I am looking for ideas on how to leverage social media in corporate elearning. The web object feature of Articulate provides some options to incorporate blogs, wikis, discussion forums. How are others using the web objects slides? Would be interested in seeing examples and suggestions.
Hey Jim! Great discussion topic, and I'm looking forward to seeing what folks are doing too! Here are a few ideas that I've seen Articulate users incorporate into their courses via web objects:
Questions/results from online surveys > Check out this example that Tom shared about Urtak. His sample demo about mid-way through the post is an Articulate Presenter course with an Urtak survey embedded as a web object.
YouTube > David Fair put together a great series of screencasts that show how to add videos from YouTube as web objects in your Presenter course. There are quite a few customization options that you can incorporate into the embed code, to make the movie look & behave the way you want. You can find the details, and links to the how-to screencasts, in this knowledgebase article.
Vimeo > Similar to the way you insert Youtube resources, you can use Vimeo videos as web objects in your course too.
Google Maps, pdfs from Youblisher, and fullscreen YouTube > Brian Batt shared some neat ideas in the screencasts of this blog post.
Twitter feeds > i.e., posting a dynamic tweetstream as a web object. This screencast is a little dated now because the Twitter widgets page looks slightly different but the basic principle is the same - you can grab an embed code from Twitter and place it on an html page, and then use that html page as a web object.
May be not all the tutorial are made by you, but is a great job to show and to share them for others and put them together in one post. And I'm shure not only the peploe who use it are happy ( like me ), I'm shure the people who made them are happy too.
You can also use Google Eearth Pro - record a path and save it out as an MP4 file. Not really a web object, just embedding flash from a web-based tool. I use this to create a sense of location for fictional scenario characters. It's an inexpensive way to simulate an environment and using street view one can walk down streets, etc as well as fly about the globe.
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Hey Jim! Great discussion topic, and I'm looking forward to seeing what folks are doing too! Here are a few ideas that I've seen Articulate users incorporate into their courses via web objects:
Hi Jim , about Social Media, may be this can help you now or later :
Here an example where you can add a Facebook's Fanpage on Articulate.
What you can do : http://www.e-aula.cl/wp-content/uploads/articulate/facebook/player.html
In spanish but there's a video where you can see how to do that.
How to do it : http://bit.ly/nQMD0v
And another example where you can add Social Buttons to you presentation :
What you can do : http://www.e-aula.cl/wp-content/uploads/articulate/social-bar/player.html
How : http://bit.ly/vCB0j8
Saludos !
Ah Patricio, thanks so much for posting that! I had forgotten about that very cool technique - really appreciate you sharing it.
Hi Jeanette :
Greats examples like always.
May be not all the tutorial are made by you, but is a great job to show and to share them for others and put them together in one post.
And I'm shure not only the peploe who use it are happy ( like me ), I'm shure the people who made them are happy too.
Thanks again
Saludos !
You can also use Google Eearth Pro - record a path and save it out as an MP4 file. Not really a web object, just embedding flash from a web-based tool. I use this to create a sense of location for fictional scenario characters. It's an inexpensive way to simulate an environment and using street view one can walk down streets, etc as well as fly about the globe.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/149035392
Love that example, Stephanie. What a cool way to express perspective & space. Thanks for sharing!
Hi all :
Here's a great option for zoom : https://player.vimeo.com/video/148908162 by David.
Nice solution .
Saludos !
Hi Patricio, the how-to links are broken. Would love to see how to launch a facebook/twitter/linkedin share window from Storyline. Thanks!
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