CoverItLive – Repost (Updated, Searchable, Neat)

I sent an email to the CoverItLive folks and got some great feedback from Paul Crawford Manager, Quality Assurance. I tried CoverItLive for blogging live during an EG online session last week. My concern was that often I want to go back and search the content of the blogs I post not just the headings and I was under the impression that CoverItLive’s iframes tool would not allow this to occur. Paul’s feedback led me to another area of their site where I could “Save Content Locally” which leads to the posting below of the same content from last week. This content is fully searchable within my blog. (If I don’t remember the speaker, only the topic, I could still find the posting I was looking for in my archives.)

Now I would have the option to blog live as I go, keep that original iframes posting, or after the event replace it with a searchable version. I’m definately liking this tool more and more.

Reposted Content (text form)

Title: Wink In Wiki
1:05
Another new tool that I just had to try out. Thanks again Brent. Keeping up is difficult, but Tony Karrer just presented how important it is to keep trying, learning and staying on top of new tools. Even a little knowledge of how they work and can be used is better than none at all.

1:07
This will be my first attempt at true live blogging as opposed to “taking notes” and posting as soon as the event is over. My typing speed better not fail me.

1:11
Wink and a Wiki – presented by Debi Crabtree, Hamilton County Virtual School

1:19
Wink: a software tool that creates tutorials about other software programs – freeware, – screen shots, outputs Flash, PDF, HTML and other formats

1:19
Great for answering questions of your employees/students with visual screens.

1:23
How can I use Wink:- Answer questions visually- Create tutorials about software, OS,- Advertise software- tutorials- instructions(all features at ww.debugmod.com/wink)a good tool for reaching multicultural/lingual audiencesAdvance Features- templates- cursor editing- palettes- control bars- online community/user forum www.debugmode.com/userforums

1:24
Task: Create a “wink” showing how to make a “wiki” then upload the “wink” into the “wiki”. Sounds quite circular.

1:25
67% of participants in this particular forum have not used a wiki.

1:26
3 easy steps:capture screen shotsadd call outs, buttons, time delaysthen save project, create pallete, render

1:27
Starting:Best to create a folder on your desk top first to save the Wink documents into.Then open the application that you will be taking screen shots of.

1:30
Debi is doing a great job of actually going through all these creation steps, piece by piece live. You may want to access the eLearning Guild’s Online Forum archives to see this presentation recording.

1:46
Participant’s in forum comment that Wink appears to be a “Captivate Lite” kind of tool.I could see using this for my upcoming LMS implementation/training/creation to train users, educators, managers, etc.

1:55
I’m not actually convinced though that I can’t do all of this in PowerPoint yet and it’s already downloaded on my computer. However, the export to Flash is I guess the selling feature, however I have an add-on that I got from http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ that does export presentation to Flash.

1:58
It does let you created a sound file for each individual slide thought. I don’t know if PowerPoint does that, but I’m sure there is a way around it some how. The sound editor looks not much different than the media recorder in Windows.

2:00
You can export it as a PDF. Nice if they need a hard copy. I know there are several ways around doing this (within my office), however it is nice to have all these tools in one location (program).

2:03
73% of participants feel her presentation will allow them to go out and use Wink with just a little use from the manual. Again, a great tutorial by Debi.

2:05
30 minutes after creating the slides (a few voice overs, a few bubbles) we are on to the wiki and inserting the wink just created.

2:06
***** this area is just a test post for use after this online session*****
2:18
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