TBCon 2003 - The BEST TBCon yet!
Thank you Jeff and
Chris from Platte Canyon for a great time...and of course, a tremendous
educational experience!!!
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Peter Jackson
Getting More From ToolBook's DHTML
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JavaScript Primer
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ToolBookDeveloper Tools to Enrich Your Training and
Speed Development
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Robin McDermott
A ToolBook Makeover
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More Lessons from Camp Hard Knocks: 25 Tips for DHTML Deployment
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EspritLMS: Deliver, Track, and Control Your Web-Based Training
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This year Robin McDermott and I also did a
Pre-Conference Workshop:
Rapid and Robust Development Through Good Development Practices for Native
and DHTML ToolBook Projects
It was well received by all of the participants and we
hope to be able to do a similar but updated workshop again at next year's
TBCon!
If you are comfortable
with OpenScript, but are now deploying ToolBook programs to the web, you
probably feel limited and confined using the actions editor. But, actually
there are lots of things you can do to get more from ToolBook DHTML than is
readily apparent in the actions editor. In this session you will learn some
tricks using advanced actions, method actions, java script, and VB Script.
In many cases these techniques will be demonstrated using free tools that
enable even non-programmers can use to go beyond the existing action system
capabilities. If you want to learn more about writing JavaScript check
out: JavaScript Primer.
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You've heard the term
and maybe even tried a little code. But now you want to learn more about the
standard for client-side web programming: JavaScript. This session will show
you the syntax, teach you how to write functions and event handlers, and
demonstrate loops and related concepts. This session will be kept quite
basic and is intended for folks who have never written javascript or are
just starting to dabble with it. To learn more about specific applications
of javascript in ToolBook check out: Getting more from ToolBook DHTML.
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Learn how some easy to
implement and inexpensive tools can give your courses a professional edge.
Peter Jackson will demonstrate some of his most popular tools including the
Taquin Object, the Graphics Pre-Loader, the PopText and AudioPlayer Widgets
and will discuss how they can be used to enhance your ToolBook Projects
(native and dhtml). In addition, Peter will also show how his Copy
Protection and Student Log Management Systems can be used with native
ToolBook projects to protect your intellectual property and give your
customers an easy to use learning Management Systems for maintaining and
tracking all of your ToolBook courses. To learn more about the tools prior
to the conference go to
www.toolbookdeveloper.com.
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Learn how to cut the fat and excess calories in your
ToolBook projects without losing any of the “flavor.” If your courses don't
run as well as you think that they should, if your system keeps crashing
during development, if you are tired of doing rework fixing mistakes, then
maybe your ToolBook projects need a makeover. In this session we will look
at a typical intermediate ToolBook developer’s project and analyze it in
terms of what can be done to make it a better running program without
compromising functionality. The result is a more stable ToolBook project,
developed in a fraction of the time with a substantial reduction in errors
and rework.
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We (the ToolBook community) have come a long way in
the past year in terms of DHTML deployment. Those of us who felt like
pioneers just a few short months ago, now feel like we have a pretty good
handle on ToolBook DHTML deployment. We hate it when we hear people say that
ToolBook is not the right tool for the web because we are proving that it
is. This session is updated from my session last year on the trials and
tribulations that my company went through converting from Native ToolBook to
DHTML. A lot has happened in a year and I have a lot more to share that we
have had the `pleasure` of learning the hard way. These tips will definitely
help people just getting started with ToolBook DHTML and will serve as a
great refresher for those who are already knee deep into it.
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Two showcases for the `price` of one! In this
showcase you will get a first hand look at two powerful products that make
it easy to develop and deliver e-learning using ToolBook. First, ESPRIT
Learning Management System (formerly WebLMS) is a powerful Learning
Management System that will allow you to easily manage your web-based
training courses at an affordable cost. It is perfect for ToolBook
developers who offer off-the-shelf and customized web-based courses as well
as small and mid-sized organizations that need to be able to manage in-house
developed WBT, track learner activity, and cross charge cost centers.
Second, in this session we will also demonstrate a new tool that will give
your SMEs a powerful, yet easy-to-use storyboard using a WYSIWYG program
that practically everyone knows how to use: Powerpoint! But, the best part
is that you can take the storyboard and convert it into a fully editable and
customizable ToolBook with one click of a button. No more copying and
pasting - think of the time you will save! Bring an existing powerpoint
storyboard with you and we will convert it for free when you attend this
session.
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Rapid and Robust Development Through Good Development
Practices for Native and DHTML ToolBook Projects
(on Sunday Morning - Co-Presented by Peter Jackson and
Robin McDermott)
Do you wish you could develop TB courses in a fraction of the time that they
are currently taking you and at the same time, significantly reduces errors
and rework? Experienced ToolBook developers have a very structured
development process that includes a disciplined and meaningful naming
scheme, efficient use of objects, and automation of routine tasks that
eliminates the opportunity for errors. Two years ago Resource Engineering
began implementing these types of good development practices and the payout
has been a much more efficient development process where we can build
toolbook projects in a tenth the time that they used to take, with a 75%
reduction in rework, and books that are much more robust with substantially
improved stability on our end-users systems (which means less tech support).
In this session you will be challenged to rethink your current development
process to improve future projects, but we will also look at what you can do
with existing projects to make them work better.
In this workshop you will learn:
How to assess and measure development time
- Estimating current development time
- Measuring development time
- Analyzing development time
Basic good development practices such as
- Reducing the number of backgrounds
- Naming objects and pages with a meaningful naming scheme
- Media players on the background
- Reusing graphics
How to rework an existing project so that it conforms to these good
practices
- How to easily combine backgrounds
- Scripts to automate naming of pages and objects and other tasks that
would take forever to do manually
How to start a new project off on the right foot
- Developing a meaningful naming scheme
- Organizing your project, media, and other tools so that they are easy
to access and keep track of
- Automating routine tasks
- Good development practices for development teams - when you have to
share the development sandbox with others.
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