To provide you with instruction on how to create a presentation using Microsoft Producer, we've set up a Blackboard course site, like the one you used to gain access to this conference.  Click on the link above and enter using the guest username and password -- "calgary" in both places.  Once there, enter the Microsoft Producer for the Classroom course.  This online course is basically just a repository for information on how to build Producer presentations and relies on links back into Microsoft's web-based video tutorials.  Eventually, we hope to develop this template to facilitate the face-to-face class we offer on Microsoft Producer  -- and by facilitate, we mean breaking the modules down into short activities where the student has the opportunity to comprehensively engage each at varying levels.  (Some examples are provided on this site.) 

What we want is to apply andragogical principles to the creation of our own modules so that students can engage at the degree to which they feel their engagement is necessary.  If they garner as much understanding as they desire of a concept within the 60-second presentation, then they can proceed with their own activity (that is, the reason for which they came to us) rather than engage ours.  If they want to engage our activity, then they can click a button at the end of their presentation and enter a site that will take approximately 15 minutes of their time.  Afterwards, they should be able to generalize from their engagement with us into being able to complete their activity on their own.  If they still want further engagement with us, then they can click another link at the end of the activity and review materials that we've posted on split-screens.  On one half of the screen will be an article or audio presentation that at various points has links to separate blogs -- on each of these blogs will be focused questions that students can answer.  In this way, a student who posts a response is entering it into a community of eventual respondents and can return to the activity after some time and continue to correspond with others who've also found the activity helpful.  Because this is a social activity, furthermore, the nature of each of these short presentations takes on the character of its respondents, and any given posting will naturally undergo an evolution as the developer and the audience enter into their negotiation of the project materials.  That negotiation begins when the first student engages the presentation -- the response of the student, that is, should provide data sufficient to reshape the development of the presentation.  Continue