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Alternate titles for my recent learning frenzy: Feels so good after stopping banging my head against the wall. Arriving where I started and knowing the place for the first time (apologies to T. Eliot). I have just spent most of three days figuring out how to fulfill a teaching commitment, one that I made before I figured out how to accomplish it. It has been a grueling but ultimately positive experience, at least so far. MORE
LMS technology continues to improve, and converting eLearning to mLearning requires a comprehensive strategy to engage your users. You could also increase text size to further increase readability on mobile devices. MORE
Videos files are typically large and bulky resulting in slow upload and download times, not to mention full hard drives. However, there are some simple tactics you can use to reduce the size of your video files. . Why reduce the file size of a video? MORE
I wouldn’t recommend using Text to Speech this way as a habit, at least not for mobile devices, because what it does is embed an actual audio file, rather than converting the text on the fly. The sound and speech quality are both pretty good, and it sounds a lot less ‘roboty’ than your typical text to speech engine, but you may not find the relatively large file size acceptable. MORE
Finally, the last topic I want to cover is file formats. This topic can get very confusing very quickly, but my main piece of advice is try and use the.MP4 file format (or H.264) whenever possible. This ensures a high quality video, at a low file size. MORE
Book digitization, digitizing books or book scanning refers to the process of converting physical books, magazines and other records into digital media using an image scanner. The first step of the book digitization process is to create the master file. What is Book Digitization? MORE
Badly converted PowerPoint presentation. Take a look at this helpful post by the ELearning Brothers on decreasing file size without losing image quality. You’re two songs into your favorite playlist with a perfectly chilled Red Bull at your desk and no meetings all day. MORE
To hold photos, images, media files – eventually moved to word docs. On the Go – mobile access to documents, files, business presentations regardless of your location – instant access. Free open hard drive space – especially with video hungry files. Think about this – what percentage of your files on your computer are Office type documents? You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection. Converters. MORE
Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. Other tips: Insert photos instead of cutting and pasting them – smaller file sizes! Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. MORE
There is no one-size-fits-all for image file formats. This post will cover two of the most popular file format options, JPG vs. PNG, including when to use them and why. There are two main questions to ask yourself when you decide which image file format to use. MORE
Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. Other tips: Insert photos instead of cutting and pasting them – smaller file sizes! Jane Bozarth : Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint. Session hosted by Training Magazine. MORE
In this post, we’ll explain why a PowerPoint may not be enough for your eLearning needs, and how you can convert your presentations to a more suitable format. Convert your PowerPoints to a video. Convert your PowerPoints to SCORM. Converting PowerPoints to SCORM. MORE
If you import a (compressed)mp3 file it will automatically be converted to a ‘raw’ wav-file which will also be in this folder. It is recommended whenever possible to import a wav file, when published it will be compressed to mp3 by Captivate. Intro. MORE
If you are part of an organization that has e-learning training programs in place, fret not, as you have the option to convert from e-learning to m-learning or mobile learning courses. Keep the content crisp, and bite-sized. MORE
Today I’ll show a simple way to convert a video of a process into smaller animated.gifs that you can insert into a slide, article, or process interaction. How to import and convert the video into an animated.gif. Animated Gifs: Convert the Video to Gif. MORE
Producing it means you are converting it from an editable project file format, to something universally accepted by standard video players. Our workflow typically includes saving as an MP4, which is the most common video file format, but also uploading to a hosting site. MORE
Image optimization is the process by which high quality images are provided in the right format, resolution, and dimensions while minimizing the size of the image file. Detection of image size, orientation, and recto/verso pages. MORE
Captivate also bundles the Adobe Media Encoder, allowing you to import video in any popular format, and the same is converted into FLV and placed on your slides. Worried about published file size? MORE
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. This must be done in Office for Windows, or you must convert it to HTML and add the alt text manually. It may be difficult or impossible to make tables and charts accessible within PowerPoint presentations, consider converting to HTML instead. MORE
