| Session |
Level |
Description |
Presenter |
| An Introduction to Articulate Engage |
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Take your online training courses to the next level with interactive, visually stimulating learning experiences using Articulate Engage. This introductory presentation teaches you how to use Engage to quickly and effectively add professional looking, flash based interactive experiences using out-of-box Engage templates. No prior flash experience is necessary. |
Ryan Knight (Symantec) |
| Articulate Engage Advanced Topics |
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Take your Articulate Engage knowledge to the next level with this advanced session. Topics covered include modifying the default color XML files for interactions that do not natively support changing the color scheme, customizing sounds, and embedding interactive flash content within Engage interactions including Captivate and Camtasia flash files and other Engage interactions. You will also learn how to embed Engage interactions into other online training tools such as Adobe Presenter. |
Ryan Knight (Symantec) |
| Articulate Presenter - Bring PowerPoint to Life! |
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This presentation covers the main features of the Articulate Presenter software. Topics include: Using master slides, Inserting media, Controling view options, Publish settings (including for LMS), Changing the interface, Adding audio, Controling navigation options, Previewing your work, and more. |
Andrew Scivally (Zions Bank) |
| Basics for First-time SCORM Developers |
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In this session, a short introduction to SCORM will be provided, including an explanation of the differences between SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. Other topics will include: reusable learning objects (assets and SCOs), data model, sequencing and navigation, customization of training per learner profile and performance, manifest development, SCORM conformance testing, and LMS implementation. SCORM books and documentation, ADL Co-Labs, other ADL resources, as well as content examples and training resources will be described. |
Craig Clark (Concurrent Technologies Corporation) |
| Be a Hero at Work: How to use Inexpensive Software to Increase Profits, Speed Development, and Increase Product Quality |
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Let's learn about free or inexpensive tools that can save your time, your budget, and your product. These tools include Excel (the way it should be used, as opposed to the way it's often used; and useful utilities you never knew it had), text editors with syntax highlighting and multi-file batch find/replace, regular expressions, simple DOS batch scripts, Cygwin and simple Unix scripts, and a great tool to rapidly build scalable, enterprise quality database-driven websites (even if Ajax is a cleaning product, and you've never heard the phrase 'third normal form'). If you are willing to learn, you can revolutionize the way your business does work. |
Carey Aydelotte () |
| Beyond the Checkbox: Seven things you want to ask your LMS vendor about SCORM |
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You’ve decided you need SCORM in your new LMS. The vendor says their system is SCORM compliant ...but there are many reasons to not take that at face value. Push back with (at least) these seven questions to ensure your new LMS will meet your needs and expectations.
• What versions of SCORM do you support
• Are you SCORM certified by ADL? If not, please provide test logs.
• What’s the experience like for the user?
• How does data reported via SCORM feed into the rest of the system?
• What reports are available to extract SCORM data?
• What tools are available to LMS user and content developer when creating/importing content?
• Does the LMS require Java applets or other plug-ins be available in the browser?
