SDD101 The Future of Learning Today: Where Should You Focus?
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Tuesday, March 27
Expo Hall: Design & Development Stage
Join this session for an in-depth look at the tools, designs, and technologies you should be focused on in learning today and what’s just around the corner. The session will dissect what technology will be enhancing learning, and what you should get excited about and start planning to integrate into your solutions.
What can you learn from the buzz and new tools appearing in the consumer and corporate environments, and how can you take advantage of them to help your users learn? This fun session will give you dozens of ideas and reboot your brain for fresh perspectives on how to enhance your learning today.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to think about organizing, developing, and tagging content
- Amazing tips and techniques you can apply as soon as you get back to your desk
- About examples and resources you can use to excite your team and organization
- About valuable resources you can use to grow your personal learning network
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
Free frameworks; HTML5; Bootstrap.
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Nick Floro
Learning Architect/Imagineer
Sealworks Interactive Studios
Nick Floro, a co-founder and learning architect at Sealworks Interactive Studios, has over 25 years of experience developing learning solutions, applications, and web platforms. Nick is passionate about how design and technology can enhance learning and loves to share his knowledge and experience to teach, inspire, and motivate. As a learning architect, Nick gets to sketch, imagine, and prototype for each challenge. He has worked with start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to help them understand the technology and develop innovative solutions to support their audiences. Nick has won numerous awards from Apple and organizations for productions and services.
STP101 iSpring—Much More Than “Just” a PowerPoint Tab
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Tuesday, March 27
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
How can you create HTML5 content and animations without knowing how to program or code? Use user-friendly tools without a steep learning curve to create engaging, interactive content that exports directly to HTML5. Integrate the work once and publish to all PCs and mobile devices.
This session will demonstrate an overall introduction to iSpring and the features that make it a robust rapid authoring tool. Find out how you can take a drab PowerPoint and push its boundaries by combining it with iSpring. You’ll also learn about some of the new features in the upcoming release of version 9, including interactive videos and drag-and-drop quizzes!
In this session, you will learn:
- About various iSpring-native interactions (branching scenarios, animations, and interactions)
- Tips and tricks for motion design within PowerPoint
- About ‘storyboarding bullets’ and synchronized animations with narrations using PowerPoint and iSpring
- About interactive elements and functionality using PowerPoint
- About new features in the upcoming iSpring version 9
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, instructional designers, content strategists, and rapid authoring tool integrators.
Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint, iSpring Suite, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
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Michael Cerantola
Integration Manager
Knowledge One
Michael Cerantola is an integration manager at Knowledge One. He began working in the eLearning world while Flash still reigned supreme. With the gradual demise of Flash over recent years (and its inevitable phase-out), Mike has spent years converting legacy content to display in HTML5 browsers. Working through custom designs, rapid authoring tools, and audio/visual, Mike has faced challenges including browser display inconsistencies and optimization for mobile data plans, all while keeping the source document editable for clients. It became clear to him that PowerPoint plus a rapid authoring tool was the arsenal of choice to keep production costs low while staying profitable.
110 BYOD: Building Responsive Interactive Video with Simple HTML Snippets
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 11
You can create interactive video in a number of ways. There are tools for developing this kind of content, but they can be complex, expensive, and may not adapt to users’ various screen sizes. Another option, particularly if you want this content to be responsive, is to code it up yourself. If you’re not a strong coder this may seem too complex, but it’s actually much easier to accomplish than you might expect.
In this session, you will learn how to build responsive and interactive video with some easy-to-use HTML code snippets. Using simple HTML, you’ll be able to create interactions that allow the user to answer questions, choose a hotspot area on the video, branch to different parts of the video, and even to switch languages on the fly. This session will share the HTML code you’ll need to create your own interactive and responsive video, and also the steps you’ll use to develop this content yourself.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to create simple video
- How to make your video responsive
- How to trigger questions during your video
- How to create a hotspot in your video
- How to link to other parts of your video
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers. Some HTML is helpful, but most of the code will be provided.
Technology discussed in this session:
HTML.
Participant technology requirements:
Laptop running Sublime Text.
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Jeff Batt
Founder
Learning Dojo
Jeff Batt has 15+ years of experience in the digital learning and media industry. Currently, Jeff Batt is a Learning Experience Designer for Amazon. He is the founder and trainer at Learning Dojo, a company dedicated to training you to become a software ninja in various eLearning, web, and mobile-related software applications. He was also the program manager of DevLearn for The Learning Guild. Jeff often speaks on developmental technologies such as xAPI, HTML5, augmented reality, mobile development, eLearning development tools, and more.
STP103 Reaching Every Device with Articulate 360
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Tuesday, March 27
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
Provide learners with an engaging learning experience on any device—without spending countless hours tweaking content for various screen sizes. With Rise, the responsive course authoring app in Articulate 360, all you need is a web browser to quickly create beautiful courses that are automatically optimized for every device.
In this session, you’ll learn how to build beautiful, fully responsive courses in Rise. The session will cover how to use pre-built lesson types to create engaging learner experiences, and how to create custom lessons with modular blocks. You’ll also see how to share your courses with learners.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use Rise to build responsive courses
- How to use pre-built lesson types
- How to use modular blocks to create custom lessons
- How to share your courses
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate 360 and Rise.
