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Creating Flash Templates for eLearning

Nov 04, 2009 No Comments by

We’ve been building a lot of eLearning Flash templates lately and I started to think what I’ve learned that I might be able to share. Lots of people like to use templates to start a project. It speeds up development time and can help new users build some great content without having to know how [...]

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Fastest Marathon Ever!

Oct 30, 2009 No Comments by

The first team eLB marathon is complete! Sister Kim and I ran our fastest marathons ever! (ok…it was also our first marathon ever) The St George Marathon was 10/3 in St George Utah and the race went through the beautiful Snow Canyon area. I (Brother Andrew) was only 5 1/2 weeks out from my collarbone [...]

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New Articles: eLearning Templates and Design

Oct 21, 2009 2 Comments by

Just published 2 more articles on ezinearticles.com. eLearning Development Using Templates Article focuses on how templates help you build eLearning more rapidly. 10 Online Training Do’s and Don’ts Article discusses 10 things to think about when starting an eLearning team and course. Quickly build eLearning games and eLearning interactions. Works with your eLearning authoring tool. [...]

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Using View Slides to Send LMS Completion in Articulate

Oct 20, 2009 4 Comments

I published a course the other day and when users started going through it the completion status never passed to the LMS. I just used the standard “publish to LMS” option in Articulate…it has to be working. The user must be doing something incorrectly right? Well, actually I messed up. (but the software tricked me) [...]

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EzineArticles Expert Author

Oct 14, 2009 2 Comments

After a few weeks of waiting….we’re proud to announce that Brother Andrew has finally achieved “Expert Author” status on EzineArticles.com. Ok, it’s not that big of a deal but it’s always fun to see your articles published somewhere online besides your own blog. The process takes about 2 weeks and their editors go through your [...]

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Articulate Resources and Articles

Oct 09, 2009 No Comments

If you’re like me I’m always looking for good articles and “how-to” blogs on Articulate. So I thought that I’d share a few resources that I’ve written and use. Articles: Articulate and Flash Audio Navigating the Articulate API with Flash Scavenger Hunts in Articulate Using Flash to Control Articulate Navigation Blogs/Sites: Articulate Forums Rapid eLearning [...]

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Articulate and Flash with Audio

Oct 09, 2009 No Comments

I’ve been working on an Articulate Presenter course with a lot of flash files that have audio. Each of the .swfs have buttons that the user clicks to go to various frames. There are audio clips that go along with each slide. I quickly began to notice that the .swfs acted differently once imported into [...]

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Presenting at BYOL eLearning 09

Oct 08, 2009 No Comments

The brothers are presenting Oct 20 at the BYOL eLearning conference (Bring Your Own Laptop) in Salt Lake City, UT. Brother Shawn is doing a session on creating interfaces and the essential elements of course layouts. Brother Andrew is showing how to use Articulate to bring Power Point to life. If you’re at the conference…come [...]

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Collar Bone Broken, Marathon in Doubt

Sep 04, 2009 Comments Off

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 [...]

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Navigating Articulate API with Flash

Sep 04, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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Holy Cow! How long is 26.2 miles?

Aug 18, 2009 No Comments

Well, with just over a month left before the St. George Marathon, team eLB is hard at work. Sister Kim ran her first road race on July 24th. Every year Salt Lake City has the Deseret News 10k on Pioneer Day. She did great and dropped her average mile pace by about 2 minutes! I [...]

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Quick Scavenger Hunts in Articulate

Jul 15, 2009 No Comments

Let your learners find their own answers…send them on a scavenger hunt! You can use Articule to quickly do this or just do it in PowerPoint. Building this is not hard. Scavenger hunts are a good way to let a learner explore an internal or external site and while looking for specific information. I’ve used [...]

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eLearningDevCon 09 – Awesome!

Jun 19, 2009 No Comments

eLearningDevCon 2009 was great! We’d like to thank Rapid Intake for once again putting on such a great conference. It was wonderful to meet some many eL designers/developers and to get to hear about your projects and to share ideas. The debut of eLearningTemplates.com was a huge success. We had lots of interest in the [...]

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