We’ll walk through these questions, discuss the right (or at least not wrong) answers and cover how to word them in your RFP. |
Mike Rustici (Rustici Software) |
| Brain-Based Learning: Creating Engaging Learning Designs |
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What makes some e-learning exciting while some is just plain boring? We all know engaging when we see it, but do you know the formula for creating engaging e-learning designs? Hint: Flash can’t do it alone. In this session, you will learn what "engaging" really means to the human brain in the learning context. You will learn about brain-based thinking styles and how to determine your style (or that of your learners). You will also learn a science-based approach to designing e-learning interactions that are engaging to every learner, regardless of their learning or thinking style. Participants in this session will be given tools to guide designers toward the right kinds of engagement activities to design for various types of e-learning solutions, as well as some practical insights on how to properly sequence these engagement activities in the context of the overall learning experience. |
Joe Fournier (Rapid e-Learning, LLC) |
| Building an Online Training Program with a Post-it Note Size Budget |
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The scenario: You’re a training department of three full-time people and one part-time person living in different locations and time zones. You have been given the responsibility of developing, delivering, and maintaining an online training program for over one-hundred-thirty sales and service employees who sell and service a very non-traditional product in a very traditional market. AND, your training budget can fit on a single post-it note with room to spare. Oh, and it all needed to be ready to go yesterday. Sound familiar? Join this session and learn from the experiences of one such team and how they managed to pull it off. Discover how to recruit and expand your Subject Matter Expert (SME) resources, refresh and repurpose materials, get through the content organizational nightmare that has to support two different groups of learners on the same system, survive the speed-bumps and full crashes, hit impossible timelines, and do it with a post-it note size budget. Post-it notes will be provided! |
Sherry Francis (Scientific Learning Corp.) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): A Hands on Workshop For Delivering Training in Second Life |
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Attendees will be required to have a laptop that will able to run Second Life during this session. Attendees will participate in a live training course on the topic of Negotiation Skills and then be taught several 'tricks of the trade' with regard to how to use the tools that have been developed within Second Life to improve their training programs. |
Mark Jankowski (Virtual Training Partners) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Corporate Wiki Implementation Workshop |
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This session will cover the nuts and bolts of implementation for a corporate Wiki, with a focus on the project management and strategy work required for approval, implementation, launch, and sustainability. Attendees will also learn analysis of common roadblocks and key requirements -- people and processes -- to make implementation successful at your company, taking the culture into consideration. Attendees will have the skeleton of an implementation strategy when the session is finished. |
David Schwartz (Target Corporation) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Creating SCORM 2004 Content Using Dreamweaver |
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The SCORM 2004 Producer (a free Dreamweaver extension) lets you create SCORM 2004 compliant content packages. In this BYOL session, you will learn how to install and use the extension, best practices for creating SCORM content, and how to package your content for loading into a SCORM conformant LMS. If attendees wish to prepare ahead, they can download the resource materials from Erick's website (http://www.emdeconsulting.com). With these resource materials, attendees will likely be able to leave the session with a finished SCORM package of their own content. |
Erick Emde (CDC / Northrop Grumman IS) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Dynamic Documentation: Integrating your documentation and elearning |
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Integrate your swf files with your PDF documentation to create dynamic single source documentation. Bring your Word and PowerPoint documents and leave with a a dynamic PDF. Attendees will do this using a combination of MadCap Flare and Adobe Captivate. |
Sarah Williams (inContact) |
| BYOL (Bring Your own Laptop): Flash Crash Course |
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Learn Flash Architecture and Animation in a single session. By the end of this session, you will be animating and Flash will be demystified. Flash will seem as simple as this session description. No kidding. |
Jason Bickle (AMX) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Flash/Actionscript 3.0 Programming in Captivate |
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Adobe brought a new level of programming possibilities to the floor with the release of Captivate 4 and the “Widget” learning object. Widgets provide programmers with a tool to collaborate with content experts and graphic designers in making custom learning objects to fit their needs in the Captivate GUI. The thinly documented code will be dissected and attendees will build useful tools, including using XML driven content. |
