Making Adobe Captivate Work for You Presented by Jamie M. Holmes

About your trainer Part time Reference & Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College Previous experience: ◦ Education Northeastern State University ◦ Served as COIL Secretary (2006), Chair-elect (2007) & Chair (2008) ◦ Presented at OLA, Brick & Click and LOEX-W ◦ Experience with Camtasia, Captivate, Jing, uTipu High School & Middle School English Teacher

PowerPoint A few simple tricks in Captivate An engaging, effective & interactive lesson that can be viewed by students anywhere on nearly every Internet-capable device. OR A simple screen recording

Captivate in a Nutshell For conceptual topics & explanations, start with a PowerPoint ◦ Import file ◦ Add audio ◦ Add animation ◦ Add interactive elements (buttons, click boxes, rollovers, quiz questions, widgets, and more!) For demonstrating a process, virtual tour, etc., use one of the Recording functions

Your first task… What has been your biggest challenge / most frustrating thing about Captivate? THINK PAIR SHARE

Training Outline – A.M. Game Plan Module1: Review Basic eLearning Concepts Module 2: Overview of Captivate 6 & the Workspace Module 3: Starting a Project & Importing/Recording Module 4: Production Basics Module 5: Working with Audio Module 6: Publishing, Testing & Posting

Training Outline – P.M. Game Plan Module 7: Production Practice + Module 8: Question Slides and Quizzes Module 9: Advanced Features Module 10: Next Steps

Working through the exercises today will: ◦ enhance your skills ◦ improve your confidence ◦ add rich content to your collaborative information literacy project, OK LSI

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References & Additional Resources Adobe Captivate Help. Retrieved from I Came, I saw, I learned…IconLogic’s Blog Retrieved from IconLogic’s Weekly Skills & Drills newsletter. Subscribe at

References & Additional Resources, Cont. Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog: Conversations on Captivate, Presenter and eLearning. Retrieved from Siegel, K. A. (2012). Adobe Captivate 6: The essentials [Kindle Fire version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Siegel, K. A. (2012). Adobe Captivate6: Beyond the essentials. Reva, MD: IconLogic, Inc.

Your second task… Think about how you learn new material. ◦ Reading about it? ◦ Hearing about it? ◦ Thinking about it? ◦ Watching something about it? ◦ Doing something with it?

Getting to know Captivate Strategies for every learning style 1)Step by Step Instructions 2)Follow verbal instructions 3)Read Your Screen!! 4)Video demonstrations 5)Practice, Practice, Practice & something you might not have considered Ideas for today…

Ideas for Today Menu Charts -  Fill in online  Fill in print version Screen Shots  Work well for settings and preferences  Can then use to write step-by-step Record Your Practice  Best of both – see menus & step-by-step  Can use Cp, Camtasia or Jing