M2-Week 7-Home

The following is a reflection on Week 7 (Home) of the Instructional Design & eAuthoring module.

I have been experimenting with an accompanying free app for iPad called Adobe Captivate Draft, which is for storyboarding.  I created a three screen storyboard using some photos I had on my iPad from a Camino trip I did last year (nothing to do with composting!).  It was then possible to email the draft to others.

To use Adobe Captivate Draft, you need to sign up for a free Adobe account which gives you 5 GB of free Adobe Document Cloud storage.  Even with that account and cloud storage, I think that the Adobe Captivate Draft files are exported to Adobe Creative Cloud which requires a subscription.

So far, I have not been able to access the Adobe Captivate (storyboard) file that I created on my iPad in order to import it into the full blown Adobe Captivate application on my iMac.  I uploaded it from my iPad to an Adobe Cloud but when I subsequently logged into the Adobe Document Cloud on my iMac, there were no documents there.  So, I’m assuming that the file is in the (other) Adobe Creative Cloud.

When I used the email (‘export’) feature from Adobe Captivate Draft on my iPad, this just emails a web link which allows other members of the creative team to add comments to the (Adobe Captivate Draft) storyboard file but not to edit it. Furthermore, this link is not a file that I can import into Adobe Captivate on my iMac. However, Adobe Captivate on my iMac does have a facility to import Adobe Captivate Draft files. Frustrating!  I have ‘googled’ but no solutions so far. Anyway, I can’t afford to spend any more time now on this problem right now.

I think Allesio mentioned that he was interested in using Articulate Storyline for storyboarding.  If so, how will I be able to use the Articulate storyboard file to create the final project in Adobe Captivate? I assume that I will be able to somehow view the storyboard file that Allesio and Rachel create and then use this storyboard file to order the content (text, images, animation, video, audio) created / supplied by Mick with some content possibly being created / supplied by the rest of us?

The link below might be useful. Step 6 mentions Gagne’s 9 Principles which would tie in nicely to the Learning Theories module.

8 Steps for an Awesome eLearning Storyboard
http://elearningbrothers.com/8-steps-for-an-awesome-elearning-storyboard/

Here is a comparison of Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline:

Articulate Storyline 2 vs Adobe Captivate 9

Hmm, one of the Adobe Captivate 9 ‘cons’:
Steep learning curve.

That’s what I thought the first couple of times I used it. Anyway, I’d better start climbing!