Bradley Kemp (Information Builders) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Incorporating custom-Built Flash into Articulate via the API |
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Articulate is a very useful tool and sometimes developers want to add custom Flash bits to it. By utilizing the API provided by Articulate, users can ensure these bits 'talk' to the course. The API makes it possible to prevent the student from moving forward until they have completed your drag-n-drop. One can also have their Flash piece assume the look and feel of their course automatically. This session will provide demonstrations of Flash within and communicating with Articulate. There will be some examples of the code required to make this magic happen. |
James Kingsley () |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Integrating eLearning with Online Classes |
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Online classes are gaining in popularity. In fact, recent studies have found that students who attend live, online classes retain more than students who attend onsite classes. And e-learning continues to gain in popularity as tools such as Adobe Captivate and Camtasia make it easier to create e-learning content. Attend this session and learn how to successfully combine the strengths of e-learning and online learning. |
Kevin Siegel (IconLogic) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Port Flash Interactions to Articulate Engage; become rich & famous |
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During this hands-on session you will start with a simple Flash file and add code from Articulate's Engage SDK, resulting in a Community Interaction anyone can use within Engage. You will be able to build upon these basic skills to produce robust Engage interactions to dazzle your friends and co-workers. You may upload these interactions to Articulate's site so that the whole community can benefit or perhaps you will decide to sell them; the sky is the limit! ...after you complete this session... |
James Kingsley (frameEntered.com) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Producing a course using Articulate Studio Pro ‘09, Presenter, Audio Editor, Video Encoder, Engage and Quizmaker |
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Each attendee will have the opportunity to build a mini course using each of the Articulate Studio Pro products. A complete training package (on CD or DVD) will be given to each participant with the following:
• For Articulate Presenter – a foundation PowerPoint file
• For Articulate Audio editor – several audio files for importing and editing
• For Articulate Video Encoder - .wmv and .avi. videos to export as .flv
• For Articulate Engage – a storyboard and script to build one Engage interaction. Will add audio and video
• For Articulate Quizmaker – an outline to use for building quiz questions/knowledge checks for the mini course
Those who participate will receive the instructor’s publication of helpful tips, tricks and “Gotcha’s” that were developed from personal experience with Articulate, such as the things to watch out for when publishing a course. |
Susan Prentice (Compuware World Headquarters) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Quick and Dirty Development: Build Your Own Content Management System |
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Walk through the development of a simplified Learning Content Management System in Oracle APEX 3.2. This session will briefly review the development environment, creating tables and views, creating sequences, foreign keys and primary keys, basic SQL syntax, and creating forms and reports. There won't be enough time to thoroughly teach each of these topics, but Carey will demonstrate that a non-database professional can create a simple, useful application. |
Carey Aydelotte () |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Thinking Outside the LMS: Taking SCORM to the places people learn today |
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Social learning. Informal learning. Learning vs. training, even. The trend is leaning toward places outside the LMS, which sends some into a panic. How do you track what’s being learned? How do you direct learners to the next thing? How do you assess that they’re even learning? Many of these questions are solved by SCORM data within the LMS, so we decided to answer these questions with another question: "What if you could take SCORM outside a learning management system?" Enter the SCORM Cloud, which resides outside the LMS and could allow you to manage training from just about any platform, including Facebook, Wordpress, Drupal – you name it. The one piece missing is you. We want to show you the world we’ve created and invite you to come play.
• See the API
• Examples of the integrations we’ve done so far
• Hear our random collection of thoughts about where this could go
• Brainstorm ideas for how this could be where learning is going |
Mike Rustici (Rustici Software) |
| BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop): Widgets and Variables and Actions (Oh My!): Advanced Features in Captivate 4 |
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Captivate 4 comes with some really cool new features but they can be a little intimidating at first. Learn how to take advantage of these features to enhance your courses and add new elements of interactivity. At the end of this course, participants will be able to use variables, actions and widgets to save time and add new levels of interactivity to their e-learning courses. |
Jeff Blackman (The Methodist Hospital System) |
| Captivate 4 Widgets: A bridge between Instructional Designers and Flash developers |
