The Townsley Tribune

A week or so ago, I wrote about how our face-to-face meeting was canceled. Along with the cancellation came the challenge of missing out on the opportunity for some of us to present our software reviews. We were issued a challenge by our instructor to, if possible, present our software review online instead. I have to admit that I was a bit unsure about this idea at first. Deep down, I wanted to video tape my entire presentation or do a voice over to supplement my PowerPoint presentation. Then...reality set in. This was going to be an awful lot of work! Instead, I opted to use my web authoring skills to create an outline of what my presentation might have looked like. I posted all of my handouts in pdf format, created a small movie to illustrate how the software works and attempted to put my would-have-been spoken words into writing. Our initial software reviews were to be 10 minutes in length, but I'm guessing the typical person reading the online version will need to spend longer than 10 minutes to read it. This is the challenge of a virtual environment - transforming the spoken word into a different, but yet still deliverable, format. Spoken word would have done the trick, but most likely it would have taken more bandwidth and sure more time. I guess my "old school" web authoring software (no Web 2.0 here, folks!) had to do the trick.

Check out my software review and let me know what you think...