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Trina Rimmer
Director, Community and Customer Engagement
Articulate
As the director of community and customer engagement with Articulate, Trina uses her many years of eLearning design and development expertise to guide the creation of inspiring content for our community of workplace learning professionals, E-Learning Heroes. Before joining Articulate, Trina worked as an instructional designer, eLearning developer, and writer focused on delivering creative, engaging, and effective learning solutions to various companies, from global aid organizations to Fortune 500s.
213 BYOD: Getting Started Building Branching Scenarios
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 1
Do you want to introduce more interactivity into your eLearning courses? Do you want to provide a safe space for your learners to explore through trial and error? Have you heard about branching scenarios but not known how to go about building one?
In this session, you will learn the basics for interacting with tools to build branching scenarios. You will learn the high-level process for building branching scenarios from start to finish. You will also practice conducting an SME interview, and you’ll build a small prototype of a branching scenario based on the information you collect in the interview. You will leave with a base understanding of how to build a branching scenario.
In this session, you will learn:
- The basic design principles behind branching scenarios
- The pedagogy behind branching scenarios
- The advantages and disadvantages of using various tools to create branching scenarios
- Which questions to ask subject matter experts to get content to write
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers. Familiarity with branching scenarios is a plus but not required.
Technology discussed in this session:
BranchTrack, Articulate Storyline, and Twine.
Participant technology requirements:
Participants need a laptop and an internet connection. Participants who want to work in Storyline should bring a laptop that has that software. If participants want to work in BranchTrack but have already used their trial, they will need a current BranchTrack subscription. Participants who have access to neither program can use Twine, which is open source and therefore free.
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Jenny Saucerman
Online Learning Instructional Design Manager
Credit Union National Association
Jenny Saucerman is an online learning instructional design manager for Credit Union National Association. She joined CUNA in May 2018. Jenny has over 10 years of experience in the eLearning space, with a focus on simulation and game-based learning, assessment, and learning analytics. She holds a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
214 BYOD: Storytelling on Steroids with VideoScribe
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 13
Do you have a story to tell? A lesson to teach? A product to market? VideoScribe lets you do all that. Rapidly. VideoScribe lets you create whiteboard animations that you can post online or include in eLearning or presentations. No drawing talent needed!
Our brains crave stories. When listening to a good story, your brain becomes fully engaged by experiencing the events of the story (as opposed to passively decoding language, as it does during a lecture). This is why storytelling is such a powerful learning tool. Fuse the power of stories with the incredible reach of videos and you have a game-changer in the world of learning. HubSpot has projected that video will claim more than 80 percent of all web traffic by 2019. Opportunities abound for learning and marketing professionals who know how to leverage this powerful combination!
In this session, you will learn:
- How to create a new scribe to tell a story
- How to add and manipulate images and text on the canvas
- How to adjust draw and play time
- How to preview, play, and save scribes
- How to add music to a scribe
- How to insert a scribe into a PowerPoint deck
Audience:
Novice designers and developers with intermediate computer skills.
Technology discussed in this session:
VideoScribe.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running VideoScribe (free trial version is OK).
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Karin Rex
Learning Experience Architect
Geeky Girl
Karin Rex is a learning experience architect at Geeky Girl as well as an author, facilitator, instructional designer, and frequent speaker on technology-related topics. Since 1989, Karin has owned Geeky Girl, a boutique learning organization where she devotes her time to writing, teaching, and course development (eLearning, virtual classroom, face-to-face classroom, and blended). Karin is a certified synchronous facilitator, designer, and producer with a master’s degree in professional writing. Additionally, Karin teaches writing classes for Penn State University.
215 BYOD: Must-Know Photoshop Tips for Learning Developers
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 11
High-quality visuals are crucial to the success of eLearning courses and videos. Photoshop lets you create these quickly and easily, but many eLearning developers find Photoshop too complicated and either avoid it altogether or don’t take full advantage of the features available.
In this session, you will learn a variety of simple, yet powerful, Photoshop tips every learning developer should know. These tips will save you time and help you easily create high-impact visuals. You will learn such things as how to easily and effectively remove people from backgrounds, how to remove unwanted portions from a complex image, and how to quickly change the color of part of a photo. You will leave with practical and time-saving knowledge that you can instantly apply on the job.
In this session, you will learn:
- Methods to easily and effectively cut out people and objects
- How to create versatile image fades
- How to easily remove unwanted aspects in a complex image
- How to quickly change the color of part of a photo
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers. Basic knowledge of Photoshop is helpful but not required.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Photoshop.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running the latest version of Adobe Photoshop.
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Destery Hildenbrand
XR Solution Architect
Intellezy
Destery Hildenbrand is an XR solution architect with Intellezy. Destery has over 17 years of experience in training and development and seven years focusing on immersive technologies. Destery has spent time in corporate environments and higher education. Destery's primary focus is helping organizations plan, design, and develop engaging learning experiences through Immersive technology.
