Changing the look and feel of mLearning Studio output

Rapid Intake mLearning Studio is powerful cross-platform mobile learning content authoring platform.  As of December 2011, it has four base built-in course templates for look-and-feel and four different page templates.  Since the output is in html5, great power is provided to programmers by making the CSS available for modification. Understanding what to change and how to do that can be a bit of a mystery though.  Using CSS you can modify the look and feel of the finished product.  This significantly enhances the presentations you can provide for your clients.  Next week, I will be giving a presentation at mLearningDevCon on this topic.  After the conference materials will be posted for viewing.

You can visit the conference web site at http://mlearningdevcon.com or my "Insights" page on ICF's corporate site at http://www.icfi.com/insights/presentations/2012/how-to-skin-mlearning-content-your-own-css

iBooks Author - what do you want to know?

I am giving a presentation on Oct 5 at mLearningDevCon in Philadelphia called "Creating iBooks Content for iPad".  I know what I want to present but more importantly, what would you expect or want to learn from a presentation like this?

Four mobile learning presentations

After "pulling technological rabbits out hats", "leaping tall requirements documents", and "turning back timelines" in order to provide the highest quality online and mobile web products for our clients what else has this Tech Team been up to?

A-conferencing we go, a-conferencing we go…..that's right, after giving 12 presentations at two national conferences  and two nationally available webcasts already this year, the Tech Team is back at it. 

Mike Raines, Michael Sheyahshe and Greg Gardner will be speaking at mLearningDevCon Oct 2-5 in Philadelphia.  We will be giving the following four presentations:

1. Creating iBooks Content for iPad – Greg Gardner
2. 'Nuff Said: Tips & Tricks from Digital Comics to Breathe Life into Your HTML5 mLearning – Michael Sheyahshe
3. A "Flash" of Freshness: Repurposing Existing Flash Content for Use in Mobile Development – Mike Raines
4. How to Skin mLearning Content with Your Own CSS – Greg Gardner

Greg will also be leading a mLearning Strategies roundtable session.
 
ICF has posted a web page for you to review the presentations:

http://www.icfi.com/events/conferences-and-trade-shows/2012/10/mlearning-devcon-2012 

You can also link to this page from the Training and Technical Assistance and Organizational Learning and Performance pages on the ICF web site in the Related Events sections of those pages.

ICF, the Tech Team and mLearningDevCon will use social media to announce what we are doing.

Feel free to connect with us at any of these sites.

Twitter accounts to follow:@ICFI, @gardelearndev, @eLearnDevGeek, @mas_edev , @mLearningdevcon, and #MLDC2012
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/ICFINternational/  and  http://www.facebook.com/mLearningDevCon
LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/company/icf-international/
Google+ - https://plus.google.com/117972905686513925698/posts
Conference Web site - http://mlearningdevcon.com/

Customize Lectora’s Table of Contents with Visited-page and Chapter Icons

Learning Solutions Magazine @LearningSolMag published my article "Customize Lectora’s Table of Contents with Visited-page and Chapter Icons" today.  Check it out at  http://bit.ly/Scw3cO  This is my first published magazine article.

Reducing my electronic footprint

Looking for ways to reduce your electronic footprint?  I was.  My desk was a cluttered mess on multiple laptops, four large monitors, four power strips and more cords than you could count.  But I needed it all.  Mac for iOS development (xCode, iBooks Author, etc...) Windows for Lectora, MobiOne, Articulate Storyline, MS SQL and as a test platform.

I finally installed Parallels Virtual Machine with Windows 7 on it.  I then loaded Lectora, Articualte Storyline and Studio, Microsoft SQL Studio 2012, and MobiOne onto the Windows 7 instance.  I installed my Adobe CS6 suite of software onto the Mac as well as MySQL.  I am able to VPN into the home office with both Mac and Windows and share files between the two OS instances.  Very cool. 

Now, I can see my desk again. I removed one laptop, two external monitors, an armful of plugins and cords, several power strips, one extra headset and was finally able to move my printer to the other side of the room since it can now be fully wireless (the Windows laptop had to be USB connected to it).  I have room to spread out a bit and I have not reduced my capabilities to create awesome e- or m-Learning at all.  In face, I think its better because I can share files and test across plaforms with greater efficiency.