[WEB4LIB] CBT and Video training Products

[Brian Smith]

At 10:31 AM 11/10/99 -0800, Tim Klassen wrote:
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>We're supporting our faculty and student's web design efforts through the
>provision of enduser training materials. Currently we are providing a
>collection of manuals (Visual Quickstart Guides, O'Reilly Nutshrell books,
>etc). However, we want to subsidize these with some training videos and
>possibly CR-ROMs or Internet based computer based training. The products we
>are most interested in supporting are Adobe stuff (Photoshop, Illustrator
>etc) Filemaker HomePage, and MS's Office.
>
>Any suggestions for products that have worked for you?

ViaGrafix (http://www.viagrafix.com/) has training materials in both video
and CD-ROM formats.  I've seen a couple of their CDs on MS Office
applications, and think they're well-done.  The CD-ROMs are pretty much
just video presentations, rather than hands-on training tools, buts it's
easy to repeat or skip sections as needed.

A humorous note:  After my library bought a couple of this company's
products and sent the invoice to the village for payment, someone at
village hall called the library office with questions about the bill from
"Viagra Fix."

Brian Smith
Assistant Head of Adult Services
Villa Park (IL) Public Library
http://www.villapark.lib.il.us/
bsmith at linc.lib.il.us
... But writing only on my own behalf
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