February 20, 2012
The past couple of years I’ve been blessed to get to go to Brussels for Thanksgiving and honored to meet with some of the world’s foremost leaders, thinkers, and even trouble-makers in the area of education. The European Union sponsors a wonderful conference on Media and Learning – which is genuinely filled with amazing attendees and speakers and always provides a great opportunity to enjoy great company and sensational food in an extraordinary city.
This year I was a little nervous about my presentation. I wanted to explore some time-honored principles in education and eLearning, and Continue reading…
January 13, 2012
Adobe Captivate HTML5 Rapid eLearning Development Contest
The top three entries win an iPad, so put on your thinking caps and come up with something amazing. Just follow the link to upload your entry directly on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/adobecaptivate?sk=app_303058359733981
January 2, 2012
Creating online learning materials isn’t always the easiest thing to do. That’s one reason a lot of Instructional Designers turn to cookie-cutter software and templates to churn out lessons that conform neatly to templates that were created to be as generic as possible. Unfortunately generic is seldom the best or most relevant approach to communicating the primary learning objectives of a given course module, so often times the end result looks at best dull and at worst is less than effective and engaging.
I also know from years working with Ph.D. students in Instructional Continue reading…
Looking for some examples to feed your creativity, help you learn more about how Adobe Captivate works, or just to add inspiration to your New Year? Look no further. I’ve added the big yellow download button to the sidebar of the Captivate blog so you can find the latest downloadable source demos. You’ll find them here. http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/adobe-captivate-presenter-elearning-suite-examples
Once you’ve had a look, why not leave comments and questions in the section below?
December 21, 2011
CTRL SHIFT G While you have a gradient selected. That’s the shorthand version of today’s hot Captivate tip on Gradient Goodness. Gradient Fill was added to Adobe Captivate 5.5, and it’s so intuitive and easy to use that immediately I saw tons of people taking advantage of this quick, simple way to get more interesting looks in their projects. But one question that often comes up is what are those little Continue reading…
November 28, 2011
I did a session at Media and Learning in Brussels last week. I’m embedding the slides below and including the link to the dowloadable deck with notes here.
The session was amazing including contributions from Helen Keegan, University of Salford, UK, Claudio Dondi, SCIENTER, Italy, Gráinne Conole, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester, UK and Moderator: Tom Wambeke, ILO, Italy.
The audience acted as co-panelist and helped us really focus in Continue reading…
November 18, 2011
I did a ten part series on the principles of eLearning as defined by researchers including Clark and Mayer and based largely on the cognitive theory of multimedia. Often people ask me about how to access the eSeminar recordings so this blog entry is to provide a shortcut for folks looking to watch the seminars.
10: Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 10: Individual Differences
Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for Continue reading…
I’ve been itching to write some about the proliferation of mobile devices in the wake of Tablet computers like the Apple iPad, the Samsung Galaxy, the Blackberry Playbook and a myriad of others for quite a while. Much of what I’ve read is very technical and always seems a little heavy on hype and light on practical solutions for eLearning. The salient question is, should we as eLearning developers be looking at ways to move our content onto these mobile devices in order to more effectively reach our audience? The answer is that we of course should, but also that we are faced with a host of new challenges as soon as we attempt to Continue reading…
October 17, 2011
After you’ve been creating eLearning for a while you’ll no doubt begin to find humor, or the potential for humor in the content that you develop. As we often work in teams, and report to a variety of personnel ranging from legal departments to subject matter experts – this generally gives rise to a very appropriate question: Should we add a joke?
The question of whether to educate or entertain is as old as learning itself. It’s no surprise that contemporary research has some answers for us. Zach Stambor did a very nice Continue reading…
September 19, 2011
I was pleased to hear from an old friend Cynthia Calongne, who is Chair of Emerging Media at Colorado Tech. She guided me to this fascinating news story from Yahoo! LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle-175427367.html
You might also recall that a few months ago I blogged about Jane McGonigal who has become well known Continue reading…
Trainers and Educators are always wishing that they had a magic way to remind their learners of things outside of class. Don’t forget to finish that module – Please bring your work or materials to our next session – Big test coming up. Sometimes these things are something you can schedule in advance because you know the calendar, and sometimes these things are last minute reminders. So whether you need to tell everyone in the company that the workplace safety compliance module must be Continue reading…
September 6, 2011
The iron is definitely hot when it comes to upgrading your copy of Adobe Captivate to Adobe eLearning Suite. In addition to the discount you get just for upgrading, Adobe is now slashing an additional 200$ US of the overall cost. Each week for the next ten weeks we’ll be posting the top ten reasons to upgrade now. Here’s the first hot reason to make your Continue reading…
The past couple of years I’ve been blessed to get to go to Brussels for Thanksgiving and honored to meet with some of the world’s foremost leaders, thinkers, and even trouble-makers in the area of education. The European Union sponsors a wonderful conference on Media and Learning – which is genuinely filled with amazing attendees and speakers and always provides a great opportunity to enjoy great company and sensational food in an extraordinary city. 
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