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CATS 2008 - Day 3 Closing Session(s)

By msmith - 4/2/2008 If you missed day 3, you really blew it. I was one of many people who had low expectations for the festivities. Boy, was I surprised. My own experience, which I heard expressed by others, was that this was the most valuable day of CATS 2008. The networking was excellent and will continue to be valuable to me at my campus, I'm sure.

CATS 2008 Day 2 session: Camtasia vs. Captivate Smack Down

By pdifalco - 3/29/2008 Patrick Crispin has created an evaluation rubric to pit these two worthy competitors against each other, specifically Adobe Captivate 3 vs. Techsmith Camtasia 5 (newer than what we’re using in TLP). His matrix weights ease of editing very highly (appropriately, I think) but gives nearly equal weight to ease of recording and captioning.

CATS Day 2 Session: Flash Video Captioning (pt2)

By pdifalco - 3/29/2008 Presenter: Joel Bennett (CDL) One possible workflow for creating captioned flash videos for the web: 1. ExpressScribe (free mac/pc) to help create transcription - need audio file version of video 2. Captionate software to create synchronization file (DXFP format XML) 3. Flash 8 to integrate FLV, SWF, XML for progressive download video with captions on 2-line lower third - this uses some ActionScript cut/pasting. Joel Bennett will provide the script with his presentation.

Open Source

By llholden - 3/28/2008 “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” –book discussing who is the sponsor/owner of the software for maintenance

CATS 2008 Day 3 LMS – Where are we now and where are going?

By llholden - 3/28/2008 CATS 2008 Day 3 LMS – Where are we now and where are going? -LMS Request For Proposal results have lead to a lot of through the grapevine gossip -The RFP process is required for software purchases over a certain size

CATS 2008 - Day 2: What's New with DIVA - Connecting Campus Digital Resources to Teaching

By mkayster - 3/27/2008 Presenters: Daniel Koepke and Andrew Roderick (SFSU) It is a project of BSS Computing at SFSU. The system has six areas: faculty private area nominate area repository area collection sources collection management collection portals What they want to do: integrate with CSU Digital Marketplace, Moodle, Library Services pilot projects on CSU campuses exploring Open Sourcing the software national and international partners URL = http://diva.sfsu.edu Go to the site to request a guest account and try it out. Contact them to discuss a pilot project for your campus (divateam@sfsu.edu). Other info from the demonstration: they use metadata to tag content can share content with all CSU, or just a specific campus courses can be password protected within a course you build pages of content one above another, stacked on the page can handle text, images, video, podcasts (audio) and create slideshows on-the-fly Wow! Very impressive system. They spent a lot of time developing it. Great potential!

CATS 2008 - Day 2: Everything You Wanted to Ask About Web Accessibility But Were Afraid to Ask

By mkayster - 3/27/2008 Presenter: Michael Casadonte (CSUSB) URL = http://acm.csusb.edu/Services/webaccessibility/overview.htm For CSUSB, their first official university policy on Web accessibility was in 2003. You must start with a policy. Nice list of pros and cons on the overview page. They use AccVerify and manual checking, with most invalid sites found by manual checking. However, you cannot check every site and webpage manually. The site has information on what info to track on the websites that are evaluated (i.e. list of all websites and who is responsible for them). They are building a website to allow webmasters to look at percentage of sites accessible and solutions to improve accessibility. They have a well thought out plan that has evolved over the years. Many campuses can learn a great deal from what CSULB has done.

CATS 2008 - Day 2: Selecting a Web Content Management System That Works for You

By mkayster - 3/27/2008 Presenter: Anthony Dunn (Chico) Main topic: "it isn't about the feature set" when selecting a Web Content Management System (WCMS). Most of the audience wants a WCMS. For Chico, they first purchased a WCMS in 2005 (Serena Collage), and later found that it didn't work with their content processes. In 2007 they selected an enterprise-wide WCMS. Tony recommends five main steps: Learn what a WCMS will do and won't do. Involve the right people. Identify the real issues. Know your content processes. Develop a selection process that works for you. Key: a WCMS does not manage the content for you - you still need to do it. Overall: funny presentation with creative graphics; energetic presenter = great job Tony! His PowerPoint has a list of warning signs for failure and a detail of the 3-step process. Must revisit his PowerPoint to see the details again. URL = www.csuchico.edu/web/presentations/wcms.pdf

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