This has come just in time for mLearning implementers; there is a new tool out in Google Labs called Swiffy that let’s one convert flash animation (swf files) to a device independent HTML5. We’ve been experiementing with Swiffy for a few hours now and it seems to do quite a decent job of converting SWF files. File sizes also seem to be very small; perhaps because of the plain text nature of HTML5. MORE
So, you are still using the feature in your eLearning development tool that converts the entire PowerPoint content to eLearning. Group images, video, and audio files and text for use in constructing your eLearning course. MORE
All these resources can be offered in the following content formats: PDFs : This format is rather common but requires that publishers reduce file size. PDFs converted to Flash : These have a short lifetime as Flash is waning in popularity. MORE
But, which image file formats do you need? The topics I am going to cover are how file types differ, common web sizes, vector versus raster art, and digital versus optical zoom. Common Image File Types. All of the files I mentioned previously fall into two main categories. MORE
Consider these factors while hosting training videos on an LMS : file size of the videos & compatibility, hosting charges, streaming server, and confidentiality of information. If you can convert heavy videos into the MP4, or avi formats, you can compress them with divx. MORE
Using the main menu of the home screen you are also able to filter the documents alphabetically or by author, time last changed, size (which means pages rather than file size) and role. I’ve tested exporting to Word from BuzzWord and it does a pretty good job of keeping formatting intact, even headers and footers were converted correctly into the exported version. MORE
In last week’s template, I purposely only included the final template and not the original source file. Create Smaller File Sizes. The PowerPoint flash tools like Articulate Presenter are going to convert your PowerPoint content on each slide to a Flash movie file (.swf). MORE
The good news is that you no longer have to waste time typing everything out because there are programs that use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to analyze the letters and words in an image, and then convert them to text. MORE
Realizing it’s high time, they convert their Flash-based e-learning courses to something compatible with the current browsers and devices; they outsource these e-learning courses to be converted into HTML5 using Articulate Storyline. This also helps you keep the project file size small. MORE
Structure your information into bite-sized chunks. To achieve an effective learning program with videos, you should consider segmenting your video content into bite-sized chunks that can easily get absorbed. Develop or convert videos to MP4. MORE
In last week’s template, I purposely only included the final template and not the original source file. Create Smaller File Sizes. The PowerPoint flash tools like Articulate Presenter are going to convert your PowerPoint content on each slide to a Flash movie file (.swf). MORE
In my last blog post , I shared the basic reasoning behind optimizing your e-learning media files and how to reduce file size using external tools. The Optimized for Web Delivery settings use optimized compression levels to keep file size low. MORE
This blog lists down the 7 Best eBook Converters. In an effort to keep up with this ongoing trend, a large number of publishers are streamlining their production by converting their publications into digital books or eBooks. Top 7 eBook Converters for Batch Conversions 1. MORE
To avoid pitfalls, always remember the following: Every device has a different screen size. Keep media file size to a minimum. Converting an eLearning course into mobile learning does not mean copy-pasting the content ‘as-is’. Text, resolutions, and features will also vary due to different device sizes. Deliver content in bite-size. Corporate training was once all about sessions being held in a brick-and-mortar classroom setting. MORE
In addition to the cost benefits, the low file sizes can reduce the costs to access and download content files, maintain system performance efficiencies, and ensure a positive user experience. text files, PDF documents, images) and doesn’t require much time or effort. MORE
You can add the video files you already recorded or downloaded in Camtasia, edit them, and enhance those videos with various transition effects. Lectora 17 won’t take the source reference of the image in published files. Convert to Button from Shape Easily. MORE
Typically the Content Creation Team will either source the appropriate media file, or create it from scratch using a variety of industry standard tools such as Audacity for podcasts or Apple’s Final Cut Pro for videos. MORE
Kitaboo
APRIL 7, 2020
This blog lists down the 7 Best eBook Converters. In an effort to keep up with this ongoing trend, a large number of publishers are streamlining their production by converting their publications into digital books or eBooks. Top 7 eBook Converters for Batch Conversions 1.
LearnUpon
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
In this post, we’ll explain why a PowerPoint may not be enough for your eLearning needs, and how you can convert your presentations to a more suitable format. Convert your PowerPoints to a video. Convert your PowerPoints to SCORM. Converting PowerPoints to SCORM.
