and easy and I’ll show you how! Select the “Player” button in the top right of the Storyline editing window to select the…

  • I’m Speaking at DevLearn on Accessibility Techniques for Elearning

    I’m Speaking at DevLearn on Accessibility Techniques for Elearning

    Come see me speak at DevLearn 2023 on accessibility strategies for elearning! My session is #407 – Accessibility for eLearning: Quick and Easy Techniques to Apply Right Away. Meet me Thursday, October 26, at 10:45 am at The Mirage in Las Vegas! Watch my session trailer: Session Description Accessibility is possible in your eLearning. With…

  • This One’s for the Librarians: SpringShare LibWizard Reviewed!

    This One’s for the Librarians: SpringShare LibWizard Reviewed!

    Librarians have unique needs as information literacy instructors. They teach users to browse book catalogs and search databases, they work with faculty to teach their students information literacy, and they have a growing need to offer asynchronous online tutorials. But they also have to keep track of how much instruction they conduct and prefer to…