Today still seminar accompanying entry deals with the scope and the basic classification of the authoring software Authorware (kinda funny, right?).
software manufacturer is Perle, the well-known company Adobe (Company within the meaning of enterprise, I come here now so no one with legal Besserwissergedöhns!), Formerly the Macromedia was responsible for previous versions. The product is currently available in dot-version-7 available and costs than buying new juicy 2999.00 € excluding VAT. So overall, yet in German, may be called the full version for even more juicy € 3568.81 personal property (see Adobe Online Store ). This of course only for the home, for teaching and research, you can purchase the program for humane € 489.00 plus € 181.00 per license issued. 53,00 Euro would cost a single disk, but in today's Internet age, this may indeed (a term describing the way, quite accurately many of the social conditions of the Ilmenau Student Union) due to thicker bandwidth is negligible.
it is now the proud owners can be created with Authorware specially developed educational software units. This is also the declared aim of the authoring tool. Whether that be in the form of Internet courses, development of educational media for example, languages, or more abstract things like driving tests, any form of multi-media interactive learning applications with reference to the illustrated modular software can be created.
The scope of services is provided by the following summary, taken from Softguide.de , in some detail shown:
- Provides applications available on diskette, CD-ROM, DVD and corporate networks, intranets and the Internet
- Easy to use
- knowledge objects: Prefabricated templates and wizards for installing fonts, creating quizzes etc.
- interactive learning objects and choose among eleven possible answers - buttons, hotspots, text entry, keystroke, logic-based events ...
- Publish by clicking: Applications for the Web, CD-ROMs or the corporate network - with batch
- Rich Text Editor
- formatting in Rich Text Format Editor
- RTF files, import from popular word processors
- graphics, frames, symbols, and linked articles fit
- Authorware expressions with functions and variables include
- MP3 streaming audio
- streaming MP3 audio to install the application, learning application with narration, music and sound effects, refurbishes
- aids: multimedia tutorial as well as numerous practical guides (Show-me-all)
- synchronization
- text Graphics or events with audio and video recordings coordinate
- Sound and film icons at certain points trigger an audio or video film events can
- SCORM Medadaten Editor
- application with an XML-based metadata logging
- define SCORM-compliant metadata reports written
- Extensible command menus
- Publishing
- Customizable, define reusable output settings, automatically files such as Xtra Extensions and UCDs collect
- batch mode, HTML templates, FTP Files make available on the web server, preview function via browser
- Visual authoring
- Working intuitively with the help of flow charts and icons and icon variables
- Batch Change: Changes in batch mode
- creating reusable program structures, addition and replacement of media without modifying the application
- know laying Objects: prefabricated building blocks, such as logins, exercises, multiple choice dialogues .. drag and drop in the flow chart placing
- text, digital films, graphics and audio link, button Edito-
- installation of program modules of third parties as well as icons for file access, text editing, QuickDraw 3D and VRML
- integrating ActiveX controls, display of properties, algorithms, events
- LMS Knowledge Objects
- create AICC / ADL-SCORM compliant courseware
- LSM Knowledge Objects can ADL, HACP and LANs
- support
- communicate Supports QuickTime, Flash, Java Script, Shockwave Audio (SWA), supports Voxware Compression Format
- learning standards as AICC, IMS and ADL; supports OLE 2.0
- alpha channel support, text-to-language to support
- import of MS PowerPoint files, XML import and export
- Rich Media Support: support of Flash MX, Windows Media Player, streaming audio, anti-aliased text, synchronization
- flexibility: create Complex pages and navigation structures, full-text search; external content store and update; Media Management: media management internally, externally or in libraries
- Extensibility
- Developer Kit for creating modal and modeless commands in Authorware and Borland Delphi
- extensions with ActiveX controls, user-defined DLLs / XCMDs
- additions of third-party printing, encryption, advanced database support and much more
Whether the program to purchase worth, the user must decide for themselves. At least it was all "features" as the new German saying goes, some drawbacks that must be weighed accordingly. First, it is worth mentioning that for playing with Authorware training software specialties the so-called (who would have thought it?) Authorware Player need a far less common than, say, the multimedia performer Flash Player. Furthermore, it must be noted that a pretty hefty learning curve is needed, experts say. Also, the space is of relatively high, creating Web applications with Authorware can also appear shaky. But growing band widths, as already mentioned, by now already enormous heights ...
Acquisition, ultimately, is to each according to detailed acquaintance with the left (thankfully) free trial version itself.
Finally now some examples of how a few small learning games can look created with Authorware . This entails creating the appropriate Player, installed on your responsibility, parents are responsible for their children! Add to this the aforementioned games on Barbara Brown's Authorware Page .
Have fun, I have nothing extra out looking too difficult, so that no one of the students here will be overwhelmed ... in this sense!
Sources:
e teaching.org profile
Softguide.de Authorware Overview
Adobe Online Store
Authorware Player Download
Barbara Brown's Authorware Page
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