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| Adding High Quality Narration to your e-Learning Courses Without Breaking the Bank |
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Adding High Quality Narration to your e-Learning Courses Without Breaking the Bank •Deliver research based evidence for using narration in e-learning courses • Describe the benefits • Provide best practices for integrating narration into the ISD process • from Efficiency in Learning (Clark, Nguyen, and Sweller) and other sources. •How to download and install Audacity • Audacity is a free, open source, cross platform sound editor • Provide a brief description of other affordable audio recording software •How to choose a microphone • Microphone recording properties (cardiod vs omnidirectional) • Microphone connections (USB vs powered) •How to build a portable sound booth • Necessary components • Costs and how to acquire the components •How to use Audacity to record narration • Create a recording using Audacity and the portable sound booth •How to use the Audacity Effects to enhance the quality • Demonstrate some of the effects that Audacity provides to enhance the recording quality |
Michael Rohrer (Chevron Corp.) |
| ARGs for Education: Making Alternate Realty Gaming a Viable Instructional Strategy |
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As instructional designers and educational technologists, we are always looking for new and innovative ways for motivating learners and engaging them in learning experiences. In the virtual space, it is particularly challenging to create learning games and simulations that are contextualized and properly motivate the learner to achieve learning outcomes. Alternate reality games can create the type of learning experience that elicits intrinsic motivation in relevant and authentic contexts. In the last couple of years, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have been popping up more and more frequently on the internet as components of marketing campaigns, in promotional materials, and from independent sources. Can ARGs be leveraged for educational purposes? ARGs are relatively new to the instructional world with few organizations implementing them for instructional purposes. The session will discuss how ARGs could be a powerful instructional strategy. It will outline key concepts behind building and implementing an alternate reality game. It will introduce participants to ARGs, how they compare/contrast to other simulations and games, and what examples currently exist. Participants will then learn how ARGs can be used in their training programs and curricula. They will be shown actual examples of ARGs used for education as well as tips for creating their own. |
Lance Brown (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) |
| Articulate Presenter |
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This presentation covers the main features of the Articulate Presenter software. Topics include: Using master slides Inserting media Controling view options Publish settings (including for LMS) Changing the interface Adding audio Controling navigation options Previewing your work |
Andrew Scivally (Zions Bank) |
| Assembling Instructional Sequences using Learning Components |
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This is an advanced workshop on assembling instructional sequences using Learning Components. We will review the concepts and technical requirements behind reusable instructional software components. We will cover the object-oriented design principles of ActionScript 3 and Flex Builder that allows for much more flexible eLearning tool development. We will review the use of eLearning standards such as the Common Cartridge specification in the context of Learning Components. You will interact with the presenter during an instructional sequence and be able to assemble and deploy a sequence of your own. This is a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session. So, bring your laptop with the latest Flash Player installed. |
Thor Anderson (Utah Valley University) |
| Building RIAs (Rich Instructional Applications) with Flex Builder and AS3 |
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eLearning developers now have a great platform to work with since Adobe's move to ActionScript 3 and the tools provided with CS4 and Flex Builder. We can build "Rich Instructional Applications" that are on par with the Rich Internet Applications software developers now deliver. This presentation will present some of the key principles and practices of software developers that eLearning developers should understand and adopt to make their RIAs the best possible. We will also see sample RIAs that make use of these principles. |
Thor Anderson (Utah Valley University) |
| Captivate 3.0 Simulations for the Live Online (Virtual) Classroom |
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In this presentation participants will create a software teaching simulation that can be used in a live-online (virtual) classroom using MS Office 2007, Captivate 3.0 and Adobe Presenter. They will learn the tips and trick that are needed to tweak the simulations and how to publish to the Acrobat Connect environment. Also, participants will learn how to efficiently deploy the simulations during the live broadcast delivery. |
Tamara JG Barbosa (Ideas Designed Group) |
| Collaborative Online Course Authoring with Unison |
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Imagine being able to log in from any location and build interactive Flash-based content that includes quizzes, tests, learning games and simulations.
Imagine being able to work collaboratively in real-time with your colleagues on the same project without stepping on each others' toes.
Imagine easily collecting and managing course review feedback.
In this product demonstration of Unison, you will see Flash-based course development like you've never seen it before. It's easy, it's fast, and it's all online! Every participant will receive access to a free trial account.
