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Links and Leads
Links and Leads points you to web sites that can help you develop better
training courses and technical writing expertise. We'd be happy to add
your personal favorites.
Training Development
The Learning Communities Tools
and Links page at the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)
site appears to be of most help if you are in the content development step of development or are delivering training.
Multimedia Development Tools is a Georgia Tech University web site. It has free checklists and ideas for analysis, design, management, production, and evaluation tasks. The ASTD web site also provided a link to it.
Content development often
begins with a Word document. This link is a repository
for FAQs, tutorials, and examples about Microsoft Word, maintained by Microsoft Word MVPs.
For detailed queries on how to use Word, subscribe to the Word-PC list - mailto:
word-pc-subscribe-request@liverpool.ac.uk to join (no subject or command text required).
Archives to
Word-PC list.
TechSmith's SnagIt and Camtasia software
enable you to capture and edit anything you see on your PC screen, add
narration, and present it using industry standard AVI and streaming media formats.
Free trial versions.
Training Delivery
Training
Basics page at the American Society of Training and Development site has
links for trainers.
Web-Based Training
About
Web-Based Training Information
Center, also includes distance and online learning information.
Learning Circuits, a public online magazine published by ASTD that covers e-learning topics.
Training 2000 Buyer's Guide: The Directory of Computer Training and Support Products and
Services is published by Inside Technology
Training.
Vendors
Blackboard.com is a self-described end-to-end e-learning platform that includes course administration features.
You can create an online course using their software, without a fee.
Course development
software that readers have recommended include: Macromedia's Authorware,
(see the Aware
listserve for Authorware users), and Click2Learn's Toolbook
II. View a list of other vendors on the Multimedia
Authoring Tools page of the Computer-Based Teaching and Learning Links
site.
Scripts for Tests, Quizzes, Games
Hotscripts:
This is the one I would focus on first because it has 27 test and quiz options, the descriptions offer the kind of information that will help you make a decision about viewing an option, and there is a nice range of software features.
Perlmasters has three pages of quizzes.
Surfzilla
has three choices I would bother to explore, but a large selection of other
useful scripts that can be used on your online training site.
Extropia has open source scripts. See Website tools section for a quiz and an exam.
The PERL
Archive: Tests and Quizzes.
Quick Quiz, for UNIX and Windows NT users is a free Perl script that runs on UNIX or
Windows NT that can be used as a Quiz or Survey Tool. As a survey tool, you can run a multiple-choice questionnaire and collect all the data in a tab-delimited ASCII file. As a quiz tool you can return the score, show the average, the percentile, the grade, display the answers, e-mail the results and track the top scorers.
Matt's
Script Archive is a good source if you are building a web site and want to
save on the cost of coding features for marketing, sales, and other business
application features.
Professional Organizations, Conferences
Society for Technical Communication,
national conference May 18-21, 2003, Dallas, Texas
American Society of Training and Development,
national conference May 16-22, 2003, San Diego, California
International Society for Performance
Improvement,
national conference April 10-15, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts
IEEE
Professional Communication Conference, September 21-24, 2003, Orlando,
Florida
Professional
Resources Web Sites, Lists
The Official TECHWR-L
, an online publication that supports the TECHWR-L discussion list and the
technical communication community
HTML Writers Guild
Word-PC list - mailto: word-pc-subscribe-request@liverpool.ac.uk to join
(no subject or command text required). Archives
to Word-PC list.
FrameMaker forum and the
FrameMaker list
Use HTML Help to create help on the
web. MS HTML Help is a compiled Help format. You need to download the file
to view it.
The training and development list on Yahoo discusses web-based training, design, and methodology.
Sign up at this link.
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