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Captivate Widgets, a new feature in Captivate 4, provide Flash developers with tools to add variables to a Captivate movie, access playback controls and create custom tools to fit their group’s content experts’ specific needs. In this presentation we will look at some widgets that ship with Captivate 4 and access the ActionScript that control them. We will also discuss ways to extend these controls to create your own learning objects. |
Bradley Kemp (Information Builders) |
| Case Studies of Online Content developed using Swishmax, a cheaper, easier alternative to Flash |
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Yes, Flash is powerful, but it’s difficult to learn for many people, particularly people like me who would rather focus on Instructional Design than figuring out lines of code. Well, there’s an alternative to Flash that is easier and cheaper and does 90% of what Flash does – Swishmax. Swishmax exports swfs just like Flash, but is much more intuitive. In this session, Scott will show examples of courses he has developed in Swishmax, including courses with video and audio and demonstrate how easy it is to create content using Swishmax as an alternative to Flash. |
Scott Lechert (PacifiCorp) |
| Combo Effect - Using Multiple Tools to Develop eLearning |
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Sometimes we have to combine our eLearning tools to develop the proper training users need to meet their performance objectives. Attendees will dive into the pros and cons of using multiple tools to develop online training, including managing multiple formats and source files, creating smart project directories, and collaborating with team members. There is no right or wrong answer, but attendees will discuss lessons learned, best practices and hacks to be more efficient in course development. |
Brian Dusablon (Administaff) |
| Converted PowerPoint on Steroids |
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In the frenzy to convert our PowerPoints to "eLearning," have we forgotten to convert the learner? While certain advantages exist for converting PowerPoints, in this session you'll learn how PowerPoint alone can be poison. This session focuses on technologies you can use to gain rapid development benefits, but make sure that the learner is getting quality instruction. |
Garin Hess (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Customizing Proform |
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Proform provides you with a wonderful tool to create e-learning projects without required knowledge in Flash ActionScript. However, there are times when you will need to have a feature in your program that the Proform templates do not provide. This session will show you how you can add on to the Proform basic files and create your own templates to create a custom program. Actual samples include navigation options, changing the way it tracks, incorporating media, etc. This will also include an explanation of the Proform file structure and what needs to be modified and where. |
Julia Belinski (PRYORity Training & Development) |
| Design to Delivery: Creating Engaging Training Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint |
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Microsoft PowerPoint is not just a presentation tool, but is also a great training tool. But training presentation development in PowerPoint requires more finesse than just packing as much text as possible into a slide. Instead, effective training presentation developers make intentional design decisions that contribute to the reception of the delivered message.
This session will give you tips and tricks to design, create and deliver engaging and effective training presentations in PowerPoint that can be turned into dynamic eLearning. During their time together with Charles, attendees will focus on the following:
· Creating great outlines using Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) concepts
· Graphic selection, color choice and slide design and their impact on learning
· Why you should ditch the bullet points and deliver your message visually |
Charles Herchelroath () |
| Designing Mobile Learning Games |
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This session will provide you with the foundation you need to get started in mobile gaming development. We'll look at the major environments for delivery, selecting a development environment and what makes for a good mobile game. This session will focus on the Android, iPhone and Windows 7 phone environments. We'll also demonstrate and introduce you to one of the coolest gaming development platforms for the iPhone/iPad platforms. |
Nick Floro (Sealworks Interactive Studios) |
| Effectively integrating Articulate Engage and Captivate into Lectora |
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This session will demonstrate how to utilize Articulate Engage activities wtihin Lectora. In addition, the presenter will demonstrate how to pass variables from Captivate into Lectora for the purposes of testing and controlling Lectora screen content. |
M. Shawn Stiles (Pfizer) |
| Enhancing Infographics and Diagrams with Animation |
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Animation is usually just "eye candy" or an effort to increase retention through entertainment. But it can actually improve comprehension when added to diagrams, charts and graphs, narratives, and technical illustrations. This session will cover the decision to add motion to existing graphics, creating satisfying effects, and development steps like storyboarding. We'll look beyond simple motion to other elements that can change over time, principles of traditional animation, and animation style. You will acquire a vocabulary to help you communicate with artists and programmers about your animation ideas. Let's fully exploit the features of animation to improve learning. |