NOTE: This is not a hands-on session. To try out Unison hands-on, you may want to attend the BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session titled "Collaborate or Go Home: Web 2.0 Collaboration Meets Interactive eLearning Development". |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Creating Custom Courses Using the ANGEL Learning Management Suite |
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This session will show how to create custom learning paths in your online course using the ANGEL Learning Management Suite. With automated agents, you can release content based on student performance, providing both remedial help and enrichment automatically. You can also track learning objectives and performance against standards to ensure your students have the competencies they need. |
Tracy Newman (Johnson County Community College) |
| Digital Storytelling: How to Bring Your Stories to Life |
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Everyone has a story to tell – but how can we effectively communicate these stories to our online students? Using photographs, copyright-free music, and iMovie ‘08, this session will demonstrate the creation of a short digital story from start to finish. The finished movie can be posted to a website or LMS to share with students. |
Tracy Newman (Johnson County Community College) |
| Emotional Foundation for Developing Higher Order Thinking in E-learning |
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E-learning continues to grow in prominence in the training industry. American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reported that among the $134.39 billion spent by U.S. organizations on employee learning and development in 2007, approximately one third (32.6%) was spent in technology-based delivery. This is an almost 300% increase from just six years ago. Despite such phenomenal growth, much of the current e-learning content still focuses on concepts, facts, and procedures that require mostly the lower order thinking of memorizing and comprehending. As a profession, instructional designers are lacking in the design and development of e-learning that engages higher order thinking such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem-solving. These complex cognitive skills are critical because they are needed in every managerial position. The instructional design model that will be presented in this session provides an effective framework for developing e-learning that caters to higher order thinking. It has three components (understanding, peer-teaching, and application) based on a positive emotional foundation. The presentation will focus primarily on the emotional aspect because it is often overlooked in online instructions. Yet, recent development in neuroscience has shown the intertwined relationship between thinking and emotions. Factors affecting learner emotions will be discussed and strategies will be provided. |
Peter Chan & Ryan Dean (Brigham Young University Hawaii) |
| Escaping the Flash timeline: Using event-based tween classes to orchestrate dynamic learning experiences |
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For years designers have harnessed the visual capacities of Flash to create innovative, engaging online environments that provide learners with aesthetically-rich experiences. The Flash timeline is a wonderful instrument for animating movie-clips, organizing assets on the stage, visually orienting the layers of a project, and creating multiple label-based states of interactivity. However, when transitioning between varying levels of user interaction, the linearity of the timeline can hinder a designer’s intended creative and seamless flow of the project. However, if the sequence of events and presentation of task media must dynamically adapt to learner inputs, predetermined frame states generally will not provide a seamless sense of interaction. To this effect, instructional designers require a dynamic, event-based method for presenting media and affording user-controlled states of interaction. This presentation will focus on using tween classes and event-based logic to generate a fresh perspective on learner interactivity and the aesthetic design of Flash learning environments. |
Tom Reinartz and Charlie Miller (University of Minnesota) |
| Every Problem Is a Nail: How VMware Turns SME's Into Course Developers while Improving Quality and Reducing Costs |
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This session is aimed specifically at training managers for high-tech companies, but the general topics are applicable across industries. VMware has spent the last several years trying to balance the need for subject matter expertise in a limited availability environment with the need for high-quality outputs following sound instructional design principles. VMware has also struggled with duplication of effort across groups and the associated political issues that arose as the economic downturn started to take effect while inter-group efficiencies were sought. A discussion more than a solution, this session will catalog that journey with a critical eye towards what has worked, what has not worked, and what areas the results have yet to be determined. We will openly discuss both successes and failures, and heavy audience participation will be encouraged. |
Jason Eden (VMWare) |
| Flash Your Audience: Harnessing the Power of Embedded Flash |
