Using Flash MX to Create e-Learning

Using Flash MX to Create e-Learning
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Total rubbish....

Full of Errors

Using Flash MX to Create e-Learning
Sharon Castillo , Steven Hancock , and Garin Hess
Manufacturer: Rapid Intake Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Using Dreamweaver MX to Create e-Learning: A Comprehensive Guide to CourseBuilder and Learning Site

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Flash MX for Interactive Simulation (Macromedia Flash)

ASIN: 0971508046

Book Description

Whether you've chosen Flash MX as the authoring tool for your next project, or you are just exploring the possibility, this book is for you. Using Flash MX to Create e-Learning is a comprehensive self-paced training guide that will get you up to speed on both fundamentals and advanced concepts and techniques for creating e-learning courseware using Macromedia Flash MX and MX 2004. Once used primarily for animation, Flash's capabilities as a full-fledged e-learning authoring environment have only recently matured as Macromedia has released new capabilities in the MX and MX 2004, and MX 2004 Professional versions.

By completing the in-depth, hands-on tutorials, you will gain mastery over every aspect of courseware development from using multimedia and creating interactive pages, to creating course architecture and communicating with learning management systems.

Use this book as a self-paced training guide, or use it as a reference with its comprehensive index. You can also search the complimentary e-book version for specific words or phrases.

NOTE: This book is applicable to Flash MX, MX 2004, and MX 2004 Professional. We estimate that about twenty to thirty percent of the content is specific to MX 2004 or MX 2004 Professional. The rest of the content is applicable to all three versions.

Here is a summary of what the book contains:
* 22 chapters and 5 appendices.
* Numerous step-by-step instructions.
* Over 35 hands-on exercises.
* Dozens of tips for creating effective e-Learning.

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Total rubbish...........2007-02-16

This book is the worst e-learning/Flash book i have ever bought. I was shocked by the seriously poor quality of the tutorial examples, it really does look like the authors of this book just do not care. How can an e-learning book from an e-learning company produce such crap, i work in a new media design studio and would never release such poor quality that is found page after page in this book. There is very little actionscript used in this book that is of any real help, again how can you create a great e-learning applications by avoiding the use of actionscript?

The actuall quality of the book itself is shocking, i found so many words missing, wrong sections highlighted (these were meant to give focus to a specific area of text). The book is so disorganised its amazing. From my experience i would stay well away from this book and and from Rapid Intake (the authoring company). What a complete waste of time and money.

Full of Errors.......2006-12-03

Do not buy this book. This book doesn't help it confuses and misleads you. I am amazed how is that they allow this book to be in here and how expensive it is for its content. I was really expecting more...or at least a book one could easily follow.

Using Dreamweaver MX to Create e-Learning: A Comprehensive Guide to CourseBuilder and Learning Site

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Great Intro to CourseBuilder and Customizing it too!
Very basic

Using Dreamweaver MX to Create e-Learning: A Comprehensive Guide to CourseBuilder and Learning Site
Garin Hess , and Steven Hancock
Manufacturer: Rapid Intake Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Designing E-Learning (Astd E-Learning Series, 6th Bk.)

ASIN: 0971508038

Book Description

This book covers all aspects of the CourseBuilder and Learning Site extensions to Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Learn how to add engaging interactivity to your e-learning web pages using CourseBuilder. Learn how to add course navigation, architecture, and student data tracking using Learning Site. These extensions let you do it all without knowing any JavaScript.

By working hands-on through the exercises in this book, learn to use Multiple Choice, Drag-and-drop, Fill-in-the-Blank, Sliders, Explore, and Button interactions. Include Timers to add another dimension to interactive activities. Learn to customize course navigation and the user interface. Also use this book as a reference with its comprehensive index.

Using Dreamweaver MX to Create e-Learning goes beyond just how to use these extensions, it also includes in-depth tutorials on how to get the most out of then. So if you want to extend the basic functionality of these time saving tools, this book is also for you. Learn to use the Action Manager object, integrate JavaScript into your CourseBuilder interactions, create custom interactions, and more!

Using Dreamweaver MX to Create e-Learning is the latest edition of the very popuplar book Using Dreamweaver to Create e-Learning. This book has been updated for the latest version, Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Here is a summary of what the book contains:

- 21 chapters and 5 appendices.

- Numerous step-by-step instructions.

- Over 45 hands-on exercises.

- Numerous enhancements to both Learning Site and CourseBuilder.

- Dozen of tips for creating the most effective e-Learning.

Companion CD: The companion CD-ROM contains all of the examples shown in the book (over 70) so you can work through them as you go, learning hands-on. We've also included some bonus screen movies screen movies demonstrating how to accomplish certain advanced tasks.

Customer Reviews:

Great Intro to CourseBuilder and Customizing it too!.......2005-08-26

As an intermediate web developer trying to learn to create some interactive, web based elearning I needed a resource to walk me through from the very beginning. Using DreamweaverMX with CourseBuilder and Learning site is just what the doctor ordered. This book walks you through everything from downloading and installing CourseBuilder to exploring the different types of interactions available and then trying them for yourself. It includes a ton of sample files that allow you to checkout the finished interaction and then go through and build it yourself. This is great in case you get stuck or something doesn't work right because it gives you a reference point to do troubleshooting on your own work.

