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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. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. If you had PowerPoint, you already were ahead of the game. Terms such as Chapter-Page and so on, left the lexicon for the beginners, with terms such as Slide taking over.

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Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Rapid eLearning

But along came the PowerPoint-to-Flash products. They enabled people to create their content in PowerPoint and convert it to the Flash. Essentially, each slide was converted to a Flash movie. I imagine that many of you seasoned elearning developers cut your teeth in a PowerPoint-based product. Today things are different.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. The company was later acquired by Macromedia. Some authoring tools even allow users to use PowerPoint slides as input material.

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7 reasons why the new Articulate Storyline is a Game-Changer for eLearning

mLearning Revolution

Storyline is a standalone application that isn’t built on top of PowerPoint, however if you know how to use PowerPoint you are going to feel comfortable using Storyline. Storyline introduces the concept of Triggers, Slide Layers, States and Variables in order to build even the most complex interactions.

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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. Articulate Presenter is arguably the most popular PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool available. It’s also an easy way to create Flash animations from slides. Flash CS4 Professional.

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The New Adobe Captivate 7 Marches Backwards into the Future [Review]

mLearning Revolution

In fact I think that most of the new features being promoted by Adobe have been there for a while in competing products like Articulate software, namely the ability to include YouTube videos in a course, as well as embedding a browser session on a slide. Another example is the HTML5 support for PowerPoint, which Adobe is promoting heavily.

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How to select the right authoring tool

eLearning 24-7

In the authoring tool world: PowerPoint focused authoring tool, Basically you know PPT, love it and want the ability to build within it and then convert your PPT to a Course. Hierarchy, Slide (view possible) – built around the desire to use the authoring tool itself. condo, house, etc. What are they then? The best known.