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Not everyone is a Flash expert but you can harness the power of Flash and bring a new level of engagement to your audience without commandeering an army of programmers. We will cover what to do, and more importantly, what not to do when creating Flash content for use with a rapid design tool like Adobe Presenter. We will provide techniques that integrate Flash into the activities you create using other e-learning development tools such as Presenter, Articulate, Captivate or Lectora. We will also present the process of integrating a Flash file into content created with the advanced development tool Lectora, including the ability for communication between Flash and Lectora content. Don’t just embed Flash, bring it to life and put it to use. After attending this presentation you will be able to: • Integrate Flash into content created with other e-learning tools. • Identify elements of Flash that may cause problems when integrated with content created using other Flash based tools. • Take advantage of pre-built Flash learning objects. • Enable communication between Lectora and embedded Flash content Attendees will receive a CD containing the source code used in the presentation. |
Steven Burkey (BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois) |
| Games for Learning: Development Process Examined |
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The use of video games for learning is among the latest trend in training and learning. To create such a game that is a success requires the merging of two very different worlds, and two very different development cultures. Through first hand case studies, we will interactively explore key requirements for any project team before embarking on a serious game project. Best practices will be explored which will include: finding the best development process, working within scheduling and budget constraints, working with subject matter experts and making your game engaging and dare we say...fun while still meeting your learning objectives. |
Duane M. Dunfield (Red Hot Learning Inc.) |
| Getting Started with Adobe Flex |
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The Flex development environment can be tricky for the uninitiated. During this seminar, participants will learn how to navigate the Adobe Flex environment, how to use several of the basic tools available within Flex, and will deploy programs to the web and desktop environments using Adobe Air technology. During this class experience participants will develop using two types of code that are utilized in the Flex environment: Actionscript 3.0 and MXML. Both languages are powerful and easy to learn. Participants in this seminar will leave feeling confident in their ability to continue learning in the powerful Flex environment. Participants will receive complimentary access to the instructor's online Adobe Flex course. |
Mark Lassoff (Internet Broadcasting Group) |
| Hollywood Here We Come! ELearning in the Internet TV Era |
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Millions of people visit Internet TV sites like YouTube every single month. If your business isn't putting content out there, you're missing out on a potentially massive marketing opportunity. Learn the pros and cons of using tools like Adobe Captivate to create content specifically to drive an audience to your company's products and for-pay training offerings. Learn how VMware is using YouTube and Blip.Tv to provide free eLearning to customers in an effort to market products, proliferate technical knowledge, and gain mindshare. Learn some of the techniques VMware used to rapidly build training proliferation programs (beyond Internet TV) and some of the difficulties encountered. |
John Tuffin (VMWare) |
| I see what you mean! Visual Design in E-learning |
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Take instructional design to the next level by adding visual design to your learning products. Find just the right image, use parts of it, or design your own graphics to illustrate and communicate ideas. This session will showcase a gallery of visual e-learning designs and discuss how to create, adapt, and use graphics to enhance meaning and interest for any type of content. |
Lee Bandy (Magellan Health Services) |
| Incorporating custom-Built Flash into Articulate via the API |
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Articulate is very useful tool and sometimes developers want to add custom Flash bits to it. By utilizing the API provided by Articulate you can ensure these bits 'talk' to the course. With the API you can prevent the student from moving forward until they have completed your drag-n-drop. You can have your Flash piece assume the look and feel of your course automatically. This session will provide demonstrations of Flash within and communicating with Articulate. There will be some examples of the code required to make this magic happen. |
James Kingsley (Dominion Power) |
| Integrating Adobe Captivate Demonstrations in an Adobe Presenter Enhanced PowerPoint eLearning Course |
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This presentation will try to answer the question: How do I create eLearning using Adobe Presenter (the MS PowerPoint plug-in) that includes demonstrations and simulations created in Adobe Captivate? Topics of discussion:
• Issues around running demonstrations and simulations in or from PowerPoint
• The differences between demonstrations and simulations
• Quick overview on creating demonstration and simulations with Adobe Captivate
• Screen size issues when creating demos and sims and how to work around them
• Running Captivate created demos/sims in Presenter enhanced PowerPoint
• Launching Captivate created demos/sims from Presenter enhanced PowerPoint
• When is it better to create the entire project (from the ground up) in Captivate |
Russell Lash (Cavalcade Designs, Inc.) |
| Integrating Four Dimensions into Learning Solutions |
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The recent surge of tools and platforms has changed the dynamic for eLearning technologies. Social networking and more powerful mobile platforms can add to the depth and quality of traditional web-based or blended programs. But maximizing the impact of the tools requires rethinking the overall approach to technology-based learning. This presentation will discuss a four level integrated approach utilizing a blended approach with new tools and platforms, including social networking and mobile devices. |
