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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

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 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

Streaming Media for E-Learning: A Primer

July 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In the meantime, I thought I’d give you a ‘heads up’ by discussing some of the fundamentals surrounding using collaboration solutions: streaming media.

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Tags: asynchronous · collaboration tools · content delivery · e-learning · elearning content · learning on demand · multiple channels · online learning · online presentation tool · synchronous · technology in education · web based training · web-based learning

Capture that E-Learning Demo: Update

February 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Given the number of responses to the E-Learning Demo comparison articles, I have decided to combine them and make them available to all as a downloadable whitepaper (PDF format) of that review can be viewed in one easily-accessible document.

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Tags: Camtasia · adobe captivate · authoring tools · e-learning

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: e-learning

Capture that E-learning Demo 3: Captivate and Camtasia

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 · adobe captivate · assessment · asynchronous · authoring tools · content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning · elearning content · learning technology · online learning · review · technology in education · web-based learning

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: e-learning