Once I have my interview report completed I will then begin on my Captivate Presentation. I am doing it in this order because the written report will provide me with a summary of information which is suitable for the Captivate presentation. As a technology Captivate seems more appealing than Adobe Flash for a start. The preset special effects make it a lot more fun to work with. I am going to approach the Captivate presentation as if it is a web design project as I think the principles of web design will apply directly to this online presentation as well. I still haven’t set down a final interface design. From all the web design projects this semester I should have a pretty good idea of what works and what does not. The Captivate presentation is a great idea as it highlights and subsequently showcases what we have all learned from both our interviews and the preparation process. I think the quality of the presentation’s content is really just as important if not more important than the actual presentation interface design. There are a series of YouTube tutorials on various aspects of Captivate which are available at www.lynda.com and also on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAb1uW5UWvQ. I think I will be making a lot of use of these over the next week or so. It is also interesting to see how these tutorials use screen casting and the format of their instructions. Some food for e-learning thought!
You are right Sherona,
ReplyDeleteContent is King and this is an important point raised by Majella in class also. Bells and whistles are all very fine but where's the beef I hear you say?