Stephen Henn (SmartPros) |
| Interactive Branching Simulations with Flash |
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After teaching methods to your students online, it's ideal to be able to give them a chance to do more than just take a test to repeat what they've learned. The best way to reinforce learning is to apply the lessons to actual scenarios. This session will show you how to create engaging video/audio simulations with "real" clients that will better train your students and wow your customers. The course will discuss both instructional design challenges of branching and the hand's on methods for developing it within Flash. |
Nigel Dobereiner (Westfield State College) |
| Introduction to Component Development with Flex |
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This session will introduce the novice Flex developer to the concept of reusable components. We will cover component design, class and interface development, folder structuring, and data binding. At the end of the session the student will have created a full functioning video player component that they can use. |
Mark Henry (Mark Henry Enterprises, Inc) |
| Let Pictures Tell the Story: How to Stage a Scene for E-learning |
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Make e-learning engaging and effective with image assets artfully arranged. This session will show you how to use Fireworks and PowerPoint to manipulate and assemble images for scene backgrounds and story templates. See examples of original scene designs and learn about the techniques used to create them. |
Lee Bandy (Magellan Health Services) |
| Lightweight, Low-cost LMS to the Rescue |
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Have you been shocked at the costs of behemoth LMS solutions? Do you really need to buy a Hummer to drive down to the corner market? When all you want to do is provide a scalable, easy-to-implement solution for your learners to launch courses and track their course completion and student data, you don't need to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year. Come and see how this inexpensive, lightweight, scalable, SCORM-conformant LMS can save you tens of thousands of dollars every year. |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Managing e-Learning Development Using CleanCourse DMS |
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This tool lets you track issues, tasks, and documents associated with multiple projects in a single, easy to use tool. Maintain control over the multiple projects you develop and the workers assigned to each project in a simple, efficient, and easy to use on-line tool! No more passing spreadsheets around to keep status of issues and assignments or worse yet, the notepad full of illegible handwriting and scribbles! No more putting up with bug tracking and project management tools that "kind of" work for your projects. CleanCourse was designed by e-learning developers for e-learning developers! Stay on top of your projects and spend more of your time developing, not managing headaches and cleaning up messes. |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Mission Impossible: Develop ELearning Today on a Product That Does Not Exist. BTW, Your Time Machine is Broken. |
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At VMware, self-paced training is most valuable on Day 1 of a product release. Internal customers and consulting partners may need training materials long before that release date. This means our developers must write the courseware weeks (or sometimes months) before the product is released. Is this possible? This session will cover successful strategies and procedures for how to develop eLearning materials for a new product while the product is still on the drawing board. Learn how VMware develops lesson plans, strategic internal alliances, and lab and recording environments, as well as the QA process used to ensure content is technically accurate both before and after the product is launched. |
Daniel Crider (VMWare) |
| Mobile eLearning: A Reality |
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This session covers mobile content creation and delivery solutions to an increasingly mobile world. |
Robert Sanregret (Hot Lava Software) |
| Mobile Recording Studios for High Quality e-Learning Anywhere |
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Global e-learning strategy and how portable audio and video podcast kits enabled zero cost, distributed e-learning development using free tools and enterprise standard tools globally. |
Dr. Arthur Paton (Motorola) |
| Practical Solutions for Managing the Bandwidth Straw |
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Everyone knows you can’t suck an elephant through a straw, but we continue to try by building multimedia rich WBT and hoping our learners can use it. This session will offer practical solutions that consider media servers, progressive and streaming media, and minimum suggested standards for internet connection and server speed. We’ll follow a successful case study of a WBT lesson that not only contained graphics, audio, and video, but also several many multi-layered interactive Flash activities called PBAT. Come join the fun and test drive the online performance-based assessment training activity (PBAT). |
André Chatelain (Applied Simulation Technologies) |
| Practice NOW! |
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So many training programs rely on spoon feeding screen after screen of information to our users, only to culminate in one or two very simplistic opportunities to practice the skills presented. This session turns that ideal topsy-turvy; here we will discuss:
- What this methodology offers that PowerPoint presentations simply cannot.
- What it takes to get your user to practice NOW.
- How to design it.
- How to support it.
