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How to Create Flash Animations with Flypaper
Engage your learners with the interactivity of Flash animations using Flypaper, the leading Flash animation builder. Lectora Inspire is the only eLearning software bundled with Flypaper – and even includes Camtasia for screen recording and Snagit to capture screen images. Flypaper enables you to create exciting Flash animations without knowing a single line of code. With Flypaper, you can create dynamic text, graphics, charts and utilize existing Flash templates to customize your eLearning course or project.
Taro Roe, our fantastic Lectora Trainer, walks you through the steps to create Flash animations with Flypaper in this very informative video. Follow along as Tara demonstrates the basic functionality...
Breaking News for Rapid eLearning and Flash Content Creation
Charles J. Beech, Chairman and CEO of Trivantis Corporation, kicked off the 2011 Lectora User Conference in a big way with the announcement of the acquisition of Flypaper Studio by Trivantis Corporation. He also announced the release of Snap! by Lectora, the rapid eLearning PowerPoint plug-in. Here are the highlights of the announcements streamed live sure to keep people talking this week at the 2011 Lectora User Conference:
Flypaper Studio + Trivantis
Beech announces that two great companies, Flypaper Studio and Trivantis Corporation, have agreed in principle to the acquisition of Flypaper Studios by Trivantis Corporation. Flypaper, the leading Flash content creation platform continues to experience a rapid growth in the digital signage industry. “We have big...
CodeBaby Avatars in Lectora Courses
I’ve been curious for a while about what it would take to add avatars to a Lectora course. So last week, I signed up for a CodeBaby free trial and got to work. We have sample courses online; I picked the Lectora Golf Basics course that needed an instructor to liven things up! Click on the arrow to see the results.
I followed the basic instructions to get started with CodeBaby Studio since I’m new to all this Flash animation software. To create a character and animate it was much easier than I expected. The first thing you do is choose a character to animate and drop it into your...
Mobile Templates in Lectora Inspire
mLearning will be continue to be a red-hot trend in 2011. The number of mobile users is staggering. Analysts predict total Smartphone usage in the billions soon and tablet sales will more than double this year. With that sort of momentum, I thought I would take a look at the template resources available for those with New Year’s resolutions to start creating mobile learning courses with Lectora Inspire.
For more tips on creating great courses for mobile devices, read Tanya Seidel’s blog here.
Lectora contains many pre-installed templates, you can access more templates online or you can create your own. They will save you an enormous amount of time if you intend to create multiple...
Using the Flash Elements in Flypaper to Enhance eLearning
Flypaper puts the power of Flash in the hands of those who don’t have time nor inclination to delve into ActionScript programming. As part of Lectora Inspire, Flypaper for Lectora includes many resources for authors who desire the excitement and interactivity of Flash and need the timesaving and ease-of-use benefits. One other nice thing about working with Flypaper is that you get to keep control of your Flash elements. If you use a programmer or outsource the programming, it is more difficult and costly when you need to make edits.
I’m going to showcase some items I found in Flypaper that can quickly and...
Getting Started with Flash Resources in Lectora Inspire
Authoring has come a long way in the last few years. One of the best improvements has been the pre-built Flash components that can be quickly customized and used to create interactive eLearning. I created a three-screen sample to show how you can rapidly create interactive elements from components available in the media library of Lectora Inspire.
Right away, I found I could make my first screen more interesting than just presenting bulleted text on a page. In the media library, I found many animated objects, such as arrow...
Using Special Effects in Camtasia for Lectora
Wow. I wish I had control over the timeline of my life like the video editor in Camtasia® for Lectora. I’d love to be able to clip out the history of stupid things I’ve said, a fender bender or two and some expensive downtown parking tickets. 
With Camtasia for Lectora, it’s easy to edit and add special effects – even for a beginner like me. I decided to watch the video tutorials to learn about the interface and how to get started, and then...
Cool Things You Can Do With Snagit for Lectora
Snagit® for Lectora significantly dials up the options for getting all sorts of professional illustration into your eLearning courses and, because the software is integrated into the Lectora Inspire environment, it makes everything faster and easier. Right off the bat you’ll find choices that make it easy to perform the screen capture you want:
- All-in-One Mode – Yellow crosshair bars let you pick what you want to capture: the entire screen, a region, or automatically detects if you are in a window with scroll bars and gives you buttons to use with a “scrolling capture.”
- Text Capture Mode – You can capture text from screens...
Lectora Online’s new PowerPoint Conversion Capability is a Significant Time Saver
This week, new updates were introduced for Lectora Online. The most notable feature is the capability to convert PowerPoint presentations directly into Lectora Online files. This functionality isn’t new -- our customers who use Lectora Integrator for PowerPoint rave about saving hundreds of hours of development time by automatically converting their libraries of PowerPoint presentations into the...
LUC Seminar: Integrating Social Networking into Lectora Courses
What is Social Networking? How can you use Social Networking tools to enhance elearning for your students?
Paul Schneider from GeoLearning and Heather Wright from First Tennessee Bank addressed these questions in their very informative, thought provoking, and fun presentation. The presentation covered the importance of social learning in today's training and development, and specifically how social networking tools can enhance elearning courses. They used Lectora for their presentation and what was really cool was how they integrated a live Twitter stream into their presentation. Attendees were tweeting as they were presenting adding a new dimension to the standard presentation. ...