STP104 Essential Design and Development Tools—and They’re Free
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Tuesday, March 27
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
Shrinking budgets and constrained resources have made it more important than ever to make the most of the resources you have when designing learning experiences. Thankfully, the increasing availability of cloud-based applications and other free tools makes it easier than ever to create and develop learning experiences that don’t have to cost a bundle.
This session will focus in on some of the most popular and useful free tools that will ensure you can design and manage your projects quickly and easily. You’ll not only leave with a list of tools you can use immediately, but you’ll also learn how to use them and see practical applications for each of them. Curated from a list of over 460 resources, there is something here for everyone.
In this session, you will learn:
- Over 25 categories of free tools that can be useful for instructional design
- How to use key tools from these categories within your project design
- Which tools will help you manage your project development process
- How get the most from these tools to develop and deliver quality learning experiences
- How to identify free tools that will provide the biggest impact to your budget
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
A wide range of free design and development tools.
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Tracy Parish
Education Technology Specialist
Parish Creative Solutions
Tracy Parish is an accomplished instructional designer, eLearning developer, and consultant based in the Greater Toronto area. With a unique blend of skills in computer programming, adult education, and eLearning design/development, she has built a successful career in instructional design. With over 18 years of experience in instructional design, development, LMS implementation and administration, Tracy is a respected figure in her field. She is a speaker, active Articulate Community Hero, co-host of the Toronto Storyline User Group and webcast Nerdy Shop Talk, the marketing director for the Canadian eLearning Conference, and moderator of the monthly Twitter event #lrnchat.
308 Tips for Building Accessible Courses in Storyline
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 5
Enabling course accessibility is a common task for developers, but it also creates many questions. What makes a course accessible? How can you use Storyline to make courses accessible to a variety of audiences? What are some best practices when planning and developing WCAG or 508-compliant courses? How can you test courses to ensure accessibility?
In this session, you will learn what “accessibility” means for eLearning, and how you can utilize tools within Storyline to make your eLearning courses accessible. You will explore the idea of user experience and how to optimize accessibility that will not only open your courses to a wider audience but also maintain the style and interactivity that are possible in Storyline. Finally, you will examine tools, resources, and best practices for testing your eLearning modules for accessibility.
In this session, you will learn:
- What “accessibility” means
- How to determine which Storyline tools to use for compliant eLearning courses
- How to increase accessibility without decreasing functionality
- About tools and resources that will aid in development and testing of accessible eLearning courses
- How to test your eLearning to ensure compliance
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers with a basic understanding of Storyline.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline 360.
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Stefanie Lawless
VP Training
Yukon Learning
Stefanie Lawless is the vice president of training at Yukon Learning, where she manages the design and development of customizable off-the-shelf courseware in Rapid Course and provides virtual training for the Articulate suite of tools. She has spent more than 10 years training people on software products and policies, as well as developing eLearning content and custom courseware for organizations worldwide. Stefanie holds a BS in information technology and an MBA from Western Governor's University.
315 BYOD: Low-Cost, High-Impact AR Experiences
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 1
Augmented reality (AR) allows you to create an immersive experience for learners. AR combines the web, images, sound, movies, games, search engines, databases, and social media and explodes them across the physical world, revealing invisible stories around product, process, and operation. But what makes a compelling AR experience that makes learning stick, and how can you get started?
In this hands-on session, participants will work together to design and create a low-cost AR learner experience that packs a punch, while discovering which AR experiences work across different learning solutions. You will also explore several AR authoring tools to identify limitations and how to design around them. You’ll discover the wide range of options for designing AR learning experiences and find out just how easy it can be to get started on developing your own.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the functions and limitations of current AR authoring tools
- How to prepare an AR experience design plan
- Which AR experiences create sticky learning
- How to test a sample of current AR viewers
- Best practices of mobile AR experience design
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Layar, Zappar, cloud storage, and AR mobile apps.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop and a smartphone or tablet.
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Ann Rollins
VP, Custom Solutions and Chief Solutions Architect
The Ken Blanchard Companies
Ann Rollins is a modern learning champion with nearly 30 years of industry experience helping form and execute learning and leadership development strategy for Fortune and Global 500 companies. Unintimidated by global scale, she always has her eyes on the technology horizon and helps clients consider how the technology in our hands outside of work today may have a place inside the learning ecosystem tomorrow. She takes a practical, design thinking approach to support clients as they transform what leadership development (and learning in general) happens in their organizations, and help drive plans to innovate to prepare for what's next.
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Myra Roldan
Program Manager, Technical Curriculum
Amazon Web Services
Myra is an L&D thought leader who brings a unique mix of technical, business, and adult education expertise to the game. She is a TEDx speaker, author, and technical designer who has won awards for her learning designs. Her superpower is her natural ability to make complex technical subjects easy to understand by breaking them down in a way that makes it easy to consume and move forward with action. She strives to evoke transformation by doing her part to decolonize technology. Myra works at Amazon and she has earned a Bachelor of Computer Science, MSEd, and an MBA.
