Adding Fun, Friendly Competition to Training Jeopardy, MythBusters, trivia games, Words with Friends, Duolingo, Comedy Defensive Driving courses, and eLearning gamification… What do they have in common? They all bring fun to learning, which engages the audience and makes…
An In-Depth QA with a Client After a Year of Use SharpSpring is a complete sales and marketing automation platform that is very powerful, user friendly, and affordable for any organization. We recently became a reseller of the SharpSpring platform,…
Do Your Online Learning Courses Annoy Your Audience? When an organization invests resources to roll out training, it’s a huge disappointment when the audience feedback consists of eye rolls, complaints, and the indifferent “meh.” Throughout our 20 years in…
This is a fun little video we produced over 10 years ago for one of our favorite clients. It was a creative introduction to complexities around patient healthcare. Even after all these years, it is still a nice intro.
While Left Brain Media has been creating captivating media solutions for two decades, we produced a elearning demo reel you can watch in just two minutes. Let us power your next project.
When and How to Use a Bite-Sized Training Strategy Do you ever feel like the rope in tug-of-war, being pulled by things vying for your attention? Chances are you do, and so does your training audience. Being asked to…
Do Your Homework to Find Your Ideal Training Partner Why would a company publish a listing of its competitors? For starters, we simply could not find an online directory of custom eLearning companies in Texas. Clients deserve to make…
Why Are There So Many Dissatisfied LMS Customers? After 20 years of talking with all types of clients, we realize many have one thing in common: Few are completely happy with their off-the-shelf LMS software… at least not for…
Engaging eLearning Narration Starts with Compelling Copywriting We have a saying at Left Brain Media: “People like two types of writing: good writing and their own writing.” All of us, including professional writers, have blind spots when it comes…
Mistakes Clients Make that Drive Up eLearning Development Costs Earlier, we shared a checklist to follow when writing an eLearning RFP to ensure realistic quotes. But once your project is underway, you need to be aware of traps that…
A Detailed Look at Media Development As we continue our two-part series detailing the steps of the eLearning development process, we shift our focus to media development. Proceed with Caution But first, a word of caution… Remember in part…
Details of the eLearning Development Process Many efforts get key steps of the eLearning development process wrong, yet having the right approach is vital to the success of your project. There is a lot of talk today about competing…
How do you correctly scope an eLearning project? In the last twenty years, we have estimated and bid a lot of eLearning projects. Correctly scoping a project is key to a project’s success. This checklist is what we use…
There are many ways to approach eLearning development. In this article we introduce the common phases of traditional eLearning development. As we look at each phase, we will also provide some general scoping recommendations as you consider the eLearning…
Let’s step back for a bit and think of eLearning as a whole. How is the world doing with eLearning? Is it making progress the way it should?
To ensure a company’s leaders adopted communication skills taught at a leadership development conference, reinforcing the message for weeks to come would be critical. The question was how to do it well. The solution was a series of microlearning…
Understanding LMS Capabilities A Learning Management System (LMS) is software that automates the administrative tasks of training. Such tasks include registering users, tracking courses in a catalog, recording data, charting a user’s progress toward certification, and providing reports to…
This is a current project for a CEO Roundtable on health in the workplace. The WordPress template is modified to match their other web properties. View Website
This is one of our current projects. We actually greatly modified a WordPress template that several of their sites are based on. The style is set to match their other web properties. View Website
When we started Left Brain Media almost 20 years ago, it was not a given that corporations would use on-demand, web-based, eLearning courses extensively. Almost all are today because the effectiveness has been proven. In addition, the cost savings…
Symbolic links to directories are handy tools to have on your Linux server. One thing you can do with them is share a folder of resources with many different sites on your server. Unfortunately, they are a little tricky…
Here are a few low-resolution samples from some previous photo and video shoots. Need some custom photography? We can manage your custom lifestyle photography photoshoot from beginning to end. Talent, wardrobe, direction, location, props, makeup, and more.
Short motion graphic video to introduce a new eCard program.
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For this project our client had some raw data about health risks to Hispanic communities. We brainstormed with them and then created these infographics for Hispanic Heritage Month for their website.
This is a custom WordPress website created for one of our favorite clients. View Website
Here is a quick example of a responsive eLearning game developed in HTML5 with Tumult Hype which works on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. The questions are not easy. But play the play the game twice to see how…
One of our retail chain clients wanted to help its employees gain the knowledge needed to make healthy life choices. A “one-and-done” classroom training event or a single eLearning module wouldn’t do the trick. The client had a ton…
These are a couple of sample black and white whiteboard-style animations.
This video shows you an overview of a series of eLearning programs we created for one of our favorite clients. These courses were designed for both mobile and desktop platforms. They featured many hours of custom video interviews and…
While the words, “We will fix it in post!” are never what you want to hear when shooting video. There are many times that post production can make all the difference. Here are a few samples of what our…
I am impressed at how much Steve Jobs was involved in UI design. It makes sense that Apple initially had some big application development problems after he passed away. I was glad to see when they regained their footing.
This is still one of our favorites from The Oatmeal. Read, in cartoon form, the progression of a website project from hell.
This article by By Ryan McAfee on Pond 5 has a ton of content and is a great resource for beginners. But the best videos are the very first one, and the last one. 13 Creative Editing Techniques Every…
Promotional video with both interviews and motion graphics.
We wrote the script and handled all post production on this project.
We captured a live event to make a promotional video for future similar events.
These are a couple of HTML 5 based eLearning activities. The target audience was on desktop computers, so these don’t scale down for mobile use. Blood Pressure Measurement This is an activity to help healthcare professionals evaluate their current…
Promotional video for the one of our favorite clients, and also the winner of 5 Telly Awards. This project is a good sample of the quality that can be created on a relaively limited budget, even usuing some volunteer…
Working with one of our favorite clients, we produced these seven videos in a couple of weeks to help them with an initiative several years ago. Get Active Manage High Blood Pressure Don’t Smoke Eat Better Lose Weight Reduce…
Back before the iPhone changed everything, we used to create a lot of games and eLearning using Flash. Everything we create today is with HTML 5 and it is more flexible and robust that Flash ever was. But this…
No matter how qualified and competent employees are, there will always be a need for training. Efficient, Cost-Effective Training Whenever a company introduces a new product or service, implements a new business process or software application, modifies its structure…
Ages ago when Flash was still used on the web, we created this site. It was a very short project where we were brought in to build the site with only about 45 days to do it, and the…
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