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    August's Updates in SHIFT

    Game Engine SHIFT offers you 7 new games that allow you to give more interactivity to your courses. Among these you´ll find: Baseball Tournament, Basketball Tournament, Golf Tournament, Bowling Cup, etc. The games have instructions which are displayed automatically and you need to include a minimum of 5 questions per game which are displayed randomly.

    SHIFT Share Continues To Grow

    SHIFT Share is our innovative online community supporting the students in the global SHIFT Certification program. We welcome new students weekly and utilize SHIFT Share to communicate and collaborate with the over 100 independent instructional designers who are currently in the program. To bring exposure to our talented SHIFT students, we will be introducing the SHIFTERS area in April. This area showcases the instructional designers who are going through the certification program and want to highlight their experience and expertise in the e-learning field. This added exposure will further enable learning, discussion and networking inside of SHIFT Share. SHIFT is changing both the way eLearning is developed and managed; and professionals from the around the world are noticing and want to take part in this disruptive technology. As our award-winning e-learning authoring tool continues to grow, so does the global e-learning community around it.

    A New SHIFT Demo!

    Here is a fantastic new SHIFT demo that targets an interesting segment; the live lecturer/instructor. This new template in SHIFT makes rapid authoring of interactive asynchronous lectures a reality! Interest in this template is extremely high! Organizations like the University of Toronto, and a number of other colleges, are looking further into integrating their content and media into this template. Key Points: • This template easily creates interactive lectures from source videos. • This template can be easily populated per video segment for a more interactive asynchronous learning experience. • Making changes to animation or supporting text can be done within minutes and republished. The flexibility within this template creates enormous opportunity for live lecturers and instructors! This demo is done entirely within SHIFT! Have a look and let us know what you think! VIEW DEMO HERE Want to learn more about this template? Let us know and we'll set up a live information webcast session to go over the ins and outs of this template and demo build.

    Webcast Follow Up: Recording and Notes

    Thank you to everyone who joined our webcast yesterday! It was recorded and is now avaiable for you to view on demand.

    SHIFT December Release

    The latest updates to SHIFT have been released and recorded for you to view on demand.

    WEBCAST - TUESDAY JANUARY 11, 2011. 2PM EST

    Learn how to enhance any existing elearning course using simple SHIFT tips and visual tricks.

    eLearning DemoFest Highlights Webinar Video

    SHIFT took top honours at DemoFest in the Onboarding / Employee Orientation category. Rick Beaudry, CEO of Mindmuze, demonstrated the winning technology again during the "DemoFest Highlights Webinar"

    Latest SHIFT Release

    RELEASE WEBCAST - WATCH ON DEMAND

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