410 BYOD: Become an Animation Master in Camtasia
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tuesday, March 27
Salon 11
TechSmith Camtasia is an amazing tool for capturing and publishing conceptual videos and procedural demonstrations. Used properly, Camtasia’s advanced animation features can turn your video from boring to amazing. But the seemingly high learning curve and production time often dissuades Camtasia users from taking advantage of these important capabilities. It doesn’t help that your organization increasingly expects your team to build more videos in half the time.
In this hands-on session, you’ll get practice with the different animation capabilities of Camtasia, and you’ll implement practical patterns and techniques to make your videos more engaging. After this session, you’ll be able to animate your videos quickly and efficiently without sacrificing productivity or deadlines.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to design animation patterns in your storyboard
- How to use behaviors and effects
- How to animate cursors and text
- How to use standard and custom animations on multiple media
- How to fine-tune visual, behavior, and effect properties
Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers. Must have some previous experience with Camtasia.
Technology discussed in this session:
TechSmith Camtasia.
Participant technology requirements:
Laptop running Camtasia.
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TJ Palazzolo
Consulting Curriculum Developer
Oracle
TJ Palazzolo is a consulting curriculum developer for Oracle. TJ has spent the past 15 years consulting on and implementing training development and evaluation processes for the enterprise software industry, including the introduction and integration of eLearning tools, multimedia, and agile methodologies. TJ’s passions include visual learning and process improvement.
STP108 Encore Presentation: iSpring—Much More Than “Just” a PowerPoint Tab
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Tuesday, March 27
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
How can you create HTML5 content and animations without knowing how to program or code? Use user-friendly tools without a steep learning curve to create engaging, interactive content that exports directly to HTML5. Integrate the work once and publish to all PCs and mobile devices.
This session will demonstrate an overall introduction to iSpring and the features that make it a robust rapid authoring tool. Find out how you can take a drab PowerPoint and push its boundaries by combining it with iSpring. You’ll also learn about some of the new features in the upcoming release of version 9, including interactive videos and drag-and-drop quizzes!
In this session, you will learn:
- About various iSpring-native interactions (branching scenarios, animations, and interactions)
- Tips and tricks for motion design within PowerPoint
- About ‘storyboarding bullets’ and synchronized animations with narrations using PowerPoint and iSpring
- About interactive elements and functionality using PowerPoint
- About new features in the upcoming iSpring version 9
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, instructional designers, content strategists, and rapid authoring tool integrators.
Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint, iSpring Suite, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
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Michael Cerantola
Integration Manager
Knowledge One
Michael Cerantola is an integration manager at Knowledge One. He began working in the eLearning world while Flash still reigned supreme. With the gradual demise of Flash over recent years (and its inevitable phase-out), Mike has spent years converting legacy content to display in HTML5 browsers. Working through custom designs, rapid authoring tools, and audio/visual, Mike has faced challenges including browser display inconsistencies and optimization for mobile data plans, all while keeping the source document editable for clients. It became clear to him that PowerPoint plus a rapid authoring tool was the arsenal of choice to keep production costs low while staying profitable.
STP201 Turning Static PowerPoints into Engaging, Interactive Online Learning: A Comprehensive Approach
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Wednesday, March 28
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
In the modern age, how do you keep your learners engaged? Join this session to listen in on some best practices for HTML5 in eLearning, including how to chunk content, add interactivity, and create non-linear presentations.
Learn how to reinforce your subject matter and keep your learners engaged by adding exploratory content such as pop-up boxes and glossaries. Got mobile in mind? Making sure images, charts, and tables have a zoom-in feature is a great way to ensure your content gets across, regardless of whether your learner is on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone.
In this session, you will learn:
- About analyzing content for eLearning output
- About separating content into smaller, manageable “chunks”
- How and when to add interactivity throughout a presentation
- How to add trigger animations throughout a presentation
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, project managers, rapid authoring tool integrators, storyboarders, instructional designers, writers, and editors.
Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint, iSpring Suite, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
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Michael Cerantola
Integration Manager
Knowledge One
Michael Cerantola is an integration manager at Knowledge One. He began working in the eLearning world while Flash still reigned supreme. With the gradual demise of Flash over recent years (and its inevitable phase-out), Mike has spent years converting legacy content to display in HTML5 browsers. Working through custom designs, rapid authoring tools, and audio/visual, Mike has faced challenges including browser display inconsistencies and optimization for mobile data plans, all while keeping the source document editable for clients. It became clear to him that PowerPoint plus a rapid authoring tool was the arsenal of choice to keep production costs low while staying profitable.
511 BYOD: Mastering Storyline Variables and Triggers
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 11
Looking for ideas of how to create more interesting learner experiences in Storyline? Wishing your eLearning projects could be more interactive and engaging, perhaps even including gaming elements? If so, then you’ll want to explore what you can do using variables and triggers. This hands-on session will provide you with tips, tricks, and techniques you can use to put them to work immediately and unleash your creativity.
In this session, you’ll learn how to apply variables and triggers within your Storyline projects and, as a result, develop more engaging courses. Understanding variables and how to manage them with triggers will improve your skill set, and your projects will now be limited only by your creativity. The possibilities for your designs become unlimited when you incorporate variables and triggers into your projects. This session will expose you to variables and triggers and allow you to work through exercises that will let you put them into practice immediately.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the difference between text, number, and Boolean variables
- How to create the different types of variables
- How to manipulate variables with triggers
- How to control objects, layers, and states with variables and conditional triggers
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline 3 and 360.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running Storyline 3 or 360.
