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 by Ward Price at UT Pan-American. This was (as you’ll quickly figure out from the title) a presentation Ward gave at LOEX of the West in which he examines many different ways of putting multimedia content in front of distance students. What’s neat is that he doesn’t just talk about ’em, he provides examples, in all their glory or gore, of each and every one. This was the first time I’d seen or heard of some of these things. Well worth the time to check out. I did find most of these examples worked much better in IE than Firefox…
Now having pointed you at it, I do have to admit I didn’t see anything here I was going to rush out and use, but it’s still neat to see.
Link: Creating Online Media Instruction if you’re not big, rich, or geeky.
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Hi Paul, I was just writing about this whole tutorials creation software conversation that been going on and I was wondering if you have considered creating individual feeds for your categories. This is one conversation I would like to be able to keep track of.
Neat idea Carolyn, but I don’t believe Typepad has any way for me to assign individual feeds to different categories (one of the drawbacks to using a hosted service; inflexibility). I’ll poke around though, maybe I can get something like this working through Feedburner.