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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780201774269
ISBN: 0201774267
Label: Macromedia Press
Manufacturer: Macromedia Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: December 28, 2001
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Studio: Macromedia Press
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Macromedia Authorware's accessible, icon-based development environmentmakes it a favorite of developers who create sophisticated interactiveprojects, from multimedia presentations to computer-based trainingprograms. Whether you're new to Authorware or upgrading from a previousversion, Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source providesexactly what the title promises: project-based lessons modeled onMacromedia's own training courses.
With Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source, you learnthe basics of Authorware by doing. The hands-on tutorials that form thecore of this workbook and CD-ROM package take you step-by-step throughreal-world interactive projects. Each lesson covers a specific topic, suchas adding motion and sound to your project, working with templates andknowledge objects, and incorporating Flash and XML into your projects. Thisedition of the book covers what's new in Authorware 6, including the "onebutton publishing" feature. The CD-ROM holds all the files you need to workthrough the lessons, plus a full-featured, time-limited version ofAuthorware 6.
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I can't believe I kept going...it just got worse and worse. The lessons in this package are confusing, poorly organized and very light on actual training content. It sends you through a bunch of steps but really doesn't teach you what you are doing. Yes, at times it expounds on the basis of certain steps but overall it does a poor job explaining the processes it is trying to teach. Worst of all, it only covers a bunch of relatively basic steps and doesn't spend any time going into more important tasks or, for that matter, tying together the simple things it does try to teach you.
While I wasn't too impressed with the tutorial in the Authoware help section, it was better than this program. Best of all, that one is FREE.
In my quest to learn Authorware 7, I had much better success with the following options:
1) Authorware 6 VTC Training CD
2) The AWARE user's list
3) The Macromedia User's guides.
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This is quite a poorly organised book. Certainly I found it sloppy and longwinded in equal measure. Is anyone editing these Training from the Source books, I asked myself. In any training manual. a good mental model should be easily extracted. This is far from the case here. The manual and tutorials that accompany Authorware are preferable to this volume's offerings. It is simply too erratic and patchy to meet the objective set in the title. I would not recommend it.
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I am a corporate trainer whose classroom courses are extremely popular. It is time for me to move them into a Web environment.
This book does take you in bite size steps through the use of Authorware. But as a trainer, I find it enormously confusing in its organization, in the information it leaves out and in its inconsistencies.
A quick example: the end of the second chapter shows you how to create within the software the sections for your course, and the pages within each of those sections. It then shows you how to open one of those pages and tells you that you'll learn to put content onto that page in the following chapter.
But the following chapter shows you creating content in completely different windows located in a completely different part of the software than the windows you were looking at when the previous chapter left off.
Bottom line - - I sat with this book for three days, did all of the tutorials in the first seven chapters but ... Read More
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The authors do what I feel a good instructor should do - they move systematically from chapter to chapter expanding on knowledge gained in previous chapters, giving lots of explanations as to why you need to do things a certain way. This builds confidence and competency with the software. I am new to Authorware and feel this book is giving me a firm foundation for thoroughly understanding the software.
I recommend the book to anyone starting with Authorware without reservation.
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If you're looking for a comprehensive Authorware manual this is NOT the book. If you want an introductory series of step-by-step guided tutorials it's OK, IMHO.
I have been using Orson Kellogg's Ver 5 book in the classroom and for on-line teaching. I like it because the students can work at their own pace and leaves me free to offer personalized guidance. My students typically finish the book exercises in 5-6 weeks (about 25-30 lab hours). It provides objectives at the start and end of each chapter and has a few multimedia development tips sprinkled through the book (though not nearly enough).
If it has a weakness as a learning tool, some students do the steps but do not retain what they have just done. I need to provide challenges throughout the semester to get them to think on their own. Once students have done the exercizes the book is useless because it has no reference tools. It lacks appendices for common variables and system functions, for example.
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