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Tracy Parish
Education Technology Specialist
Parish Creative Solutions
Tracy Parish is an accomplished instructional designer, eLearning developer, and consultant based in the Greater Toronto area. With a unique blend of skills in computer programming, adult education, and eLearning design/development, she has built a successful career in instructional design. With over 18 years of experience in instructional design, development, LMS implementation and administration, Tracy is a respected figure in her field. She is a speaker, active Articulate Community Hero, co-host of the Toronto Storyline User Group and webcast Nerdy Shop Talk, the marketing director for the Canadian eLearning Conference, and moderator of the monthly Twitter event #lrnchat.
STP203 Speeding Up Your Workflow with Articulate 360
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Wednesday, March 28
Expo Hall: Tools & Platforms Stage
Articulate knows that eLearning developers face big challenges. You’re asked to create engaging courses for any device, develop gorgeous eLearning on a budget, work with stakeholders, and develop your skills.
Articulate 360 was built to address all of these problems and help you get more done. The solution includes award-winning authoring apps, Storyline 360 and Rise, which make it easy to create mobile learning; it also includes over two million course assets, a project review app, and live online training with experts like Tom Kuhlmann. In this session, you’ll discover how to use these apps and resources to speed up your workflow.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use the apps in Articulate 360 to create mobile learning
- About the resources available in Articulate 360
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate 360 apps, including Storyline 360, Rise, Content Library, and Articulate Review.
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Trina Rimmer
Director, Community and Customer Engagement
Articulate
As the director of community and customer engagement with Articulate, Trina uses her many years of eLearning design and development expertise to guide the creation of inspiring content for our community of workplace learning professionals, E-Learning Heroes. Before joining Articulate, Trina worked as an instructional designer, eLearning developer, and writer focused on delivering creative, engaging, and effective learning solutions to various companies, from global aid organizations to Fortune 500s.
605 Mind-Blowing PowerPoint. No, Really!
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Wednesday, March 28
Junior Ballroom F
Why are most presentations so bad? Truly terrible? They’re too wordy, text-based, and generally dull. They don’t tell stories that engage, excite, or inspire. And they generally do little to actually help people learn. They are linear and non-responsive, with no interaction—pretty much everything you know doesn’t work to convey information effectively. Few people enjoy creating, delivering, or watching PowerPoint presentations, so let’s change that.
This session is packed full of techniques to create mind-blowing presentations. Want to know how to create visual slides? Manipulate images? Master animations? Make it interactive? And produce presentations that’ll astound your audience? Come along for a master class on capturing your audience’s attention and helping them learn. You’ll create half a dozen amazing slides that work effectively, and apply the skills to other slides. As it’s all live in a single session, you’ll see how to rapidly create compelling visual content, making your training course the best ever. Plus, you’ll get a free PowerPoint toolkit to kick-start things, and video tutorials for support.
In this session, you will learn:
- To create visual slides using the full range of PowerPoint’s tools to generate your own graphics
- How to use custom highlighting to focus attention and make your point clearly
- How to tell compelling stories using animations, from simple to sophisticated
- How to create interactive visual content to engage your audience, whether in person or online
- How to develop navigable presentations so that you can respond to your audience
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors. Basic knowledge of PowerPoint is useful but not essential.
Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint (all versions, but ideally 2007 onward).
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Richard Goring
Director
BrightCarbon
Richard Goring is a director at BrightCarbon, a presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points.
SDD205 Creating Virtual Reality Training Using Interactive 360-Degree Videos and Images
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Wednesday, March 28
Expo Hall: Design & Development Stage
You may have heard that virtual reality (VR) training experiences have a proven higher retention rate, with retention gains reaching 75 percent in comparison to standard video, eLearning, or textbook training. What you need to know is how to create and deploy VR training quickly and cost-effectively, with the systems you have today.
This session will cover the creation, editing, publishing, and tracking of VR training using 360-degree video. It will highlight the potential learning applications for VR, and the ways you can integrate VR into your current learning environment.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the differences between VR, AR, and MR
- About CenarioVR, a new tool for creating VR training
- How to link multiple 360-degree videos together to create a story
- How to add interaction and instruction to your VR project
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
CenarioVR, Trivantis’s new VR development tool.
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John Blackmon
CTO and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
ELB Learning
As CTO/Chief AI Officer for ELB Learning, John Blackmon is responsible for the development and strategy of company products. Prior to ELB Learning, John was co-founder/CEO of Trivantis, where he created the flagship products, Lectora and CenarioVR. John was also co-founder/lead engineer at BocaSoft, which created various software utilities for the OS/2 operating system. His career started at Electronic Data Systems where he designed automatic identification systems for applications at General Motors, followed by time at IBM where he was awarded a patent for seamlessly running Windows applications under OS/2. He also has a patent pending for Responsive Course Design work.
