North Texas Captivate User Group

I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful August weather!

When: Tuesday, August 21 at 6:30PM

Meeting topic: Extending Captivate through Flash
Presenter: Frank Hanfland, Computer Resource Solutions

Frank will be covering techniques for controlling a Captivate movie from a Flash front-end in order to extend functionality to support custom navigation, custom displays of movie data (such as slide numbers). He will also show us an example of how to handle variables within Captivate! This is an exciting topic for many of us who have “hit the wall” with Captivate’s native functionality. You don’t want to miss this presentation!

Also, we will be giving away some SWAG items from Adobe.   Shirts, cups, mice, etc.

Meeting Location:

Rexel
6606 LBJ Freeway
Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75240

Click here for a map.

In our quest to be more accessible to area CP users, we are meeting at another location next week. Sam Creel, this group’s co-founder, has arranged for us to meet at his office near LBJ and Hillcrest. Many thanks to Sam and his company, Rexel, for helping us out.

Our goal is to eventually find a permanent meeting location. We are also looking into scheduling our meetings on a different evening during the month that won’t conflict with other group meetings. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

We’ll have Chick-fil-a again if that’s OK with everyone.  Remember, donations are always welcome!

Please call 469 628 5145 if you have need last minute directions.

See you next week!

Topic: Bryan Peters and Walt Stewart will cover techniques for optimizing published file sizes.  File size optimization is a challenge facing most Captivate developers, regardless of skill level.  Please come to learn and share. 

NEW LOCATION THIS MONTH!

Where:  15770 Dallas Parkway, Suite 800   –   This is the Beal Bank Building.  It is a tan building with an orange roof.  There are two that look alike. 

Parking:  There is a parking garage in the back.   Please park on the top (visitor) level (it’s not a far walk at all) and come in the back glass doors. 

PLEASE do not park in the spaces in front of the bank.

Call Dawn at 214-725-9952 if you have a hard time finding our location. You can also call Walt Stewart at 469-628-5145.

When: June 19th at 6:30PM

Location: Stranix, 2300 Valley View Lane, Suite 800, Irving, TX 75062

Topics: Work-flow and Best Practices using Captivate

Bryan Peters will lead a discussion, including Captivate examples, about work-flow and best practices for developing elearning projects. After the presentation, we will continue the discussion about the direction of our Captivate users group in north Texas.

When: May 15th at 6:30PM

Location: Stranix, 2300 Valley View Lane, Suite 800, Irving, TX 75062

Topics: Using Skins in Captivate 2.0 & User Group Goals/Direction

Walt Stewart will give a presentation on how to get the most out of the Skin Editor introduced in Captivate 2.0. After the Skins presentation, we will continue the discussion started in our last meeting about what this user group can offer Captivate users in north Texas.

When: May 15th at 6:30PM

Location: Stranix, 2300 Valley View Lane, Suite 800, Irving, TX 75062

Topics: Using Skins in Captivate 2.0 & User Group Goals/Direction

Walt Stewart will give a presentation on how to get the most out of the Skin Editor introduced in Captivate 2.0. After the Skins presentation, we will continue the discussion started in our last meeting about what this user group can offer Captivate users in north Texas.

Time: 6:30

Location: NEC (See link to map under Blogroll. Park in front of the building and come in the glass doors. Someone will be there to sign you in.)

Contact #: Walt Stewart, 469 628 5145

Notes: Silke Fleischer is scheduled to present. We’ll also discuss what everyone wants by particiapting in this group (group goals, discussion topics, membership, etc). We’re giving away boxed copy of Captivate 2. Food and drinks are provided.

Adobe’s Silke Fleischer has graciously agreed to give a virtual presentation at our kick-off meeting on April 17th!
From Adobe: “Silke Fleischer is a senior product marketing manager for Adobe Captivate and is responsible for product marketing. She works closely with customers and key figures in the e-learning industry to communicate their needs and ideas to the Adobe Captivate research and development team.”

We are very fortunate to have Silke speak to us.  Thanks, Silke!

The presentation topic hasn’t been decided, so if you’d like to hear Silke cover something specific, let us know!

It’s official! The first meeting for the north Texas Captivate User Group will take place on Tuesday, April 17th. We are starting the meeting at 6:30PM and it will wrap up by 8:30PM. Food will be provided along with soft drinks and coffee. We don’t have a topic yet, but it’s coming very soon.

NEC America has graciously agreed to host our meetings. Thank you very much, NEC!

They are lending our group one of the fully-equiped classrooms in their National Training Center. To top it off, their central location (Las Colinas) should be convenient for many Captivate users in the area.

We couldn’t ask for a better meeting location than this!

Click here for a map.

If you know you’ll be attending, please let us know by posting a message to this announcement!

We are currently planning the first meeting. We just wanted to get this site up to help get the word out. Hopefully, everything will be up to date and working properly by the end of the week. If you need more information between now and then, please use the comments feature.