October 21, 2009
If you are planning to attend DevLearn next month, there is a great opportunity to brush up your knowledge of Captivate 4. Joe Ganci, our advisory board member is conducting a certificate program on ‘creating outstanding eLearning with Adobe Captivate’. The session is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 10th. This year, the Captivate QE managers will be assisting Joe during this course. This session is packed with exercises and you will learn:
In this session, you will learn:
- The new features of Captivate v4
- How to create interactive software simulations
- How to create a soft-skills simulation
- How to make use of audio and video elements
- How to create interactive elements
- How to set up quizzes
- How to properly select publishing options
In addition to this certificate program, there are two other concurrent sessions which provide you an opportunity to learn Captivate and eLearning suite. Kevin Siegel, the author of the popular Captivate 4 book, will be conducting a class on ‘Convergence of eLearning and online training- effective tools’ and if you are interested in the complete eLearning Suite, you will want to check out Steve Howard’s session on ‘Adobe eLearning Suite- a whistle stop tour’. In Steve’s session you will learn about the tools in the eLearning Suite, how they integrate with each other, and how to leverage some of the great new features for e-Learning and performance support. In the coming days I will post more info on our plans at DevLearn, and some of the sessions the Adobe team is conducting.
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October 20, 2009
Captivate 4 has several avenues for possible extensions- especially given the new widgets and variables features. Captivate, like many of the other Adobe products, has an exchange where third parties can share product extensions and other assets that the larger Captivate community might find useful. While the exchange has been dormant for a while, a new set of content has been introduced on exchange this month. The new content on exchange ranges from widgets to stock animations- each of which you will find useful in enhancing the projects you create using Captivate. Most of the content on exchange is free. Even the ones you need to purchase are great value for money- given that it will allow you to differentiate your Captivate projects from the others, or achieve that special task that your customer wants executed in just this specific manner. Some of the new stuff on exchange I like are:
- Resume widget/ Bookmark widget- which allows your users to resume a course from the point they left off.
- Short answer formatting widget- that allows you to specify the font format for the short answer question type in Captivate
- The YAOTI animations- stock videos of actors phrasing common lines used in a course
- The corner peel widget- a nice fancy navigation alternative
- Launch Pad- a Flexible framework to launch multiple Captivate movies from one web page.
Also, if there are assets or extensions that you would like to share with or sell to the community, please submit them on exchange.
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October 19, 2009
We have a new Captivate webinar coming up on Wednesday, October 21st, and we have a new speaker in Rick Zanotti. Rick has been creating eLearning content for decades and is an old hand at Captivate. He was one of the original consultants Macromedia tapped during the Robodemo days. Also, Rick is a hardcore practitioner and runs his own eLearning development firm out of Camarillo, California. A community expert, he runs a popular podcast on Captivate, and has a wealth of best practices and tips and tricks that will surely aid you in your eLearning development.
In this session titled ‘Interactivity in Virtual Classrooms: Adobe Captivate and Acrobat Connect Pro’ you will learn how to easily create interactive learning content, from engaging demonstrations to interactive simulations and quizzes, and how to deploy and track in a virtual classroom. Rick will also review the latest features and benefits of Adobe Captivate, show you how to interact with simulation and game examples directly in the Acrobat Connect Pro virtual classroom, and teach you the integration points between Adobe Captivate and Connect Pro
If you deliver courses or training via virtual classrooms, or create asynchronous eLearning content using Adobe Captivate then this session is for you. Follow this link to register for the webinar.
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October 15, 2009
This year’s edition of the Adobe Learning Summit (ALS) is scheduled for November 9th at the San Jose Fairmont. It is collocated with DevLearn. This year ALS is going to be bigger and more exciting than ever. In many ways ALS is turning into MAX for eLearning. This is where we show some of the first sneak peeks of upcoming versions of our eLearning products. Those who attended last year will remember RJ’s session where he unveiled Adobe Captivate 4 and the announcement of our plans for an Adobe eLearning Suite. You should expect more of this at this year’s ALS. OK, let me let you in on one such plan- ALS attendees will get a first look at the Captivate Mac beta! We will also demonstrate some of the snazzy ideas our engineers are working on, that really don’t have a release schedule – but are just great ideas that we would like your feedback on. In addition to Captivate and eLearning Suite you will also see Presenter, Connect Pro and Flash.
We have Clay Shirky (the guru on social and economic effects of internet technologies) providing the opening keynote. Adobe’s increased focus on eLearning is underlined by the fact that this year, none other than Shantanu Narayen, our CEO, will be delivering the inaugural address.
You can register for the conference here. The Product Management team will also conduct deep dive sessions on Captivate and eLearning Suite on the sidelines of this conference. If you wish to participate in these sessions, please drop me an email.
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