The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

You may recall this post where I discussed a new Rapid E-Learning authoring tool I was beta-testing for a friend.

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 generally something I just get on with doing, usually with a certain bad grace (if I can’t delegate it to an intern or other downtrodden junior contributor).

In my first post on the topic, I suggested that the utility tool simplified this repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone activity: in my estimation, it cut production time of documents converted from PowerPoint presentations by 80%.

Well the utility is now complete; it’s called PowerManual, and I’ve created a quick (six-minute) How To demo which covers

• Context
• Introduction to PowerManual
• Downloading the application from PowerManual.ie
• Installing PowerManual
• Creating a manual from a PowerPoint Presentation

Click here to view the demo in 800×600 Flash FLV format, or enjoy the YouTube version (below):

I’ve made a PDF of PowerManual-generated file I created for this demo available on my website; click here to view the PowerManual sample file.
I’ll be undertaking a complete review of PowerManual’s functionality over the next few days, so watch this space.

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Links:

PowerManual Website http://www.powermanual.ie
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