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TBCON 2001 Resources

TBCON 2001 rocked with ToolBook Developers from around the world. 2001 saw two conferences, one in Cheltenham, UK and one in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Both events featured presentations from many of the world's best ToolBook developers including: Chris Ayers, Tim Barham, Chris Bell, Virginia Bender, Lance Campbell, Mike Cline, Denny Dedmore, Bob Earp, Dmitry Esikov, Andrew Gould, Fred Grissom, Roger Guay, John Hall, Tom Hall, Brian Hirst, Ross Hopkins, Bill Hurley, Jack Jensen, Gregory Johnson, Joan Kane, Lee Karns, Dan Lim, Penny Mattern, Simon Price, Mauro Rech, Jeff Rhodes, Jack Siegel, Greg Smith, O. Starnes, and Martha Weller.

Two great socials featured excellent food, beer, and wine. In Europe, we played Snooker and sang songs accompanied by Tim Barham, Tomas Lund, and Dominque Jalu. In the U.S., Dave Frisk was back this year for Monday's night's social, wowing the crowd with his guitar skills. Tuesday was Mexican night.

  • Conference CD
  • Photos (high bandwidth required)
  • USA Group Photo and Roster
  • Europe Group Photo and Roster
Click2learn ToolBook Design Awards

Best ToolBook Interactive Simulation Application and Best e-Learning ToolBook Application
Michael Hersh
ToolBook application providing web-based training on an in-house software application.  This compelling ToolBook application uses a mixture of show, practice, and simulation to augment instructor-led training on an important military software application.

Most Innovative ToolBook Application (two winners)
Chris Cole
http://www.tier1performance.com
CTD SimEngine, a sophisticated data driven system for creating highly interactive scenario based training, as demonstrated in Chris's GLIC Medicare CBT application.

Mauro Rech
http://www.maurorech.com/
PalmLiner, Projeto Tamar, and Celta advertising and educational applications. Mauro's work is captivating and innovative both in its use of graphics and interactions providing the learner a very captivating and engaging learning experience.

Thank you to Click2learn for sponsoring this contest and Scott Anderson of Click2learn for organizing the judging!

Hack-Ack

The HackAck, a new contest at the USA event, where participants created a ToolBook application along the theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey and presented their creations at Tuesday night's social.

1st Place
Mauro Rech
http://www.maurorech.com/
A whimsical game with floating ToolBook developers and a green "snatcher" to grab them.

2nd Place
Simon Price
http://www.webecon.bris.ac.uk/toolbook/
A text box with proportional slider created with adapted code from the ToolBook system books.

3rd Place
Jeff Rand
A ToolBook application with an embedded Flash file demonstrating full communication between the ToolBook file and the Flash file.

Attendee Comments:
  • I had a great time, accommodations were surprisingly comfortable (Loomis Hall), food was out of this world, and of course the sessions themselves were A number 1! My Hats off to the entire team.  (2002)
  • Great content at all learning levels; ability to tailor my learning experience is appreciated.  (2002)
  • In addition to material gained from sessions, the cross talk after hours was invaluable. Excellent for contacts too!  (2002)
  • First of all, it was awesome...lots to do and some really great sessions!!! The socials were really really fun, the lodgings were better this year (at least for me anyway in those new apartments), and there was lots to be learned!  (2002)
  • I just wanted to thank you again for putting on such a great conference. You're really providing a service to all of us struggling developers. The facilities are great and the informal atmosphere builds a great sense of community.  (2002)
  • I would highly recommend attending TBCON. My work colleagues and I have attended the past two TBCONs and feel that each year what we have learned at TBCON has accelerated our use and knowledge of ToolBook by at least 6 months. There are many sessions at TBCON that are good for beginners; but I would especially recommend the preconference workshops as they will enable you to get hands-on experience using ToolBook. Best of all, you will meet lots of people who will become valuable resources for you as you become more familiar with ToolBook.  (2002)
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