Today, I will introduce Articulate Storyline 2. It is an interactive presentation program. It includes features of many different programs such as PowerPoint, Flash or Adobe Edge. It seems like PowerPoint in first view. When you learn some basic features of the program, you will realize it has simple user interface. Before download you can view some examples from this link:
https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples
With free trials, you can download trial version of the program for 30 days. After download, it offers some tutorial videos about adding content, creating interactive slides, building quizzes etc. With tutorial videos you can start learning quickly. Then you can explore its other applications by trying yourself. If you used Flash or Adobe Edge before, you can easily adapt this program. Design, transition and animation parts are very similar to PowerPoint.
This program is useful to prepare advanced interactive educational materials. You can find some inspiring presentation examples from given link. Via story view, you can see the big picture of your lesson. You can observe all scenes, separate these scenes into slides and arrange these slides. You can add pictures into storyline and you can change their brightness, contrast and color tone. Moreover, you can add shadow and reflection effects to pictures which are formed with drawing tools of the program. By using timeline, you can arrange slides sequentially. In this way, you can be sure that slides and objects are seen in the right time and the right place. You can add many different illustrated and photographic characters into your slides with various pose and gesture options and you can use these characters as pedagogical agents. In addition, you can use record screen option in program to record some video parts or actions that you do on computer screen. With this program, you can prepare your own private lessons and online learning materials.
