According to this Adobe employee’s blog, Adobe Captivate 4 is not too far off from being released. How long that is exactly is your guess. In case you haven’t heard (and you probably have, since a handful of fanboys have been spilling the beans prematurely - apparently they have some sort of side-deal going on [...]
Category Archives: Elearning General
How to enable Fullscreen Mode for a SWF and Does ExternalInterface Work In It?
At my day job I’ve been working recently on a project in which I needed to design and code a brand new elearning user interface/content player. It’s turned out great from a design standpoint and now I’m slowly adding features to it as I have time. Today, I got the idea to add a fullscreen [...]
Elearning Development Video Tutorials Now Available
I’ve been wanting to create some online video tutorials for quite a while now and, finally, I have some spare time to devote to it. I’ve created a new page on my site to list the tutorials along with brief descriptions. You can access them (currently only one, but more to follow asap) here:
http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/tutorials/
Hopefully, they [...]
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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part Three - Encoding Speed
Update 12.28.08: I meant to publish this months ago, when I first wrote it! It’s been sitting in my unpublished ‘pages’ list, of all places, as I mistakenly left it there (why I put it into a ‘page’ versus a ‘post’ I have no idea!).
This is part three of the testing, where I’ll focus on [...]
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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate
I’ve been wanting to do this for a few years but have never had the time. Goal: determine exactly what the optimal audio output settings in Captivate are for voiceover audio, which is 99% of the audio I use in Captivate (and I could care less if background/intro music is not fm quality!). I’m [...]
A Simple, Reusable, XML/Flash based Course Architecture
This could be used for pretty much anything (photos, slides, etc) besides the original intent of a simple and easily modifiable elearning course architecture that leveraged XML to load in the content dynamically. I was recently asked about how best to develop elearning in Flash, from an architectural standpoint. Clearly XML is the way to [...]
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Free Storyboarding Template
A couple of years ago I developed a storyboard template in Microsoft Word that has since been used by a lot of folks. It has even been used (with my permission) as the starting point for a commercial storyboard product that does XML export and much much much more.
After speaking with a number of folks [...]
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Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2007
I’m registered to attend the Elearning Guild’s Annual Gathering 2007. It will be in Boston, I believe at the same hotel/location where they held the Flash Developer’s conference about 3 years ago. That was a great experience so I’m eager to attend this larger conference and chat with my fellow elearning developers.
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