In this lesson, we’re going to learn how to build the graphics for the skin of your player. The ‘skin’ of the player is all the look & feel pieces and parts of the final player. However, after deliberating with myself I asked, “Self, this should be two parts.” Due to the length of this post and without arguing with the smarter half of my brain any further, I concur. Part I will cover building the skin’s interface, and Part II we’ll cover building all graphics for the buttons. read more…
What Tools Should We Learn?
The Big Question at the Learning Circuit’s Blog for June is “What Tools Should We Learn?”
In short – learn as many tools as you can! Sarcastic, yes but let’s explore that for a minute. My guess if you’re reading this you have at least one tool in your home that does only one thing. Like the tool that pulls a plug of dirt out of the ground to plant bulbs. Or a corkscrew that only has one job to pull the cork out of a wine bottle. If you think about it, our lives are scattered with multiple tools that do one thing. To get the job done right, it’s best to have all the right tools on hand, right? So why do we think one tool is going to be our one-all eLearning development tool? Building eLearning is more than just one tool…you need a toolbox! read more…
To kick things off, a note on the words: “Player” and “Skin”. Some refer to it as the Articulate Presenter Community Player while others refer to it as a Skin. In my view, it really is both! The “Player” is all the mechanics, coding, and interactivity you develop, whereas the “Skin” is your custom graphic overlay. Whatever you choose to call it in the end, you are still developing the “Skin” and the “Player.” read more…
Updated: May 21, 2010 – Lesson I: Making Your Own Custom Articulate Player
Actually, I started out with hopes of developing my own Articulate Engage Interaction. About half way into the SDK (Software Development Kit) documentation, I realized it was a bit over my head just yet. So I turned my attention to the building my own player instead. No really, there’s more…
Nuggets of Learning
Just a note on Learning: Nuggets of learning.
In the last two months, I’ve attended two conferences and built a couple really cool elearning courses (unfortunately they are proprietary or I’d share), but throughout the last two months I’ve learned a lot of new things… read more…
