Thursday, October 28, 2010:  FREE Event: 9am - 12pmStewart & Stevenson Training Center581 Garden Oaks Blvd., Houston, TX 77018Register:  http://astdhouston.org/en/cev/471Jam Sessions are an informal user group meeting designed to bring together local Articulate users for some practical tips & tricks training on all things Articulate. Dave will available to answer your questions and show you some quick tips & tricks. If you want to bring your projects, we can look at them together. This casual and informal event is open to anyone who wants to learn to create more engaging e-learning with Articulate. It is a free event but space is limited to the first 25 people who register.  You do not have to be a member of ASTD to attend.About the Presenter:  Dave Anderson is an E-Learning designer with more than 13 years of experience in online training. His portfolio includes designing custom E-Learning for NASCAR, Mercedes, Tufts University, Delta and America West Airlines. As Community Manager at Articulate, he works with Articulate's e-Learning community, helping users get the most from their tools while finding creative ways to build more engaging courses. He also shares e-Learning tips and tricks through his screencasts.

I found some great research on developing e-Learning in a global environment and wanted to share it with you.The Impact of Cultural Differences on Learning and Teaching - What it Means for eLearning - 1-hour recorded webinar, done for Walden University by Dr. Edmundson, explaining how educational and corporate organizations need to accommodate the cultural differences of learners in other countries to be successful.http://www.waldenu.edu/Media/31878.htm?height=700&width=870Developing e-Learning Modules Across Languages and Cultures: Lessons Learnedhttp://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/105/developing-e-learning-modules-across-languages-and-cultures-lessons-learnedLearning Beyond Borders by Deanna Hartley - Chief Learning Officer magazine presents an article on going global. International learning leaders are required to grapple with thorny issues, such as the role of local context in content development, solutions to language barriers and finding the right balance between centralized and decentralized learning. http://www.clomedia.com/features/2009/April/2596/index.php

When: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM US/PacificDescription: In this interactive eSeminar, RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist from the Technical Communication Group in Adobe Systems, will present key trends in online content consumption (both technical communication and non-technical communication), as well as explore practical ideas for leveraging these trends and for delivering engaging experiences that consumers expect from everything they do in today’s world, including the way they consume technical documentation.Click HERE for Event Details and Registration

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010Time: 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM EasternJoin Training magazine on Tuesday, November 16 for this complimentary Webinar, sponsored by Saba, and learn to incorporate rich video content into enterprise social learning platforms. In our personal lives, we increasingly use YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook to share video instantly with friends and family. Yet, most training content in enterprise and academic training is still predominantly "textual" or old-school.In the one-hour Webinar, join Milind Pansare, expert speaker in the fields of Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies, and discover two emerging trends in learning: using video as the medium of choice for learning and the emergent use of enterprise business networking technologies to power social learning.Register Now

Creative Interactive Ideas made the Largest Houston-Area Training Companies list (Houston Business Journal).  We've made the list every year since 2007.

The Adobe Online Learning Resource Center is a great resource for online learning documentation.  The site features a number of white papers including step-by-step instructions for Adobe Cativate tasks such as "Using Master Slides in Captivate" and "Adding Adobe Presentations to PDF documents".Check it out:  http://www.adobe.us/education/resources/hed/instructional/connect/collaborative_teaching/

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.  Readers who have a webcam installed on their computer can also experience any ZooBurst book in Augmented Reality.  Sign up for a free account and test it out.Check it out:  http://www.zooburst.com/index.phphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpmqs7Yn8VU

If you need an easy-to-use "true" drag and drop question application for training courses, check out this Captivate widget.  "This amazing widget allows you to create engaging drag and drop questions using any image, caption, highlight box, button, or animation that you add to your Captivate stage."You must have Captivate 4 or higher to create the interaction BUT you can incorporate the files that it creates in other training applications besides Captivate like Articulate Presenter ( as a web object).Check it out: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/question/wdgt_dragAndDropLite_AS3

Wednesday, December 15th at 1:00pm EST - Forio's webinar on "How to Build an Educational Business Simulation or Game."Reserve your Webinar seat now at: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Forio/ca3b8e5139/627b6e615c/09a0211e42 Expert simulation developer Billy Schoenberg will host a 50 minute webinar using Simulate, a web-based development environment to create simulations using the drag-and-drop design tools. Topics covered will include how to: Provide faculty summaries of class results for easy review or grading.Add faculty control over class scenarios so that the simulation can be used many timesCreate both student and faculty login pages with different views of the simulation Create multi-choice, short answer, and long answer surveys or quizzes within the simulationInclude facilitator guides, student guides, and videos into the simulationQuestion and Answer session

Need training materials for Microsoft Sharepoint 2007?  The Microsoft Office website has a number of online courses as well as shorter PowerPoint versions of courses.  Topics include:Work with document librariesWork with calendarsWork with slide librariesWork with workflowsWork with Excel Services Check it out:  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/sharepoint-server-2007-training-courses-HA010235858.aspx