Join Adobe and Brookwood for an informative FREE webinar focused on making the most of your online Meetings and Trainings.

All attendees will receive a free Podcast and whitepaper on eLearning Best Practices.

Use the below registration link to for this free, one-hour sessions.

Tips and Tricks for Using Adobe Connect Pro
November 17, 2009 at 2pm EST; 11am PST

In this content building session, you will expand upon your understanding of Adobe Connect Pro. Learn the tips and tricks to make your meetings great, straight from the pros!

In this free webinar, you will come away with an understanding of:

• Tips for creating a Lobby
• Tricks for tiling pods
• Strategies for opening and closing a meeting with smooth transitioning
• Best practices for screen sharing
• And much more!

http://www.adoberegistrations.com/government/2009/eSeminars/AdoAcroConnectWebinar_200910/index.html  

Laura Haas Business and Budget, Green Solutions, Seminars, Training, eLearning

The cost of the course with the discount is $395 and includes the course manual. Please call 215-717-2788 if you are interested or would like to register. Thank you!

http://www.brookwood.com/training/Captivate4Training/Captivate4Training_captivate4.cfm

Laura Haas Green Solutions, Training, Twitter/Facebook/Blogging, eLearning

Become a FAN of Brookwood on Facebook and receive 25% off one course and a 1G USB!

Call 215-717-2788 to take advantage of this offer after you have become a fan.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ambler-PA/Brookwood/98126197448?sid=7d2c248ab12011a14d55128d330af32e&ref=search 

Laura Haas Training, Twitter/Facebook/Blogging

Starting in November Brookwood will be offering Articulate training! Brookwood is your source for all things eLearning. Don’t miss out on this hot new course!

Articulate Rapid eLearning Studio ‘09 gives you Presenter, Quizmaster, Engage, and Video Encoder in one integrated package. You’ll have everything you need to quickly create eLearning courses from PowerPoint and develop stunning interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and surveys

The first class will be November 30-December 1st. Seating is limited.

http://www.brookwood.com/training/articulatetraining/Articulate9Training_Articulate9.cfm

Laura Haas Green Solutions, Seminars, Training, eLearning

Save 30% on Dreamweaver Training October 19-21. Call for details or click here to register: http://www.brookwood.com/training/DreamweaverCS4Training/DreamweaverCS4Training.cfm

Laura Haas Training

http://www.adoberegistrations.com/government/2009/eSeminars/AdoAcroConnectWebinar_200910/index.html

Join Adobe and Brookwood for two informative FREE webinars focused on making the most of your online Meetings and Trainings.

All attendees will receive a free Podcast and whitepaper on eLearning Best Practices.

Use the below registration link to register for one or both of these free, one-hour sessions. We recommend you attend both for the best understanding of how to make your online meetings capture the attention of your audience.

The Best of Online Meetings
October 8, 2009 at 2pm EST; 11am PST

In this content building session, you will gain an understanding of how to run a live meeting using Adobe Connect Pro. Find out why so many government agencies, including DISA, Federal Highway, and the State Department chose to use Connect for their online Meetings!

In this free session, you will learn how to:

• Upload Content, including PowerPoint, Flash Objects, and Digital Video
• Use sophisticated audio and video capabilities to give your meeting depth
• Use the reporting engine
• Share content with others in a meeting
• And much more!

Tips and Tricks for Using Adobe Connect Pro
November 17, 2009 at 2pm EST; 11am PST

In this content building session, you will expand upon your understanding of Adobe Connect Pro. Learn the tips and tricks to make your meetings great, straight from the pros!

In this free webinar, you will come away with an understanding of:

• Tips for creating a Lobby
• Tricks for tiling pods
• Strategies for opening and closing a meeting with smooth transitioning
• Best practices for screen sharing
• And much more!

Laura Haas Business and Budget, Green Solutions, Seminars, Training, Twitter/Facebook/Blogging, eLearning

Found RJ Jacquez via Twitter (rjacquez), and he’s tweeted some valuable Captivate info/resources worth sharing.

