Incorporating interactive multimedia in online courses
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The document discusses using multimedia in online courses, including graphics, video, audio, and interactive formats. It provides examples of incorporating multimedia like a video on the Colosseum and a Flash animation demonstrating the golden mean. The presentation emphasizes good practices like usability, accessibility, and focusing on learning objectives. It also introduces Camtasia software for creating video tutorials by capturing computer screens.
Incorporating interactive multimedia in online courses
- 1. Incorporating Interactive Multimedia in Online Courses Kathy Andrus Teaching and Learning Center
- 2. This presentation will cover Good practices and important issues regarding the use of media in an online course Demonstrations of multimedia formats by modeling video delivery of online content in an art history course on Greek and Roman art Assessments that make use of common computer applications Introduction to Camtasia as an instructional media application
- 3. Forms of Multimedia for Online Use Graphics: photos, webcams, illustrations, icons, emoticons, blogs Interactive HTML technologies Flash Animation VRML technologies Javascript 3D “worlds” Video: motion images, animations Audio: voice over, music, sounds
- 4. Why use multimedia? Achieve learning objectives of course Stimulate visual, kinesthetic and aural learning styles Respond to user feedback Deliver content with demonstrations, explorations appropriate to subject Assessments: using medium to apply what you have seen in the medium Narrative as a hook for engagement
- 5. Multimedia: watching paint dry Usability – does it work? Which format is best? Accessibility – can everyone have the same experience without the same connection speed? Do all students get the content even without the bling? What does it achieve that text doesn’t? Return to your objectives – does it enhance learning outcomes? How do you know? Time on task – yours and theirs
- 6. Good Practices Consider the modemites: downloading giant files, even streaming ones, is tedious. User experience comes first: does it work as it should? Accessibility: plan for alternative deliveries of content (bandwidth, text versions) Time on task: yours and theirs Skill building: positive or dreadful?
- 7. Multimedia Skills Literacy of images – how to read them Coping with technology – frustrations are learning experiences too Greater depth in application use Apply experience and skills to other situations – draw connections between popular culture and history Stimulate interest in didactic presentations
- 8. The presenter: a visual and active- kinesthetic learner At the Colosseum (hint, hint)
- 9. What is Interactivity Users may control program and output (drag-and-drop, video and audio controls) User may alter, return/share files (comments, annotations, corrections) Users get feedback after performing tasks Users communicate through the interface about the media (blogging)
- 10. The Flavian Amphitheater aka the Colosseum
- 13. Web technologies: Graphics and javascript
- 15. Video clips Actual video files: avi, mov, wmv, rm, mpg imported from DV or still digital camera Digitized (captured) analog video “ Movies” made in flash or quicktime When embedded in Camtasia, the download can be prohibitive
- 16. Gladiator clip with soundtrack and voiceover narration
- 17. Videos: bandwidth hogs, but… Gladiator clip = 21 MB for 77 seconds at 350 x 240 pixels (mpeg) Smaller files, more compression, greater distortion of sound and image DVDs almost impossible to “clip” because of their disk structure Analog tapes are now ephemera – get them digitized while you can
- 18. BUT… The MTV generation knows how to read them and they are relevant reflections of contemporary attitudes (whether we like them or not) They can be used in traditional and online classes alike, so the prep time is well spent They stimulate discussion because everyone feels invested in the critical process (unlike texts)
- 19. An assessment in Powerpoint Apply to the plan of the Parthenon the method of finding the Golden Mean demonstrated in the Flash animation (next slide) and Instructions for Golden Mean assessment.doc
- 20. The Golden Mean Fibonacci Sequence: starting with one, add one to it. 1, 1 Each new number is the sum of the previous two 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and so on … Each number divided by its predecessor results in the ratio called phi Φ (1.6180339887499...) Lines can be divided to achieve this ratio to find the Golden Mean (Section or Ratio)
- 21. Web technologies: Flash animations
- 22. The completed assessment in Powerpoint: Φ BΦ AΦ BΦ is to AΦ as BC is to AB.
- 23. Camtasia PC-based full-motion video screen capture software. Use an application (like PowerPoint, browser, chat functions) as you normally would while Camtasia captures your keystrokes, paging, animation, and narration through PC microphone or other recording device. Edit the movie (.avi file) that results by removing unwanted frames, rearranging the order of the clips, adjusting or adding audio narration, or adding text, drawing elements, and highlights. Enhancements include inserting Flash hotspots, movie controls, background audio (voiceover, music, sound), creating an index. Import video and audio clips, graphics. Export file formats: choice of formats, create a streaming file or files viewable through a browser.
- 24. Resources Drag and drop Vitriuvian Man: http:// harpy.uccs.edu/draganddrop.htm Golden Section Flash animation: http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/goldenmeanbasetext.html Colosseum at night (Java VR): http://rome.arounder.com/category/java/IT000005642.html The Golden Mean Website ( http:// www.vashti.net/mceinc/Golden.htm ) Camtasia and Snagit: http://www.techsmith.com
Editor's Notes
- #7: This is not a presentation on how to create Camtasia movies. Techsmith, the software company which develops it, has tremendous tutorials made in Camtasia to model and instruct on the use of its product. On their website they offer both written instructions and animated downloadable videos that take you through the Camtasia product in producing a movie. It is easy to use; all you need to do a presentation like this one is Camtasia, Powerpoint, and a microphone. So instead of teaching you the software, I would like to show you a few ways in which it can be used to effectively deliver content in an online instructional environment. If you have not already done so, you
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