ToolBook Courses and Tutorials

• Learning and Training
  High-quality ToolBook training, by Platte Canyon, USA.
• ToolBook Tutorial - WebCBT.ch
  By Dr. med. Cecil Cheah, WebCBT.ch.
  ToolBook How-To Tutorials: Welcome, Viewer and Pages, Text Simulation, Showing Images, Timer, Browser, Array Manipulation, ToolBook and Flash.
  ToolBook Action Editor Tutorials.
  ToolBook WBT Demo: ToolBook Web-Based Training how-to tutorials.
• Marty Weller's ToolBook Code Samples
  By Martha H. Weller, consultant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Old ToolBook Samples.
• ToolBook Instructor OpenScript Guide (FTP)
  Oficial guide for OpenScript language. Manual in Acrobat format (PDF), available for download (4.45 MB, 16/Sep/1999) from SumTotal FTP site, section Tech Docs - ToolBook Manuals - Instructor/Assistant/Librarian.
• Click2learn ToolBook Hints, by the Arben Group
  Ways to Decrease the Size of a ToolBook File, Palette Shift, Editing Scripts, Editing Sharedscripts, Change or Remove a Sharedscript, Transparent Bitmaps.
• Recursos > Manuais de Apoio à Formação [In Portuguese]
  ToolBook Instructor 6.1 Apostilas in Word 6 format and working files, for download (ZIP). By Centro de Competência Nónio Século XXI da Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém (ESES), Portugal.
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  • Explorar o Toolbook Instructor 6.1 (Nível I)
  • Explorar o Toolbook Instructor 6.1 (Nível II)
• Tutoriais de Ferramentas de Autoria: ToolBook [Em portugu�s]
  Tutorial em Português para download gratuito, por Santos Viana, UFSM, Brasil, Julho 2000. Em Lemon Tutoriais, Multimídia & Design.
  Dica enviada por Ana Luiza (halgue).
• Utilizando Sistemas de Autoria - ToolBook [In Portuguese]
  Author: , 17/Nov/1997, Center for Biomedical Informatics (NIB) of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
  Lesson teached at discipline FM-993: Computer Applications in Medical Teaching.
• ToolBook to DHTML/HTML Lessons Learned
  By Jack Jensen.

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Papers and Presentations about ToolBook

• TBCON - The ToolBook User's Conference
  The primary ToolBook and VBTrain.NET conferece, at Colorado Springs, USA. Promoted by Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation.
  TBCON CDs.
• Advanced Openscript Concepts and Techniques,
  by , OpenScript Technical Lead, SumTotal.
  Presentation from the On-line Learning '97 conference.
• SumTotal Technical Documentation
  Articles and papers in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format available from SumTotal FTP site.
  
  • Customization Guide - Using ToolBook II Instructor to modify ToolBook II Assistant applications (1MB), by Mary Anne Dane
  • Beyond CBT (30K), by Jan Utterstrom
  • Creating multimedia effects and interactive content (39K), by Gaylene Zweigle
  • Creating tools and plugins for ToolBook II Instructor (212K), by Tim Dutcher
  • Revealing the secrets of ToolBook II Java (595K), by Mike Florence
• Platte Canyon Articles
  By Jeffrey M. Rhodes / Christopher C. Bell, Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corp..
  
  • Creating Custom Objects in ToolBook II (ZIP)
    By .
  • Past, Present and Future: A Trip Down ToolBook's Memory Lane
    By . You may download the ToolBook application that supported Jeff Rhodes' key note presentation at the European On Line Learning 98 conference.
  • CBT Authoring Plug-Ins As Time (And Headache) Savers
    Presented at Learning Technology '98, June 16, 1998.
  • CD-ROM Based Multimedia Homework Solutions and Self Test Generator
    Presented by Jeff Rhodes at SALT Orlando Multimedia '98.
  • Case Studies on Using CBT to Train Court and Legal Personnel
    Presented by Chris Bell at SALT Interactive Multimedia '97.
  • Case Studies in Using Multimedia CBT for Court Tasks, Software, and Legal Research
    Presented by Chris Bell at Court Technology Conference Five (CTC5).
  • Developing a "How to Use ToolBook" Product: A Case Study
    , Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corp.
    Paper presented at two On-Line Learning Euro '98, Cheltenham, England, July 22, 1998 and On-Line Learning '98, Anaheim, California, September 24, 1998.
  • OpenScript Techniques for Improving User Interaction
    . Paper presented at the Asymetrix On-Line Learning Conference, Seattle, September 1997.
  • Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Standards for ToolBook development
    A good source for general scripting recommendations.
• The EnterPage Archive - Platte Canyon
  The EnterPage is Platte Canyon's electronic newsletter for ToolBook Developers. In this Archive you will find all past issues of EnterPage on-line. The EnterPage is distributed 4 times a year, with occasional special issues. Free subscriptions are available by email.
• OnLine Learning 2001 - Session Handsouts
  OnLine Learning 2001 - Conference and Exposition.
• SumTotal Presentations - On-Line Learning Conferences (OLL)
  SumTotal (Asymetrix) presentations on the On-Line Learning Conferences (OLL), mostly PowerPoint presentations (ZIP-compressed). Feel free to download and use them for your technical, marketing, sales, or other briefings.
  OLL-97, OLL-99, OLLO-98, OLL-2000.
  OnLine Laerning 2001.
  
  • Advanced openscript techniques (474K), by Tim Barham - OLL99.
  • Creating extended objects for ToolBook II (270K), by Tim Barham - OLL99.
  • Exploiting ToolBook extended objects (47K), by Claude Ostyn
    PowerPoint slides (245K) - OLL98.
  • The project that Jack built (246K), by Lee Maxey and Karen McMullen - OLL98.
  • Learning technology standards made simple (657K), by Claude Ostyn - OLL98.
  • Interactivity and learner control for the Web (86K), Claire Baddeley - OLL98.
  • Pump-up ToolBook II with activeX (156K), by Mark Engel - OLL97.
• Using MS Agent in Toolbook
  E-manual. Contribution of , January 2000.
• An Introduction to Microsoft Agents
  By Tom L. Hall.
• Windows Multimedia Authoring for Educators: ToolBook II
  By Tom L. Hall. Article published in the October 1996 issue of Syllabus Magazine.
• HyperCourseware Developments in ToolBook
  by Douglas Siviter and Phil Siviter, ACE publications, 1994.
  School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University and Department of Computing, University of Brighton.