ESC XI: DL Conference–Captivate 3

October 15, 2008

Denise Piece, Birdville ISD
Adobe Education Leader (one of 100 worldwide!)
NOTE: My motivation for attending this is to better create training materials to support our videoconferencing projects, programs, and collaborations. Also, to assist staff with increasing the quality of their staff development offerings.

Adobe Captivate 3.0 will enable you to develop it, practice it, deliver it, see it, and test it! Looks like it costs $699. Wonder how much the education discount is? (You know we use a LOT of open source stuff here!)

Develop It–capture and record screen activity and effortlessly synchronize audio and video.
Practice It and Test It–can require participants to interact with the content. Not like a quiz, but rather, click NEXT, click ADD, etc. Can also integrate with eLearning tools and learning management systems. Can build in a way to capture data from interactions of staff.
See It and Deliver It–create simulation and e-mail them, post items on a website, intranet, or online help system.

Types of quizzes:
Matching
Multiple choice
Fill-in-the-blank
Feedback from quizzes can be shown after each item or at end of quiz.

Training simulation will capture snapshots during this mode and it will become interactive so that whoever is watching it has to click where you tell them to. Awesomeness Deluxe! You have to record the screen first and then go back and add audio. Creates a storyboard that you can easily go back and edit.

Next I am going to look for excellent examples of online training videos. Here is my first attempt for Monster Match this year. Please share links to yours so that we can begin learning together.

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