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Articulate on iPads?
Hi Team,
Was wondering how you plan to deal with the increasing amount of iPad users. I know that in my company they are running pilots with them but my Articulate courses won't run on them :( Are you looking into a Publish for iPad or other solution like publishing a course to HMTL5 or something like that?
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...to back up, or round out, my original comment relating to the race to HTML5, here is an objective article from Jan Ozer. Granted while the focus is on video implementation, the timeline to acceptability of HTML5 as a fully-fledged platform is ways off.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Commentary-The-Five-Key-Myths-About-HTML5-69781.aspx
I was going to add a further political comment re Apple, Google et al, but heck, let's stick to the tech rather than tack!
In the same stream (pun intended) here is an article by same author illustrating the catch up on video processing in the latest Flash player 10.2 vs WebM - the HTML5 video playing partner.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Flash-Player-10.2-More-Efficient-than-WebM-73782.aspx
Oh wait, here's the politics...
Can we have AS3 compilation please...
- ..now you're going ot make me go back to my uni archive. My last advanced marketing systems project was an evaluation and comparison of graphical software available at the time. I remember the "Crayola" printers from HP. Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, whizz, whizz, whizz!
Bruce Graham said:
YEY!
Wordstar, Visicalc, and Harvard Graphics running on ICL C-DOS, which in our minds was going to win over that upstart operating system from Microthingy in the US....
In 1985 we all stood round the COLOUR plotter, driven by wires and went OOH! and AHHH! as it grabbed little biros from a carousel.
That was 198-...deep fuzz sets in...1986.
If I can find it, I'll drop some more memory bombs on you.
Amazing though how we come full circle in a career that we never new we were setting out towards!
LOL! We are so dating ourselves here, you know that right?
My first printer was this huge dot matrix printer. Back when printer "carts" were the in piece of furniture!
My oldest computer cred: The Commodore 64 I had as a kid - hooked up to a tiny TV in my bedroom! That green text on black screen ruled.
Next came the family Macintosh SE.... speaking of which, I just recently saw the documentary, Welcome to Macintosh, which was pretty good.
Amazing how far technology's come in the past 25+ years! Now we all have powerful computers that we carry in our pockets.
I think a partial solution is creating interactive youtube videos.
Steps:
1. createa a series of powerpoint slides and export these as wmv files (in whatever logical segments)
2. Upload the wmv files to youtube
3. add hotspots to link one video to the next.
You can download the files to MP4 using this process as well, wrap in HTML and host as a webpage.
You can simulate quizzing. Just search for "interactive elearning" on youtube for examples. http://www.chadmattandrob.com/ have some funny examples of this and teach you how in their first video, followed by some great short, interactive stories.
My conclusion thus far though is getting the elearning I build to run on all tablets isn't going to work unless I switch to Rapitivity or fire up Dreamweaver and start working with CSS and html 5. It's irritating that one company (Apple) has the ability to make an entire industry (elearning) switch development platforms, strategies, etc. - it's a big cost in time, software, learning, etc. and coincidentally happening at the same moment that elearning is picking up the most (positive) momentum it's ever had.
Time is of essence as we, the developers, are faced with more and more requests by clients to ensure uniformity across all systems - just like flash once did.
Stephanie
Interesting that my last post (just above) was posted by "anonymous"
Guess I'm in stealth mode now
- Well said!
Stephanie Harnett said:
I think a partial solution is creating interactive youtube videos.
Steps:
1. createa a series of powerpoint slides and export these as wmv files (in whatever logical segments)
2. Upload the wmv files to youtube
3. add hotspots to link one video to the next.
You can download the files to MP4 using this process as well, wrap in HTML and host as a webpage.
You can simulate quizzing. Just search for "interactive elearning" on youtube for examples. http://www.chadmattandrob.com/ have some funny examples of this and teach you how in their first video, followed by some great short, interactive stories.
My conclusion thus far though is getting the elearning I build to run on all tablets isn't going to work unless I switch to Rapitivity or fire up Dreamweaver and start working with CSS and html 5. It's irritating that one company (Apple) has the ability to make an entire industry (elearning) switch development platforms, strategies, etc. - it's a big cost in time, software, learning, etc. and coincidentally happening at the same moment that elearning is picking up the most (positive) momentum it's ever had.
Time is of essence as we, the developers, are faced with more and more requests by clients to ensure uniformity across all systems - just like flash once did.
Stephanie
- They didn't tell you about your Super Hero cloaking powers?
Brian Allen said:
Interesting that my last post (just above) was posted by "anonymous"
Guess I'm in stealth mode now
Kevin Thorn said:
They didn't tell you about your Super Hero cloaking powers?Hey, awesome man! I wonder if I can fly (staring out window of his second floor office...)??
- Just for the record, Articulate can assume no responsibility for the damage incurred to self or others by E-Learning Super Heroes who attempt to fly.
Brian Allen said:
Kevin Thorn said:
They didn't tell you about your Super Hero cloaking powers?Hey, awesome man! I wonder if I can fly (staring out window of his second floor office...)??
