Category: Tutorials
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Macromedia Breeze presentation available
Macromedia Breeze is a tool that, among other things, converts PowerPoint presentations to a Macromedia Flash file for easy viewing via the web. This isn’t a cheap tool (as evidenced by the "contact us for pricing" links on the product page), so it’s not likely something you’ll just go out to buy, but if your…
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A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate
A really nice little writeup from Learning Circuits about Macromedia Captivate and how it can be used to build demonstrations and simulations. What’s the difference? You’ll have to read it to find out :-). And I learned a new acronym: SME – Subject Matter Expert. (Thanks for the pointer Sherri.)
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UTPA Library — LOEX of the West 2004
Earlier this week down in the comments section of this post on Captivate vs. ViewletBuilder, we uncovered a few other institutional examples of these types of tutorials (screen capture / convert to flash). I finally got a chance to look through all the links, and right at the end was this great page put together…
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Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder?
Sherri at UNLV is looking for other opinions… Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder? I’m currently evaluating tutorial software for both instruction (emphasis: tutorials, scoring and evalution mechanisms) and distance education (emphasis: not so much the scoring aspect but learning and instructional applications). I’ve worked previously with Qarbon’s ViewletBuilder and really enjoyed the…
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Real live Captivate example
Greg Szczyerbak at Millersville University was kind enough to share an example of a Captivate tutorial he built to demonstrate an introduction to their catalogue sorry, catalog 😉 Even more kindly, he said I could share it with you too. This one is a work in progress – he’s having some students in the school’s…
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Low Threshold Applications (LTA)
I ran across this site long ago, and could never get the RSS feed to display in my aggregator of choice, so had kind of forgotten about it. They just moved to a new site, and the RSS feed works fine for me now, so now I’ll recommend it to you! A Low Threshold Application …
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ViewletBuilder price drop
Last month in my comparison of ViewletBuilder Pro to Captivate I quoted an educational price of $399 for ViewletBuilder Pro. Today comes word that they’ve dropped the price of the Pro version to $299 US, and while I have no proof of this, in the past they’ve offered an educational discount of up to 50%,…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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You say Potato… Jon Udell: Screencast guidelines
I used to subscribe to Jon Udell’s blog and for some reason I stopped. I think I’m going to start again. Jon isn’t a librarian on paper, but you may remember from a nifty little tool called Library Lookup. I just learned that he’s starting to push a concept he’s dubbed as "Screencasts", which seems…
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Macromedia Captivate vs. Qarbon Viewletbuilder Pro
At the end of last year I finally got around to playing with the demo version of Macromedia Captivate, and my initial impression was quite favorable. In that brief review I promised that I would create identical tutorials in each tool so we could all compare the output. They’re not pretty or pedagogically sound; I…