A friend of mine is developing a very cool tool that will enable courseware developers to easily convert their presentation content into neatly-formatted MS Word documents for distribution to learners. If, like me, you've spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other media formats, you'll appreciate the hard work and, to be honest, tedium involved in generating, formatting, proofing, and finally producing documentation to accompany ILT and WBT courseware.
However, it's a necessary task, and with much grumbling and gnashing of teeth, something I just get on with doing. So anyway, this little EXE file arrive in my inbox a few days ago with some installation and how to use instructions.
Top Tip
Kids - Don't go installing EXEs that arrive in your inbox unless you know exactly what they contain!
I went ahead and installed the program - still in early beta, remember and... it worked! It does exactly what every utility tool should do - simplifying or automating a repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone activity: in my estimation, this app cuts production time by 80%.
I'll talk more about this program when it's released.
Now read on...
On 19th December last year I posted on a lecture I gave to the MSc in Education & Technology class in the National College of Ireland on the subject of Rapid E-Learning (REL) tools. In that post, I focused on the second part of the lecture, the lab or practical part of the lesson. Today, I'm revisiting this topic and discussing part one of the lecture: an introduction to REL authoring tools, with a particular focus on Techsmith Camtasia.
Quiet down now, and turn off your cellphones please! I've published a PDF of the Introduction to Rapid E-Learning Authoring Tools here if you'd like to download or view it online. The presentation covers:
- Authoring tools used in developing multimedia-based learning content
- How these tools are implemented to develop content using the Rapid e-Learning methodology / approach
- E-learning authoring tools
- Techsmith Camtasia
- Lab – creating a short learning object in Camtasia
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