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I’m thrilled to announce a wonderful lineup of amazing eSeminars scheduled throughout June. We’ve got a solid group of eSeminars prepared for your learning and enjoyment and we hope you’ll jump right in and explore these awesome offerings. As always our eSeminars are free and focus on a broad variety of topics from basic technical implementation of your course modules, to advanced and even theoretical concepts in eLearning. If one is right for you, just click the link to register and get calendar updates.

Developing Large Quizzes in Adobe Captivate from Quiz Databases
Wednesday, June 05, 2013 10:00 AM US Pacific

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of methods for working with an established quiz database to rapidly create beautiful, interactive and effective quizzes using Adobe Captivate.

REGISTER HERE

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Adobe Captivate & Interactive eLearning
Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:00 AM US Pacific

Interactions add life to eLearning courses by making it engaging for the learners. It helps learners actively participate in the course and hence improves learning and retention. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how to transform the drab content screens to interactive eLearning courses in a few simple steps. They will also demonstrate how you can easily publish these courses to HTML5 and/or apps for mobile consumption. Don’t miss it!

REGISTER HERE

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Understanding Accessibility Standards for eLearning
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:00 AM US Pacific

Learn how to quickly and effectively build Accessibility compliant interactive courses in Adobe Captivate. Join Adobe Accessibility Specialist, Greg Pisocky & Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this deep dive explanation of accessibility in eLearning courses. Whether you are developing training for government, education or a commercial organization, you are very likely to face stringent organizational requirements and growing legal demands to ensure that your eLearning content is 100% accessible. Learn how to create your projects in Captivate, deliver them to either online or mobile learners, and deliver accessibility compliant courses to your organization’s accessibility officer that will easily meet standards and guidelines.

REGISTER HERE

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Create Your First eLearning Course
Monday, June 17, 2013 10:00 AM US Pacific

New to online course development? Never built an eLearning course in Adobe Captivate before? Never fear, we are here to help. Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of how to build beautiful interactive eLearning courses quickly using Adobe Captivate.

REGISTER HERE

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Drag and Drop Extravaganza
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:00 AM US Pacific

Learn how to make the most of drag and drop questions in Adobe Captivate. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. We’ll explore many examples of drag and drop for all different kinds of eLearning applications.

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The winners of this year’s CODiE awards have been announced by the SIIE and we’re very pleased to share the great news regarding Adobe Presenter. Adobe Presenter Video Creator, one of the favorite new features in Adobe Presenter 8, has been recognized as the winner in the Best Video Tool category.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

It is an honor to be recognized for Adobe Presenter Video Creator, and we hope you’ll Continue reading…

Topic: Adobe Captivate & Interactive eLearning

Date and time: Thursday, 6^th June, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific

Description: Interactions add life to eLearning courses by making it engaging for the learners. It helps learners actively participate in the course and hence improves learning and retention. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how to transform the drab content screens to interactive eLearning courses in a few simple steps. They will also demonstrate how you can easily publish these courses to HTML5 and/or apps for mobile consumption. Don’t miss it!

Registration Link

Wow it’s been a busy month+ for me. I’ve been traveling the world, meeting with amazing people all over the globe and I’ve learned so much about the way folks are working and creating great eLearning. Now that I’m back (at least for a little while) I really want to spend some time sharing eLearning ideas, secrets and strategies with as many people as possible.

I thought it might be fun to expand our regular eSeminar schedule and offer a special WEEK LONG eSeminar Series – and thus … Every Day eLearning. All next week from April 29 – May 3rd I’ll host daily eSeminars for you to join. They are free as always and appropriate for eLearning designers, developers and managers of all levels. I hope you’ll find one or more of interest and join us for these fun, informative sessions.

Here’s the list of next week’s sessions.

Every Day eLearning: The Power in PowerPoint
April 29, 2013
SPECIAL TIME: 1PM US Pacific
Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion of the potential power in PowerPoint presentations used for eLearning. We’ll examine ways to supercharge your eLearning PowerPoints using Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter, and talk about the pros & cons of PowerPoint for rapid eLearning Development.

Click here to register for FREE
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Every Day eLearning: What’s this slide about?
April 30, 2013
TIME: 10 AM US Pacific
Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion focused on one of the most fundamental problems eLearning developers face every day. Ideally every element of content that we produce for our learners is focused on furthering the educational objectives – but thousands of things can change that along the path to production and often we find ourselves asking – “What is this slide about?” We’ll examine the underlying problem, but more importantly, we’ll look for strategies to relocate, remove, or repurpose those crazy off-point slides as you work to streamline and improve your content.

Click here to Register for FREE
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Every Day eLearning: From PowerPoint to Power Interactions
May 01, 2013
TIME: 10 AM US Pacific
How can you build interactions that engage and educate? Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion and demonstration of Interactions for eLearning using Adobe Captivate. This session will focus on creating interactions that are more fun and engaging for your learners, and still keep the educational ball moving toward the objectives at hand.

Click here to Register for FREE
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Every Day eLearning: What’s the story?
May 02, 2013
TIME: 10 AM US Pacific
Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion of the role of story in eLearning. We will explore the role that stories play in memory and describe ways to leverage narrative to enhance the education / training experience.

