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Making Adobe Captivate Work for You

Making Adobe Captivate Work for You. Presented by Jamie M. Holmes. About your trainer. Part time Reference & Instruction L ibrarian at Tulsa Community College Previous experience: Education Librarian @ Northeastern State University

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Making Adobe Captivate Work for You

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  1. Making Adobe Captivate Work for You Presented by Jamie M. Holmes

  2. About your trainer • Part time Reference & Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College • Previous experience: • Education Librarian @ Northeastern State University • Served as COIL Secretary (2006), Chair-elect (2007) & Chair (2008) • Presented at OLA, Brick & Click and LOEX-W • Experience with Camtasia, Captivate, Jing, uTipu • High School & Middle School English Teacher

  3. OR PowerPoint A simple screen recording A few simple tricks in Captivate An engaging, effective & interactive lesson that can be viewed by students anywhere on nearly every Internet-capable device.

  4. Captivate in a Nutshell • For conceptual topics & explanations, start with a PowerPoint • Import file • Add audio • Add animation • Add interactive elements (buttons, click boxes, rollovers, quiz questions, widgets, and more!) • For demonstrating a process, virtual tour, etc., use one of the Recording functions

  5. Your first task… • What has been your biggest challenge / most frustrating thing about Captivate? THINK PAIR SHARE

  6. Training Outline – A.M. Game Plan • Module1: Review Basic eLearning Concepts • Module 2: Overview of Captivate 6 & the Workspace • Module 3: Starting a Project & Importing/Recording • Module 4: Production Basics • Module 5: Working with Audio • Module 6: Publishing, Testing & Posting

  7. Training Outline – P.M. Game Plan • Module 7: Production Practice + • Module 8: Question Slides and Quizzes • Module 9: Advanced Features • Module 10: Next Steps

  8. Working through the exercises today will: • enhance your skills • improve your confidence • add rich content to your collaborative information literacy project, OK LSI

  9. Image Collections Abound • Microsoft Clipart Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ • Google Advanced Image Search http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search • FlickRhttp://www.flickr.com/ • Wikimedia Commons Images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

  10. Image Collections Cont. • morgueFilehttp://www.morguefile.com/archive • The Public Domain Review - Images http://publicdomainreview.org/images/ • Photo Pin http://photopin.com/ • More @ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/10-places-to-find-free-images-online-and-make-your-content-more-linkable/5979/

  11. References & Additional Resources • Adobe Captivate Help. Retrieved from http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ • I Came, I saw, I learned…IconLogic’s Blog Retrieved from http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/ • IconLogic’s Weekly Skills & Drills email newsletter. Subscribe at http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101280589876&p=oi

  12. References & Additional Resources, Cont. • Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog: Conversations on Captivate, Presenter and eLearning. Retrieved from http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ • Siegel, K. A. (2012). Adobe Captivate 6: The essentials [Kindle Fire version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com • Siegel, K. A. (2012). Adobe Captivate6: Beyond the essentials. Reva, MD: IconLogic, Inc.

  13. Your second task… Think about how you learn new material. • Reading about it? • Hearing about it? • Thinking about it? • Watching something about it? • Doing something with it?

  14. Getting to know Captivate Strategies for every learning style • Step by Step Instructions • Follow verbal instructions • Read Your Screen!! • Video demonstrations • Practice, Practice, Practice & something you might not have considered Ideas for today…

  15. Ideas for Today Menu Charts - • Fill in online • Fill in print version Screen Shots • Work well for settings and preferences • Can then use to write step-by-step Record Your Practice • Best of both – see menus & step-by-step • Can use Cp, Camtasia or Jing

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