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Essentials of RoboDemo 5: eLearning Edition
Essentials of RoboDemo 5 eLearning Edition Author:Kevin A. Siegel If you are an instructional designer or technical writer, you have no doubt spent years attempting to perfect the art of teaching programs using fewer and fewer words. If you are in the business of educating, you know how difficult this job can be. These days, interactive lessons that can be viewed over the Internet or from a CD are... more » all the rage. There are many programs that can be used to capture a computers screen, mouse action and audio. Unfortunately, the resulting movies can be huge--a five minute lesson could easily gobble up nearly 100mb of storage space on a hard drive. Downloading a file that large will take a lot of time, even if a user has a fast Internet connection. Large file sizes are just part of the problem. The movies may not be cross-platform (they may not work on both Macs and PCs). Interactivity is a feature most of the "mouse capture" applications do not support. And there are few of these programs that allow images to be imported. In short, the technology for creating interactive lessons WAS bad. But not anymore. RoboDemo (from the folks at eHelp Software) is here. Using RoboDemo, you can capture screen shots on your computer and quickly turn them into interactive lessons (movies). The movies you create can be interactive--you can add images, captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas and sound effects. Note: There are two different versions of RoboDemo 5: RoboDemo 5 eLearning Edition and RoboDemo 5. The eLearning Edition has tools for eLearning not found in RoboDemo 5. This book was written specifically for RoboDemo 5 eLearning Edition. You can use this book if you own RoboDemo 5--but you will be instructed to skip lessons that utilize RoboDemo eLearning Edition features. This book was written specifically for RoboDemo eLearning Edition. You can use this book if you own RoboDemo 5but you will be instructed to skip lessons that utilize RoboDemo eLearning Edition features.« less