Captivate Me!

Paula and I were honored to be invited back to present at NECC this year in order to teach a hands-on workshop entitled: Captivate Me! This was our second year for this presentation as we initially presented it in San Antonio last summer. For the 2008 Adobe Captivate presentation, our workshop received a designation of "Best of NECC". This was quite a distinction and it meant that all of the slots for this year's workshop filled up well over two months in advance. Needless to say we had a very full house and were even fielding requests for placements on a waiting list.

Naturally we wanted to be perfectly prepared, so on Saturday afternoon after my arrival in DC, Paula and I spent several hours at the Conference center preparing our lab and testing equipment. We rehearsed again later so that by Sunday morning we were certain that the technology and our handouts would work smoothly and of course both did! The workshop went off without a hitch and we were able to complete every single activity we had planned. Things couldn't have gone more smoothly!

For those of you who are interested in learning more about our workshop... This year it covered the current version of Adobe Captivate 4 software which is used for the development of online eLearning materials. Last year's presentation covered Adobe Captivate 3, the previous version. Both versions offer opportunities for screen capture for the creation of online demonstrations, tutorials and assessments.

To access our listing on the NECC website, please visit the NECC 2009 site and search for Captivate Me! under the program search or copy and paste the URL below into a brower window:

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=43671899&selection_id=48097485&rownumber=1&max=1&gopage=

You may also go directly to http://www.worknsmartr.com/captivate
for the correlated workshop web site where you will find samples, examples, handouts, and student files. Also be sure to see Luann's earlier post for photos etc.