While Articulate Storyline is a wonderful development tool, many times developers end up with only content that resembles a (very pretty) slideshow, rather than enriched content with meaningful experiences that result in impactful learning.

In this session you will learn how to creatively use Storyline to develop learner-centric content and just how you can use digital comics and motion comics (MoComs) to effectively communicate within a visual milieu. You will learn the process of creating an interactive and responsive comic-like interaction that will focus on user engagement through the use of in and out transitions and enhanced touch and gesture control. Finally, you’ll get current theories of visual information and communication.

In this session, you will learn:

• Tips and tricks of visual communication from digital comics
• How to increase learner engagement by utilizing sequential storytelling
• Basic Storyline use and layout
• How to make use of in and out transitions in Storyline
• Easy ways to add or enhance touch and gesture control to Storyline

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers who understand the basic use of Storyline and have basic knowledge of mobile devices and gesture control.

Technology discussed in this session:
Storyline, HTML5, mobile devices (tablets), touch and gesture controls, and the basic concepts of animation.

Participant technology requirements:
A laptop with Storyline loaded.

Authoring tools natively lack sophistication of handling variables. Rapid authorware developers feel limited, and many fear tackling more advanced functionality such as JavaScript.

In this session will you will learn some basic yet very cool examples of JavaScript-enhanced rapid development possibilities. You will also learn how to break down the core components by integrating JavaScript within common rapid authoring tools. You will learn an effective planning process by walking through a dice game (Yahtzee-esque) built in Articulate Storyline. The session provides encouragement for individuals with little to no JavaScript experience to use their existing skill sets to begin leveraging JavaScript.

In this session, you will learn:

• How JavaScript can enhance development
• The core components integrating JavaScript into common rapid authoring tools
• A planning process to assist in building solutions
• What to do when things go wrong

Audience:
Novice designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline, Sublime 2 text editor, Lectora JavaScript, search engines, and online communities.

Most eLearning projects get off the ground with great intentions. Somewhere along the development path deadlines may be missed, SME demands increase, and the resulting project gets rushed and lacks consistent design. Having a style guide to refer to not only aids in the development cycle, but also assists in ensuring nothing is forgotten or missed. While documenting all of details of a project may seem tedious and nonsensical, having the ability to revisit a project months later and know everything is documented is priceless.

In this session you will explore style guides from recording global assets and their usage, naming conventions, and asset management, to RGB colors used in the user interface. You will see use cases and processes, along with a quick-start style guide job aid and templates to put to use right away.

In this session, you will learn:

• Tips and techniques for style guide preparation
• Naming conventions and asset management practices
• The various categories in setting up an eLearning style guide
• The differences between isolated, global, navigation, and other assets to record

Audience:
Novice designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Micro-learning video is the creation of video-based content under one minute in length that is primarily consumed on mobile devices. The rise of user-generated micro-content has required the use of rapid storyboarding and predefined video content structures. As the length of the video decreases so does the optimal format of the video.

In this hands-on session you will learn the process for creating micro-video, including formats, content creation applications, and implementation. You will explore the steps for the creation of micro-content, and tricks for using video analytics to select the best content for a micro-video. You will leave with a step-by-step process for creating short form video-based content.

In this session, you will learn:

• The structure of a micro-format
• Applications for micro-video creation
• Steps for creating a micro-video
• How to deliver micro-content in your organization

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Video editors.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop with Internet connection and a simple video editor, such as Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.

As the eLearning industry continues to shift towards a more software-like and code-intensive development model, it’s important for learning developers to understand the process of software development. An understanding of the vocabulary, process, and difficulties of writing code is important to better communicate with software developers and others who are involved in the process of writing complex eLearning.

Whether you intend to write code yourself, work with coders on your team, or contract code out to a development company, this session will provide you with a high-level understanding of the coding process. In this session you’ll work with the instructor to complete a development cycle and write your first program. Fast-paced and fun, this session will give you great insight and practical experience in the programming process!

In this session, you will learn:

• The process used by professional coders to develop software
• How to develop a short interactive program
• How to build a working application from program code
• Techniques to debug code and find errors that prevent your code from building or running correctly
• A vocabulary used by professional coders that will help you communicate with them about projects

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
TBD

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop with Internet access.