Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2009

For $1799 or £1509 the suite will provide you with Captivate 4, Presenter (formerly Breeze), Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4 (with e-learning interactions added), Soundbooth CS4, Flash Professional CS4 (also with e-learning add-ons), the latest Acrobat and all the goodies needed to tie all the bits together.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

Decision aids, perhaps coded in Flash or JavaScript, but sometimes more simply provided as spreadsheets. These resources can take various forms: Web articles, written in an engaging, journalistic manner, rather like blogs. More formal reference material, in HTML or PDF format. Self-analysis questionnaires and perhaps quizzes.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

Just look at these results, showing the market share of tools in various categories: Rapid development tools: #1 Captivate (65% of Guild members); #4 Presenter (26%) Courseware authoring, i.e. more serious tools: #1 Captivate (60%); #2 Flash (47%); #3 Dreamweaver (43%); #5 Authorware (16%). Animation: #1 Flash (78%).

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

Then there are all the output files, the Flash, the HTML, the SCORM wrappers, again in numerous versions. Then there are all the different versions you may have had to produce along the way – did you store all these separately, clearly numbered? I thought not. This is getting seriously geeky.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

So, instead of producing an e-learning wedding cake which has animations, interactions, videos, quizzes, simulations and external links all built-in, consider developing a variety of cupcakes: Stand-alone videos (or links to videos on YouTube or elsewhere) or podcasts Short sequences of highly-visual slides, perhaps with narration, exported to Flash (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Dragster is a versatile online tool for creating stand-alone, Flash-based drag and drop activities. The tool outputs the activity as a zip containing an HTML file, an XML file, a Flash movie and the various images. You can use text boxes as the draggable elements or images.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 31, 2008

Although they will probably convert the PowerPoint to Flash and distribute in this way, they also want to make the PowerPoint files available for users who wish to make modifications to the materials. Convert to Flash (which brings different accessibility issues). Create an HTML or Flash equivalent.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Their new childcare course, currently being piloted, is composed of an interesting blend of formal and informal approaches: each student has a personalised home page featuring news, bookmarked content, details of friends, 'my discussions', 'my questions' and rss feeds; e-learning materials, developed by Kineo ; formal assessment for a National Vocational (..)

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When I mention 'affective context theory' to people, which I have been doing recently, then I typically get back that look that says,"I'm bracing myself for some complex, indigestible psycho nonsense" When I talk about 'courses and resources', on the other hand, light bulbs start flashing.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Unison is created in Adobe Flex, with an attractive Flash interface. Users can build their own templates using Flash and XML and share them with the authoring community. The per month figures ramp up so, for say $499/month, you and an unlimited number of colleagues can be working on up to 40 projects at a time.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me. Today I took part in the inaugural live online session run by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

The tools they use (including all sorts of web programming environments, Flash and the Adobe Creative Suite or similar) are definitely not quick to learn and require more than a modicum of talent and training. These people will do the job ten times quicker than you, which nearly always makes them cheaper.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 17, 2008

And of course the format is ideal for packaging up with some narration and converting to Flash for delivery online after the event. I reckon a Pecha-kucha hour would work just great as part of a face-to-face conference, or as the basis for a webinar. Now all I've got to work out is how to pronounce it.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I've previously experimented with their desktop tool, RapideL Enhance, which works with Microsoft Word to generate Flash-based courses, but this is a big step forward. I've been taking a look at an early version of RapideL's new online e-learning authoring tool, which they are calling RapideL-i.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2009

Prezi is a Flash-based tool that does away with the traditional slide show metaphor. Prezi is the most exciting new presentation aid I've seen in ages and today sees its formal launch. Instead you arrange your images, text, audio, video and PDF files on one great canvas that you navigate throughout your presentation.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The WiZiQ virtual classroom tool runs in Flash and contains many (although clearly not all) of the features associated with expensive commercial systems. You have VOIP, chat, PowerPoint upload, a whiteboard and the ability to record sessions.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2008

YawnBuster is a set of Flash templates that installs as a PowerPoint add-in. At Online Educa in Berlin, I picked up a trial copy of YawnBuster , a new product from Harbinger Knowledge Products, the makers of Raptivity.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2010

It doesn’t really matter if it’s Microsoft or Apple, HTML 5 or Flash, proprietary or open source, so long as it delivers content and allows humans to interact. Most people will still be using Windows PCs and laptops; a great many will also have smart phones or tablets of some sort.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after, including the usual mix of multimedia and interactions, then you have to make an important choice, between tools that you install on your desktop and online tools: Desktop tools ( Flash , Authorware , Lectora , etc.)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2010

