I’ve been using Captivate 4 extensively for a week now and I think it’s just a completely different product from previous versions. It’s awesome, while previous versions were just marginally useful to me. Heck, this blog gets hundreds of readers per day and you know why? Because of the Captivate posts. But as I’ve told [...]
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Adobe Releases Captivate 4 and the Elearning Suite
Today, Adobe released Captivate 4 and the ‘Elearning Suite’. As I stated in a previous post, Captivate 4 is a must-have, monster upgrade for any Captivate user. It is the first Captivate release that can reasonably produce a complete elearning content package. Prior versions either forced users to live with the inadequate and ugly ‘menu [...]
Adobe Captivate 4 Coming Soon
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 [...]
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 It’s been sitting in my unpublished ‘pages’ list, of all places, as I mistakenly left it there (why I put it into a ‘page’ versus a ‘post’ I have no idea!).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
UPDATE Nov. 30, 2009: Amazingly (to me, anyways) this post was written in 2007. It feels like it has been 5+ years since I wrote it! In fact, many folks have emailed me over the past 6 months or so asking me how to get this template to work with Word 2007, to which I [...]
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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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