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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

Entries Tagged as 'streaming media'

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 4: Delivering Content via HTTP Tunneling

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Communications and collaboration using streaming media platforms only work if the client side has the facility to access the content.

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Tags: asynchronous · content delivery · e-learning · elearning content · streaming media · synchronous

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 4: Delivering Content via HTTP Tunneling

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The topic of today’s post was preempted in a comment I received on Friday 10th July. In it, Digital Chalk’s Tony McCune wrote:
…I think that the technology decision has to include consideration of the client capabilities of the audience you are serving as well as the network you will ultimately be streaming into and [...]

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Tags: digital media · e-learning · http streaming · multimedia · streaming media · wbt · web based training

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 4: Delivering Content via HTTP Tunneling

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The topic of today’s post was preempted in a comment I received on Friday 10th July. In it, Digital Chalk’s Tony McCune wrote:
…I think that the technology decision has to include consideration of the client capabilities of the audience you are serving as well as the network you will ultimately be streaming into and [...]

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Tags: digital media · e-learning · http streaming · multimedia · streaming media · wbt · web based training

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 3: Using a Dedicated Media Server

July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

e-learning using streaming media can save you money, increase learner participation, and improve motivation and focus

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Tags: asynchronous · e-learning · educational media · learning channel · streaming media · synchronous · web based training · web-based learning

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 2: Delivering Content via a Web Server

July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Deploying streaming media content with the web server approach is very similar to the download-and-play model: it’s a pull technology.

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Tags: asynchronous · content delivery · e-learning · elearning content · flash · streaming media · synchronous · web based training · web-based learning

Capture that E-Learning Demo: Update

February 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’ve been getting some very positive feedback about my recent series of blog posts reviewing TechSmith Camtasia and Adobe Captivate. Some contributors have also been kind enough to point out some deficiencies regarding the usability of the review – you may recall it was written over four days and four posts. One great [...]

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Tags: Camtasia Studio · adobe captivate · asynchronous · content authoring · courseware development · downloads · e-learning · e-learning toolkit · elearning content · online delivery · review · streaming media

Capture that E-learning Demo 4: Captivate and Camtasia, concluded

January 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Continuing my evaluation of Captivate and Camtasia Studio…
In my previous posting, I discussed the two applications’ user interfaces and audio capabilities. Today, I will look at workflow and usability.
Captivate Usability
Captivate offers three customizable capture presets – demonstrations, assessment simulations, and training simulations. If you choose an assessment simulation, Captivate won’t capture mouse [...]

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Tags: Camtasia Studio · adobe captivate · asynchronous · content authoring · courseware development · e-learning · e-learning toolkit · elearning content · online delivery · review · streaming media

Capture that E-learning Demo 3: Captivate and Camtasia

January 9th, 2009 · 8 Comments

In the previous two blog posts, I outlined – at a very high level – some of the features and functionality of TechSmith Camtasia Studio and Adobe Captivate, and in today’s post I will provide a equally high level assessment of these products, not so much in comparison to each other, but rather more at [...]

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Tags: Camtasia Studio · adobe captivate · asynchronous · content authoring · courseware development · e-learning · e-learning toolkit · elearning content · online delivery · review · streaming media

The Winter Solstice at Newgrange – watch it live on the Web

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

5,000 years ago, an extraordinary people lived in Ireland. They were farmers, hunters and builders. Without the benefit of the wheel, and with tools made only of flint, they carved their culture into history. Along the banks of the River Boyne, they built houses to their dead, repositories to their spirit – monuments to immortality.

Brú [...]

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Tags: Newgrange · bru na boinne · history · ireland · lightbox · live online · neolithic · streaming media · tumulus · winter solstice