The Conference 2005

Emerging Technologies & Teaching Techniques

Orlando, Florida
March 16-18, 2005

Stage for Merlin to Appear
Having Fun with MicroSoft Agents Using MASH

The Conference 2005: Power Point
The Conference 2004: Magic Numbers
The Conference 2003: Turbo Hal
Download 2005: Power Point File


Agent WebRing Setup

MSAgent Directions for :
Student/Conference CD

Tim Barker's MASH Tutorial
Best Help: MASH Forum
The Agentry (415 characters)

VOX Proxy Power Point App $80
VOX Proxy Home Page
VOX Proxy Educational Pricing

Stephen Banister's Web Ring Demo

John Taylor's MSAgent Demo
on Temperature Scales

Make Genie Talk
Wave File Sample
Peedy Sample, Joke, & Sing
VB Script Sample

Emails:
jtaylor@hccfl.edu
jttaylor@cgcc.edu
jttaylor@hccbrandon.net
melin imagepeedy imageGenieRobby

MicroSoft Agent Web Site

MicroSoft Agent Web Ring
(Instructions and Other Characters)

BellCraft Web Site for Mash 7.1

(To create MS Agent files visit this site, download Mash 7.1 for 30 days free, visit the sample slides demonstrating how to use Mash under the Screenshots link. Mash files may be embedded in HTML code as JavaScripts, may be incorporated into Visual Basic Scripts, sent as Email attachments, and also made into executable files which may be access from programs like ToolBook and Power Point. Gordon Scott Bell sells this tool for $25, a onetime fee, and you receive for life his upgrades. He has a special one time $250 educational institution site license which also include free upgrades.

John Taylor
Professor of Computer Science/Chemistry
Hillsborough Community College      Tampa, Florida

Chemistry Instructor
Coastal Georgia Community College     Brunswick, GA

The Conference 2005 Abstract:

Having Fun With Microsoft Agents Using Mash

•   This session will particularly benefit individuals who teach introduction to computers, education technology, beginning Internet, or multimedia to community college students. Participants in this hands-on session learn how to use MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper) to insert an agent into a Web page, a PowerPoint presentation, or many other applications.

•   MASH allows students to create interactive dialog between agents or between agents and users through a clickable interface that automatically writes the code for many different output types.

•   Each participant will be given a cd containing a collection of free agent downloads needed to make an agent work, a 30-day free trial of MASH, and sample MASH dialogs developed by the presenter. MASH is a product of Bell Technologies created by Gordon Bell and his daughter. The one time cost is $25, including all future upgrades for an individual license, and a full educational institution site license is $250.

• • The MASH Web site is located at http://www.bellcraft.com/mash/

• • The MS Agent Web ring may be found at: http://www.msagentring.org
Make Your Own Microsoft Agent


Jo Doell and her family recently moved to Valrico, Fl from New Jersey. Their Company:
101 Doellmations,
produce Microsoft Agents for fun and clients.
To the right meet: Tiggie, Phakesphere, Wrabbit, and Gribbit.

You may contact them at: jdoell@tampabay.rr.com.

Jo spends about 400 hours doing it the hard way with PhotoShop. Each agent annimation is three to eight drawings packaged together with sound effects and timimg. An agent has about 65 minimum annimations

If you want to try to make your own MS Agent, Microsoft has the directions and program free on their web site. The link is:
MicroSoft Agent Editor


Local Web Ring Member: 101 Doellmations

Judd: My Personal MS Agent
John Taylor as Judd

Integrating Microsoft Agents into ToolBook




Scripts for:
ToolBook Users

Tom Hall's Agent Page for ToolBook:
http://tcc-pub.com/agents/agents.htm

Download Tom Hall's
Agent Custom Catalog
(Unzip this file (agent.zip) and copy it to your Catalog Directory of ToolBook.)
Modification to Brian Hirst's Atool





John Taylor's LSI Demo
Native Deployment-Neuron

Native Multiple character dialogs requires tricks which are only documented in M.E. Yoder's
"Using MS Agent in Toolbook" View Sample Chapter 3 (pdf file)

Cecil' DHTML Script 8.6
(something missing)

Future DHTML Deployment
in ToolBook 2004 Links