Click here to Register for FREE
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Every Day eLearning: Ask an Evangelist
May 03, 2013
TIME: 10 AM US Pacific
Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive opportunity to ask an Adobe Evangelist … anything. Wondering how to solve a special eLearning problem? Wish you understood some button or tool better? Here’s your chance. Come armed with questions or just come ready to learn from peers as we get together to solve the challenges you and your colleagues are facing every day.

Click here to Register for FREE
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Dear Adobe Captivate customer,

We want to make sure you’re aware of an important change to Adobe’s upgrade policy that may affect you. Only customers with licenses for Adobe Captivate 6 will qualify for upgrade pricing to Adobe Captivate 7. Due to this change, customers who own Adobe Captivate 4, 5 or 5.5 can get the special upgrade pricing only until the end of 31st May 2013.  With Adobe Captivate 6, you can create a wide variety of interactive eLearning content without programming and deliver to virtually any device.

See how Adobe Captivate 6 compares to previous versions.

Upgrade Now

Regards

Adobe Captivate Team

Gone are the days when you had to do heavy programming to add a drag and drop interaction to your eLearning courses. Now with the new Adobe Captivate 6 update (exclusively available for Subscription and ASA customers) you can create a drag and drop interaction in three simple steps. Just identify the drag object, identify the drop target, and show the relationship.

Can’t believe it’s that simple? Watch this Continue reading…

A few months ago I began working with a very talented team of developers from eLearning Brothers. Together we conceived and created a very cool soft skills training module using Adobe Captivate called ‘Quarantine.’

Quarantine is a scenario based / soft skills training module designed to teach new officers at a prisoner of war camp how to engage with prisoners and respond to prisoner requests. The catch? It’s a POW camp for Aliens.

The basic story is that Aliens known as the Lacertae have invaded earth and that there are now Aliens being held in various Prisoner of War Camps around the planet and in orbit. You are a part Continue reading…

Last month, we released a new update for Adobe Presenter 8. This release grants an early access to fantastic new features and is available only to customers on Adobe Software Assurance plans for Adobe Presenter and eLearning Suite (as well as customers on maintenance agreements and eLearning Suite 6/6.1 subscriptions.) For customers not on these plans, these new features are expected to also appear in the next full release of Presenter.

In the announcement post for Adobe Presenter 8 updates, Dr. Allen Partridge talked about some of the key features, like the new audio workflow, enhanced Adobe Presenter Mobile App, automatic closed captioning for Presenter Video Creator, Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013 support, and enhanced interactions library. Along with these key features, we also have some interesting new features added to Adobe Presenter 8, which are accessibility support, closed captions, direct option to hide playbar, and ability to add a title at the beginning of the videos created using Adobe Presenter Video Creator.

Let’s talk about these features in detail: Continue reading…

The Adobe eLearning team is thrilled today to announce the immediate availability of a very special release of Adobe Presenter 8. This release will grant early access to fantastic new features and is available only to customers on Adobe Software Assurance plans for Adobe Presenter & eLearning Suite (as well as those customers on maintenance agreements and eLearning Suite 6 / 6.1 Subscriptions.)

For customers not on these subscription plans these features are expected to also appear in the next full release of Presenter.

Let’s have a look at the exciting new features.

New audio workflow
The new audio interface is slim and sweet! You’ll love the simplicity.
With just a couple buttons it’s an incredibly intuitive audio interface. Now you can record and sync audio with your PowerPoint slides effortlessly. Just click the Continue reading…

Topic: What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6 Update

Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they take you through an interesting tour of the new features introduced in the exclusive update for subscription and ASA customers. During this session, learn how to use the Adobe Captivate App Packager to add HTML5 animations and package your courses as an app. Also learn how to create custom drag-and-drop interactions using Captivate, record system audio, author in right-to-left languages, add new interactions to your courses like Jigsaw, Hourglass, and Hangman, and much more.

Recording link

I don’t usually talk about buying and selling our eLearning products. I suppose to some this might seem strange. After all, I do work for Adobe and we do make some amazing software. When asked about it I’ll usually say, “I just show how the software works and talk about eLearning, the products pretty much sell themselves.” And honestly, that’s true. The teams continue to improve the products so quickly that I’m almost always able to say “Yes, we can do that.”

So why a post about subscriptions. Well today is a very special day. It’s a day of a promise fulfilled. Today, subscription, Adobe Software Assurance (ASA) and other customers who have various forms of subscription agreements will get early access to Adobe Captivate features in Continue reading…

By now you must have realized that I love reading books, especially if they are related to eLearning, Instructional Design, mLearning, or Captivate. This time I picked up books authored by Kevin Siegel, who is a fantastic trainer and a fabulous person with a great sense of humor.

I’ve attended some of his face-to-face and online trainings in the past and he has a magic mantra of keeping the audience engaged in the class throughout the session. There’s absolutely no dull moment in his class and I really admire him for that! So, my self-assigned task while reading these books was to gauge if his books were as engaging and effective as his training sessions are!

The mission started with Continue reading…