Nancy Wirsig McClure (hand2mouse) |
| Fun & Compliance E-Learning: Not an Oxymoron. |
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Address the challenges of creating e-learning training modules for dry subjects. Using Captivate 4, and a variety of themes, multimedia and widgets, the presenter will demonstrate that creating engaging interactive training for regulatory and compliance areas is possible. |
Kimberlee Conrad (Thrivent Financial) |
| Git ‘er done! Managing the eLearning process |
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Do your business partners have unrealistic time and responsibility expectations of the e-learning development process? Are your SME’s or designers stuck in analysis paralysis? Do you as a designer feel like you have a dual role as the SME? This presentation will provide you with tips and tools to create and implement a repeatable process that identifies responsibilities, manages expectations and will bring your e-learning projects in on time. |
Kimberlee Conrad (Thrivent Financial) |
| Green Screen on a Shoe String: The ABCs of Green Screen Video Development for eLearning Applications |
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Green screen, or chroma key, technology is nothing new to video production. This technology is used for weather forecasts, sporting events, and box office movies, but few consider it for developing rich and engaging eLearning content. As intimidating as it sounds, you don’t have to be ESPN with four production trailers full of video equipment. This session will provide a compressive introduction to green screen video production techniques specifically related to eLearning developers. Participants attending this session will be able to: a) Identify specific uses for green screen video production to develop eLearning; b) Identify minimum resources needed to produce high quality green screen video; c) Establish proper placement of lights and video equipment to shoot green screen video; d) Describe best practices for designing a script and instructional content for green screen video; e) Apply best practices for processing, encoding, and deploying green screen video content for eLearning. Participants attending this session will have access to a complete list of equipment needed for green screen video production, a best practices checklist, and source files for the examples referenced during the session. |
Bucky Dodd (University of Central Oklahoma, Center for Professional and Distance Education) |
| I Don't Have Time Is Only One Part of the Equation |
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How many times have you heard “I don’t have time” when it comes to training? Is it really a matter of just time? Or, are there other underlying issues at play, such as ease of access, ease of use, and support of learning style? These key factors, along with time, are part of the equation when it comes to determining how to make e-learning options a natural and welcome part of a training program. Join this session and find out how to combine the factors of time, convenience, ease of use and learning styles with the various forms of electronic communication - email, blogs, intranets, portals, webinars, podcasts, and even old-fashion CDs – to provide effective and efficient training for those that claim they don’t have the time. They will thank you for it! |
Sherry Francis (Scientific Learning Corporation) |
| Improve your eLearning ROI and Bottom Line with Analytics |
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Ever wonder how your eLearning courses are performing? Would you like to see how learners are using your interactions? How can you improve your courses' learning outcomes? In this session, we'll explore the answers to all of these questions and more. eLearning analytics provides a way for all stakeholders-- developers to designers, even executives--to evaluate online instruction in a way that builds a defensible, data-driven process for analyzing, designing, and improving your eLearning courses. |
Cahlan Sharp (Sharp Media) |
| Interactive Learning Objects in Thirty Minutes or Less |
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Developing high quality and interactive eLearning objects do not have to be expensive or time consuming. The right tools and a good set of best practices are all you need to reinforce instructional content using interactive and engaging learning objects. Participants attending this session will be able to: a) Define learning objects; b) Identify specific uses for interactive learning objects; c) List specific technologies for quickly developing high quality interactive learning objects; d) Outline the process for developing interactive learning objects using basic software features; e) Apply best practices related to interactive learning object design. In addition to applied and tested best practices, participants will have access to source files and development elements from examples referenced during the session. |
Bucky Dodd (University of Central Oklahoma, Center for Professional and Distance Education) |
| It’s Out There, So Why Isn’t Anyone Using It?: Marketing Your E-Learning |
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You just spent a lot of time developing an e-learning course (or spent a bunch of money on some already existing courses) and now it’s out there on your LMS, ready for the world. The only problem is, no one is paying attention to it. eLearning has been hailed within your organization as a great cost saver and a more efficient, convenient way to administer training. Too bad the employees don’t seem to be buying it. At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Identify the top reasons that people are reluctant to take an e-learning course
• Develop a message that will get people interested in your courses
