eLearning,Collaboration,blogs,Wikis,Adobe AIR Quoted from https://elearning.adobe.com/elearning_this_week/: The Adobe Captivate Blog: eLearning this week Archives Last week’s post raised the question: Why would the author of a content be willing to share the authorship with someone who has provided a comment or criticism to his content? There are three sets of people whose interests needs to be satisfied. The first is the consumer of the content, second is the author, and the third the collaborator. It would be useful to […]
elearning,Collaboration,NetBooks,Performance Support,GenX,GenY,Immersive Learning,rapid elearning John Medina in his keynote address at the eLearning Guild November 2008 conference talked about how the fundamentals of how a person learns do not change decade on decade – in fact, it is an evolutionary process. Believing in John (and I am not suggesting that we should not) leads us to a scenario where the workplace learning environment will not be significantly different than what we see today. However, our knowledge of this learning process […]
Captivate 4 Book,Kevin Siegel Here comes first book on Adobe Captivate 4 – Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4 which is a part of series of two books, second being Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials. Read the announcement here. It starts with a bird’s eye view of planning eLearning projects, the process involved in it and time/ budgetary considerations and prepares you for what to expect from your authoring tool- all in simple and jargon free terms. It further deals […]
Adobe Captivate,Captivate webinar,Adobe eLearning suite RJ, our eLearning evangelist, will be conducting a live eLearning session on ‘Getting started with the new features in Adobe Captivate 4’. The session will provide you good working knowledge on the new features in Captivate 4 like Templates, Text-to-Speech, SWF Reviewer, Variables and Scripting, Widgets, TOC, Aggregator, new publish options, PSD import and more. RJ’s sessions are always packed with information and very interactive; hence they also tend to get filled very early. So […]
Adobe Captivate,PowerPoint Audio,Captivate Audio This post will give you all the details on how Captivate handles audio in imported PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint presentations usually have two kinds of sound support – Narration and Object Sounds. Narration is the voice-over which you record with the slide (say, reading out bullet points). Object sounds are the event sounds (say, an applause sound when user does a correct action). Captivate 4 handles these sounds differently: Narrations – are extracted from PowerPoint slides and […]
Adobe Captivate,eLearning,rapid eLearning,Templates,Placeholders One of the many good things in Adobe Captivate is the facility to create Project Templates. Project templates are really useful to create identical projects or identical modules in a project. Their “make once and reuse” aspect ensures consistency and saves development time. So what is new in Adobe Captivate 4’s project templates? PLACEHOLDERS!! Placeholders are objects which can be included on the slides in a project template. These placeholders can be converted to respective Captivate objects […]
Captivate,eLearning,Conferences,rapid eLearning,Lectora,Flash Learning Technologies 2009 was held in London, from 28th to 29th of January, 2009. The conference was well attended by around 3000 learning professionals primarily from UK. I was interested to see how the learning and development world was coping with the struggling economic environment and if any trends were emerging in coping with the same. It was heartening to see that the industry was well represented through participation by Adobe, SumTotal, Trivantis, TechSmith, OutStart, NIIT, Tata Interactive, […]
Captivate 3 (and now 4) supports importing a Microsoft Power Point file. Captivate slide dimensions are defined in pixels, while Power Point defines slide size in inches. Many of you might have faced problems with stretched / shrunken objects because of a mismatch in the dimensions of the imported Power Point slides and your Captivate project. Below are a couple of tips that will help you avoid this issue in future. You can create a new project “From MS Power […]
ASTD,TechKnowledge,Rapid eLearning,eLearning suite I’m just back after attending the first two days of ASTD TechKnowledge 2009. We had good traffic at the Adobe booth on both days. The new Adobe eLearning Suite trial DVDs disappeared like hot cakes. I thought there were a much higher percentage of people who were just starting to adopt eLearning, compared to eLearning veterans at TK 2009. This is very unlike the eLearning Guild conference, where most of the people I meet are folks who’ve […]
Adobe Captivate,ASTD TechKnowledge,Learning Technologies,LearnTec Tridib, Suresh, Jayashree and I will be at a bunch of conferences in the coming month. I will be attending ASTD TechKnowledge in Las Vegas this month. Tridib and Jayashree will be at the Learning Technologies conference in UK during the same time. And Suresh and I will be at the LearnTec conference in Germany between the Feb3rd and 5th. At Learning Technologies, Tridib will be speaking on ‘Creating and managing visually-rich and engaging training content for tomorrows learner’s’. […]
Adobe Captivate,Best of eLearning Award OK, I did not stage this! When I made the post yesterday about the finalists, I had no idea that the awards were going to be announced the next day. Adobe Captivate 3 has won the Best of eLearning! 2008 award for ‘Best Simulation Tool’. Also, Adobe’s Acrobat Connect Pro won the ‘Best Virtual Classroom’ award. The combination should help streamline your eLearning course delivery. When the latest version of Connect Pro was released, we […]
eLearning,green The cover story on the current edition of eLearning magazine features Silke’s article on going green with eLearning. Silke, the Adobe Captivate product marketing manager, speaks about how as eLearning professionals, we are uniquely positioned to reduce the carbon footprint for our entire organization. She makes an excellent case for how eLearning is inherently green… how by moving your course online, you instantly cut the biggest contributor to your carbon footprint- travel. While we are making a case for […]
