5 Instructional Design Strategies for Creating Better E-learning - Free Webinar This webinar shares how basic instructional design strategies can be tweaked to suit your specific training needs and audiences. The post 5 Instructional Design Strategies for Creating Better E-learning - Free Webinar appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Captivate 8 Tutorial: How To Import A Photoshop File Into Captivate 8 In this video, I show you how you can import a Photoshop file (PSD) directly onto your stage in Adobe Captivate 8. I don’t use this feature very often but I can see when it may be advantageous to import images this way. Being able to turn on or off the various layers can add flexibility that you wouldn’t have in a merged or flattened image. The post Captivate 8 Tutorial: How To Import A Photoshop File Into Captivate 8 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Reblogged from Reflections of a Passionate Educator: I can not describe how much easier Edmodo has made my teaching! At the beginning of this academic year, and in my capacity as an eLearning leader, I was involved in a whole-school effort to rollout Edmodo. The eLearning leaders at school gathered all teachers and showed them […]

Captivate 8 Tutorial: Troubleshoot Scoring Problems in Captivate 8 In this video I show you the easiest way to troubleshoot scoring problems with your quizzes in Adobe Captivate 8 The post Captivate 8 Tutorial: Troubleshoot Scoring Problems in Captivate 8 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

I just discovered I am the worse internet researcher on the planet.  This last application assignment has set my braincells on fire! Help. In my current  masters level course, I’m learning about information literacy, the "science" of research.  I’ve learned how the world of the internet has changed the way we research information.  I have […]

Adobe Captivate Tutorial: Use Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate To Hide a Next Button In this Adobe Captivate Tutorial, I use advanced actions and variables in Adobe Captivate to hide a Next button to keep the user within the tabbed pages until they have clicked on all the tabs. The post Adobe Captivate Tutorial: Use Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate To Hide a Next Button appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Being a father is probably the most important job a man can do. In the classroom, a male teacher can, for the children who need it, be that father figure that they are missing in their lives. Today, for all the male educators out there… I give honor to you for being that father figure […]

Adobe Captivate Tutorial: Adding Closed Captioning to Embedded Videos in Adobe Captivate In this Adobe Captivate Tutorial, Robert asks, "How do I add Closed Captioning to embedded videos in Adobe Captivate, and why don’t I use responsive design in more of my projects?" I of course give him the answer. The post Adobe Captivate Tutorial: Adding Closed Captioning to Embedded Videos in Adobe Captivate appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

lovingly copied from Teach Thought How will you embed technology into your lessons this fall?

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Creating Your Own Interactions in Adobe Captivate 8 In this Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial, you will learn how to create your own interactions with advanced actions using Adobe Captivate 8. In addition, you will see how this can be done in a responsive designed course as well. This project uses standard actions and a user variable to capture the users interaction, followed by a conditional action to display the appropriate message as a form of feedback to the learner. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Creating Your Own Interactions in Adobe Captivate 8 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

I must tell you something you don’t want to hear.  Wikipedia is not a gift from Satan. It has its purpose in the universe and should be given a certain level of respect.  Now that I’ve said that, let me explain. As I noted in an earlier post, my master’s level course for the first […]

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Creating Your Own Smart Objects in Adobe Captivate 8 In this Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial, I show you how you can create your own smart objects by essentially tracing any image that you want to make into a smart object. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Creating Your Own Smart Objects in Adobe Captivate 8 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

I’m having a hard time NOT thinking about the 2013-14 school year.  I think its this class I’m finishing up on Information Literacy (IL) that has me thinking about how to incorporate more researching into my lessons, which naturally, will create a more student centered environment. So, in the final discussion in my IL class, […]

For my final reflection in my Information Access and Evaluation course over at American College of Education, I was asked to consider what I’ve learned over the past 5 weeks and to either write a paper on the subject or create a presentation using any of the most popular presentation software packages.  I chose to […]

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Provide Feedback For Each Answer in Adobe Captivate 8 In this Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial, I show you how you can use the Advanced Answer Feedback option to provide your learners with feedback on each possible answer in a multiple choice single answer question slide. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Provide Feedback For Each Answer in Adobe Captivate 8 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

So, I’m wandering around a shop in town when someone calls my name.  I look up and its the mother and daughter of a former student of mine.  I"m so happy to see them as I’ve lost touch with CeCe and wondered if she had reached her current goal. Let me back up a bit. […]

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Drag And Drop Game / Interaction Do you want to create Drag and Drop matching Game for your E-Learning courses or personal use but you don’t know programming? No worries, there is a very easy method in Adobe Captivate, you can create Drag and Drop matching Game without need of any programming or artist work. In this Adobe Captivate 8 tutorial you can learn to create Drag and Drop matching Game in Adobe Captivate 8. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial: Drag And Drop Game / Interaction appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

My SILENT interpretation of some very powerful words… (goes to corner to wait this one out)

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Adding Audio To eLearning Course Inserting audio files into your eLearning course is very easy task using Adobe Captivate. In this Adobe Captivate 8 tutorial you can learn to import audio files into slides of your course in Adobe Captivate 8. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Adding Audio To eLearning Course appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

I think I discussed this topic once before but as I begin preparing for the new school year, I find myself updating and "cleaning house" in regards to how I’m connecting to other educators via the Internet.  In some areas, I’m really making a splash, in others, I wonder if I’m alone in a desert. […]

Captivate 8 Tutorial: Multiple Interactions In One In this video I provide a solution to a viewer who wanted to create multiple interactions into one. She was hoping for carnival shooting game where each character pops up and you need to respond to their statement. I thought about this for a while and eventually came up with the simplest solution possible. It gets the job done without any code, advanced actions, or conditional actions. Let me know what you think. The post Captivate 8 Tutorial: Multiple Interactions In One appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

So I get an email from a member of the district’s IT department about a workshop at the educational technology conference a group of us will be attending together. We are wanting to move towards using My Big Campus as Learning Management System next year. If you haven’t seen the features of My Big Campus, you should check […]

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Using the Multi SCO Packager In this video I attempt to answer a question about having multiple Captivate projects with their own assessments linked together using the Multi SCO Packager from Adobe. The Multi SCO Packager is included with Adobe Captivate. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Using the Multi SCO Packager appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

I wrote recently on how I use blogging to connect the introvert in my classroom  and have found it is making it much easier for my quiet students to connect to the lessons and participate with their classmates.  Something interesting is happening with one student in particular that I thought I’d share. "Mandy" is uber-quiet.  For […]