Term to Learn General Learning from WebCasts | Learning from WebCasts |
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The web is a great learning resource especially if you have a broadband connection. Find out how you can learn more about your programs using webcasts. (Includes 2 minute flash demo)
As more people use high-speed internet connections, companies are offering more video material. One popular use is webcasts or webinars. As the name suggests, these are broadcasts using the web. Some companies offer webcasts as real time streaming media presentations such as press conferences or shareholder meetings. Another popular use of webcasts is educational material. Microsoft has supplemented their support site with Support WebCasts. Many of these are consumer oriented and cover topics from troubleshooting your operating system to product overviews. These free WebCasts are also identified by subject difficulty. Some topics have several levels of presentations and are progressive. A good example of this is mail merge. The Level 100 series is an introductory presentation while the Level 400 series is for people with advanced technical knowledge. Most consumer products have Level 100 and 200 presentations. Another benefit to Microsoft's WebCast is they offer the material in different formats. For example, you may also download the transcript of the webcast or view PowerPoint presentations. How to find introductory WebCasts on Microsoft Word1. Go to your favorite search engine. For this example, well use the advanced searching page of Yahoo! 2. In the top list box, type WebCast. You should also add another term about your problem or need. As example, we'll type word. 3. In the list control to the right, select in the title of the page. This instructs the search engine to only return pages with the terms webcast and word in the title. 4. In the text box labeled the exact phrase, type, level 100 session. This will narrow our results to introductory material. We will keep the default setting for any part of the page. 5. Scroll down the page to the Site/Domain section 6. In the box labeled Only search in this domain/site:, enter support.microsoft.com. This step limits the results to just pages from Microsoft's support site. 7. Click the Yahoo! Search button at the top of the page.
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