10 Tips for Rapid e-learning on the Mac

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1 Tips for Rapid e-learning on the Mac TJ Palazzolo,

2 About Me Curriculum Developer (50% Aysnc elearning) Instructor TJ Palazzolo Object People 2000 BEA Systems 2002 Oracle 2008 Mac Genius? Switched to Mac from PC in Feb '08 Not my day job My MacBook Pro Spoiled Rotten MacOS "Leopard" (10.5) 2.4 GHz Dual Core Intel CPU 4GB RAM 15" Display Built in Web Cam External 24" Monitor External 500GB ibook Learning Curve? New Desktop New File Manager New Applications New Keyboard & Shortcuts New Command Line (Unix very rarely used) Moving from the PC Basics Page 1

3 Moving from the PC More Basics Basics Other Useful Applications Web Browser Firefox Safari Instant Messaging Adium Authoring OpenOffice Imaging Screen Capture ImageWell Seashore (Gimp) Voila Jing Communication Remote Desktop Client (VPN)? < $25 < $50 Miscellaneous Pasteboard TIP #1 Time Machine Scheduled backups... Of changes to your local disk To an external drive or Mac server Run in the background View disk snapshot of a given day/time Revert to an older version of a file Optionally exclude certain folders TIP #2 FireWire ELearning deliverables typically... Use multimedia Have a large disk footprint Use FireWire for external backup drives Much faster than USB for large transfers Time Machine backups often unnoticeable Backup an entire VM in < 5 minutes (10GB) TIP #3 VMwareFusion Run other OS (Windows, Linux, etc.) on the Mac Still need a valid OS license & install CD < $100 Windows OS and Files Mac OS and Files Hardware VMware Other OS and Files Virtual Machines (VMs) VMware Features Shared Peripherals (USB, Bluetooth, WebCam, etc.) Suspend/Resume Snapshots (Manual or Auto) Shared Clipboard across Mac and VMs Shared Folders across Mac and VMs Unity View for Windows VMs Alternatives: Parallels Workstation <$80 Sun VirtualBox free Page 2

4 TIP #4 Cyberduck Access enterprise file and content systems FTP, SFTP WebDAV, easy to use Download/upload/synchronize Bookmarks TIP #5 MS Office for Mac Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Entourage Mac Office 2008 = Office 2007 TIP #6 Garage Band Audio recording & mixing Simple editing Filters for narration Podcast creation Loops & ducking Instruments, effects & jingles Exports to MP3 Alternative: Audacity TIP #7 Mac and Articulate Studio Currently no support for: Presenter and Mac PowerPoint QuizMaker or Engage on the Mac Presenter requires a Windows VM with PowerPoint Alternative: Export Flash from Keynote Articulate Studio MS PowerPoint Windows Mac Articulate: Starting on the Mac? TIP #8 Mac and Adobe Captivate Primarily used for recording and annotating demos Currently no support for the Mac Requires a Windows VM Alternatives that run directly on Mac: Qarbon ViewletBuilder Telestream ScreenFlow Develop Publish Page 3

5 TIP #9 imovie Combine and edit imported digital video clips Video effects & transitions Audio editing & mixing Export to QuickTime file or idvd Publish to itunes or YouTube TIP #10 Automator One click workflows to increase productivity Automate a series of steps or actions : Combine Office or PDF files Convert or resize images Standardize file names Find/replace in multiple files Send announcements No scripting or programming Use built in actions or record new ones Online community Page 4