It’s been a busy month here at the home of Lectora® and CourseMill®. We’re close to kicking off our annual user conference, we made a few exciting announcements and there’s more to come. In case you’ve been just as busy, we gathered up some great blogs that you might have missed this month. Happy reading! 1. Announcing Lectora 12.1 with eLearning Brothers Awesomeness Learn more about the latest e-Learning game changer in this article announcing the new integration between Lectora® Inspire and the eLearning Brothers Template Library, Cutout People and Interaction Builder. 2. Trivantis Talks Learning Solutions 2015 - A Recap If you weren’t lucky enough to attend Learning Solutions 2015 this year, our very own Laura Silver can tell you what you missed. She sums it all up in this great post. 3. eLearning Tip: The Difference Between Copyright Free and Royalty Free Brother Danny from the eLearning Brothers delivers some helpful knowledge in this article. Make sure you know the legal rights of the images you’re using! 4. Timesaving Design Tricks for e-Learning Developers Learn the secrets of the ultra-speedy e-Learning developers that you’ve always envied. You can save time just like them. So go ahead and hit snooze—you have five extra minutes! 5. How To Get Involved In the e-Learning Community The e-Learning Community is a great place to learn from e-Learning experts and users. Get involved in the e-Learning community today with these 5 tips. 6. Five Keys: Designing and Delivering Effective Global Training Programs Learning Solutions Magazine never disappoints. Check out this helpful article on designing your global training for success. 7. Write a strong goal: Sell it to Scrooge Learning expert Cathy Moore talks about the importance of understanding the true goal of your training program. 8. 7 Game and Gamification Guidelines for Your Organization Get your game on! Karl Kapp shares some guidelines developed from multiple implementations of games and gamification within organizations. 9. text&form at the 2015 Lectora User Conference Everyone is getting excited for Nashville and the LUC 2015! Learn more about what text&form is presenting on in this article. 10. Spring 2015 CLO Symposium Day 3: Viva Learning in Miami Find out what you missed if you didn’t make it to the Chief Learning Officer Spring Symposium event. For more monthly summaries of e-Learning articles, free resources and exciting product news, subscribe to the Lectora e-Learning Blog. The post The Best of e-Learning in April 2015 appeared first on .

It’s going to be a wild week here in Nashville as the 2015 Lectora® User Conference kicks off. First, we’ll be getting our palms read at the "Find the Future" Welcome Reception in the Renaissance Hotel Bridge Bar and Belmont Room, overlooking downtown Nashville. And then we’ll be discovering the future of e-Learning from some of the best e-Learning experts in the industry! Here’s a brief highlight of what we’ll be seeing and doing here in Music City: Amazing keynote speakers: Donald H Taylor, Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute; Shelly Sanchez Terrell, author and champion of e-Learning; and Ross Dawson, leading futurist and entrepreneur Dozens of e-Learning breakout sessions with award-winning e-Learning practitioners and valuable one-on-one opportunities with Lectora e-Learning software developers Two exclusive networking events at downtown Nashville locations Fun contests like QR Bingo and a #FindTheFuture hashtag contest on Twitter Hundreds of e-Learning professionals from all over the US and around the world will gather with colleagues and new friends for an unforgettable agenda Special events for CourseMill® users Get more information about what’s happening in Nashville this week, like keynote speakers, breakout sessions, networking events and more at 2015 Lectora User Conference. Follow us on Twitter with #FindTheFuture to stay up-to-date with the Lectora news, plus download the free "2015 LUC" mobile app from the App Store or Google Play for more conference details. The post The 2015 Lectora User Conference Begins Tonight! appeared first on .

On the last day of the school year, my daughter’s junior kindergarten class was featured on the Rockford evening news as her teacher received the Rockford Teacher of the Week award.   My daughter Madigan is the one pointing to the letters of the alphabet at the 0:42 and 1:14 marks in the video.  The full story is here on the WREX website.

Sometimes all you need is a little nudge in the right direction to get your inspiration flowing. That’s where the eLearning Brothers Lectora® Page Layouts come into play! These templates are a great way to help you organize your content and give it a professional look. And now they’re accessible within Lectora® Inspire 12.1! You don’t even have to leave your favorite authoring tool to use pre-built templates and graphics from the amazing eLearning Brothers. Not sure how to use page layouts? Check out this quick how-to post from the eLearning Brothers: Did Leonardo Find Inspiration with Lectora Layouts? Remember, if you’re current on maintenance with Lectora Inspire, you can download the 12.1 update for free. If you’re not current on maintenance, or you’re a Lectora® Publisher user, just email us or talk to your account rep about how you can get access to all this eLearning Brothers awesomeness—from page layouts to HTML5 games and more! Subscribe to the Lectora eLearning Blog for more how-to tips, product updates and free resources. The post Page Layouts: the Foundation for eLearning Masterpieces appeared first on .

Do kids today know how to work a late 70s/early 80s home computer?  Watch this video titled "Kids React to Old Computers," to see a group of young children who are shown an old Apple II computer one at a time. Then, they react. What was the earliest computer that you used? How would your childhood have been different if the technology available today would have been available back then? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts!

