Software news and views
This week, the e-Learning Heroes challenged us to find engaging ways of teaching maths concepts. Now this might initially seem unrelated, but my kids love the EJ Spy School books. Recently, we read one of them where the eponymous character has to crack a code to get into the Spy School. Riveting stuff, for the kids anyway. The code…
I mentioned earlier that I went to the official launch of the Digital Licence in Sydney a few weeks ago. As the unveiling of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s latest e-Smart product, it was pretty awesome. In my previous posts, though, I didn’t really go into detail about what the Digital Licence actually is. So… The eSmart Digital…
This week, the E-learning Heroes’ challenge was to to design a Valentine’s Day themed interactive graphic, demo, or activity. I love love, so I put in an entry. Plus, I’ve been looking for an excuse to play around with Storyline 2’s quick and easy slider interactions. So, for imagery, I selected a wedding-themed vector set from my library of…
It’s been three weeks since Articulate launched their much anticipated new flagship, Storyline 2. In the time since the launch, many articles have been written about the new features that are capturing developers’ attention. For me, three new feature combos stand out as particularly handy: Motion paths New animations Timeline manipulations Motion paths Storyline 1 only ever offered…
Hypothetical: Client ZYX operates in a heavily regulated field. They hire you to develop an on-screen text-based course to train their staff about their legal obligations. They’ve got smart legal people who give you all the facts that need to be taught. You take those facts and transform them into a sharp series of 100 slides that…
Articulate Storyline 2 is here. Be afraid. No wait, that’s wrong. Be excited! My favourite bit of software has just grown up. As you’ll understand, I’m currently elbow deep into its guts, performing exploratory surgery to discover all its new features. So you’ll have to excuse me if there are any typos in this…
