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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. If you didn’t know Flash nor have an instructional design background, options were limited. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. Dreamweaver was the tool to use for web design and development.

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Development Tools - Should I Cut Out the Middle Guy?

eLearning Cyclops

Back when I first started developing e-learning courses, I used Macromedia's Authorware. For more interactive elements, I used Flash and imported the SWFs into Authorware. Over the years, I have used ToolBook, Trainersoft, and even Dreamweaver with Coursebuilder. No, I can skip the middle man and produce entire courses in Flash.

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My Top 10 e-Learning Tools

eLearning Cyclops

Adobe Flash - An essential tool for creating highly interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, and almost anything else you want if you can manage writing or finding the actionscript. And it worked very well with my Macromedia Flash when I was getting started in e-learning.

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Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction

Tony Karrer

Adobe Captivate Macromedia Dreamweaver fr. Articulate Presenter Lectora Macromedia Flash Profess ion. Altova XMLSpy CustomDoc Macromedia Authorware fro. Raptivity Know ledgePresenter Elicitis DEVELOPED IN-HOUSE Know ledgePlanet On-De man. Articulate Rapid E-Learning S. Flashform Rapid eLearning St.

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It’s time for upgrades, and a Poll

eLearning Development

This is a huge upgrade, and the first time Adobe has released a unified upgrade for all the Adobe and former Macromedia products. The CS4 Web Premium bundle now includes: Dreamweaver CS4. Flash CS4 Professional. Articulate Presenter is arguably the most popular PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool available. Fireworks CS4.

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Lesson I: Making your own Custom Articulate Player | LearnNuggets

NuggetHead

Please upgrade your browser TOOLS: The Articulate SDK: The first two lessons do not require the SDK as we are simply building the ‘skin’ for the player in Flash. Adobe Flash: The Articulate Player is published to the output file extension known as.swf or phonetically pronounced, “swiff.” so any version of Flash back to MX 2004 (v.8)

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Is it PowerPoint converted to Flash? Microsoft Word converted to Flash? Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director. The Macromedia set typically would toss in Director, which created an equally impressive array of course capabilities, but a deep learning curve. HTML and Javascript.