[Using Sakai] Content authoring

[Ed Garay]

I'd suggest Abobe Presenter or Pointecast Publisher, for example,  
which make it real easy to narrate and tightly compress your narrated  
PowerPoint presentations into Flash, with animations and all included.

They support SCORM also, in case your presentations include  
interactive activities that you'd like to capture in any/most LMS.

Also, you can have the ppt2flash s/w stich the audio of each slide  
into a nice MP3 for podcasting.

Other options include using the Illinois Web Accessibility Wizard for  
Microsoft Office  (www.virtual508.com) or use HTML educational  
authoring tools like SoftChalk LessonBuilder or Lectora.

Individual copies of PointeCast Publisher Lite sells for $99. Best edu  
price at least we can get at UofI is $115 buy purchasing individual  
copies of Acrobat Extended :-(

--- Ed Garay
Assistant Director for Academic Computing
University of Illinois at Chicago
Academic Computing and Communications Center
Director, UIC Instructional Technology Lab
www.accc.uic.edu/itl
www.twitter.com/garay

[ Sent from iPhone :: sorry for typos, mine or iPhone-induced ]

On May 30, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Steve Schultetus  
<steves at tracsflorida.org> wrote:

> I'm looking to convert a set of PowerPoint lectures into shareable  
> content objects (SCOs) and create online evaluations to go along  
> with them that I'd also like to publish as SCOs. Basically, I'd like  
> for these lectures and accompanying evaluations to be usable not  
> only in Sakai, but also in other LMS like Moodle or Blackboard for  
> others who would like the content but aren't using Sakai.   
> Ultimately, the goal is to move away from the static lecture format  
> they’re in now to include multimedia and interactive checkpoints.  O 
> riginally, we were looking at Adobe Contribute or Articulate for the 
>  SCO authoring, but wondered how well Melete would handle this.
>
>
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> My question, then, is what experiences others (especially those that  
> tried Melete) have had with this type of authoring and what  
> ultimately worked out best?
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> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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