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Upside Learning
JUNE 29, 2011
This has come just in time for mLearning implementers; there is a new tool out in Google Labs called Swiffy that let’s one convert flash animation (swf files) to a device independent HTML5. We’ve been experiementing with Swiffy for a few hours now and it seems to do quite a decent job of converting SWF files. File sizes also seem to be very small; perhaps because of the plain text nature of HTML5.
CommLab India
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Realizing it’s high time, they convert their Flash-based e-learning courses to something compatible with the current browsers and devices; they outsource these e-learning courses to be converted into HTML5 using Articulate Storyline. This also helps you keep the project file size small.
LearnUpon
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Videos files are typically large and bulky resulting in slow upload and download times, not to mention full hard drives. However, there are some simple tactics you can use to reduce the size of your video files. . Why reduce the file size of a video?
TechSmith Camtasia
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The good news is that you no longer have to waste time typing everything out because there are programs that use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to analyze the letters and words in an image, and then convert them to text.
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Magic EdTech
JANUARY 22, 2019
Image optimization is the process by which high quality images are provided in the right format, resolution, and dimensions while minimizing the size of the image file. Detection of image size, orientation, and recto/verso pages.
Magic EdTech
JULY 7, 2019
All these resources can be offered in the following content formats: PDFs : This format is rather common but requires that publishers reduce file size. PDFs converted to Flash : These have a short lifetime as Flash is waning in popularity.
Adobe Captivate
MAY 7, 2010
Captivate also bundles the Adobe Media Encoder, allowing you to import video in any popular format, and the same is converted into FLV and placed on your slides. Worried about published file size?
Wizcabin
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Structure your information into bite-sized chunks. To achieve an effective learning program with videos, you should consider segmenting your video content into bite-sized chunks that can easily get absorbed. Develop or convert videos to MP4.
CommLab India
JUNE 15, 2017
If you are part of an organization that has e-learning training programs in place, fret not, as you have the option to convert from e-learning to m-learning or mobile learning courses. Keep the content crisp, and bite-sized.
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Trivantis
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
Badly converted PowerPoint presentation. Take a look at this helpful post by the ELearning Brothers on decreasing file size without losing image quality. You’re two songs into your favorite playlist with a perfectly chilled Red Bull at your desk and no meetings all day.
CommLab India
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Consider these factors while hosting training videos on an LMS : file size of the videos & compatibility, hosting charges, streaming server, and confidentiality of information. If you can convert heavy videos into the MP4, or avi formats, you can compress them with divx.
Hurix Digital
JULY 22, 2019
Book digitization, digitizing books or book scanning refers to the process of converting physical books, magazines and other records into digital media using an image scanner. The first step of the book digitization process is to create the master file. What is Book Digitization?
TechSmith Camtasia
JUNE 4, 2015
Finally, the last topic I want to cover is file formats. This topic can get very confusing very quickly, but my main piece of advice is try and use the.MP4 file format (or H.264) whenever possible. This ensures a high quality video, at a low file size.
TechSmith Camtasia
AUGUST 15, 2017
Producing it means you are converting it from an editable project file format, to something universally accepted by standard video players. Our workflow typically includes saving as an MP4, which is the most common video file format, but also uploading to a hosting site.
Mindflash
DECEMBER 29, 2015
LMS technology continues to improve, and converting eLearning to mLearning requires a comprehensive strategy to engage your users. You could also increase text size to further increase readability on mobile devices.
eFront
JANUARY 26, 2017
So, you are still using the feature in your eLearning development tool that converts the entire PowerPoint content to eLearning. Group images, video, and audio files and text for use in constructing your eLearning course.
Ed App
OCTOBER 2, 2019
To avoid pitfalls, always remember the following: Every device has a different screen size. Keep media file size to a minimum. Converting an eLearning course into mobile learning does not mean copy-pasting the content ‘as-is’. Text, resolutions, and features will also vary due to different device sizes. Deliver content in bite-size. Corporate training was once all about sessions being held in a brick-and-mortar classroom setting.