You'll probably breeze through the first half of the book getting familiar with the basics and then spend a lot of time in Chapters 11-16 in figuring out how to customize the different interactions. Throughout the book the authors give a lot of helpful hints and FYIs which is always nice.

The last part of the book is dedicated to using Macromedia's Learning Site extension. This is a great walk through step by step putting together the interactive pages you just created in CourseBuilder to make a complete course. There is also information on tracking student scores if you're not currently using an LMS which is handy knowledge.

If you want to be able to create learning interactions without requiring plug-ins or purchasing other expensive applications to do it for you, this a great resource to get you going.

Very basic.......2005-08-08

this book is very basic, does not recommend for development work. Only for beginning.

Learning Programming Using Visual Basic .NET w/ 5-CD VB .NET 2003 software

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Learning Programming Using Visual Basic .NET w/ 5-CD VB .NET 2003 software
William E Burrows
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Learning Programming Using Visual Basic.NET, by William Burrows, teaches students programming while using VB to illustrate the concepts and techniques. This text uses Windows Forms for Visual Basic programming. Beginning with fundamental programming concepts and gradually moving toward complex methods, this text guides students through realistic end-user applications that they will encounter in the real world.

Poetic Possibilities: Using Poetry to Enhance Literacy Learning (Featuring Poems from the Reading Teacher)

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Poetic Possibilities: Using Poetry to Enhance Literacy Learning (Featuring Poems from the Reading Teacher)

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Are you looking for new ways to engage and inspire your students to read and write? Or do you need a little inspiration for your own daily teaching?

The literacy-themed poems in this anthology -- reprinted from the premier journal for literacy educators, The Reading Teacher -- give teachers, literacy coaches, and parents a new way to enhance literacy learning.

Use this book to:

Integrate poetry into classroom lessons to develop your students' lifelong love of reading and writing

Motivate students of all ages with opportunities for meaningful reading and writing

Encourage students and colleagues to write poetry

Promote professional reflection, growth, and change

Each poem is accompanied by prompts to get you and your students thinking and by a literacy application to help you use the poem in the classroom. You'll also find ways to make meaningful connections with literacy and additional resources to prompt further thinking or research on the poem's topic.

Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Do (Technology, Education--Connections (Tec) Series)
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Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Do (Technology, Education--Connections (Tec) Series)

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Many school districts are discovering that providing computer technology and using technology to improve student learning are two very different things. In this book, national experts use concrete examples to describe specific knowledge, beliefs, and strategies that will enable teachers and district leaders to support meaningful learning using technology. Chapters examine the intersection between course content, types of technology, and the supports and professional development required to effectively implement technology in the K-12 classroom. This authoritative volume:

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Collaborative Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student
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Collaborative Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student
Susan E. Israel , Dorothy A. Sisk , and Cathy Collins Block
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Use these gifted and higher level thinking strategies for all students!

Developed for reading educators, this rich resource incorporates higher level thinking and reading strategies that promote academic achievement for both gifted learners and struggling students. Susan E. Israel, Dorothy A. Sisk, and Cathy Collins Block, recognized leaders in the fields of reading and literacy, provide teachers with tools to create collaborative literacy classrooms where students can generate ideas independently, discuss them, and then develop new concepts within a group environment. Collaboration boosts critical thinking skills and helps develop and enrich reading, writing, speaking, and thinking experiences not just for gifted readers, but for all learners!

You’ll gain important insights on:

Understanding how collaborative literacy affects gifted students and your entire classroom
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Develop higher level thinking and reading strategies to help your students become independent researchers, writers, and readers!

Jump-Start the Adult Learner: How to Engage and Motivate Adults Using Brain-Compatible Strategies

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Jump-Start the Adult Learner: How to Engage and Motivate Adults Using Brain-Compatible Strategies
Laurie E. (Ellen) Materna
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"This outstanding book combines neuroscience and education to create an energetic and practical guide to the adult brain. You'll finish it feeling as if you've just been entertained and enlightened."
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Use brain-based learning techniques for powerful staff development!

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This user-friendly guide provides valuable background information about adult learning styles, memory, and how the brain learns. Engaging, interactive strategies for classrooms or workshops include graphic organizers, music energizers, exercise activities, and self-assessments, and each strategy is accompanied by a wide range of real-life examples.

