How to Turn Your PDF Documents into Online Flipbooks
Flipbooks are a current novelty and a fun interaction appropriate in some e-learning courses. The Articulate ’09 suite of rapid e-learning development tools has an Engage Flipbook interaction. However, I often find that the pages in the published interaction look too narrow to me.
Through my online, personal learning network I discovered Youblisher.com from Brian Batt of Articulate. I viewed his screencast tutorial, went to Youblisher.com to upload an old user guide I created some time ago, and created my first Youblisher.com Web-based (Flash) flipbook from a PDF file.
Take a look by clicking the image below. (Note: The PDF file I used was a low resolution file.)
Click image to view flipbook in a new Youblisher.com browser window.
Brian Batt of Articulate created a screencast of Youblisher.com and added it to his post on the Word of Mouth Blog. You can insert the Youblisher.com output as a Web Object in an Articulate online course to use it instead of the Engage flipbook interaction if you need wider pages for your content.
You can view Brian’s screen cast here:
Or, click the link below to view it directly on Screenr:
I’m already thinking of some ideas on how to use Youblisher.com in future e-learning courses!
Hi Jenise, Brians post was the first time I came across youblisher and I was also impressed. I have a lot of PDF’s used as job aids that this would be perfect for. Happy youblishing!
Hello, Joe!
Thanks for stopping by and visiting this post.
If you create Youblisher samples, holler back. I’d enjoy seeing what you create for your e-learning courses!