http://www.communitymx.com/blog/?cat=28 Community MX Member Blog admin@communitymx.com en-us In preparation for the installation of Breeze at our school district I've prepared a 12 minute video with an overview of how a PowerPoint presentation is converted into a Breezo. (Macromedia-speak for Breeze presentations. Get it?) How to Publish Online Content Right from PowerPoint gives you a quick run-through of Breeze 5 and the off-line method for creating presentations. Since the presentation itself was created in Breeze you can also see the new Breeze 5 interface. Breeze tends to be seen as a meeting and collaboration tool by many people, but the plug-in that is installed into PowerPoint for recording and converting presentations to the Breeze format is pretty slick. In fact, the PowerPoint plug-in is a more mature technology than Breeze Live and it just has the feeling of a well engineered product. For content area experts and teachers and students and anyone else who wants to present training on line, Breeze Presentation is by far the easiest tool to use that I've seen. (Thanks to the good folks who run the Macromedia Education Leaders program for providing a Breeze account to experiment with.) ... http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=503 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=503 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:02:28 GMT Very exciting news for me personally and for the school district where I work this week. Our purchase of a license for Breeze Live and Breeze training was approved by our Board. Over the coming weeks and months I'll be heavily involved in administering accounts and training users in this great tool. As in any large organizations shepherding the purchase through the required permissions and multitude of questions took a great deal of time and energy on my part, but it was a worthwhile endeavor for the simple fact that Breeze just works. Along the way various groups tossed out ideas for competing products and services, with the usual question being "Have you looked at this?" And yes, I did look at a number of video conferencing solutions. I won't get into all the details here, but there are any number of companies offering services similar to what Breeze does, but there were compelling reasons to stick with the Breeze purchase. Not least of these was cost. One popular service would have cost $129,000.00 more each year than our entire purchase of Breeze for a comparable number of users and meetings. The second reason for choosing Breeze was the impact on ou... http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=499 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=499 Sat, 21 May 2005 20:42:03 GMT