• Develop a marketing plan for deploying e-learning offerings |
Jeff Blackman (The Methodist Hospital System) |
| Lightweight, Low-cost LMS to the Rescue |
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Have you been shocked at the costs of behemoth LMS solutions? Do you really need to buy a Hummer to drive down to the corner market? When all you want to do is provide a scalable, easy-to-implement solution for your learners to launch courses and track their course completion and student data, you don't need to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year. Come and see how this inexpensive, lightweight, scalable, SCORM-compliant LMS can save you tens of thousands of dollars every year. |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Making rapid prototyping work for you |
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Rapid prototyping has been hyped as a cost-saving, solve-all development tool for anything from car design to cartoon ads. You might be asking: What the heck is it? Does it fit my budget? How do I do it? And even more importantly: Does it work? Rapid prototyping can be as simple as brainstorming ideas drawn on napkins, or as complex as creating flight simulators. The effectiveness of your efforts depends less on your drawing skills and more on your boss’ or client’s ability to believe that stick figures can play a key role in designing effective e-learning. In this session we will explore the theory and present several real world examples to help you understand where the hype ends and actual application begins. You will gain tips on managing “stakeholder” expectations and learn some tools that you can start using right away. |
Tatiana Chapira (Allen Interactions) |
| Microcycle Testing: Better Quality Assurance Testing in a Fourth of the Time |
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In this session you will learn about a new process using new technologies that can produce better tested courses in less time. Sound too good to be true? Once you see it in action, it's so simple you'll wonder why you didn't think of it before. Learn about what it takes to do it right, and what "gotchas" to look out for. |
Garin Hess (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Mobile Technology use with Evaluation |
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In this presentation attendees will learn about Alcatel-Lucent University's challenge around data collection and analysis of attendee feedback data. The need to quickly capture and provide near real-time information to senior leadership led the team to a Mobile solution using Outstart’s Hot Lava Mobile. The case study will cover the requirements for success, implementation strategy and lessons learned plus future evaluation plans that build on initial success. |
Dave Batchelder and Mike Jenkins (Alcatel-Lucent and Outstart) |
| Pill-sized: discussing e-learning in the age of Twitter |
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In our multi-tasking, multi-gadget lives, eLearning can be one of the best approaches to break information down into meaningful pieces and serve them whenever they are needed. The idea is to create a continuum of learning, instead of teaching based on seat-time and post-test grading. This session will explore how you can: use multiple technologies, including tweets, wikis, games and phone apps, to create pill-sized learning objects that help information get through our short attention span; create a path for learning that increases motivation by using small interactive objects; offer needed repetition that increase content retention- without being boring; create performance-oriented pieces that are available when and where knowledge needs to be applied. We will begin the discussion on Twitter and Facebook before the lecture time, so please follow [TBD] to enter the continuum. |
Tatiana Chapira (Allen Interactions) |
| Push It! Production Techniques with Adobe Presenter |
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Let’s face it: out of the box, Adobe Presenter makes it pretty easy to create content. So what’s the problem? Unless you dig deeper, working with Presenter will force you to confront some challenges which can hinder the success of your courseware. This session will focus on 3 key areas: enhancing Presenter functionality, improving interactivity and effectively handling technical limitations. Unless you don’t mind dealing with the same options, the same output, with the same results, its time to break the mold and push Adobe Presenter to create better e-learning experiences— both for YOU and your learners! |
Rob Rode (Vangent, Inc.) |
| Synchronizing Video/Audio with graphics in SwishMax |
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Are your learners tired of online courses that require lots of reading and page turning? This session focuses on an easy, cheap and fast alternative – synchronizing video or audio with graphics and animation. With this approach, the user doesn't get lost in the monotony of reading page after page. All they need to do is just sit back, watch and listen. Using Swishmax, a cheaper and easier alternative to Flash, Scott will demonstrate how it is done (with virtually no programming) and show examples of completed courses that used this technique. |
Scott Lechert (PacifiCorp) |
| Taking the Next Step in Learning: Using Games & Simulations |
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Need to figure out how to incorporate games into your e-learning strategy? Attend this session for a look at the latest trends and breakthroughs for using games in learning. You’ll get an introduction to games and simulations, an understanding of what works and what doesn’t, and a look at several implementations using off-the shelf products.
