eLearning Development Training at Group-rate Prices!

Take advantage of hands-on training in state-of-the-art training facilities before the conference! Choose from different topics.

The pre-conference training will be held July 9-12 (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday). That will give you Sunday to rest up for the conference. Pre-conference training will be held in computer labs on the beautiful University of Utah campus.

Our currently scheduled pre-conference training* includes:

• Adobe Flash Basics (1/2 day)
• Using Adobe Flash to Create eLearning from the Ground Up (2 days)
• Introduction to Adobe Captivate (1 day)
• Advanced Adobe Captivate (1 day)
• Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio™ and Unison™ Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution (1 day)
• Customizing Flashform and Unison (1 day)
• Extending Flashform and Unison (1 day)
• Beginning Adobe Flash ActionScript 3 (1 day)
• Creating Advanced eLearning Architecture Using Adobe Flash CS3 and XML (1 day)
• eLearning and the Science of Instruction (1 day)

* Class sizes limited to 20 participants each. Get more details on each class topic in the registration process.

Adobe Flash Basics (1/2 day)

Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Cost: $150.00

In this 1/2-day course you will learn the basics of Flash. The information presented in this workshop is a pre-requisite to taking the Using Flash to Create e-Learning workshop. This workshop is based on Flash version 8.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop we cover these topics:

• Flash Overview
  
• Introduction to the Flash Interface
  
• Creating, Saving and Working with Flash Documents
  
• The Toolbox, the Panels, and the Timeline
  
• Flash Architecture
  
• Animating with Flash
• Using Flash as an Application Development Environment
• Flash Buttons
  
• Symbols
• Working with Video
  
• Introduction to Components, ActionScript

NOTE: This course will use the latest version of Adobe Flash, version CS3, but most of the skills will also apply to Flash 8.

Prerequisites: None--this class is designed for beginners.

Using Adobe Flash to Create eLearning from the Ground Up (2 days)

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008 - Friday, July 11, 2008

Cost: $495.00

In this 2-day course you will learn how to create effective and engaging web-based courses using Flash and the Flash Learning Interactions. You will learn how to do everything from simple interactions to WBT course architecture. Flash learning interactions also allow you to quickly create trackable quiz questions.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop we cover these topics:

• What is possible with Flash and e-Learning
• Using Flash to create e-learning interactions
• Multiple-choice and True/False quiz interactions
• Drag and Drop quiz interactions
• Fill-in-the-blank quiz interactions
• Explore and Hot Spot interactions
• Understanding course architecture
• Basic approaches to creating Course Architecture
• Tracking student data using SCORM

NOTE: This course will use the latest version of Adobe Flash, version CS3, but most of the skills will also apply to Flash 8.

Prerequisites: Foundation in Adobe Flash. If you are new to Flash, make sure to sign-up for the Adobe Flash Basics class on Wednesday afternoon to get this basic foundation before taking this class.

Introduction to Adobe Captivate (1 day)

Date: Friday, July 11, 2008

Cost: $275.00

In this hands-on workshop you will learn everything you need to know to get started with Adobe Captivate. As you participate, you will learn how to:

• Use the Captivate Main Menu
• Decide when to use different recording and creation modes
• Import content from a PowerPoint
• Use the Captivate timeline
• Insert objects onto Captivate slides
• Record software demonstrations using basic screen captures using automatic and manual recording
• Add sound and narration
• Turn your software demonstrations into "Let Me Try" simulations
• Publish for the web

NOTE: This class will use Adobe Captivate 3, but the skills will be largely applicable to Adobe Captivate 2 as well.

Prerequisites: None--this class is designed for beginners.

Advanced Captivate (1 day)

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008

Cost: $275.00

This hands-on workshop will take you beyond the basics with Adobe Captivate. As you participate, you will learn how to:

• Import media into Captivate
• Create a Menu structure
• Use branching to create soft skill business simulations
• Use branching to create non-linear interactions
• Manipulate advanced preferences for optimizing output
• Work with quizzes
• Create and track questions
• Integrate with SCORM and AICC learning management systems (LMSes)
• Export and edit in Flash
• Export to Microsoft Word

NOTE: This class will use Adobe Captivate 3, but the skills will be largely applicable to Adobe Captivate 2 as well.

Prerequisites: You should have basic Captivate skills. If you are new to Captivate, make sure to attend Beginning Captivate (Friday) before attending this workshop.

Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio™ and Unison™ (1 day)

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008

Cost: $275.00

Do you want to learn to build e-learning courses in Flash, but don't want the steep learning curve? Flash can take months or years to master. Learn to use Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution. You can learn to use it in just a few hours!

This beginning 1-day course teaches you how to rapidly create SCORM conformant Flash-based courses using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and  Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution. After this single class you will be able to create an interactive Flash-based course that will run on any SCORM-conformant LMS.

NOTE: Flashform and Unison are built on the same rapid development platform. You rapidly create Flash-based interactive courses using a similar process for both. However, Flashform is a desktop application, and Unison is a web-based application that allows more collaboration. What you learn in this class will apply to both solutions.