713 BYOD: Build Interactive Video with Storyline
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 11
Interactive video helps with engagement and retention of key elements; it also helps to focus a person’s attention on specific areas of the video. But these learning experiences can be expensive and time-consuming to produce. Or are they? Using some “quick and dirty” tools such as video from a smartphone and Storyline, you can build an interactive video experience in about an hour.
In this session, you will explore three distinctly different ways to build interactive video. You will start with the simplest way to add interactivity (markers) and move through to the most complex (hotspots). Learners at this hands-on session will walk away with a template to use in future projects, and be able to extend this template into branching scenarios.
In this session, you will learn:
- Best practices for building interactive video
- How to use cue points to mark timing on an interaction
- How to use markers on a base layer and move among layers in an interaction
- How to use quizzing to stop a video
- How to use variables to set states on objects and provide quiz results
- How to use hotspot interactions and change feedback based on hotspot interactions
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop with internet connection and a copy of Storyline 2, 3, or 360.
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Mary Cropp
Senior Director, Employee Effectiveness
Siteimprove
Proudly hailing from the great state of New Jersey, Mary Cropp has made her home in Seattle for the past 20-plus years. Mary has spent her career in adult learning, moving from academia to the corporate training world, and has been fortunate to work on a global level, training people around the world on such diverse topics as organ donation, data literacy, leadership development, how to sew a new cornea onto an eye(!), or how to build a Bluetooth beacon. Mary is a PROSCII-certified change practitioner as well as an ICF-certified coach.
714 BYOD: DIY Motion Graphic Animation Using Camtasia
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 1
Motion graphic animation is a great way to compress information into a compelling encapsulated video. You could pay an agency to create it for you, but if you don’t have a big budget—or ANY budget—you’ll probably have to do it yourself. Where do you start? Do you need to learn complicated software? And what happens if you, like most people, aren’t blessed with “design sense”?
Good news: You can create some pretty nifty animations in as little as an hour, with no experience or design sense required! And nobody will even know you didn’t use expensive software—or an agency—to create them. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Camtasia’s animation tools to make attention-grabbing animations. You’ll walk through the entire process from storyboard to finished product, exploring different scriptwriting styles and how to select the right music to capture the mood of your animation. You will even learn how you can turn the animations into standalone course content.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use Camtasia’s animation features
- How to choose the mood for your animation
- How to storyboard your idea
- How to write a good script
- How to choose the right music
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
TechSmith Camtasia.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running Camtasia (latest version).
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Sarah Dewar
Educational Technology Specialist
Michael Garron Hospital
Sarah Dewar is a seasoned instructional designer and developer. She has over 20 years of experience in the realm of adult learning, complemented by 15 years of experience creating innovative eLearning solutions for healthcare professionals. Sarah is currently developing a virtual reality training solution to orient healthcare workers to a new state-of-the-art healthcare centre. She also creates custom animation to engage learners. Sarah shares her knowledge internationally and volunteers her expertise to not-for-profit organizations.
715 BYOD: Making Mobile Magic with Responsive Fluid Boxes
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 13
Creating interactive training content that adapts automatically from desktop to mobile screens—and everything in between—can drag down your development times. By using fluid boxes, a new responsive layout tool in Adobe Captivate, you can accelerate your development timelines and mystify your learners with flexibility so enchanting it feels like magic.
In this hands-on session, you will learn the fundamental concepts of fluid boxes as part of the mobile content development toolbox. You’ll get demonstrations and step-by-step guidance through the magic of creating and manipulating fluid boxes. You will feel like you’re waving a magic wand when you design and deliver content that dynamically redesigns itself to fit beautifully on virtually any screen.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to create and edit responsive mobile eLearning
- How to develop content that automatically adapts to different screen sizes
- How to optimize your text for mobile responsive content
- How to combine traditional responsive positioning with fluid boxes
- How to control the flow and wrap of content and fluid boxes
- How to create margins, padding, and other spacing solutions
Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate 2017.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop (Mac or Windows) running Adobe Captivate 2017.
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Allen Partridge
Head, Digital Learning Evangelism
Adobe Systems
Dr. Allen Partridge is a learning addict with a rebellious spirit and a passion for evidence-based reasoning. Allen served on the doctoral faculties of The University of Georgia and Indiana University of Pennsylvania before joining Adobe in 2007. As Adobe's Head of Evangelism, Digital Learning Solutions, he provides guidance by relating customer experiences and challenges to the product and engineering teams that create Captivate, Presenter Video Express (PVX), and Adobe's extraordinary new learning management system, Adobe Captivate Prime. Allen is well recognized for his videos and presentations to audiences around the world. He has published a host of articles and a handful of books on topics ranging from critical thinking for business training to 3D online game development.
810 BYOD: Getting Started with Augmented Reality
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 11
Finding ways to make learning “stick” with technology is always a challenge. Augmented reality (AR) is one of those “make it stick” technology options available for education and training. Knowing where to get started with AR is a little challenging, but with the right foundation to start from, AR can be an exciting and engaging tool to use in learning development.