I don't usually suffer from feelings of guilt but the sheer extravagance of a device which is so ill-suited to current e-learning - no Flash, no PowerPoint - and so hard to justify alongside my smart phone and laptop, meant that I was extremely sceptical about how the iPad would find any useful place in my life.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I thought about Captivate, but that only exports Flash movies (SWFs). Once I was happy with the quality, I first exported to Flash video format (FLV) and uploaded this to YouTube - you can see the results here - and then again to MP4 for the iPod. I couldn't do this with Articulate. This worked fine too.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 12, 2008

It does have some interesting features, including a scenario builder, a selection of learning games and Flash import, and exports to SCORM 1.2 Its versatility is limited because it doesn't have any sort of screen layout tool and doesn't allow import of PowerPoint material, which would solve this problem.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

Flash: I am a closet programmer and secretly prefer code to words, although I'm on the wagon at the moment. I've had wonderfully obsessive experiences with BASIC, Pascal, JavaScript and more recently, Flash ActionScript. I must stop thinking about it. Pinnacle Studio: This is a cheapy video editor.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 8, 2007

It doesn't (yet) support styles, which I use all the time, but it does work very smoothly because it's built in Flash rather than HTML, and this makes a big difference to performance and functionality. It also looks really nice, and aesthetics are important (see my posting on Getting in touch with your feelings ).

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2006

At the same time, over the past month, I have had to shell out mucho dollars for: Adobe Flash 8 upgrade. Articulate, for PowerPoint to Flash, quizzes and interactions. Along with all the usuals, including Skype, Del-icio-us, etc., Adobe Captivate, for screen capture/demos, rather like Wink. All in all more than £1000 (about $1800).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 6, 2009

I know that visuals are often used for the wrong reasons, typically as a form of decoration or as a way of filling a space.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2007

FlockPod is created in Flash and requires the learner to be online, both of which could pose some limitations, but should not put off the majority of potential users. It's encouraging that they can see the potential for a product that allows learners to break out of self-study isolation and express, share and compare views with colleagues.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 29, 2009

PowerPoint > Articulate/Adobe Presenter > Flash > LMS/web site. On the other hand, your slides will be heavily compressed and displayed in a small window, so complex or text-heavy slides won't work; you also lose that handy self-pacing which comes with the SlideShare option.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2007

I've just had to re-mortgage my home to purchase a copy of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium (that's Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Acrobat, Dreamweaver) and I need to justify that investment by making sure I use these tools to something like their potential. I'm going back to school.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2007

I then exported the album to Flash to play off hard disk, although it could also have gone online. At this point I thought to myself - what does this process remind me of? Rapid photo albums, rapid home movies, rapid dance music, rapid print design, rapid e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

And, last but not least, Articulate is much better equipped for rich media: incorporate Flash videos in your slides, perform simple video edits and conversions using the new Video Encoder, edit audio, output to podcasts or for mobile delivery. The competition from Adobe Presenter (see my review ) is strong and that's the way it should be.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

He then wanted to refine these presentations with finished artwork and import these into Captivate 3, where interactions would be added using Captivate's own question templates, along with custom animations created in Flash. The product would be enhanced further by adding an audio narration.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2007

Delivery of passive learning materials, e.g. podcasts, videos, PDFs, Flash movies, web pages. It could be highly interactive, in the form of troubleshooting guides and expert systems, although most will probably be quite straightforward. Essentially these would be the same as you get on PCs, but ideally smaller/shorter.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 8, 2007

Basically, they came up with the questions, I did the answers, we debated a bit, the whole lot was videoed, edited, converted to Flash video, assembled into an FAQ using Articulate Engage and then uploaded to the course website. This time it was a 'conversation with' session with a group of instructional design students.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2006

My question is, what am I not getting that I would with Blackboard, WebCT, FirstClass and other VLEs?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

.): self-paced, self-study; physical fidelity can be low, but can be improved by the use of rich media; functional fidelity depends on the sophistication of the design and the capabilities of the tool ( Flash , Captivate , etc.). and on the ability of the players to behave realistically. asynchronous 3D sims (problem-solving sims, etc.):

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Tools which create media-rich components ( Raptivity , Flash , PowerPoint, Acrobat, Captivate) which can then be inserted into other tools, as opposed to those tools which provide the wrapper and depend on you bringing in the really hot stuff from elsewhere (as with most built-in LMS/LCMS authoring modules).

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