Have you ever thought about how to add additional information to your Lectora® titles, but you’re not sure how? You can easily display information to your student with Web Windows. Web Windows allow users to view external or live web resources within a title. Select from the following web sources: Local web-based content Web Address Page in Title Google Maps Location Wikipedia Entry Google Document 1. To add a web window, select the Insert ribbon and select the Web Window icon. 2. The Web Window option provides you with a variety of options which will allow you to add LIVE web resources within a title. Select the window source from the drop-down in which you want to include within your Lectora title. 3. Once you have selected a window source, you can embed the URL or location of where the content resides. As an example, let’s say you want to embed a Google Maps Location to show your student where your company offices are located.  Within the URL you would place the address: 311 Elm Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. **You’re able to preview your content within this window before placing it within your Lectora work space. 4. Once you’ve embedded a web window, Lectora will provide you with a placeholder in which you can resize and style to your liking. Use the Style ribbon to add a border, border color, margin size and scroll bars. 5. The last step would be to test the functionality of the Web Window in either Run or Preview mode: Web Windows provide you with a ton of flexibility and functionality to include within your titles.  Get creative and let us know how you use Web Windows in your Lectora titles! Subscribe to the Lectora e-Learning Blog for more Lectora how-to tutorials and tips. The post Adding Web Windows in Lectora appeared first on .

The Find the Future 2015 Lectora® User Conference last week was full of inspiring ideas and exciting news. Lectora users, CourseMill® users and the Trivantis team all met at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for this incredible eLearning conference. LUC attendees ready to "Find the Future" in Nashville Wednesday and Thursday were packed with keynote speakers Donald H Taylor, Shelly Sanchez Terrell and Ross Dawson, tons of awesome breakout sessions from our Lectora users, an Ask the Experts panel, plus One-on-One Sessions where attendees got to meet with a developer and work through questions. The Trivantis Ask the Experts panel The Trivantis team also made a few exciting announcements at the conference, including the new Lectora® Inspire 12.1 with eLearning Brothers Template Library, Cutout People and Interaction Builder. To see why everyone’s so excited about effortless authoring with built-in eLearning Brothers awesomeness, sign up for a free trial of Lectora Inspire. John Blackmon sharing exciting news about the Lectora Inspire 12.1 with eLearning Brothers integration We even hosted the inaugural CourseMill Day this year, which was a huge success. Thanks to all the CourseMill users who attended this first-ever event—we were so glad to have you join us in Nashville! The LUC 2015 included two networking events. Our "Find the Future" Welcome Reception was at the Renaissance Hotel Bridge Bar and Belmont Room, where we had fortune tellers and some future-themed fun. The Closing Reception was at Tequila Cowboy on the famous Broadway strip—complete with a build your own taco bar. The "Find the Future" Welcome Reception Thanks to all our users who attended this year’s conference. Your Lectora enthusiasm is what made the LUC 2015 a success! For more highlights and photos, check out the LUC 2015 Social Wall. Subscribe to the Lectora eLearning Blog for more news, helpful tips and eLearning fun. The post Future Highlights: 2015 Lectora User Conference Recap appeared first on .

In this video David White (@daveowhite) of the University of Oxford explains how the Visitors and Residents model provides a framework to understand individuals’ engagement with the Web based on motivation and context. In part 1 of this series, he argues that the metaphors of ‘place’ and ‘tool’ best represent the use of technology in contemporary society and allow us to better adapt to the challenges of new forms of academic practice. In part 2, David explains how the Web is changing academic practice and challenging traditional notions of credibility and authority. Do his thoughts resonate with your experience with the Web? Leave a comment with your thoughts!

Getting exactly what you want can feel like magic. Do you want a tabbed interaction with 10 tabs? The eLearning Brothers are here to grant your wish! In this great video tutorial, Brother Bryce will teach you how to add as many tabs as you want. Watch now: How do I add another tab in a Lectora Interaction? Thanks to our recent partnership with the eLearning Brothers, you can now do all this right inside Lectora® Inspire! Find out more about the eLearning Brothers awesomeness built into Lectora Inspire on our website. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Lectora e-Learning Blog for quick tutorials, product announcements and more. The post Making Magic: Tabbed Interactions in Lectora appeared first on Trivantis e-Learning.

"Netiquette" refers to the rules of etiquette that apply to online communication. Follow these 15 rules shared by Touro College to make sure you sound respectful, polite, and knowledgeable when you post to your class’ online discussion boards. via Online Education Blog of Touro College Before posting your question to a discussion board, check if anyone has asked it already and received a reply. Just as you wouldn’t repeat a topic of discussion right after it happened in real life, don’t do that in discussion boards either. Stay on topic - Don’t post irrelevant links, comments, thoughts, or pictures. Don’t type in ALL CAPS! If you do, it will look like you’re screaming. Don’t write anything that sounds angry or sarcastic, even as a joke, because without hearing your tone of voice, your peers might not realize you’re joking. Always remember to say "Please" and "Thank you" when soliciting help from your classmates. Respect the opinions of your classmates. If you feel the need to disagree, do so respectfully and acknowledge the valid points in your classmate’s argument. Acknowledge that others are entitled to have their own perspective on the issue. If you reply to a question from a classmate, make sure your answer is accurate! If you’re not 100% sure when the paper is due, DO NOT GUESS! Otherwise, you could really mess things up for your classmates and they will not appreciate it. If you ask a question and many people respond, summarize all answers and post that summary to benefit your whole class. Be brief. If you write a long dissertation in response to a simple question, it’s unlikely that anyone will spend the time to read through it all. Don’t badmouth others or call them stupid. You may disagree with their ideas, but don’t mock the person. If you refer to something your classmate said earlier in the discussion, quote just a few key lines from their post so that others wont have to go back and figure out which post you’re referring to. Before asking a question, check the class FAQs or search the Internet to see if the answer is obvious or easy to find. Check the most recent comments before you reply to an older comment, since the issue might have already been resolved or opinions may have changed. Be forgiving. If your classmate makes a mistake, don’t badger him or her for it. Just let it go - it happens to the best of us. Run a spelling and grammar check before posting anything to the discussion board. It only takes a minute, and can make the difference between sounding like a fool and sounding knowledgeable. What additional tips would you recommend be added to this list? Leave a comment with your suggestions!