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Using this step-by-step workbook, you can teach yourself to use Adobe Captivate 3 and quickly create interactive eLearning lessons

Recording

Step Through a Script | Set the Recording Type and Options | Record a Project Manually | Record a Demonstration | Record an Assessment Simulation | Record a Training Assessment | Record a Custom Project

Text Captions and The Timeline

Duplicate a Slide and Hide the Mouse | Insert, Resize and Move Text Captions | Change Text Caption Properties | Change an Object's Slide Position and Size | View the Timeline | Change a Slide's Display Time | Change Timeline View Settings | Use the Timeline to Set Text Caption Display Times | Show/Hide Timeline Objects | Use Options to Control Object Timing | Set Mouse Properties | Check Spelling | Align Slide Objects

Images

Insert and Delete Slides | Insert an Image | Set Image Size and Slide Position | Use the Library | Manage Unused Images | Create an Image Transparency | Create an Image Watermark | Replace an Image | Set Image Timing Options and Transition Effects | Work With Image Stacks | Add a Visual Mouse Click and Click Sound

Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

Change the Pointer Path | Change the Pointer Type | Edit a Slide and Object Display Times | Insert a Text Button | Set a Button's Options | Insert an Image Button | Insert and Format a Highlight Box

Converting Demonstrations into Simulations

Hide the Mouse | Replace Phrases | Insert a Click Box | Set Click Box Options | Change a Slide's Display Time | Set a Text Caption Transition | Insert a Text Entry Box

Rollovers and Zoom Areas

Insert a Rollover Caption | Set Rollover Area Properties | Insert a Rollover Image | Insert a Zoom Area | Insert a Rollover Slidelet | Set Rollover Slidelet Properties | Format and Position a Slidelet | Insert a Caption into a Slidelet | Insert an Image into a Slidelet

Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

Add a Slide Label | Add a Slide Note | Add a Sound Effect to an Object | Add Background Music to a Project | Calibrate a Microphone | Record a Slide Note | Edit an Audio File | Insert Silence

Animation and Flash Video

Change a Project's Frame Rate | Add Animation to a Slide | Change an Animation's Slide Position | Insert Text Animation | Add Flash Video

Importing and Branching

Import PowerPoint Animation | Import PowerPoint Backgrounds | Resize a Project | Import Project Slides and Objects | Label a Slide | Use Buttons to Create a Branch | Explore the Branching Tab | Export the Branching View | Create a Slide Group | Work with a Slide Group

Skins and Templates

Apply a BMP Playbar | Apply a Skin | Edit and Save a Skin | Delete a Skin | Add a Loading Screen | Create a Project Template | Create a New Project From a Template | Record Additional Slides | Edit a Template

Compliant Movies, Bandwidth and Publishing

Enable 508 Compliance | Add Accessibility Text | Add Closed Captions | Link to a Web Site | Set Project Information | Check Bandwidth | Publish a Flash (SWF) | Publish Word Handouts | Export Captions | Perform a "Round Trip" From Word

Creating Quizzes

Set Quiz Preferences | Insert a Question Slide | Add an Image to a Question Slide | Reuse a Slide Background | Format the Question Title | Use the Slide Grid | Format the Progress Indicator | Create and Rename Question Pools | Add Questions to Question Pools | Insert Random Question Slides

MenuBuilder

Publish a Standalone Project | Create a MenuBuilder Project | Add Text Items to a Menu | Format Styles | Edit Text Items | Export a MenuBuilder Project

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Adobe Captivate 3: The Definitive Guide, the follow-up to Wordware's popular Macromedia Captivate: The Definitive Guide, steps users through all the procedures needed to create Flash movies based on any software on your desktop. Readers learn how to create Flash movies, edit individual screens, add and edit sound, even add interactivity for complete customization. The expanded e-learning chapter in this edition discusses a variety of ways to build quizzing functions with individual questions and question pools. A chapter on branching shows how to move slide elements on a visual display, and how to create paths through a movie that give each viewer a unique experience. This book covers everything from getting the software installed and activated, manipulating the movie files, adding and editing audio, and building quizzes, all the way to delivery mechanisms of the final output and integrating your movies with other applications..
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Ever wonder what makes us buy from a certain salesperson or prefer one TV news announcer over another? In each case, a human voice is subtly captivating our ear and commanding our attention

