Developing
with Asymetrix ToolBook
A Five Day, On-Site Workshop
Instructor: Stephen F. Hustedde
About the Course
Course Schedule
Student Prerequisites
About the Instructor
Costs
Comments from Past Attendees
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About the
Course:
Developing with Asymetrix ToolBook, is designed to give the novice/intermediate
ToolBook developer a good understanding of OpenScript programming to create
better interactive and more powerful applications. This “hands-on” course
utilizes a learning by doing approach coupled with professional demonstration
to help students master the ins-and-outs of OpenScript and event-based
programming. At the end of the five day course, students will be able to
implement interactivity into their applications through OpenScript programming,
utilize tips and tricks for faster development; and extend the capabilities
of ToolBook through the use of DLLs.
This course may be customized to meet your needs and the previous experiences
of the students, and is conducted on-location at your site. Each student
will receive a copy of the Developing with Asymetrix
ToolBook textbook and accompanying software tutorials. Host of the
training is to provide a classroom with computers for each student with
the Asymetrix ToolBook software installed on each computer, and a data
projector connected to the instructor's computer.
Course
Schedule:
While the workshop may be customized to meet the specific needs of
the students, below is a suggested schedule of topics through the five
days of the class.
Monday
AM: Browsing with ToolBook - an
overview
PM: Authoring: Creating a program
with objects
Tuesday
AM: Scripting; Variables & Containers;
Events & I/O
PM: Mathematics; Decision Branching
Wednesday
AM: Decision Branching; Properties;
Strings
PM: Subroutines and Functions
Thursday
AM: User Interface techniques; Arrays
PM: File I/O; DLLs; VBX support
Friday
AM: Animation and Multimedia
PM: Distribution/Deployment; Tips
& Tricks; Q&A
Student
Prerequisites:
Students should have a good understanding of the Windows Operating
System. Previous exposure to ToolBook or experience with programming
languages or other authoring environments is beneficial.
About
the Instructor:
Stephen Hustedde, is an internationally recognized authority on Asymetrix
ToolBook and its accompanying scripting language, OpenScript, and is the
author of Developing with Asymetrix ToolBook
(Wadsworth Publishing, 1996). As an instructional technologist at Arizona
State University, Mr. Hustedde has spent several years developing and consulting
on various instructional courseware projects utilizing ToolBook.
Mr. Hustedde has been an adjunct faculty member at South Mountain Community
College in Phoenix, Arizona for the past eight years, where he has taught
a variety of Computer Information Systems classes Mr. Hustedde is
also the principal developer for Tricalico Interactive, a software company
specializing in “edutainment software” created with Asymetrix ToolBook.
For more information about Mr. Hustedde’s textbook, please visit
http://rodan.asu.edu/~hustedde/tbkbook.html.
To review Mr. Hustedde’s resume/vita, please visit:
http://rodan.asu.edu/~hustedde/vita.html
Costs:
Costs for the conducting the five-day "Developing With Asymetrix ToolBook"
workshop at your site is $1800 plus $875/student, with a minimum class
size of 8 students. Each student receives a copy of the "Developing
with Asymetrix ToolBook" text with accompanying software tutorials,
and Tricalico Interactive's "Tricalico
Collection" CD - over a $150 value free! ( Additional
travel expenses will be applied to classes outside the continental United
States.) For additional details or to arrange a class at your location,
send email to info@tricalico.com.
Comments
from past attendees:
"I enjoyed the practical exercise we did this morning. This is exactly
what I wanted to learn! I like the way you're teaching this class, and
I was able to complete the exercise myself (including the scripting!) .
. . It was awesome! I love this stuff, and it's exactly what I hoped to
learn. I really like the projects you let us do on our own."
--
Kim Hill (U.S. Army Chemical School)
"Hands on activities were outstanding . . . the pace was just right."
--
Caroline Lennek
"I liked learning the instructor's 'heuristics' for effective ToolBook
development; i.e. what works well and what does not work quite so well,
best practices, etc. The 'best practices' is seldom addressed in traditional
courses."
"This class is very informative, well put together. . . . From my
perspective, it's a great deal of new material since I've never done programming.
Conceptually, I understand what you are teaching! It'll be interesting
to see what happens taking it to application. Great job - thank you."
--
Ann Marie Kappan (Arizona State University)
"The contemporary nature of the examples was astounding. That is
the kind of thing all teachers should take the time to do. It is not hard
to get yesterday's top news story into today's lesson . . . and that has
to make a big impression on students . . . it sure did us!"
"This was a great workshop, Steve. Thanks. I learned a lot about
ToolBook. You did a good job of dealing with the different levels
of abilities."
--Dr.
Larry North (Arizona State University)
"This was a great class, and I enjoyed the information presented.
Recommendation: Come back for reinforcement training. For the record,
this training will not go to waste."
--Kuisha
Jones (U.S. Army - Fort McClellan)