Came across this very interesting article today. Must make time to study this some more… a very useful  resource.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/webmaster/create-navigation-bars-with-responsive-web-design-techniques/2339

I had a feeling it wouldn’t take long before I ran into some “undocumented features”, when looking into using Adobe Captivate 6, including transparency problems with the default buttons when publishing to swf. But I worked around this and will be continuing my investigations. There are some good online introductions and tutorials available.  For example, on YouTube: LMS & SCORM Integration with Captivate 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1q6ibuu2Y (AdobeELearning)

Nice article about the positive power of social media …

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/2240182077/Power-of-social-media-technology-irrefutable-in-times-of-crisis

Checkout the beta LRC mobile website. At the moment, there’s nothing been added really since before Christmas 2012, but do keep checking back for changes! It has been developed using the JQuery/JQueryMobile frameworks.

The Linguacast website originally started life as an early podcast site for language learning way back in 2005. Since then, it has undergone several major revisions of user interface. The previous version of the website landing page looked something like the picture below.  This version presented  a  tabbed menu structure, and the languages were accessed via a single language tab. The present version makes the languages immediately accessible from the main menu buttons, arguably a more direct and user-friendly was of accessing the data. Extensive use was made of javascript functions to provide a tailored video player and CSS was used to style the pages.

Linguacast previous version home page

Back in 2012 the user experience for students in the LRC was reviewed. It was felt that many of the multimedia language learning programs and shared data  available for use on each desktop (around 40 PCs, all running Windows 7) needed to be more readily accessible. To this end, I revamped what is presented to every user at student login – a simple dashboard categorised into languages with one-click icons and text links to available software.This seems to have gone down well, with improved access to programs speeding up student performance. So no more Windows start button and program groups. Dream on.

The New LRC Software Menu Interface