We’ll also discuss what you will need to know to start building your own games and simulations to offer your audience the best in learning. |
Nick Floro (Sealworks Interactive Studios) |
| The Google |
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Google has a multitude of products. This session presents a brief overview of more than 60 resources and tools, including several that have significant value for e-learning development and delivery. We will briefly discuss accounts, search, personal productivity, communication and websites. Google messaging and document sharing, and the much touted and mysterious Google Wave will be explored in greater detail. |
John Gillmore (University of Central Oklahoma) |
| The Potential and Pitfalls of Training in 3D Virtual Worlds |
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Attendees will have a chance to participate in a live demonstration of Virtual Training Partners Negotiation Training Sessions held in Second Life. Through this presentation, participants will learn and experience the four essential elements in creating training in virtual worlds:
• Immersive Storytelling
• Movement and Flow
• Interactive Assessment
• Personalized Role Play
Participants will also learn how to address the major hurdles in creating a 3D Virtual Training experience:
•Restrictive Technology
•Gaming Perception
•Security Issues |
Mark Jankowski (Virtual Training Partners) |
| The Thrifty Trainer |
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Come and explore the world of free development tools. In this session, you will discover the differences and similarities between freeware, shareware, adware, and donationware, as well as open source software, and software as a service (web applications). What’s out there right now that you could use to create learning activities, courses, and other content, without having to pay? Lots, and it's all legal! We will discuss:
• eLearning development tools
• Learning management systems
• Web-based content management
• Office software replacements
• Media capture/editing
• Web development tools and more!
Attendees will have the chance to discuss sharing of work done with several of these tools. After the session, attendees will be provided with a list of suggested development tools and services, and where to get them. Who should attend? Anyone on a limited budget with unanswered software needs, especially contractors, small business eLearning developers, academic professionals, and even people with a larger budget who are just looking for new tools and techniques. |
Cris Jolliff (Qualcomm Incorporated) |
| They are Smarter than You: Corporate Wikis in Learning |
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Your subject matter experts know more than you ever will. How can deployment of a Corporate Wiki unlock their knowledge? What pitfalls are there on the path of implementation? What models are there for integration with other eLearning tools? What makes a corporate wiki successful? In this session all of these questions will be addressed and discussed to help attendees breakdown the barrier known as "intimidation" to gain a can-do attitude regarding Corporate Wiki implementation. |
David Schwartz (Target Corporation) |
| Tips from the Trenches - Instructional Design & Development |
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No matter your development tool or process, get tips on creating enaging content. This session will cover any questions you have, as well as:
• Creating Engaging Graphics
• It's all about teaching
• Audio Recording & Editing Tips
• Learn When to Animate
• Video Basics & Adobe Media Encoder
• Software Setup for Recording
• Reusable Content Models
• Rapid Development |
Jason Bickle (AMX) |
| Transformations: eLearning content development in disguise |
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This session will introduce how to use XSLT or Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations to automatically transform eLearning content created in a tool like ProForm or Dreamweaver. Attendees will review how to transform their content into a PDF document, MS Word document, HTML document (suitable for viewing on a mobile device) or an XML document, making their content more accessible and relevant. |
Craig Clark (Concurrent Technologies Corporation) |
| Usability in Learning |
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There is a large gap in the industry regarding usability and user interface design. A bigger focus on improving user interface design will not only improve satisfaction, but also make it more likely for users to return for more learning, and make the administrative process more efficient. This facilitated discussion will cover the basics of usability, interface design, including good and bad examples, and tips and resources for improving usability in your learning programs and systems. We will also briefly cover Section 508 compliance and the importance of accessibility in learning systems and programs. The goal is to educate instructional designers, administrators, and product developers about the importance of usability and accessibility, and the ease in which they can be improved. |
Brian Dusablon (Administaff) |
| Using Lectora to Create an Online SME Comment Tool |