- Why your users will like it more than the bland oatmeal they're used to. |
Mark Henry (Mark Henry Enterprises, Inc) |
| Quality Begins Before You Do: Use Lean Manufacturing and the Theory of Constraints to Bake in QA Starting Before Step 0 |
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A.K.A. Building an eLearning process that reduces variability, increases quality, and bakes QA throughout the development cycle. -- In many eLearning groups, Quality Assurance (QA) is an event that takes place after a course is developed to tie up loose ends. Sure to be controversial, this presentation will examine the theory that rather than being an after-development event, QA should drive every step of the eLearning development process, including the decisions around which tools to use to create eLearning in the first place. What can eLearning managers learn from Lean Manufacturing? Can limiting your options enhance creativity? These and other questions will be addressed in the context of VMware's eLearning development process. |
Jason Eden (VMWare) |
| Quality Courses with Camtasia |
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Many are familiar with the tool Camtasia, which is used to make screen recordings for online courses, demonstrations, and simulations. However, the results from using Camtasia are often of lower quality than one might desire. This session will demonstrate how to fully utilize the Camtasia suite to develop thoroughly watchable and professional online courses, simulations and demonstrations. The session will include the basics of shooting video for Camtasia, recording quality audio and editing techniques to give your work a quality, polished feel. Participants in the session will be able to improve the quality of their Camtasia presentations by apply the techniques taught by the instructor. |
Mark Lassoff (Internet Broadcasting Group) |
| Rapid e-Learning Development Using ProForm Rapid e-Learning Studio |
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Learn how your instructional designers can create interactive Flash-based SCORM-conformant e-learning courseware without having to know a line of code or learn a complex authoring environment. Moreover, learn how any knowledgeable Adobe Flash developer can easily customize ProForm to fit any need. This tool is built to accommodate "interchangeable parts" making it fully extensible. Use or modify default templates and functionality, or use them as a starting point and build your own. |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Ready, Set, SCRUM! |
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The SCRUM project management methodology has taken hold of the programming field over the past several years. See how this powerful, yet simple, process can help you get control of your projects right from day 1. |
Mark Henry (Mark Henry Enterprises, Inc) |
| Simple Simulations, Super-fast -- or -- To Simulate, Should I Recreate? |
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Are multiple recording modes the best way to create simulations in Captivate? You need to create a software demonstration and a simulation. Is it quicker and more efficient to use Captivate's Assessment Simulation and Training Simulation recording modes to create three files at once, or are you better off creating the demonstration, then using it to build your simulation/assessment? This session shows you the techniques for building an effective simulation quickly, and the pros and cons of the listed approaches. We will also discuss methods VMware uses to get around some of the inherent limitations in the software, particularly around text entry boxes (or command line simulations) and multi-step failure sequences. |
Philip Boyer (VMWare) |
| That's Not What I Ordered |
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Your immovable deadline is fast approaching and your Captivate demonstration is finally finished and ready for public viewing. But, as often happens, you get last-second changes that must be made. What do you do when some slides are incorrect, show buttons that no longer exist (or don't show buttons that now do exist) or show confidential/incorrect information, and there is no time to re-record? Learn tips and tricks for using popular tools (SnagIt, Microsoft Word, and even Captivate itself) to quickly doctor your Captivate videos and make them look like they are original recordings. |
Philip Boyer (VMWare) |
| The Future of Mobile Learning |
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This session is a panel discussion by experts in the area of mobile learning, mobile testing and mobile surveys. |
Robert Sanregret (Hot Lava Software) |
| The Meaning is in the Mechanics |
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The recent use of games for learning has created a new breed of games – one where entertainment is not the ultimate goal. While there have been some wonderful successes, more often the result has been a plethora of games that are neither effective nor engaging. In this interactive session we will contrast simulation and games and look at different genres of games that are currently being created for learning. Narrative and storytelling are an important part of many of these game genres, but is it enough? The session we will examine how “form follows function” with serious game development and the power that meaningful game mechanics have for engaging the player with the content. |
Duane M. Dunfield (Red Hot Learning Inc.) |
| Training Goes Fruity: ELearning on an Apple iPhone or a RIM Blackberry |
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Do you need your training materials to be as mobile as your customers? Learn how to use Adobe Captivate 4.0 to create custom content and screencasts for video phones, as well as small-window formats such as YouTube or crowded web pages. Best practices for small window content will be discussed, as well as specific examples of ways VMware has leveraged the full range of new features in Captivate 4.0. |
Daniel Crider (VMWare) |
| Using ActionScript 3.0 to Enhance A Captivate movie. |
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This presentation will demonstrate how to execute commands and send variables back and forth between an ActionScript 3.0 movie and a loaded ActionScript 2.0 movie created with Captivate. We will use this technique to execute commands, send, and receive variables between the movies. This technique opens up a wide range of creative possibilities using Captivate as a launching point. After reviewing the codes used, we will look at some examples of custom objects I have written to trick out our Captivate movies which enables my group to collaborate in developing the course content. |
