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

2. About your trainer Part time Reference & Instruction Librarian at Tulsa Community College Previous experience: ◦ Education Librarian @ 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

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

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

9. Image Collections Abound Microsoft Clipart Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ Google Advanced Image Search http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search FlickR http://www.flickr.com/http://www.flickr.com/ Wikimedia Commons Images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ima ges http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ima ges

10. Image Collections Cont. morgueFile http://www.morguefile.com/archivehttp://www.morguefile.com/archive The Public Domain Review - Images http://publicdomainreview.org/images/ http://publicdomainreview.org/images/ Photo Pin http://photopin.com/http://photopin.com/ More @ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/10- places-to-find-free-images-online-and-make-your- content-more-linkable/5979/http://www.searchenginejournal.com/10- places-to-find-free-images-online-and-make-your- content-more-linkable/5979/

11. References & Additional Resources Adobe Captivate Help. Retrieved from http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ I Came, I saw, I learned…IconLogic’s Blog Retrieved from http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/ http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/ IconLogic’s Weekly Skills & Drills email newsletter. Subscribe at http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101280589876&p=oi http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101280589876&p=oi

12. References & Additional Resources, Cont. Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog: Conversations on Captivate, Presenter and eLearning. Retrieved from http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/ 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.

13. 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?

14. 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…

15. 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