Check out out his Captivate 4 Best Practices post and a suggested video on Captivate 4 for New Users.

nwalter Captivate, Training

Content is king, right?  Well then the new queen in eLearning is social media.  When was the last time we thought about how the new generation wants to learn?  Beyond content, beyond access, beyond look and feel, but “delivery and learner extensions”.   eLearning is on the cusp of a new horizon, (in its own infancy, and growing fast) by providing the training online through a system that provides updates, access to current information, and in an environment that lives on your desktop.  No, its not a new LMS, its lightweight, portable applications extending the training with streams of relevant information, news, updates,social media, and more.  Today, those who embrace eLearning focus deeply on content, which is correct, but we now need to focus on extending that content for real world information, news, and updates.

Brookwood is developing a solution that extends training on a personal level, includes social media, and can be customized to meet the learners specific needs.  Our solution will empower the learner to go beyond what is provided to them by allowing them to customize their own personal training portal.  Check back in a week for news on a upcoming demo of this new solution.

Take your training to a new level of learning and information with a Broowood Solution.  

Check out our latest portfolio here:  http://brookwood.com/portfolio-d/

Ed Stengel Software Application Development, Training, eLearning

 Brookwood will be offering a selection of ASPE courses at our Lower Gwynedd facility including SharePoint, Agile Project Management, Business Analyst Bootcamp, Scrum and more!

ASPE’s core mission is the development of hands-on, real-world courses designed to fill pressing skills gaps to make employees more effective and empowering companies to gain critical competitive advantage. This partnership will allow Brookwood and ASPE to offer a larger selection of leading-edge, expert-led training; helping our customers to quickly and effectively solve their problems and meet their goals.

Laura Haas Seminars, Training

The newest release of Adobe Captivate (CP), version 4, has greatly simplified the task of adding and editing closed captioning for the hearing impaired. For training developers under strict deadlines this upgrade is a gift from above. CP4 eliminates the need to cut & paste each and every line of text into the closed captioning dialogue box, which is what you must do when working with CP version 3.

This means having the source .ppt file open and the captivate version open and toggling between them for each line of text you needed to copy from one to the other. Even if you were fortunate enough to have dual monitors (thus eliminating toggling) you still had to copy & paste each line one line at a time or copy everything all at once and then edit text lines in the Captivate CC dialogue box. Either way…IT TOOK A VERY LONG TIME!

I want to talk about two very slick new features which Adobe has introduced in CP4 which now helps to make this all happen with very little effort.

The first feature that makes this possible is the ability to import MS PowerPoint slides directly into CP4. It converts the screens, animations and all notes content directly into a captivate project. It will not however import .ppc audio files from .ppt. But that’s OK, and here’s why…

What this means is that as long as you have your narrative text entered into the notes section of each .ppt slide, after it’s imported into CP4 the “Text to Voice / Closed Captioning” processing dialogue box (the second slick new feature) will display those notes and allow you to create an audio track by simply clicking a button. If you’re not importing .ppt files with notes you can simply type or paste text into the box and then convert that into audio as well. Once that audio track is in place, all you have to do is place a check mark next to the text you want to turn into closed captioning, save out the file and that is it.

Now of course you still have to go into the properties dialogue box and set your timing for animations and the skin editor to check the CC box so that it adds the CC button to the control bar during publishing, but who cares? The hard part is now done for you!

The Text to Voice feature provides you with a choice of Male or Female voice option…Paul or Kate. I prefer Kate; she seems to get her pronunciations better than Paul does. Granted, it sounds mechanically generated but it isn’t as bad as some computer generated audio I’ve heard. What’s more you can still import you own audio files just as you could in CP3 if you choose not to use Paul or Kate’s services. (They won’t mind)

The bottom line is that these new features have transformed a very tedious and time consuming task into one that is fast, new and exciting! Saving development time is saving money. You can take that to the bank! Thank you Adobe.

Gene Palocsko Training, eLearning