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From: Donna Moughty <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Tutorial tool
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:07:05 -0500
References: <mailman.61.1195718428.14614.apg@rootsweb.com>
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Hi Sharon,

This sounds like an exciting project and tool. Unfortunately, as
an .exe file it won't run on Macs. Since I'm also running Parallels
and Windows on my Mac, I'll try to download it there.

I'm curious about the tool since I've been recording my lectures and
creating DVD's with the audio synced to the slides and a copy of the
syllabus as a PDF on the DVD. I spoke about this in Ft. Wayne and
recently wrote an article on it for the Genealogical Speakers Guild
newsletter, SPEAK! My hope is that more speakers will take this
opportunity to provide their lectures in a way that meets the needs
of the community. With Repeat Performance gone, and the national
conferences struggling to afford to record lectures and pay
royalties, I believe this is a way for speakers to fill the gap, AND
create a new revenue stream. (For an example you can visit my
website listed below.)

Thanks for sharing this.

Regards,
Donna

Donna M. Moughty
203 247-0878
email:
Website: http://www.moughty.com




On Nov 22, 2007, at 3:00 AM, wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:35 -0500
> From: Sharon <>
> Subject: [APG] Tutorial tool - Multimedia Voice Log (MVL)
> To:
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>
> Hello
> I have been working with a voice technology company for several
> months.
> I have prepared a prototype for a tutorial using one of their products
> from the material covered in my recent Newspaper Finding Aids
> teleconference.
>
> The features of the companion product that builds this type of
> tutorial
> has been my primary focus in working with this company, so I really
> would like fresh eyes and ears from the listener/viewer perspective. I
> would like feedback from folks who download and play this demo. Please
> respond off list to me directly.
>
> Background
> ========
> I am currently working with a down load version for creating and
> playing
> multimedia tutorials and documentaries on PCs. A CD product set of
> other
> content producers for this company is going into 7,500 stores
> nationwide this month. That CD product set can be listened to in a CD
> player in a car for example, and it can be played on a computer where
> the associated text can also be viewed or printed.
>
> The tutorial I have constructed has additional features, and there are
> other features that will be in the next version. I am not going to
> give
> any usage instructions, so I can get feedback on what is easy and/or
> difficult to figure out.
>
> The text/image formatting and display will be upgraded in the next
> version, and the web links in the text or the images click-able yet.
>
> The ads links are clickable and I have constructed directed
> searches on
> GenealogyBank content used in the beginning to illustrate the
> advertiser
> links.
>
> The print/export features can be turned off, ie just as requested by a
> business school journal for their publication distribution. On the
> other
> hand, educational publishers who provide lesson plans to sell their
> products aren't concerned about protection for free content they
> already
> distribute.
>
> The content for this demo tutorial has much less explanatory and
> discussion than we even had during the teleconference, but it
> should be
> enough to elicit feedback.
>
> Feedback Request
> =============
> I would like the feedback to be itemized and numbered by these
> categories.
>
> 1. User interface in general.
> 2. How did you use the tutorial? Did you play/view from beginning
> to end
> and then go back to particular points of interest? Or did you skip
> from
> section to section first? Did you try the find, export and/or print
> features?
> 3. Would you find it useful to be able to add text, image and voice
> annotations for your own use - and/or collaboration with another
> person
> based?
> 4. Other comments/suggestions.
>
> The file is approximately 13 MegaBytes, so the download time will vary
> with your internet connection speed. Select save when you click on the
> download link, then run from your own computer.
> http://www.ancestralmanor.com/MP3/NewspaperFindingAids5.exe
>
> Thanks for any interest/feedback you might have,
>
> Sharon Sergeant
> www.ancestralmanor.com
>
>

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