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This session will cover the use of the forms and database capability of Lectora for the creation of an online comment collection tool. One of the issues that every developer faces is the collection and coordination of review comments from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) during the review cycles of course development/maintenance. Using the form and database capabilities of Lectora, the presenter will demonstrate how to simplify the collection of comments, streamlining the review process. |
M. Shawn Stiles (Pfizer) |
| Using Social Media in Learning |
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Join us for an in-depth look at Social Media and how you can take advantage of it for learning and life. We'll discuss what Social Media is, how to use it effectively, how it is changing our lives, and what it takes to get started. Topics will include Launching a Social Network, a look at the latest tools and how they are evolving for Twitter, Facebook, and social media based web sites and how you can incorporate these into your training and e-learning delivery. |
Nick Floro (Sealworks Interactive Studios) |
| Utilizing SharePoint Forms to gather, format, and create course XML |
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Have you ever wondered how you could create a centralized location, where you and SMEs can enter content easily? Got SharePoint 2007? Create SharePoint forms that easily convert data to XML which includes rich text and HTML formatting. |
Jason Bickle (AMX) |
| Vendor Session: Create Flash-based Interactive Courses Using Rapid Intake |
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Do you need to master the art of creating effective and exciting interactive courses, even if you’ve had no programming experience? Attend this session where Jeff will help you get started with your organization’s content development initiatives, or improve what you may already have.
Learn industry terms, successful strategies, best practices, and new technologies that you need to know to design your own online courses. Learn how to quickly and easily create interactive Flash-based courses that include activities, animations, quizzes, tests, learning games, and simulations – with no programming required.
During this session, Jeff will show you how your organization can:
• Build interactive online courses and activities by using over 21 different content page templates. Or customize your own page template.
• Build quizzes, e-learning games, and simulations by filling out forms.
• Build simple and quick animations to use in your courses.
• Get your course SCORM-compliant with a few simple clicks.
• Create reusable course interfaces for your entire team to use.
• Build courses and tutorials individually or as a team in a real-time collaborative effort.
• Learn how to obtain faster and better course review with integrated course review. |
Jeff Batt (Rapid Intake Inc.) |
| Welcome to Adobe Stratus and Flash Player 10 P2P |
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Learn how to create real-time, social, and media rich applications with a decreased cost of delivery and infrastructure investment. Find out how to leverage Adobe Stratus and the new Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) to enable multiuser applications with shared video, voice, and data without all the load being placed on the Flash Media Server. This session will also cover what previously has only been whispered about regarding the new Groups functionality that enables amazing features such as Multicasting, Posting, Direct Routing, Object Replication, Server Channels and LAN Based Peer IP Multicast Discovery. The future of Flash Player peer-to-peer communication is here with Adobe Stratus and RTMFP. |
David Hassoun (RealEyes Media) |
| Why programming off the Flash timeline is critical to support effective instruction. |
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There are two primary reasons why Flash developers need to move their code off the timeline and into an object oriented coding strategy. First, this will allow you to create more reusable code increasing efficiencies in production. Secondly, you will allow the instructional designer to be more effective in implementing learning strategies that require practice and simulation. If time permits we will discuss Dr. Merrill's Instructional Transaction Theory and how it relates to object oriented programming techniques. |
Brian G. Miller (eLearning Studios) |
| You put the Yes Button Where? Tips and Tricks for effective eLearning User Interface Design |
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Course designers devote extensive time and effort ensuring online courses have good content and sound instructional design. An often overlooked aspect of online courses - the user interface - can both promote and hinder participants ability to learn. People don’t learn when they are frustrated and learners often voice confusion and frustration stemming from poor UI design. This session provides insight into approaches for designing interfaces that promote and facilitate learning and reduce user frustration. The topics covered in this session include:
• How good and bad UI design impact learning; making the case for sound UI design
• The role that graphic design and layout play in UI design
• Developing instructionally sound UI designs that adhere to standards that users have come to expect
• Why you should design a user interface that the learner can ignore |
Charles Herchelroath () |
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