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Are Podcasts The Most Underrated Format for L&D?

Thinkdom

The term "podcast" is a combination of the words "iPod" and "broadcast," as it was initially used to describe the process of downloading radio broadcasts from the internet and listening to them on an iPod through a program called ippoder. A podcast is a digital audio file that can be listened to or downloaded online.

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Adobe Captivate 5.5: At Long Last. Publish Support for Apple Mobile Devices

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel Anyone who created eLearning lessons using any version of Adobe Captivate older than version 5 is painfully aware that Captivate does not offer publishing options for any of the Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad or iPod).

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What’s the right technology for schools?

Clark Quinn

iPod Touch) is good enough for the issues at hand. Now, many years ago Elliott Soloway decided that the form-factor of a laptop was not appropriate for kids, and created what ended up being the GoKnow suite of PDA apps. And not smartphones, as there are problems with phones in schools that I don’t want to get into.

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eLearning, mLearning, Tech Terms, Google, & iPods

Big Dog, Little Dog

iPods for Learning. But what truly makes them invaluable is the ability to shift them to a time that suits me, thus I get an instant knowledge network principally on my own making. Instead, our brains are developing circuitry for online social networking and are adapting to a new multitasking technology culture. Gary Small, M.D.

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Adobe Captivate 6: One Quick Way to Purge Unsupported HTML5 Objects

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Unlike SWFs, projects published as HTML5 will not only play on the Apple  iPad, iPhone and the iPod, but the lessons will retain any interactivity that you added to the slides (such as click boxes and buttons). I pointed out that HTML5 is an alternative publishing format to a SWF.

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Adobe Captivate 6: HTML5 At Last!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Learners using an Apple mobile device such as the iPad, iPod and iPhone (that's millions upon millions of potential learners) cannot use SWF content at all. According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the vast majority of the word's computers. Of course, SWFs have a problem.

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Best Ways to Train Staff with Mobile Learning?

Ed App

They are played on mobile devices such as iPods, Smart phones, MP3 players and other gadgets that are suited to play digital audio files. A podcast is an online media recording, shared via the internet and conveyed in an episodic format. Currently, the majority of podcasts are in audio format.