We receive many enquiries on how to download the Text-to-Speech voices from our site... I have to say the experience can be a little bit of a treasure hunt. For now, RJ, our senior evangelist, has created a quick how-to movie to help users with locating and installing this content: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/text2speechdwnld/
Well yes!.. Printed versions of your e-learning courses prove to be instrumental in re-iterating the learning. They can turn out to be of huge help when you need a reference at future point of time when the e-learning course is no more accessible.
Recently, I took an e-learning course on how to file income tax returns. Boy!! Believe me filing IT returns in India is pretty taxing. When I actually sat down to file my returns I wished I had some kind of hard copy of the e-learning course which could have helped me file my returns.
It then struck me that the e-learning author should have provided us with a printed version of the course so that people like me could refer it at later point of time. Adobe Captivate could have helped here. Adobe Captivate does a great job in converting you re-learning course into MS Word document. Once you have the document you could print it to create the hard copies of the course which can be referenced by the users at later point of time. In my opinion this is a huge advantage which re-iterates the learning.
Let us check out what Adobe Captivate has to offer in this paradigm. Well, with captivate you could publish your file to MS word in following formats:
You would find above options in the publish dialog:
So you see..How the printed version of the e-learning course could have made my life easy. Do you still think that printed version of an e-learning course is ironical?? Happy publishing to word!!
The Captivate team is going to present in full strength at ASTD TK 2010 in Las Vegas. Do stop by the booth to meet our evangelist, Allen, who recently delivered the popular webinars on Cp and mLearning. Also at the booth is Tridib, the director of products (and my boss). They will be discussing our plans for the future, and will help answer any questions or concerns you have about the current product. Tridib is also hosting one of the concurrent sessions titled ’Collaboration thru the cloud’. If you’ve been toying with ideas on fostering collaboration in your elearning authoring process; or about getting the learners more involved to become active participants in making the course a living document- Tridib’s session will help you analyze the advantages of different collaboration models; and identify areas where you could improve some of your current processes by benchmarking against your peers.
Come prepared to share the current modes of communication between the different entities (author, SME, learner); and collaboratively create a model that can be used in different parts of the learning workflow.
Session #: W105
Date: Wednesday, 1/27, 11.00AM- 12.15PM, Room Miranda 3/5
I couldn't resisted the opportunity to highlight the growing number of lowercase aTtachments to various terms in an attempt to describe efficiently the evergrowing array of associations. ;)
We've created links to this weeks Adobe eLearning eSeminars at the locations below. The sessions were well attended and each lasted about an hour. The first has a more pragmatic emphasis with a focus on creating and delivering mLearning solutions using Adobe Captivate and the eLearning Suite. The second is a deeper dive into the issues surrounding mLearning. Is it time to explore this channel? Are we hitting a new wave? Is it all still just hype? Links are below;
Title: How do I make eLearning mobile?
Duration: 01:00:29
URL for Viewing: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?loc=en_us&id=1578639&event=register_no_session
Summary: A step by step walk through of producing mobile eLearning content with Captivate and the eLearning Suite.
Language: English
Title: Is it really time for mobile eLearning?
Duration: 01:03:48
URL for Viewing: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?loc=en_us&id=1578643&event=register_no_session
Summary: mLearning; Beyond the Hype. A discussion of deeper issues relative to mobile delivery and eLearning. What is the critical tipping point? An examination of the mobile environment demographics and fiscal motives. A quest to find and share information about successful, and unsuccessful attempts at eLearning with mobile delivery.
Language: English
Many of you must have received a mailer yesterday, inviting you to participate in the Captivate User Survey. Unfortunately, due to some technical glitches, the survey site was down. Our vendors have fixed the issue, and the survey is now live. We apologize for any inconvenience caused yesterday, and hope that you will take 15 mins to answer this survey. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us in improve the product.
If you did not receive the mailer, but would still like to participate, please do so by following this link.