This session will demonstrate how easy it is to get started using augmented reality. You will be introduced to free and low-cost tools that will make developing an AR project a simple, effective, and fun experience. During this session, you will be working hands-on with tools to create an AR experience. You will leave this session with a working AR project and the knowledge of how to plan, build, and share this project, and future AR projects, with the world.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the difference between AR and virtual reality
- About free and low-cost tools that are available to create an AR project
- About the different types of media you can use in AR development
- How to use multimedia to enhance your project
- Where AR fits as a solution to your learning and development needs
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
iOS, Android, Zappar, and Aurasma.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop and the Zappar and Aurasma apps.
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Destery Hildenbrand
XR Solution Architect
Intellezy
Destery Hildenbrand is an XR solution architect with Intellezy. Destery has over 17 years of experience in training and development and seven years focusing on immersive technologies. Destery has spent time in corporate environments and higher education. Destery's primary focus is helping organizations plan, design, and develop engaging learning experiences through Immersive technology.
811 BYOD: 10+ CSS Tricks You Can Use for Articulate Rise Published Courses
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 28
Salon 1
Articulate Rise is awesome! It makes it easy to create responsive eLearning by simply filling out a form, and it looks great on every device. But sometimes with simplicity you don’t get as much flexibility as you want. What if you want to hide the page titles or adjust the style of the buttons? Luckily, there are some simple CSS tricks you can do to Articulate Rise courses that give you greater ability to visually adjust the output of your courses.
In this session, we will cover 10+ tricks you can do with CSS to get a specific look/feel with your Articulate Rise courses. You can hide sections you don’t want, adjust the margins and paddings of default sections, and even change what the default UI elements look like with nothing more than simple CSS tweaks.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to hide the page title section
- How to adjust the style of the default UI elements
- How to adjust spacing and margins for default pages
- How to create breakpoints for responsive code adjustments
Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers and developers; some CSS helpful, but not required.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Rise, CSS, Sublime Text.
Participant technology requirements:
Articulate Rise, CSS.
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Jeff Batt
Founder
Learning Dojo
Jeff Batt has 15+ years of experience in the digital learning and media industry. Currently, Jeff Batt is a Learning Experience Designer for Amazon. He is the founder and trainer at Learning Dojo, a company dedicated to training you to become a software ninja in various eLearning, web, and mobile-related software applications. He was also the program manager of DevLearn for The Learning Guild. Jeff often speaks on developmental technologies such as xAPI, HTML5, augmented reality, mobile development, eLearning development tools, and more.
909 BYOD: Tips and Tricks to Make the Most of Multi-State Objects in Captivate
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Thursday, March 29
Salon 13
Extended BYOD (2 Hours)
Multi-state objects in Adobe Captivate offer a powerhouse of possibilities to create interactions with absolute ease. If you have not yet begun using multi-state objects to build interactions, now is the time. You will be delighted to discover this magic mantra to reduce the number of steps to create an interaction, making your timeline look clutter-free.
During this two-hour hands-on session, you will learn how to create simple interactions using multi-state objects and simple actions. Then you’ll find out how to take your interactions to the next level by using multi-state objects alongside advanced actions, variables, effects, drag-and-drop interactions, and other features and functionalities of Captivate. Along the way, you’ll learn tips and tricks for making the most of multi-state objects in Captivate.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to add states to interactive and non-interactive objects
- How to trigger state change using actions and advanced actions
- How to trigger state change in drag-and-drop interactions
- Best practices for using multi-state objects
Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers with basic Captivate and instructional design skills.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running the latest version of Captivate.
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Pooja Jaisingh
Senior Director, Digital Learning
Icertis
Pooja Jaisingh works as a senior director of digital learning at Icertis. She has created several award-winning eLearning courses and authored books and video courses on eLearning tools and technologies. In her previous roles, she worked as a principal eLearning evangelist at Adobe and chief learning geek at a start-up. Pooja is CPTD-, and COTP-certified. She holds a master’s degree in education & economics and a doctorate in educational technology.
910 BYOD: Exploring Overlooked Features of Storyline
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Thursday, March 29
Salon 11
Extended BYOD (2 Hours)
One of the greatest strengths of Articulate Storyline is its ease of use. Its simplicity does not mean that Storyline lacks a wide variety of features; however, many users never tap into or take advantage of all the cool development features it provides. Also, since Articulate 360 is a subscription-based tool, new updates and enhancements to the software are happening frequently—therefore, many users have not had the time to explore what’s new and different.
In this two-hour BYOD session, you’ll have an opportunity to dive deep into some of the most overlooked and underused features of Storyline. During this extended-length session, you’ll get hands-on practice implementing these features, and you’ll discover many of the new features and changes in Storyline 360 that may have slipped by unnoticed.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to design simple interactions with Zoom Picture
- How to use button sets
- How to use the translation feature for course edits
- How keyboard shortcuts can simplify development processes
- How to use the default settings, themes, and masters to build templates
- How to simplify the timeline with grouping
- How to use groups and states to help design unique animations
- How to use built-in drag-and-drop features and states
- How to easily create and edit closed captioning text
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline 360.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running Windows and Storyline 360.
