Wednesday, March 3, 2010

iSpring 5.0 Product Family

iSpring 5.0 provides full support of Microsoft Office 2010, including new PowerPoint 2010 features, like new transition effects and control of inserted video playback. The updated iSpring products are Windows 7 and both Office 2010 32-bit and 64-bit compatible.

iSpring products provide PowerPoint to Flash conversion - along with e-Learning components like quizzes and LMS compliance.  They also support embedded audio, video and Flash.  You can customize the player and include YouTube videos.

Check it out:  http://blog.ispringsolutions.com/?p=530

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Free Adobe Seminar: The Impact and Trends of Rapid eLearning in Content Development

Tuesday, March 9, at 10:30am (PST)
Have you heard the term "rapid eLearning" but weren't too sure what it meant? Here's your chance to find out how this learning content creation approach can save your company's money and allow you to produce more content.  Join featured guest Claire Schooley, senior analyst at Forrester Research, as she demystifies rapid eLearning and discusses its use in corporate learning.

Schooley will talk about:
  • The meaning of rapid eLearning in a learning and development context
  • The Adobe® commissioned rapid eLearning study data results from 103 users in North America
  • The current use, impact, and long-term benefits of rapid eLearning tools for corporations
  • The future state of corporate content development with rapid eLearning

Check it out:  http://tiny.cc/Kjl7R (Register)

Monday, March 1, 2010

Great Blog Article: 10 Things To Know If You Don't Speak English

This blog article has some great tips on using Articulate products with a language other than English.  The blog has lots of great tips and tricks - have found many of them to be very helpful!

Check it out:  http://tiny.cc/lxISG
Also check out:  How to remove the Finish button - http://tiny.cc/J0DG2

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Interactive example: The moves they don't want you to see

The Olympic converage has given us some interesting interactive examples.

"While they often seem flawless to most viewers, the top competitors in the women’s figure skating event have all received deductions for underrotating their jumps and most have been penalized at some point for entering a lutz jump on the wrong edge. These errors are often difficult to discern, even to the most avid fans, so the technical panel of judges can use video replay to determine if these violations have occurred. Below are explanations of the mistakes and a look at how often the top skaters in the Olympic women’s figure skating event have been affected."

check it out: http://tiny.cc/m895M