[lug] A new teaching/demonstration tool

[B O'Fallon]

This might be of interest to anyone who teaches or gives demonstrations
using a computer.

A new teaching tool called Viewlets is now available. Viewlets are Java
applets that run in a web browser and give animated demonstrations.
They produce a very compact movie file which plays in the browser,
on any platform, without a plug-in. I have seen these used by on-line
teaching companies, such as CBT, but to use them involved downloading
a large executable player. Viewlets run directly off the web and can be
incorporated into a web site.

There is more information and a demo at the inventors site:

    http://www.qarbon.com/

A Linux specific demo (installing Red Hat) can be seen here:

    http://www.pcsupport.com/member/tutorials/os_tutorials.asp

More info on the entire project for Linux subjects, along with what is
to be written and a solication for authors is here:

    http://www.teach2earn.com/linux/lvp_subjects.html

These sites also have links that lead to other demonstrations and more
information.

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B. O'Fallon
bof at americanisp.net