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Ron Price
Chief Learning Officer
Yukon Learning
Ron Price has over 35 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, leadership coaching, instructional design, spiritual development, and experiential learning. His unique background has allowed him to support a wide range of customers, from schools like Duke University and Harvard Business School to multinational corporations like Sanofi, Amazon, BP, and Pepsico. In 2002, Ron founded a consulting firm and challenge course devoted to increasing organizational performance while developing authenticity and integrity. After joining Yukon, Ron worked closely with the Articulate team to design the certified training programs for the Articulate tools. He is a Guild Master.
912 Tools, Apps, and Online Resources: Community Favorites—PART 1
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Thursday, March 29
Salon 17
This is part one of a two-part session. It will continue with session 1002 from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
With the wide range of tools, apps, and online resources being launched all the time, it’s not always easy to stay on top of what might help you out in your day-to-day work. It’s also easy with this stream of new options to miss out on great new updates or techniques that can allow you to use old favorites in new ways.
Through a series of three-minute mini presentations, you’ll hear from a wide range of speakers about the tools, apps, and online resources they find make a noticeable different in the work they do in L&D. You’ll discover new resources and software and new ways to use them that can assist you with designing and developing learning experiences, from tools that will help you create content to others that can help your productivity. These speakers won’t just share what these tools are, they’ll also share how they can be used specifically in our industry, and how they’ve personally leveraged them in their own work. You’ll leave this session with a list of practical new ideas for tools and resources to check out when you get back to work.
In this session, you will learn:
- What new tools and apps can help you create engaging learning experiences
- About existing tools and apps you may be able to use in new ways
- Which online resources can help you do your work more efficiently, creatively, and/or inexpensively
- Real-world use cases for how these tools, apps, and online resources can be used in L&D
Audience: Novice to advanced designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
A wide range of technology related to creating learning experiences and managing work in L&D will be shared. Technology categories may include eLearning development, design, multimedia/video, productivity/project management, collaboration, and more.
Mini Presentation topics and speakers for Session 912
- Comic Life: Dan’elle Watkins
- Poll Everywhere: Sarah Lewandowski
- Techsmith Camtasia: Renee Durrance
- Ishikawa Diagram: Cory Loria
- Online-convert.com: Kelley Miller
- Creating an Avatar in Articulate Storyline 360: Justin McDougall
- HP Reveal: JD Gonzales
- Google Cardboard Camera App: Shereene Harford Twum-Barimah
- Microsoft Sway: Bill Fisher
- Using xAPI Dashboard to Display Results of Retention Boosters: Phillip Littleton
- Pixeur: Laura Lowden
- Screencast-O-Matic: Barb Lesniak
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Bianca Woods
Customer Advocacy Manager
Articulate
Bianca Woods is a customer advocacy manager at Articulate. Her past experience includes working on the community and event programming for the Learning Guild, learning and communications roles at BMO Financial Group, and teaching art. Bianca is passionate about how visual design and multimedia can help people learn, loves test-driving new technology, and collects photos of bizarre warning signs.
1002 Tools, Apps, and Online Resources: Community Favorites—PART 2
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Thursday, March 29
Junior Ballroom F
This is part two of a two-part session. It starts with session 912 from 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM.
With the wide range of tools, apps, and online resources being launched all the time, it’s not always easy to stay on top of what might help you out in your day-to-day work. It’s also easy with this stream of new options to miss out on great new updates or techniques that can allow you to use old favorites in new ways.
Through a series of three-minute mini presentations, you’ll hear from a wide range of speakers about the tools, apps, and online resources they find make a noticeable different in the work they do in L&D. You’ll discover new resources and software and new ways to use them that can assist you with designing and developing learning experiences, from tools that will help you create content to others that can help your productivity. These speakers won’t just share what these tools are, they’ll also share how they can be used specifically in our industry, and how they’ve personally leveraged them in their own work. You’ll leave this session with a list of practical new ideas for tools and resources to check out when you get back to work.
In this session, you will learn:
- What new tools and apps can help you create engaging learning experiences
- About existing tools and apps you may be able to use in new ways
- Which online resources can help you do your work more efficiently, creatively, and/or inexpensively
- Real-world use cases for how these tools, apps, and online resources can be used in L&D
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
A wide range of technology related to creating learning experiences and managing work in L&D will be shared. Technology categories may include eLearning development, design, multimedia/video, productivity/project management, collaboration, and more.
Mini Presentation topics and speakers for Session 1002
- Google Analytics and Google Data Studio: Julia Oak
- Presenter Media: Kathie Howard
- Using PowerPoint to Create Videos: Nadine Monn
- Poll Everywhere: Rachelle Butts
- ScreenPresso: Michelle Hammond
- Zotero: Heather Pundt
- xAPI Inspector: David Keezel
- Canva: Justin Thurman
- The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community: Hiba Ismeail
- TurningPoint Interactive Polling: Cindy-Ann Alexander
- Twitter: Tricia Ransom
- Creating a CMS Demo in Articulate Storyline 360: Luke Benfield
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Bianca Woods
Customer Advocacy Manager
Articulate
Bianca Woods is a customer advocacy manager at Articulate. Her past experience includes working on the community and event programming for the Learning Guild, learning and communications roles at BMO Financial Group, and teaching art. Bianca is passionate about how visual design and multimedia can help people learn, loves test-driving new technology, and collects photos of bizarre warning signs.