Bradley Kemp (Information Builders) |
| Using Adobe Captivate 3 templates to Build Computer Systems Training |
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Learn to use Adobe Captivate 3 templates to develop training for multi-role computer systems. Developing training for an enterprise computer system can be a daunting task. In this session you will learn how to perform a simple system task analysis and then use Adobe Captivate 3 templates to develop task-based mini-tutorials. Templates for task analysis and Adobe Captivate 3 will be provided. |
David Whitworth (Amgen Inc.) |
| Using Custom Classes in Flash: Create Reusable Functionality |
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With Flash and ActionScript 3, you can create custom classes that provide functionality you can reuse throughout an e-learning application. This session will show the development of an interactive CD companion to a written workbook, in which interactive exercises help reinforce concepts and let students practice the material. |
Tracy Newman (Johnson County Community College) |
| Using Open-Source Blogs (and other Low-Cost Tools) to Create Video-Based eLearning Modules. |
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Have you got some video from a conference or workshop that you'd like to turn into online learning modules? Have you got little or no budget to accomplish this? In this workshop you will see how easy it is to install Wordpress and/or Simple PHP Blog with a low-cost hosting provider, and then use these to create interactive online learning modules. This session also demonstrates the use of low-cost tools for creating and displaying web-standard FLV videos on your blog site. |
Stephen Mau (The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario) |
| Using SCORM to Deliver and Capture Assessments |
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The SCORM and AICC standards speak to delivering assessments, but there are important-to-note limitations when attempting to use products based on them to deliver high-stakes testing, or even casual surveys. Most off-the-shelf online assessment creation products do not support these standards consistently, do not generate assessments that can be easily integrated with SCORM compliant LMS', and provide a wide range of user and administrator experiences. This presentation focuses on the benefits of using SCORM to deliver assessments, the drawbacks in the SCORM standard which restrict utility, and provides a comparative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the products available to support this role. |
Christopher Bobbitt (Health Communications, Inc.) |
| Using SharePoint 2007 as an Extranet for Blended eLearning and Communities of Practice |
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While known primarily as an enterprise portal platform, the latest version of SharePoint can be configured as an extranet and used to provide eLearning and online collaboration opportunities in membership-based organizations. Learn how a large teachers federation leveraged SharePoint 2007 and related technologies to provide long-term online learning opportunities to its membership. The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario has adopted a long-term approach to professional development that involves action research, the use of trained facilitators, and a blended model of eLearning with both face-to-face and online sessions. This presentation will focus on both this blended model for professional learning, and the use of SharePoint to deliver the online components. |
Stephen Mau (The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario) |
| Virtual Pedagogical Agents: Bringing Life to eLearning |
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Over the last few years, online or virtual personifications are increasing. Many know them as avatars, and they are being used in a variety of different applications. This session will look at how carefully constructed "avatars" can act as virtual teachers/guides self study eLearning and other virtual learning environments. The virtual pedagogical agent can help the self-study feel more like an interaction that approximates a relationship like that of a student/teacher, coach/coachee, or a guided/the guided. Participants will learn how virtual pedagogical agents can improve the learning experience and add life to a CBT. The session will also discuss the steps in developing an agent, how the agent can be integrated into the content, and other considerations. |
Lance Brown (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) |
| Web 2.0 and Authentic Learning and Instruction |
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Interested in powerful and inexpensive e-learning tools? Then come explore what Wikis, RSS feeds, tagging, social networks and other Web 2.0 software have to offer education and training environments. We will examine specific tools and how they can be used toward active, collaborative, and meaningful learning. |
Tom Reinartz and Charlie Miller (University of Minnesota) |
| What's in Your Technical Training Tool Bag? Comparitive Analysis of Screencast Recording Tools |
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When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. Does every technical eLearning development project look like a certain type of nail because of the hammer you use? Learn the pros of cons of various screencast recording tools such as Adobe Captivate, Techsmith Camtasia, Flash Demo Builder, and others. See how the tools work and how they can be used to meet different needs in an eLearning development environment. |
John Tuffin (VMWare) |
| You do WHAT with PowerPoint? |
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Microsoft PowerPoint is often laughed at when discussing powerful tools to develop interactive e-Learning. Most training teams own the tool and under use it's full capabilities at creating interactive learning at hyper -speed. If you think that PowerPoint’s' functionality ends at bullet points and slide shows then this session will open your eyes to the capabilities and advantages of developing highly interactive content in PowerPoint can bring to your organization. This demo will include sampling of games, demos and simulators that were created in breakneck speed with powerful results. Attend to open your eyes on a low-cost compliment to your traditional developmental approach to eLearning which will let you save time, money and resources to deliver MORE scope to your educational offerings. |
Joel MacCharles (Allied International Credit) |
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