Adobe teamed up with us to highlight the awesome tools they provide. One of these tools is Adobe Presenter 9, and it allowed us to travel through time!
A few months ago, Adobe asked us to deliver an Adobe Presenter 9 project that demonstrated how powerful a fully functional presenting tool can be in the hands of a professional.
After a series of great conversations with Dr. Allen Partridge—using some of our local talent—we were able to demonstrate how Adobe Presenter 9 can be used when developing a flipped classroom experience. There is no need to detail how effective a flipped classroom is and can be (as Dr. Patridge does a great job of this in his blog), but we did want to show you in full cinematic glory the course we developed. Without further ado, here is Time Travel!
(Watch the five minutes all the way through! The ending will blow you away.)
This course unfolds as a Professor of Time Travel spends some time educating his class on the history and mechanics of time travel. Where it goes from there is anybody’s guess, but you can find out as you watch the course and look for the telltale signs that things have changed.
We found the Adobe Presenter tool to be powerful and flexible in allowing a user to build a flipped course both quickly and easily. While not everyone may have the ability to pull off time travel, everyone can pull off a flipped classroom experience using Adobe Presenter 9.
Really like the concept and features shown in this example, but I ran into problems after the first “lecture” ended with the sketches of important time travel characters…everything stopped and there was no clear indication of where to click in order to move forward. (I’ve never used Adobe presenter so I brought completely fresh eyes.) I clicked on the next menu item and kept going. When I went back to this stuck point at the end, it appeared a quiz should have popped up, or been selected, but there was no opportunity to answer the unanswered question I’d skipped. So in essence, the navigation was a little clunky/unclear, and this impacted the experience negatively. I would be curious to know what went wrong (user error or application glitch) and how easy it is to fix or avoid.
Hi N. Wilkinson,
Thanks for your comment. You bring up a great point! We have our custom team working on an upgrade to the course right now. We look forward to showing you the new version and seeing what you think.
Wow, Presenter9 seems like it would be a great tool for creating online learning. Liked the switching from video to PPT while stil showing the video. It was a little glitchy but still, all in all think it showed a good application of using Presenter9 and what can be done with it.
Thanks for the comment Jim. We agree. Some users may appreciate a next button and not just an auditory cue to moving to the next section. We are actually updating the course to meet this user interaction issue. So stay tuned for the new version.
Here is the update version of the fliped classroom course. Let us know what you think: http://elearningbrothers.com/product_demos/adobe_presenter/index.htm
I loved this! Thought it was a clever and interesting piece!