I am fluent in desktop utilities and software, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and publishing. I have experience in library, information, and electronic learning applications and have developed and maintained web content using web authoring programs and hand coding (HTML, XHTML, and CSS). I am an advanced user of many Internet and Web 2.0 applications, including blogging platforms and instant messaging, mashups, microblogging, RSS, browser-based screencasting, and social cataloging and networking tools. Some of the products with which I have experience follow.

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is “an electronic learning tool… which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format” (Wikipedia). NB: The following projects are not fully accessible.

To fulfill an assignment for an information technologies course, a partner and I used Adobe Captivate to create a training module, “Downloading Audiobooks from the Web.”

“Dowloading Audiobooks from the Web” (Shockwave Flash)

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For an education metadata exercise in my Metadata Management & Control course, I created three brief, informal screencasts. In one screencast, I use Adobe Captivate to demonstrate selected Google Language Tools.

“Google Language Tools” (Shockwave Flash)

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In another education metadata exercise, I used Adobe Captivate to modify and publish an existing screencast for export to a Moodle course shell. The original screencast was comprised of audio description of pharmacology textbooks over still images of the books; I added the title and question slides.

“Selected Titles in Pharmacology” (Shockwave Flash)

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Electronic Learning

Blackboard Learning System (learning management system)
Moodle (open-source learning management system)
Pearson eCollege (learning management system)
Wimba Classroom (virtual learning environment)

Library & Information Systems

Connexion (OCLC) (online cataloging tool)
CONTENTdm (OCLC) (digital collection management software)
IRis (Bowman Systems) (information & referral database)
Horizon (SirsiDynix)  (library management system)
READS (integrated library system)
RefWorks (ProQuest) (online bibliographic database)
Resource Mate (Jaywil Software Development) (library automation software)
Voyager (Ex Libris) (library management system)

Office Suites

Microsoft Office Access (database)
Microsoft Office Excel (spreadsheet)
Microsoft Office OneNote
Microsoft Office Outlook (information manager)
Microsoft Office PowerPoint (presentation)
Microsoft Office Publisher (publishing)
Microsoft Office Word (word processing)
OpenOffice Base (database)
OpenOffice Calc (spreadsheet)
OpenOffice Impress (presentation)
OpenOffice Write (word processing)

Web Development

AdobeGoLive (web authoring)
Notepad (Microsoft) (text editor)
Notepad++ (open-source code editor)
SiteMason (content management system)