Mark Lassoff
Founder, Dollar Design School
Over two million people have learned coding and design from Mark Lassoff. Mark and his company are pioneers in new media learning, having created the first streaming media network dedicated to learning workforce and career skills. They produce broadcast-quality learning content that focuses on digital skills such as design, coding, and digital productivity. Mark is an in-demand speaker and has traveled the world to teach. He was named to the 40 under 40 in both Austin, Texas, and Hartford, CT. In 2017, Mark was awarded the prestigious Learning Guild Guild Master Award.
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Raise the Bar: Camtasia 9 Tutorials: Three Techniques That Create More Engaging Content
With the release of Camtasia 9, TechSmith is further enhancing the “Swiss Army knife” of eLearning tools. Here are three production techniques that will help you create more engaging eLearning with Camtasia 9.
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Raise the Bar: Five Ways to Make Slides More Engaging with Photoshop
Create slides that engage—no matter whether your students are sitting with you in a classroom or watching you in a virtual environment. Two skills are involved here: creativity and production. With a little of both, you can greatly improve the quality of your presentation. Here are five techniques to get you started.
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Raise the Bar: Understanding Typography for Online Learning
Typography is often best understood by examining the vocabulary used to discuss the craft. Here are some of the most common terms, along with tips to help you apply them using typical digital design software. The people who use your products will be forever grateful for your efforts, and other designers won’t laugh at your work!
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Raise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast
Screencasts—digital video recordings of computer screens, often with audio narration or added video of an instructor—have been a staple for teaching developers and software users. But many screencasts are ineffective or even counterproductive because of poor planning and execution. Here are eight common faults of screencasts, with ways to improve the quality of your productions.
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Women in the eLearning Field: Was Your Father a Programmer?
A meeting with a client 10 years ago provides a key—and unfortunately typical—example of some of the assumptions that result in a hostile environment for women in tech. But there are more sources, as this article points out. Where do we start changing the assumptions, and why is it important to make the changes? Here are some of the places and reasons to begin. Don’t be left behind.
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Mobile, Tablet, and Laptop: Start Coding in Just 10 Minutes
The catalyst to advancement in some types of eLearning is coding. With coding you can simulate just about anything and give learners a realistic experience that is either too expensive or too impractical to train for in real life. Want to start? This might be the place!
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Mobile, Tablet, and Laptop: Developing a Full Mobile App
Learn how to create an HTML5-based mobile app by following the steps in this tutorial!
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Mobile, Tablet, and Laptop: Dazzling Visual Effects with jQuery
If you develop any type of learning content that is displayed in a mobile or traditional web browser, you should know about jQuery, a JavaScript library that is very powerful and also extremely easy to use. In this tutorial you’ll get a close look at a couple of the effects you can produce with just a little jQuery in your HTML code.
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Mobile, Tablet, and Laptop: Serving Your Content with Web-service Architecture
Mobile devices often have much less on-board storage than laptop and notebook computers, and mobile apps often need to interact with real-time data from online sources. These facts often apply to eLearning as well as business apps. Here’s how to take advantage of real-time data to improve your eLearning designs!
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Development Tips: Funky, Fun HTML5 Forms
Forms are a critical factor in user interaction design, yet they often fail to provide good data (or even to provide data at all). HTML5 offers new ways to deal with the problems of obtaining clean data. Here is an introduction to the new data types that you can put to work today.