Now celebrity voice coach Renee Grant-Williams reveals the trade secrets behind those persuasive voices and shows readers how to apply positive vocal techniques to business and personal situations. Much more than a guide to proper breathing or voice projection, this is a life-altering "owner's manual" to unleashing and directing the powers of communication within one's speaking voice. By exploring the rich connections between singing and speaking, Grant-Williams helps readers:

* Evaluate their "VoicePower" quotients * Literally breathe new life into their voices * Tap the amazing power of consonants--and silence * Deliver sales pitches virtually guaranteed to sell * Turn a voice mail message (incoming or outgoing) into a personal calling card * Become more confident, persuasive presenters and public speakers..
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I've been teaching Adobe Captivate for years. At the end of a two-day class, my students have all the skills they need to create highly interactive computer-based training simulations (CBTs) using Captivate.

Some time ago a student, just prior to leaving class the last day, asked how she could focus her writing skills and create clean, step-by-step documentation she could use for her Captivate storyboards. She said she had searched and searched and could not find a class designed specifically for creating step-by-step documentation.

I had another student ask me if I had a style guide he could borrow so that he could create a corporate style guide to be used for all of their Captivate CBTs.

Based on those conversations, I created this book. Part 1 of the book is designed to help you focus your grammar and writing skills and allow you to create concise step-by-step documentation. Part 2 of this book is the Style Guide and Process document I created for use at IconLogic.

Please keep in mind that this 98-page workbook will not magically turn you into a writer, let alone a script writer. You'll need lots of hands-on experience and additional training before that happens. Consider this book to be a "baby-step" book. I've written this book as a way to get your storyboards and scripts off on the right foot. Also keep in mind that the Style Guide I present in Part 2 does not teach you Captivate. I ve got a book, "Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3," that will do that. Instead, that section of the book is simply designed to offer the techniques and processes we use every day to create CBTs with Captivate.

Here is what you will learn:

Part 1: Script Writing

The Process | Ignorance Is Not a Dirty Word | The Audience | The Subject Matter Expert (SME) | Find and Promote the Wow Factor | Rules for Writing and Tools of the Trade | Hard-News Writing | Feature Writing | Technical and Script Writing | Avoid Plagiarism | Writing Style Guides | So Many Guides, So Little Time

Grammar Workshop

Comma Inside or Comma Outside the Quotation Mark? | Less is More, But is Fewer Very Much? | Led/Lead/Leading/Leading | When We Join Things, Are They Always Plural? | Commas Between Adjectives | Hyphens

Writing Workshop

Active vs. Passive Voice | Death to Deadwood | Writing Concisely | Writing Narratives | Writing Step-By-Step Procedures | Sample Script

Part 2: Production & Style Guide

The CBT Development Process Adobe Captivate 3 Preferences | Global Settings | Recording Settings | Full Motion Recording Settings | Recording Keys Settings | Custom Recording Mode Settings | Display Settings | Screen Resolution | Desktop Wallpaper and Icons | Windows XP Display Properties | Windows Vista Personalized Settings | The Recording Phase | Download the Template | Record a Project Using a Template |

