Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint. Subject matter experts will find it much easier to tell stories than to articulate what they know in terms of neat and tidy abstractions. Funnily enough, learners won''t be any different.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The formula appears to be pretty consistent: Purchase some licenses for one of the more popular rapid authoring tools, typically Articulate / Adobe Presenter (for PowerPoint-based content) or Adobe Captivate (where there's more of an IT training bias). Many of my colleagues are doing the same.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2008

Thanks to your helpful comments and suggestions, I did not give up and tried to make this type of questioning work with two of the most popular tools, Captivate and Articulate. Perhaps the next generation of Articulate QuizMaker will make all this extra work redundant?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Leslie demonstrated how easy it was to narrate a PowerPoint presentation, export it as an MP4 video and play it back on a video iPod. So, I took the presentation on The story of the 30-minute masters that I created last week in Articulate and decided to re-create it in a movie format that would work for both YouTube and the iPod (MP4).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is no more than a natural evolution from their traditional responsibility for the production of PowerPoint slides and handouts which support most classroom events. What this is not saying is that l&d professionals need to be able to create interactive self-study courses which completely replace their face-to-face predecessors.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 8, 2007

In the first two parts of this posting I reflected first on the importance of visualisation to memory and then on the effect on both me as presenter and on my audience of the absence of any PowerPoint slides at a networking dinner I spoke at. I am assuming, of course, that the slides really were visual aids and not textual prompts for me.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Now, to arrive at a manageable number of alternatives, you have to sub-divide the market into categories: Rapid tools ( Articulate , Captivate , Atlantic Link ) as opposed to whatever the others are called ( Authorware , Lectora , etc.). When confronted by too much choice, consumers choose familiar options.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

First of all this person did not like Word-based scripts or storyboards - he wanted each programme to start life as a PowerPoint that approximated the finished product. Fair enough. Testing : Don't assume you've got it right - test it locally. Avoid including words in your images and animations.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Articulate, for PowerPoint to Flash, quizzes and interactions. At the same time, over the past month, I have had to shell out mucho dollars for: Adobe Flash 8 upgrade. Adobe Captivate, for screen capture/demos, rather like Wink. Cubase 4 upgrade, for digital audio production. All in all more than £1000 (about $1800).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

It's OK to have lots of tools, if you can afford them. Just use the tool that does the best job for the task in hand.

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