JustinTime Tutorials using ViewletBuilder

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Just-in-TimeTutorials using ViewletBuilder

• Karen HuntUniversity of Winnipeg Library

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Overview

• ViewletBuilder Overview
• Options for hosting
• Advice
• What end-users see
• Building a Viewlet

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Karen has . . .

• Been making Viewlets occasionally for 5 years
• Has not compared ViewletBuilder to other similar
  programs
• found this useful page in Screencast (Wikipedia)

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What is ViewletBuilder

• Commercial software that lets you easily create
  Flash files
• Screen capture (database or webpages)
• Images (library tours)
• Animated style presentations equipped with
  play, stop, rewind and fast forward buttons

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ViewletCentral

• Collects real time statistics of all activity
  with and within the Viewlets
• These statistics can be viewed by the author (or
  manager) through their browser and even
  downloaded
• This is good for trapping quiz results in VB
  Viewlets
• Costs

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Advice

• Dont even try to be perfect

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You are Walt Disney

• Viewlets are animated

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MLA BibliographyExample

• Uploaded to MoveableType blog (Library News)
• Uploaded to Course Management System (Sakai)
• Uploaded to Library Server (ftp) and linked in
  Information Literacy Tutorial
• Tried to deposit to D-Space

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Blog (Library News)

• Easy
• Black hole
• Which viewlets are old?
• Who created?

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Course Management System

• Easy
• Black Hole
• In this case cant create a durable link to it
  (right now)

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Local Server

• FTP or Web-form
• Manually create / insert links to viewlets
• Manage viewlets
• authors
• dates
• all in the same space

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Cost for ViewletBuilder

• The current list price for ViewletBuilder 4
  Professional ("VBP4") is US299.
• Educational (and Government) price for VBP4 is
  US199.
• Further volume discounts begin at 5 licenses,
  dropping again at 10, 25, and so on.
• The list price of ViewletBuilder 2006 will be
  US399 when it is launched. Educational pricing
  will start at US249.
• All buyers of VBP4 after January 1, 2006 will be
  granted a free upgrade to VB2006 after it is
  launched.

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Where to get it

• Download from Qarbon
• Except Mac version
• Try out - will publish with banners
• Get the license before you spend much time
  developing (within 30 days)

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COPPUL Project

• Just launched project to share tutorials amongst
  COPPUL members
• qvp (raw files for viewlets) can be shared and
  modified

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Think before you start building . . .

• Does the vendor have help that you can point to
  that is good enough?
• Are you explaining a problem or bad software that
  should be fixed?