eLearning Template Site… Officially Cool!

We are pleased to announce our redesigned e-LearningTemplates.com site. After our initial scrambled launch back in June, we felt that we could deliver a more intuitive interface design. Notice that we have added a Tutorials page that we’ll continue to populate with screencasts and other useful helps.

We have had excellent feedback from many and will continue developing many more stellar templates.

Thank you for your support and feel welcome to contact us with requests.

Collar Bone Broken, Marathon in Doubt

As some of you know Team eLB is sponsoring 2 runners in the St George Marathon this year (Brother Andrew and Sister Kim…Shawn’s wife). After many months of training I (Brother Andrew) may not be able to attempt my first marathon.

About 2 weeks ago I went mountain biking up Big Cottonwood canyon on the Wasatch Crest trail.  After 2 flat tires and climbing Puke Hill (earning my “downhill time”) I ended up crashing and bringing my summer to a grinding halt. I was going a little fast down a long single track when I hit a slight jump and came down on the side wall of the trail. I came flying off the bike and sliding head first for what seemed forever. When I got up everything seemed fine except that my shoulder burned. When I touched my shoulder I immediately felt my broken collar bone. I was in shock. I’ve crashed many times and never broken anything.

So for the next 2 hours I walked 4 miles down the mountain back to the car. My neighbor Jake had the great honor of trying to drag our bikes down the single track trail. He even got a bug out of my eye around mile 2 and got to drive me down the canyon to the hospital.

Finally after making it to the hospital I got some numbing shots and got to see the first x-rays. The bone was snapped in 2 places and the doc said that it would be about 5-6 weeks to heal. The marathon was 6 weeks from that date.

I few days later I went in for surgery and got a nice 3″-4″ titanium plate and 7 screws to hold it all together. Good thing we had already hit our medical deductible with the baby earlier this year. (so the surgery was free)

So, I’ve been out of the office for 2 weeks now and am hoping to be back on Tues. Things are starting to heal slowing but I haven’t been able to train for awhile now. There’s about a 50/50 chance that I’ll be ready by Oct 3rd. Even if my shoulder starts feeling fine I don’t know if it’ll make 26.2 miles. I guess I’ll soon find out. Stay tuned…

PS…in case you were wondering about my bike…it’s fine, nothing broken. I guess in the end that’s what’s really important

Navigating Articulate API with Flash

Awhile back I did a post about locking Articulate’s navigation and using embedded flash in the slide to navigate by talking to the API. Well…I was working on that project again and it seemed that everything had stopped working. Somehow since I hadn’t touched it for a few weeks it broke?

After a few hours of investigation, here was the problem/solution:
When previewing a few slides (through Articulate Preview option), I clicked my flash button and it was supposed to go to a specific slide #. (It didn’t work. It took me to the wrong slide even though my AS code was correct.) Now, the button with the code that said “go to next slide” worked fine.

The problem is that when you preview a slide range in Articulate it automatically treats the first slide of the preview as Slide #1. So even if it’s really the 12th slide in your presentation, it acts like slide #1 in the preview mode. So that explains when my buttons where trying to “go to Slide #xxxx” it wouldn’t work. That slide # didn’t exist in the preview. However, the “go to next slide” worked fine.

After looking back it makes sense that this was happening but it’s too bad that the preview mode can’t recognize what the slide # is in the overall presentation. Oh well…hope this helps someone else. Or maybe everyone already knew this but didn’t tell me

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