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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. Dreamweaver was the tool to use for web design and development. The moment I saw how many of my contemporaries were using Dreamweaver Templates to build courses, I knew the end for the complex tools were coming. If you had PowerPoint, you already were ahead of the game.

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Development Tools I Would Learn If I Were You - June's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Games : We are already seeing more and more games in e-learning and I think that will increase even more in the next five years. For me, I use Flash to develop games, but whether it is Flash or other game development tools get to know how to use them. Yammer or Twitter), blogs, social bookmarking (e.g. Second Life).

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My e-Learning Toolbox

eLearning Cyclops

Adobe Flash - creating interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, etc. Adobe Dreamweaver - creating web pages and occasionally jerry-rigging the HTML in courses. Adobe Captivate - creating simulations (software sims and occasionally soft skill, branching sims). SnagIt - grabbing screenshots.

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Development Tools - Should I Cut Out the Middle Guy?

eLearning Cyclops

Over the years, I have used ToolBook, Trainersoft, and even Dreamweaver with Coursebuilder. Almost every course involved using Flash for interactive elements (animations, games, quizzes, simulations, video, etc.). For more interactive elements, I used Flash and imported the SWFs into Authorware.

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Top 10 skills every Instructional Designer should know

Paradiso Solutions

Create learning aids such as audio, video, simulations, role-plays, and games, among other things. Articulate, Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, WordPress, and other visual design tools are mentioned in nearly every job posting for eLearning professionals and Instructional Designers. Talents in the Visual and Performing Arts.

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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. They are not stand alone e-learning tools, but together allow me the ability to create effective e-learning courses.

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Tools and tradeoffs

Clark Quinn

The previous version was done by hand in an old version of Adobe’s DreamWeaver , and while it was very light and minimal, it wasn’t very ‘elegant’ For instance, I’d had one problem that really bugged me, hadn’t been able to fix (though recently I managed to beat it into submission).

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