The importance of videos in education has been evident nowadays. From simply being used in marketing products and services it has developed into an education tool that is truly indispensable. Moreover, many individuals and groups have found the creating and sharing instructional videos are easy by way of websites like YouTube and TeacherTube.

The simplicity of making a video makes way for inventive ways of teaching different topics and concepts. With some planning and forethought, a video can supplement or even provide the backbone of an educational program or course. It is without a doubt that the use of videos makes learning more flexible as well as interesting and engaging for the students.

There are a variety of reasons why using videos in training courses, high school education programs and the like are recommended.

Whether online or face-to-face, courses and training programs that use videos provide an engaging and interesting way of tackling topics, subject matters and concepts through images, and demos. Sparking interest among students will definitely liven up the classroom as well as encourage a deeper appreciation of the learning content.

Another important contribution of videos in education is the shared experience of both the teacher and the students making the discussion more engaging and interesting for both.

The convenience and dynamism of online videos can not be stressed enough. Through a Learning Management System students can review materials and make up for missed classes by just a click of a button.

To provide a more active learning for students, follow up activities are done after viewing the video. This way, students will have the opportunity to use their new knowledge in a more practical and participative way. By doing role playing activities, Q … A, and the like, the students will be able to appreciate and understand the information presented deeper.

The online training world has seen the rise in the use of tools such as the BB FlashBack 2.6. It provides the convenience of being able to capture PC screen and integrating them into the curriculum with the use of Coggno’s course creation tools. After which, delivery of the courses is made easier using Coggno’s Learning Management System.

It is about time to make new videos and deoms for your company rather than use old and outdated materials that just don’t provide you with the desired effect. Your tasks will be made easier by using screen capture tools such as the BB FlashBack since it can capture videos, images, web pages, games, simulation just to name a few. Likewise, it can record sounds, your commentary and can provide a picture-in-picture video of your webcam. You can truly add a personal touch to your work using tools such as this.

Make a personal appearance in the lecture, demo and tutorial videos that you make. Create courses with confidence since you have total control of the final output when you use BB FlashBack and Coggno’s LMS toolkit. When you use these tools, you can create, edit, and apply your videos to your courses with ease.

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Not many people would argue that Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most widely used web development packages around. It has gained its popularity by appealing to users with a varied variety of profiles. Its user-friendly interface appeals to inexperienced users with not much expertise of the technologies that underpin web pages. At the same time, it allows knowledgeable web developers to interact with code in a variety of handy ways.

Adobe Dreamweaver enables developers to create dynamic web sites whose content is derived from a data source. Such sites feature server-side pages, written in a scripting language such as PHP, ASP or ASP.Net, which need to be executed on the server. It is therefore vital to denote a testing server as part of the site setup while defining such sites within Dreamweaver.

A Microsoft invention, Active Server Pages (ASP) is one of the easiest such languages to configure. Now referred to as classic ASP to distinguish it from ASP.Net, the current incarnation of Active Server Pages, ASP was initially released in the late nineties and revolutionised the way in which web sites were developed. ASP is designed to run on Windows 2000 server and on Windows XP Professional. It is part of Internet Information Services (IIS), an optional Windows component. Once installed, IIS converts your PC into a web server running a default website located in a folder called “wwwroot” which can be accessed with the web address “localhost/”.

Once ASP is up and running, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is equipped to start creating dynamic web sites. The features to be had in Dreamweaver for generating the necessary server-side content are to be found in three panels: Databases, Bindings and Server Behaviors. The Databases panel is used to create connections to data sources. In the case of ASP, the most frequent solutions are Microsoft Access and the more powerful Microsoft SQL Server. As soon as a connection to the database is in place, the Bindings panel is used to retrieve data into a recordset. The dialogue box which Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 uses for creating recordsets automatically generates fragments of SQL as the user interacts with the related data objects. However, some familiarity with SQL (structured query language) is needed to be able to retrieve specifically the data necessary for a given recordset.

The Server Behaviours panel is where the majority of the action takes place: It contains a wide variety of pre-built scripts which can be used to add dynamic content to web pages. For example, the Insert Record server behaviour can be used to create a form which adds new records to a database table via a web page or it can be used to create an enquiries sheet which adds every enquiry to an enquires table and after that takes the visitor to a thank you page.

As you work on your web pages in Adobe Dreamweaver, you constantly need to review them in a web browser. To facilitate this process, Dreamweaver allows you to configure as many browsers as you would like to see use for previewing. You can specify one browser as your primary, or preferred, browser; you can then specify a secondary browser and as many additional browsers as you want.

Naturally, the first step is to make sure that the browser software is installed on your computer. Next, to specify your preferred browser, go to the Edit menu and choose Preferences. (This is the Windows location of Dreamweaver Preferences: on a Macintosh, go to the Dreamweaver menu and choose Preferences.)

The various categories are displayed on the left of the Preferences window. Choose the Preview in Browser category. You may have already configured a browser as your primary browser and possibly another as your secondary. If you wish to change this, simply click on the appropriate checkboxes to specify which is which.

If you would like to add an additional browser, just click on the plus sign (+), locate the browser software and double-click to open it. You can carry out this procedure as many times as you like.

To preview a page using one of your configured browsers, click on the preview icon (the globe) located on the Document toolbar which is normally displayed at the top of the document window. From the drop-down menu, choose the browser that you’d like to use. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts: to preview using your primary browser press Shift-F12 on Windows or option-F12 on a Macintosh; to preview in the secondary browser press Control-F12 on Windows or Command-F12 on a Macintosh. Alternatively, simply choose the name of any other browser.

Once you’ve looked at the preview, to return to Dreamweaver, simply close the browser window.

It is also possible that sometimes you’d like to preview pages without saving the changes you’ve made to your document. Dreamweaver makes this easy but, first, let’s have a look at what normally happens when you preview a file that has been modified.

Dreamweaver shows us a dialogue box asking us if we’d like to save the changes. If we click “No”, we are given a preview of the last version that was saved rather than the version that we’re currently working on. If we click “Yes”, Dreamweaver will save our changes before previewing the file. This behaviour can sometimes be inconvenient, since you may not be ready to save your changes.

If you’d like to preview files at any time without saving your changes, return to your Browser Preview section of Dreamweaver’s Preferences and activate the option “Preview Using Temporary File”. When this option is switched on, Dreamweaver will always create a temporary file containing the latest version of your document and then shows you a preview of it. When the browser window opens, look at the name of the file being previewed. It will be a temporary file name generated by Dreamweaver and not the name of document you are working on.