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Pfraser
05-27-2006, 06:06 AM
It would be great to have these lessons in PDF!

Anyways. really nice stuff here thx!
Garritan
05-27-2006, 02:24 PM
Eventually we can put the course in a hard copy. The problem with pdf may be with imbedding the flash scores. Perhaps html of another format would be a way to go down the road.

Gary Garritan
CallMeZoot
05-27-2006, 02:43 PM
How about a Wiki?

chris.
koolkeys
05-27-2006, 03:44 PM
You can make an eBook from the HTML and embed everything, I believe. That may work well.

Personally, I'm copying and pasting into a word processor for now, but I would like to see something complete when all is said and done.

Very good job Gary. Thanks!

Koolkeys
Yves
05-27-2006, 05:28 PM
I second the motion for a .pdf format .

it could come in handy.

thanks again Gary
!

Yves
SWL
05-27-2006, 08:38 PM
Ahhh, wait and release it on Adobe Apollo.
jcbryson1
05-27-2006, 11:43 PM
Eventually we can put the course in a hard copy. The problem with pdf may be with imbedding the flash scores. Perhaps html of another format would be a way to go down the road.

Gary Garritan

I would be interested in any format that can be saved and viewed offline. I travel with a laptop and would love to be able to study when I don't have internet access.

Jon
L0W
05-28-2006, 11:54 AM
well of course JC you can just do a 'file...save/save as...' in Internet Explorer and you will get most of the straightforward stuff (text and images) saved on to your laptop as an HTML file. The SWFs (flash movies) are as it happens also saved using this method, but they won't play nor launch from the saved page, nor from where they are saved due to the way they have been encoded.
SWL
05-28-2006, 01:14 PM
You can do the save as method to get the content - or you can print the content as a PDF - as for the Flash files. Use Firefox - goto "Tools" - "Page Info" - "Media" - you will see all the Flash files embedded in the page and you have the option to "Save As.."

I can create a portable version of these (and have) - but i'm not sure if Gary would like these to be shared ?
jcbryson1
05-28-2006, 08:20 PM
well of course JC you can just do a 'file...save/save as...' in Internet Explorer and you will get most of the straightforward stuff (text and images) saved on to your laptop as an HTML file. The SWFs (flash movies) are as it happens also saved using this method, but they won't play nor launch from the saved page, nor from where they are saved due to the way they have been encoded.

Yes, I've done the 'file...save/save as...' and that will have to do. I was hoping for the flash portions as well, but I can learn a lot without them, I'm sure. :)
Dan H.
05-28-2006, 09:20 PM
For Firefox you could use Scrapbook, it works well including flash:
http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

Regards,
Dan.
Garritan
05-29-2006, 02:12 AM
I can create a portable version of these (and have) - but i'm not sure if Gary would like these to be shared ?
The course at this stage is a work in progress. Consider it similar to an "open source" project. As we go through lessons, and various educators and learners comment, the content may modify, be amplified, brought up to date or be supplemented.

Perhaps after the course is finished there can be a portable version.

Gary Garritan
savanttrigger
06-02-2006, 12:40 PM
@Chris:

I don't think I would like to have this info posted as a Wiki. This is supposed to be a definitive text, and letting anyone edit it would reduce its credibility. (I could go in and change something that I disagree with, for example, in spite of the fact that I'm totally unqualified)

Not that I don't love Wikis. In fact, I'm using Wikipedia to look up the things I don't know in this course :D
dbudde
06-02-2006, 09:02 PM
With safari, you can save as and specify web archive and get all the media and text in a single file per lesson. What could be easier.
PeterMR
06-20-2006, 06:49 PM
For Firefox you could use Scrapbook, it works well including flash:
http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

Regards,
Dan.


This is quite helpful.
marnen
06-20-2006, 07:03 PM
I don't think I would like to have this info posted as a Wiki. This is supposed to be a definitive text, and letting anyone edit it would reduce its credibility. (I could go in and change something that I disagree with, for example, in spite of the fact that I'm totally unqualified)

I'd say that this is actually a good argument <em>for</em> a wiki. I don't know that "unqualified" is an appropriate concept here, since many things are matters of opinion, and in such casees, everyone's opinion is potentially valuable. Besides, if you make an error, the next guy can correct it. Perhaps we shouldn't <em>only</em> have a wiki, but a wiki can be a valuable adjunct to anything else we have.