Adobe Captivate
JULY 30, 2017
If you import a (compressed)mp3 file it will automatically be converted to a ‘raw’ wav-file which will also be in this folder. It is recommended whenever possible to import a wav file, when published it will be compressed to mp3 by Captivate. Intro.
Steve Howard
JANUARY 28, 2009
I wouldn’t recommend using Text to Speech this way as a habit, at least not for mobile devices, because what it does is embed an actual audio file, rather than converting the text on the fly. The sound and speech quality are both pretty good, and it sounds a lot less ‘roboty’ than your typical text to speech engine, but you may not find the relatively large file size acceptable.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 11, 2009
Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. Other tips: Insert photos instead of cutting and pasting them – smaller file sizes! Jane Bozarth : Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint. Session hosted by Training Magazine.
Rapid eLearning
JUNE 21, 2011
In last week’s template, I purposely only included the final template and not the original source file. Create Smaller File Sizes. The PowerPoint flash tools like Articulate Presenter are going to convert your PowerPoint content on each slide to a Flash movie file (.swf).
CommLab India
MAY 19, 2017
You can add the video files you already recorded or downloaded in Camtasia, edit them, and enhance those videos with various transition effects. Lectora 17 won’t take the source reference of the image in published files. Convert to Button from Shape Easily.
mLearning Trends
JANUARY 25, 2010
In addition to the cost benefits, the low file sizes can reduce the costs to access and download content files, maintain system performance efficiencies, and ensure a positive user experience. text files, PDF documents, images) and doesn’t require much time or effort.
Rapid eLearning
JUNE 21, 2011
In last week’s template, I purposely only included the final template and not the original source file. Create Smaller File Sizes. The PowerPoint flash tools like Articulate Presenter are going to convert your PowerPoint content on each slide to a Flash movie file (.swf).
Rapid eLearning
MAY 7, 2019
Today I’ll show a simple way to convert a video of a process into smaller animated.gifs that you can insert into a slide, article, or process interaction. How to import and convert the video into an animated.gif. Animated Gifs: Convert the Video to Gif.
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. This must be done in Office for Windows, or you must convert it to HTML and add the alt text manually. It may be difficult or impossible to make tables and charts accessible within PowerPoint presentations, consider converting to HTML instead.
TechSmith Camtasia
JANUARY 19, 2016
But, which image file formats do you need? The topics I am going to cover are how file types differ, common web sizes, vector versus raster art, and digital versus optical zoom. Common Image File Types. All of the files I mentioned previously fall into two main categories.
mLearning Trends
JANUARY 27, 2010
Typically the Content Creation Team will either source the appropriate media file, or create it from scratch using a variety of industry standard tools such as Audacity for podcasts or Apple’s Final Cut Pro for videos.
eLearning 24-7
MAY 2, 2011
To hold photos, images, media files – eventually moved to word docs. On the Go – mobile access to documents, files, business presentations regardless of your location – instant access. Free open hard drive space – especially with video hungry files. Think about this – what percentage of your files on your computer are Office type documents? You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection. Converters.
Saffron Interactive
OCTOBER 16, 2009
Using the main menu of the home screen you are also able to filter the documents alphabetically or by author, time last changed, size (which means pages rather than file size) and role. I’ve tested exporting to Word from BuzzWord and it does a pretty good job of keeping formatting intact, even headers and footers were converted correctly into the exported version.
Web Tools for Learners
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Alternate titles for my recent learning frenzy: Feels so good after stopping banging my head against the wall. Arriving where I started and knowing the place for the first time (apologies to T. Eliot). I have just spent most of three days figuring out how to fulfill a teaching commitment, one that I made before I figured out how to accomplish it. It has been a grueling but ultimately positive experience, at least so far.
TechSmith Camtasia
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
There is no one-size-fits-all for image file formats. This post will cover two of the most popular file format options, JPG vs. PNG, including when to use them and why. There are two main questions to ask yourself when you decide which image file format to use.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 11, 2009
Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. Other tips: Insert photos instead of cutting and pasting them – smaller file sizes! Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.
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