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Are We Wired For Mobile Learning?

Posted Thu, 09/01/2011 - 07:37 by onEnterFrame

There is a ton of info in this graphic and you will be tempted to skim it... Don't. The data is very revealing.

The data indicates we are ready Mobile Learning.
My personal thoughts (and I have done a bit of work in this area) is that it needs to be innovative and well implemented or it will fail.

Student's need a reason to use it and it should offer something more then traditional eLearning or classroom learning.

Pulling user name into Articulate

Posted Fri, 05/06/2011 - 08:54 by onEnterFrame

You may have seen this latest product over at eLearningEnhanced.com It lets you display the students name (from the LMS) in your course content. Check out the screenr to see it in action.

Articulate on iPad via iSWifter

Posted Tue, 03/29/2011 - 14:07 by onEnterFrame

There has been an ongoing discussion in the Articulate Forums about different ways to view Articulate on an iPad... Also some debate about if it needs to viewed on an iPad... Will mentioned that iSWifter claims to make Flash work on an iPad and wondered if it would work for Articulate. I tried it... and it did! 

Preventing Resume after Articulate Course Completion

Posted Thu, 03/24/2011 - 08:47 by onEnterFrame

Articulate has a wonderful feature that if turned on will ask the student they want to resume the course when they left off. Sometimes you may decide to turn this off and force a student to begin all over again but most of the time we course developers leave it on.

Creating an Articulate Popup

Posted Wed, 01/26/2011 - 14:47 by onEnterFrame

I was recently asked by a client to create a set of buttons that would popup extra info about a slide.
There were four main challenges to this.

  1. Each slide would have unique info. Or maybe none at all.
  2. The buttons should disable if there was no extra info for that slide.
  3. The info contained HTML (links).
  4. The popup needed to cover the slide content.

Here is a screenr of the end product.

New Beginnings!

Posted Mon, 12/27/2010 - 16:00 by onEnterFrame

I am pleased to announce that starting January 10th I will be focusing all my efforts on eLearning Enhanced!

I am very passionate about creating effective, engaging, and efficient eLearning. Often this means adding just one truly unique interaction that allows the student to grasp the information in a new way. I understand not everyone has the resources to create that one thing… That is where eLearning Enhanced comes in.

How I made #Articulate Muter/Unlocker in <60 lines of code. Source code available.

Posted Wed, 10/27/2010 - 23:57 by onEnterFrame

I got a few questions about how I made the latest widget. I thought I would walk through it in a screenr.
I also packaged the source file (fla) with download over at eLearningEnhanced.com
http://elearningenhanced.com/products/muter-and-unlocker

#Articulate Muter and Unlocker

Posted Wed, 10/27/2010 - 00:50 by onEnterFrame

This widget lets your students mute the narration of your course while also unlocking the slide so that they may advance.

This will come in handy when you have a lot of narration but the student reads it faster. 

Watch the screenr to learn more.

Play with a demo here.

Buy it for 10 bucks http://elearningenhanced.com/products/muter-and-unlocker

Links to instructions on inserting the files:

Free #Articulate Skins! And Full Featured Skins Too.

Posted Fri, 08/27/2010 - 13:44 by onEnterFrame

I'm glad to roll these out!
We have been building custom skins for clients for a while. Now we have taken a lot of what we learned and used it to build these skins.

Cut-n-Paste as PNG (Add-in for PowerPoint)

Posted Mon, 08/23/2010 - 09:27 by onEnterFrame

There are a lot of good reasons to convert your PowerPoint graphics into PNGs... Especially if you are using Articulate.
It can reduce file size and simplify a cluttered slide. You can also do cool stuff like set transparent areas; Tom Kuhlmann has a great screenr on that http://screenr.com/YTC
I despise repetition in my daily life and often create snippets of code to automate stuff I find myself doing over and over. In this case I created a PowerPoint add-in that puts a button on the Ribbon that quickly does the cut-paste for me.