Flowgram - If you've tried to use MSFT's Producer to marry up PPT with audio, notes, etc....then stop. link or embed the video in your site. Now your students can add voice comments via a phone, upload an audio file, capture a video response using a. ....ask your your content authoring vendor when they'll have this functionality available!

View About the Author Christopher Graves President, Asia Pacific Send E-mail "People build brands as birds build. . Some feature photos taken from mobile phones with cameras. The most popular such site is textamerica . Vblogs add video to the format. Podcasting is a form of audio blogging. the feeds into the browser. Podcasting : Audio content similar to blogs that can be downloaded to your computer or MP3 player. ). If Doc Searls says it or writes it, believe it. Live it. Enough said. (Note: Searls is author of "Cluetrain Manifesto") Know the information gatekeepers. . Ive learned this lesson the hard way over the years. Be the authority on your product/company.

I had thought that, with my extravagant purchases, I was maintaining the Adobe share price all on my own, but the eLearning Guild's latest research report on authoring and development. (65% of Guild members); #4 Presenter (26%) Courseware authoring, i.e. more serious tools: #1 Captivate (60%); #2 Flash (47%); #3 Dreamweaver (43%); #5 Authorware (16%). Simulation tools: #1 Captivate (79%); #2 Flash (45%). Audio recording (!!!!): #1 Captivate (44%). Animation: #1 Flash (78. format. As the authors of the report point out, these figures are a little misleading, because although a high proportion of survey respondents may.

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. . Secondly, I've been doing some work for a client of mine that has an LMS with some authoring capabilities, trying to compare what they have to offer with what's available elsewhere. . Everybody's got an authoring tool. Have you ? Why on earth not? I do remember when the situation was a little simpler. First (back in the 60s I think) we had Plato and, to the best of my knowledge, that was it. . The next generation of authoring tools included a handful of really serious players, notably Authorware (now with Adobe) and Toolbook (now with SumTotal), both still going although not so. .).

In The Media Equation by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass (Cambridge University Press, 1996), the authors make some profound and non-intuitive assertions about the ways in which people relate to computers and TVs. Among these are the following: Audio fidelity will attract attention to media. Audio fidelity will affect people's memory for audio information. People will evaluate better audio fidelity differently than poorer audio fidelity. . So, audio fidelity does matter. Now in an age in which it is increasingly easy to communicate using audio (podcasts, adding narration to screen capture movies. Audio/Audio and specify the recording device as 'USB Audio Codec').

I had an online demo of Rapid Intake's new online authoring tool Unison , and I must admit I was impressed. , including all the usual question types, plus audio, video and a selection of games. Users can build their own templates using Flash and XML and share them with the authoring community. The tool also includes a screen recorder which enables it to import software demos and PowerPoint presentations. Some. authoring for real with Unison to see whether it lives up to its claims. In the meantime, I can't help thinking that this product is going to raise the bar for online authoring tools.

I've been taking a look at an early version of RapideL's new online e-learning authoring tool, which they are calling RapideL-i . I've previously experimented with their desktop tool, RapideL Enhance, which works with Microsoft Word to generate Flash-based courses, but this is a big step forward. which large files can be manipulated, and the freedom they allow for authors to work offline. as text, images, audio and Flash movies. Working online, any member of the team can view the current status of a module, add new elements or suggest. . I'd recommend anyone looking for an online authoring tool to check this one out once it's fully up and running.