Production Phase

Version Control | Project Settings | The Cleanup Process | Slide Properties | Text Captions | Buttons | Click Boxes | Text Entry Boxes | Audio/Narration | Publishing Audio Scripts | Importing Narration Files | Pre-Publish Settings | Project Start and End | Project Background Audio | Project Skin | Project Info | Publishing Projects | Publishing for an LMS | Publishing for a Web Server.
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How do highly paid professional speakers put magic and motivation into every talk? Lilly Walters, Executive Director of Walters International Speakers Bureau, reveals their secrets and strategies in this practical, conversational guide. Mark Twain reputedly said it took him three weeks to prepare an impromptu speech, but readers of Secrets of Successful Speakers will do it in days-or minutes. This book spells out the rules in 11 easy-to-follow steps, each accompanied by interactive exercises. Readers will learn to: set objectives before writing; customize the talk for each audience; conquer stage fright; cultivate a reputation as an expert; develop themes for each presentation; organize material in memorable manner; edit for best effect; project a professional "platform image" through personality, voice, and clothes; motivate audiences to change their actions and attitudes; involve listeners by using humor, heart, and audience participation exercises; deal with problems and pitfalls ranging from poor staging and faulty audio-visual equipment to hecklers and questions of ethics. This authoritative and accessible guide also contains fascinating anecdotes of well-known personalities and how they mastered the art of public speaking. It will quickly become the reference of choice for trainers, lawyers, doctors, managers, and everyone who makes presentations or gives talks..
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Gordon MacDonald explores questions men ask about measuring up to what they ultimately want to become in their quiet times. In When Men Think Private Thoughts, MacDonald offers insights and encouragement as he discusses topics that often define a man's life such as identity, masculinity, relationships, and spirituality..
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If you've ever used traditional screen recording software to create product demonstrations or created custom simulations on your own, you know what an enormous task it can become. Not so with Macromedia's recently renamed and enhanced software, Macromedia Captivate (formerly RoboDemo). By capturing your actions as you use a program, Captivate eliminates the need to create custom graphics for each step--which in turns means no massive video files at the end of the project. Macromedia Captivate automatically records all onscreen actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any programming knowledge. Veteran author Tom Green understands that this is big news for anyone creating online training, product demos, e-learning applications or user support systems--which is why in these pages he provides a super-quick start for a super-quick tool! After introducing you to the Captivate work environment, Tom uses simple task-based instructions and loads of visual aids to help you progress through chapters on creating and modifying Captivate simulations; using frames; adding objects, captions, audio, interactivity, and rich media; using PowerPoint with Captivate; integrating Captivate with Macromedia Breeze; Captivate and Flash; and more.

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Using this fast-paced, step-by-step workbook, you will master the essential Adobe Captivate skills. You'll learn how to capture screen shots of just about anything on your computer, and quickly create quality CBTs. You will learn how to make your movies visually appealing and interactive by adding such things as images, captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas, narrative, and sound effects. You will also learn to create quizzes that can be integrated into a Learning Management System.

Here's a sample of what you'll learn:

Record Projects in all of the Capture Modes | Insert and Edit Text Captions | Insert Images | Change the Pointer Path | Change the Pointer Type | Insert a Text Button | Insert and Format a Highlight Box | Insert a Click Box | Shrink an Object | Insert a Text Entry Box | Insert a Rollover Caption | Insert a Rollover Image | Insert a Zoom Area | Add a Slide Label | Add a Slide Note | Add a Sound Effect to an Object | Add Background Music to a Project | Calibrate a Microphone | Record Audio | Edit an Audio File | Change a Project's Frame Rate | Add Animation to a Slide | Change an Animation's Slide Position | Insert Text Animation | Insert Flash Video | Create Quiz Slides | Link Projects to Web Sites | Link Projects Together | Work with an LMS | Create, Apply and Edit Skins | Add a Loading Screen | Create a Project Template | Record a New Project Based on a Template | Edit a Template | Add Closed Captioning | Import a PowerPoint Presentation | Resize a Project | Import Project Slides and Objects | Use Buttons to Create a Branch.
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For more than 25 years, executives, managers, and professionals have trusted David Lee to help them speak with impact. Now you can use this proven approach for your presentations!

These practical suggestions help you develop and fine-tune your skills, from crafting your message to delivering it effectively. You learn how to manage your fear instead of letting it manage you, recognize and enhance your natural style, choose compelling material that rivets your audience, approach your presentation in a strategic way, make a point without saying a word, increase your comfort at speaking to groups of all sizes, and appear calm, polished, and professional.

As a bonus, you'll find a special section called "Ask the Coach." It contains 39 commonly asked questions, on topics such as giving impromptu presentations, facing an unfriendly audience, showing more energy, and the perennial favorite, getting rid of "ums" and "ahs.".
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