Macromedia Authorware 6 VTC Training CD | 
 enlarge | Author: Colin Webster
Publisher: Virtual Training Co
Category: Book
List Price: $99.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 937395
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: CD-Rom
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1932072012
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9781932072013
ASIN: 1932072012
Publication Date: July 31, 2002
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Product Description
Macromedias Authorware 6 is the leading authoring tool for creating e-learning, interactive web-based tutorials, and sophisticated simulations for the web, CDs, or corporate networks. Authorware allows you to include text, sound, video, and animation. You can track user response and results and your investment return. Learn how to make Authorware 6 work for you with Virtual Training Companys tutorial. Colin Webster covers everything from using icons and variables to how to use Authorware with QuickTime and Flash. Among the many topics you will learn are interactions, framework menus, developing quizzes, importing text, and using images. Virtual Training Company makes learning the most challenging software easier. Open the program you want to learn. Open your VTC training CD. A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through every single feature. It's simple to apply what your learning as you go. Need help in the middle of a project? You can quickly search the subject, and within seconds an expert is showing exactly what you need to know. VTC makes it possible for you to become an expert in far less time, at a much lower cost, than any other form of training. VTC...The Tutor in Your Computer!
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 Very helpful information March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Granted, I'm trying to learn Authorware 7, not 6, but this 8-hour training CD has been very helpful. Hearing the vocabulary of the program is useful, and the explanation of what is going on is very worthwhile. The manual for the software is a duplicate of the Help file included with the program, and as such, isn't the best. As a beginner, I need a LOT of information and while I'm told what tools do what things, I don't understand the when and why of their use - the CD got me started in the proper directions.
 Excellent teaching tool October 11, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I gave this product five stars because it deservs five stars. I am an aspiring Authorware developer and I have been searching for a product that would teach me the nuances of using Authorware. I bought (many) books on learning to use Authorware but something was always missing during the process. Mr. Webster provided that missing link. He did a superb job of teaching each topic from start to finish with clarity and patience. The difference between good and bad program development were readily demonstrated - it could not have been better (except when he produces Authorware 7 of the series). I can confidently go ahead now with developing my own projects based on the knowledge gained from using Authorware 6 by Mr. Webster. I highly recommend this learning tool!
Best learning tool for Authorware 7 I've found May 28, 2005
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought a copy of Authoware 7 about 3 months ago. Since then I've used a number of information sources to help me tackle the steep learning curve for this program. I think the three best resources that I've found so far are (in order):
1) this package
2) The AWARE user's list
3) the User's Guides from Macromedia
I have read a number of books, used a couple other training CDs and went through Macromedia's tutorial and was less than impressed with all of those options. A couple of the worst were:
- Macromedia's Authorware 6 Training from the Source...what a complete waste of time and money. It is 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.
- Authorware 6 by Scott J. Wilson, Jennie Thornton...another complete waste of time and money. Even worse - much of the information seemed misleading and even wrong. Maybe I was interpreting what they were saying wrong but these two just couldn't seem to make their points very understandable.
- The Macromedia Authorware 7 Tutorial - again just a step by step walk through of the program. Way to little information about why you are doing what you are doing.
This package, on the other hand, was very good at not only showing you things you need to know, but also why you are doing things the way he shows you. It was also good at showing alternative methods for different tasks. This is not just a mind numbing "click here, type this" walk through.
I would highly recommend this CD - and don't let the Authorware 6 title throw you off. Its great for Authorware 7 since everything you learn is the same in v7 as v6 - version 7 just has some additional options and refinements.
Once this is updated for version 7 I will be back to change my rating to a 5!
Excellent resource for making Authorware accessible! October 15, 2004
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have struggled to get into Authorware 7.0 for some time and have found the various Authorware books equally difficult for a complete novice. Colin Webster's approach is superb. The Quicktime tutorials take you through Authorware's 6.0's icons and interactions in real time, allowing you to practise by yourself and return at any stage to review his approach and recommendations. The VTC interface is easy to use. I think it is excellent value for money. Several hours of watching these tutorials has taught me far more than the many more hours I have spent poring over Macromedia's official documentation or the TAAM or Jennie Thornton books. I hope VTC can persuade Colin Webster to produce a further CD-Rom (focused on version 7) to explain the more sophisticated and advanced stuff that he cannot explore as fully in his Authorware 6 training video. For a teacher who cannot afford the time or money to attend commercially-priced training courses in AW7, this VTC product represents fantastic value for money.
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