At the end of this practice-packed workshop, you will be able to:

• Create a new project
• Add topics and pages
• Choose page types that fit the content
• Integrate streaming audio and video
• Convert PowerPoint presentations into e-learning content
• Add interactive activities
• Add a knowledge check review
• Add a test
• Update the context-sensitive glossary
• Package the course for the LMS
• How to use technology to collaborate online with SMEs and other project stakeholders
  

As a part of the course, you will receive a trial version of Flashform and a free trial account for Unison.

Prerequisites: None. You do not need to own or know Flash to use either Flashform or Unison.

Customizing Flashform and Unison (1 day)

Date: Friday, July 11, 2008

Cost: $275.00

This intermediate 1-day course teaches you how to customize Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution using Macromedia Flash.

As you finish this practice-packed workshop you will learn how to create a completely custom course interface (course style). This includes learning how to: 

• Change the layout and the buttons
• Change the Index display
• Change the Media Controller
• Change the Narration and Glossary display
• Understand and Modify some Player Functions
• Modify page templates
• Integrate customized page completion strategies
  

As a part of the course, you will receive a trial version of  Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and a trial account to Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Macromedia Flash and the pre-conference workshop Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Solution. No Actionscript background necessary.

Extending Flashform and Unison (1 day)

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008

Cost: $275.00

This advanced 1-day course teaches you how to extend Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop you will learn to create reusable Flash-based interactions that can be shared with other Flashform and Unison users. In this workshop we cover these topics:

• Understanding the XML structure of existing page templates
• Creating new custom XML-based templates
• Creating the user interface forms to accompany custom XML-based templates
• Sharing custom templates with other team members

As a part of the course, you will receive a trial version of Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and a free trial account to Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution.

Prerequisites: Intermediate knowledge of Macromedia Flash. Intermediate knowledge of ActionScript and XML. If possible, you should also have attended the pre-conference workshops Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform and Unison and Customizing Flashform and Unison.
 

Beginning Adobe Flash ActionScript 3 (1 day)

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008

Cost: $275.00

In this 1-day course you will learn to program using ActionScript, the scripting language in Adobe Flash CS3. The information presented in this workshop is a prerequisite to taking Creating Advanced Architecture in Flash Using XML workshop.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop we cover these topics:

• Introduction to Programming
  
• ActionScript Syntax
  
• Writing ActionScript: Variables, Datatypes, Operators, Statements, Conditions, and Loops
• Understand target paths
• Using the ActionScript Authoring Environment
  
• Understanding Event Handling
  
• Using Functions
  
• Working with Text Fields
  
• Working with Movie Clips
  
• Loading External Assets
  
• Talking to HTML

NOTE: This class will focus on Actionscript 3, the latest version of the ActionScript programming language.

Prerequisite: You should have a basic foundation in Flash. You should have completed at a minimum the Flash Basics class (or have equivalent knowledge). Though not necessary, we also recommend taking the Using Adobe Flash to Create eLearning from the Ground Up before this class.

Creating Advanced eLearning Architecture Using Adobe Flash CS3 and XML (1 day)

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008

Cost: $275.00

This advanced 1-day course teaches you how to set up an eLearning Course in Adobe Flash CS3 using XML and the required ActionScript. This course requires that you have a good grounding in Flash and a basic understanding of ActionScript.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop we cover these topics:

• XML Basics
• Understanding the Dynamic Nature of an XML-based Course
• Creating the Course Layout in Flash
• Using ActionScript to Parse and XML document
• Coding the Navigation
• Creating the Custom Page
• Advanced Applications of XML Architecture

A large number of exercises will be spent writing ActionScript code and putting together a sample course.

NOTE: Students will use Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3, the latest version of the ActionScript programming language.

Prerequisites: You need a basic foundation in Actionscript. Based on past experience, we've found that it's too overwhelming for new learners that take both Beginning and Advanced Actionscript classes back to back. That's why we've scheduled both the Beginning and Advanced Actionscript classes on the same day.

eLearning and the Science of Instruction (1 day) - Taught by the Author!

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008

Cost: $275.00

Taught by author Dr. Ruth Clark

Is it better to describe an on-screen visual with text, with audio or with both? What kinds of visuals best promote learning? How can you use faded worked examples to accelerate learning? What kinds of simulations and games promote learning? What evidence do we have for instructional modes, methods, and architectures that work best in eLearning? Today much eLearning is designed on the basis of fads or folklore that may not be congruent with research-derived multimedia learning principles.

Based on her newly revised second edition of the best seller: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction coauthored with Dr. Richard Mayer, you will learn to apply updated evidence-based guidelines on the best use of text, audio, and graphics, examples, learning agents, and practice to promote learning in digital learning environments. You will learn fundamental multimedia learning principles, the research evidence behind them, as well as when and how to apply them.

You will receive a copy of the second edition of e-Learning & the Science of Instruction in this workshop!

Prerequisites: None