Lindsay O'Neill Consulting
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Incredibly, Adobe has finally launched a brand new redesign of Captivate. If you’ve been holding your breath since 2021 when the redesign (termed “Project Charm”) was announced, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking it had been sidelined and was never going to happen, especially since there were almost no updates and Adobe hasn’t been showing […]
Articulate has made amazing strides to develop accessibility features in Storyline. Accessibility is becoming must more of a focus in the elearning industry, and Articulate is at the forefront. Each year they make improvements to accessibility features and add new ones, and while many of their accessibility features are unique to Storyline, they are generally […]