July 15, 2007

Electronic Learning CD Syllabus

Designed and produced a CD-based electronic syllabus for a medical education conference.

I've produced a number of electronic syllabi for medical education conferences. They're mostly just a series of web pages that run off a CD that provides a simple auto-run for Windows-based computers. The Mac OS will not auto-run as far as my knowledge.

Electronic CDs like this are good medium for providing materials, but unfortunately are limited in the utiliy they provide to the attendee. People take notes, and the CD is virtually useless in this regard.

But a solution to this problem may be on the horizon, Adobe is set to introduce a new cross-platform run-time called AIR. With AIR, one could create a integrated learning tool that marries simple text-based note file functionality with the overall presentation, but one that is also Internet-aware to boot. Think about it.

Tools: xHTML, CSS, Javascript, PDF

Posted by pgraber at 02:06 PM

June 22, 2005

Another Educational CD Rom

A CD Rom for the NCAFP Mid-Summer Family Medicine Digest. Distributed to 350 physicians.

This was another hybrid CDROM that was produced for the NCAFP. It tied together the theme with the other meeting components. These included all printed mailing pieces and the conference's website. The brochure followed the same theme.

The CD-Rom application was essentially a series of webpages that incorporated PDFs of the speaker presentations. Produced in hybrid format.

Posted by pgraber at 02:53 PM

March 23, 2005

Interactive Conference Syllabus

A hybrid cd-rom electronic meeting syllabus for a scientific assembly

This is a pure xHTML/CSS/PDF application. Implementation was straightforward. Self-shot photography.

Discovered a major thing about hybrid cdroms, however.
Here's the rub - a simple .inf file for windows is all you need for autorun - even for the Mac.

Discovery: Mac OSX won't autorun. The major advantage to a hybrid is that is allows for nicer 'handling' of the CD's files. Allows them to better interact with the OS; finer chrome: windows, folder, and icons. That sort of thing.

That is alot different from auto-run on both platforms.

Posted by pgraber at 10:52 AM

March 02, 2005

Digital Meeting Syllabus

An simple CD-based syllabus for the EHR Roadshow.

This was an xHTML/PDF application. Due to the low number of users and short project cycle, this was not produced in hybrid (PC/Mac) format, but used a simple autorun only.

The project did lead to an interesting discovery on building PDFs through MS Office 2002. You must use PDFMaker to maintain links built within Office applications; Distiller won't allow (yet). This is covered in a post in The Web Log.

I got it all set on Thursday and had major troubles uploading to Mixonic. Their software was crashing and their FTP site didn't work.
I am still holding my breath on this job.

UPDATE: I got the CDs back in less than 2 business days. Everything worked fine; pretty impressive considering the upload process. Quality of CD imaging was also good.

Posted by pgraber at 03:05 PM

November 02, 2004

Electronic Conference Materials

An PDF-based application presenting scientific meeting materials.

This was an Acrobat application that meeting attendees used as reference materials during a four-day meeting. Converted all PowerPoint to PDF. Complete interface design and implementation in Acrobat.

The project also included the creation of a web-based download center for pre-conference prep. This was published online.

November 2004.

Posted by pgraber at 07:22 PM