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:

http://screenr.com/RRh

I’m already thinking of some ideas on how to use Youblisher.com in future e-learning courses!

(I am please to promote an upcoming voice-over workshop to be held in Orange County, California, and facilitated by my VO coach, Beverly Bremers. With her permission, I’m publishing her announcement word-for-word. I am not receiving any remuneration nor benefits for promoting her workshop.)

SELF-DIRECTION

HOW TO WEAR 3 HATS IN YOUR HOME STUDIO

The voice-over industry has changed in these past few years and voice casting on the Internet is one of the main ways to audition and get work. Now acting skills are not all that you’re expected to possess. You need to be able to engineer and direct yourself as well, in that secluded place known as your home recording studio. That means you must wear 3 hats and you must be able to wear all 3 equally well. But not at the same time!

YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO ACT!

YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO DIRECT YOURSELF!

YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO ENGINEER, TOO!

So….Beverly Bremers is offering a workshop to help give the guidance you need to accomplish these tasks. This 2-hour workshop will show you, the voice-over “engineer”, how to get decent sound and edit your auditions and jobs so that they sound professional.

AND she will help you, the voice-over “director”, listen to your work objectively with your director’s “ears”, to produce a satisfying, professional result.

Beverly Bremers coaching a voice over actor.

Held at Bev’s home studio in Mission Viejo.

If you’ve set up your studio, then this is the next valuable step in your voice-over evolution.

Fee: $40.00.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 3 -5 PM

Email bev@beverlybremers.com or call 949.874.0616 to reserve your place. Hurry – class size is limited to 6 people. Hope to see you!

Bring a USB flash drive to class if you’d like to save your work and take it home.

Also available: Voice-over demos, singing, accent reduction and songwriting.

Visit my websites:
www.beverlybremers.com
www.voicercise.net

~Beverly

Photo Attribution

Maria’s Three Hats by Mendy Texas, used with her permission.

http://mendytexas.blogspot.com/

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Hardware for Voice Overs, Audio Narration

Voice Over Audio Narration for e-Learning

The global learning community collaborates in ways to help us all learn and improve our performance. Locally, Escoe Bliss, a professional resources company in Irvine, California, invited me (and others) to write posts for their “Blogging with Bliss” blog to help their community in many ways. (Note: We write on a pro bono basis; we’re not paid.)

January’s post by me:
Why Use an e-Learning Consultant

February’s post:
What to Look for in an e-Learning Consultant

Collaboration and networking… sharing knowledge… it builds our professional communities. So does knowing local talent and spending face-to-face time with them in this ever-increasing, virtual or social networking world. I know both Adrienne and Jolynn, and they are two of the nicest, and very talented professionals you could meet. So, please do!

Please meet:

Adrienne Escoe, President/Owner

Jolynn Atkins, Manager of Business Development

Eleven months ago today, I wrote a post on the new design elements and features in PowerPoint 2007 (2008 for the Mac) that allow you to create visually effective designs and templates for your e-learning courses. You can use these PowerPoint templates in both your Articulate and Adobe Captivate e-learning project files.

More PowerPoint 2007 for e-Learning Templates

A few days ago, a colleague on Twitter posted a link to a simple Web page. When I clicked the link and visited the page, it seemed to speak to me: “Turn me into an e-learning design.” So, I did, and created a brief SlideShare presentation to demonstrate it to anyone who can use more ideas. Now, don’t be fooled by its simple design. You can do so much with the basic framework and modify it to meet the needs of your learners, the business (or academic institution), and the learning content that will fill the screens.

My Samples On SlideShare

My SlideShare.net mini-presentation describes just one design idea. Please note that I respect Copyright issues, and the rights of designers. My mini-presentation simply shows what you can do using only PowerPoint 2007/2008 elements plus importing a few photo image files. (My thanks to Bryan Jones – @elearningArt – for the free image files package!)

Why Give Away Design Ideas?

The global e-learning community gives, gives, and gives again. We all share the same passion, and we share what we learn and what we create with each other. Visit various blogs and Twitter pages authored by e-learning colleagues. Go to the community forums of the various e-learning software tools. If you have some favorites of your own, please share them in the Comments section.

And, my first SlideShare.net presentation on PowerPoint designs for e-learning still exists!

Visit: PowerPoint 2007 e-Learning Screens

“Always learning….”, and I welcome your design ideas!

David Anderson, @elearning, a Community Manager at Articulate, forwarded this Forum thread to me where he had asked the user community to share information on the hardware (etc.) we use to record audio narration, or voice-overs, in our e-learning courses. When I saw the new thread, only Gerry Waz had responded at the time. I created a demo, posted it late at night (1:00 a.m.), and by sunrise, a third person had added his hardware details. I can’t wait to see how this thread will grow… but… that’s the thing. It will only grow if people share, connect, and collaborate.

So, if you’re reading this blog post and you record narrations, please visit the forum thread and share your hardware (and software) setup for recording audio narrations. Who knows! Your information may be just what someone else needs to successfully record narrations.

Hardware for Narration – Articulate Presenter

Click here to open my brief demo in a new window.

Hardware for Narration – SlideShare

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