Educators will be able to motivate adult learners to

Become more self-directed in their own learning
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Learning Programming Using Visual Basic .NET with Student CD

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I recommended that it be used for a VB.NET course

Learning Programming Using Visual Basic .NET with Student CD
Williams E. Burrows , and Joseph D. Langford
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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I recommended that it be used for a VB.NET course.......2005-02-20

For years, I have taught a course in Visual Basic version 6 in the community education department of the local community college. With the movement to VB.NET, it is time to make the change. After examining this book, I have recommended that we use it for the updated course. The first seven chapters contain all of the standard examples of using the GUI objects and the constructs such as if - then -else and loops. It introduces the object-oriented features as early as possible. For example, try-catch blocks for exceptions are incorporated into the examples as early as page 88. There is no chapter devoted to object-oriented concepts in VB.NET; they are scattered throughout, introduced when appropriate.
Chapter eight covers processing databases and an introduction to ADO.NET and chapter nine is an introduction to XML and how it is used in VB. In chapter eleven, the collection objects such as hashtables and sortedlists are examined. Chapter twelve demonstrates how to use VB.NET to create web applications. At the end of each chapter, a large project is completely presented with a list of each of the GUI objects and the assignments to the properties as well as complete listings of the code for each module. Exercises are interspersed inside the chapters and solutions to some of them are included at the end. Sets of multiple-choice and programming problems are also at the end of each chapter.
VB.NET is quite different from VB 6, but is not all that hard to learn. However, if you are experienced in VB 6 and trying to learn VB.NET, then the worst approach is to suddenly be bombarded by a list of all the differences. The best way to learn VB.NET is to have the differences incorporated into your learning one idea at a time. It is that approach that sold me on this book.

Using French: A Guide to Contemporary Usage

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Room for massive improvement
Good but not excellent
Main Idea of The Book: Intimacy determines the language!

Using French: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
R. E. Batchelor , and M. H. Offord
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Using French. It provides guidance for those who have already acquired the basics of French and wish to extend their knowledge of the language. Unlike conventional grammars, it gives special attention to those areas of the vocabulary and grammatical usage of contemporary French that cause most difficulty to English-speakers, and incorporates the concept of register differences throughout. Clearly laid out and easy to consult, it will prove invaluable to all who wish to improve their fluency and confidence in French.

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Room for massive improvement.......2007-09-21

This book gives an overview of French grammar and features some very helpful sections. The best one by far is the one on prepositions, it's very detailed and provides and in-depth guide to how and when you should use which French preposition for which English proposition.

The main drawback is the section on infinitives. If you know French, you'll know that the French infinitive may be preceeded by 'de' (C'est important de manger), by 'à' (J'ai commencé à manger) by no preposition at all (je veux manger) or occasionally by other prepositions (On a fini la soirée par manger). While this guide does feature lengthy lists of which verb takes which preposition, the authors had a complete blackout and neglected to provide the English translation for a single one of all these verbs! In other words, you won't be able to use unless you're already fluent in French. The corresponding guide to contemporary Italian usage, in the same series, is almost identical to this one but does feature an English translation for each Italian verb and expression.

I cannot explain why or how the translations were dropped from this book but the consequences for the learners are obvious. A much less useful book than if they had been provided.

Good but not excellent.......2006-03-08

This book offers a very good overview of French usage in Europe... The problem here for me is that French is also spoken in other non-European countries and this book does not contain enough explanations on the main varieties of this language in other parts of the world (What about Québec??). It is meant mainly for people learning Parisian French. Other books in this same series (Using Spanish, Using Portuguese, Using German and even Using Italian) care to highlight the main regional differences (Iberian, Mexican, Argentinian Spanish, Brazilian, African and European Portuguese, northern and southern dialects of German and Italian, etc.) you might find in the areas where the corresponding languages are spoken. This one doesn't.

Main Idea of The Book: Intimacy determines the language!.......2000-09-22

This is a book that you can find a lot of explanations of French language which is classified into 3 main groups: R1, R2 & R3. The book explains that R1: very informal usage, R2: polite, but normal and R3:very formal(such as when you talk with the "big boss")...So by this classification you learn how to say sth. in an appropriate way depending on your situation. It is very useful, if you are thinking of living in France.

Using Dreamweaver to Create Software Demonstration: An e-Learning Developer¿s Step-by-step Guide to Creating Native HTML Software Demos

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Using Dreamweaver to Create Software Demonstration: An e-Learning Developer¿s Step-by-step Guide to Creating Native HTML Software Demos
Garin Hess , and Steven Hancock
Manufacturer: Rapid Intake Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 097150802X

Book Description

This book contains all the information that is necessary to begin creating software demonstrations. Using Dreamweaver timelines you can create software demonstrations that are as smooth as those created by third-party products. These demonstrations will boast a smaller file size and not require a plugin to run.

Learn to create native HTML software demonstrations that:
- Show the mouse moving to correct locations
-Highlight mouse clicks
- Show text typing
- Add annotations and captions
- Integrate synchronized Flash-based audio for voiceovers and sound effects

If you are creating courseware that teaches software skills, you will want to include software demonstrations in your course. Showing the learner how to perform a task is an important instructional design principle.

In this book you will learn to create software demonstrations that don't require a plugin. The step-by-step instructions contained in this book will teach you everything you need to know. You will learn to take appropriate screen captures and put those captures together using layers and timelines to build a software demonstration. Once you have completed the exercises provided in the book, you will have created your first software demonstration.

This book also covers several techniques for enhancing your software demo by adding annotations, highlighting mouse clicks, adding sound effects and including voice over narration.

Companion CD
The companion CD-ROM contains all of the files you need to create your first software demonstration. You will use these files as you work through the exercises. Some sample demonstrations are also included on the CD-ROM.

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