Podcasting has come a long way since its start as a vehicle for individuals to distribute their own radio-style shows over the Internet. Today’s podcasts can combine audio and video files to provide a rich user experience.

With their ability to be syndicated and downloaded automatically whenever new content is present, podcasts have many practical applications beyond virtual broadcasting. Universities are largely responsible for the increased popularity of podcasting by leveraging it as an educational tool. Now, students have the ability to download a missed lecture to view on their MP3 player, phone, or laptop anywhere, anytime!

http://www.brookwood.com/elearning/distancelearning.cfm

Laura Haas Green Solutions, Training, Uncategorized, eLearning

Did you know that Brookwood has a referral program? Refer 5 NEW people (not in Brookwood’s database) and receive a 1G USB drive as thanks for your participation. If someone you refer to Brookwood registers for a course you will receive a $50 gift card to your choice of: WaWa, Target, Best Buy, or The Olive Garden.

Don’t miss out! This offer expires March 31, 2009 and it limited to one offer per person.

Call 215-717-2788 to learn more or email your list of referrals to laura@brookwood.com to participate.

Laura Haas Business and Budget, Training

Starting in April 2009, this NEW 2 day course will enable experienced programmers to build desktop applications with AJAX using Adobe’s AIR application. Objectives include customized application deployment using AJAX and understanding AIR security. To gain the most from this course, you should have experience using HTML and JavaScript to develop web applications which include the following features: HTML layout; user interface, container, and navigation components; JavaScript event handling; and in-line and scripted even handling.

http://www.brookwood.com/training/AirTraining/AdobeAirTraining_air.cfm

Laura Haas Training AIR, AJAX, Training

Brookwood developers recently completed customized Adobe Connect Pro training for 2 U.S. Government agencies. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) both required that all 33 online training courses meet the U.S guidelines for Section 508 of the Disabilities Act.

The technical standards which Brookwood met for these training modules included:

• Alternative keyboard navigation to meet usability standards for the visually impaired.

• Captioning of multimedia training products, including captioning and video descriptors which could be turned on or off.

• Text labeling and descriptors for graphics to enable accessibility to web page graphics by the visually impaired using assistive technology such as screen readers and refreshable Braille displays.

We are proud to report that the project feedback we received from CMS and PTO agencies regarding these 2 projects was very positive.

With this success, Brookwood has laid the foundation for further Adobe Connect Pro training for all other government agencies that require it.

For more information on U.S. 508 Accessibility requirements click the link provided:
http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=content&id=5

Gene Palocsko Training Connect

Captivate 4 Training Now Available

Captivate is all NEW and more powerful than ever! Captivate 4 gives you the capability to capture screen shots on your computer and quickly turn them into interactive movies adding images, captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas and sound effects. This course will introduce you to the essential Adobe Captivate 4 skills you need to know to get up and running with Captivate as quickly as possible.

Also look for Advanced Captivate 4 training available in May 2009!

Register Today! http://www.brookwood.com/training/Captivate4Training/Captivate4Training_captivate4.cfm

Reduce Travel, Reduce Costs and Save the Planet with eLearning!

Laura Haas Training, eLearning