Multimedia Tools

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Multimedia Tools

• Computers in Education
• Week 9 2005
• Dr. Alan Barnes, Ruth Geer Andrew Barr

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Assignment TWO

• Assignment 2Critique and completion of two units
  of work Weighting 50 of study period
• Length 1) Journal notes from 2 units of work
  500 words
• 2)Critique of units rationale
  1500 words
• Due date Study period 5 Monday November 4th 5
  PM
• Submitted as printed copy to submission box near
  the Education Office

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Assignment TWO

• Role 1 As a student in the class
• Notes about 500words
• Role 2 As a teacher
• You should articulate the experience for the
  intended audience against a framework of the
  research literature on good teaching practice.
• Rationale about 1500 words

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The Media

• Recording Sounds/Voice
• Picture/Graphics
• Making Movies
• Using Animation
• 3D Rendering

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Sound Test

• Sound1
• Sound2
• Sound3
• Sound4
• Sound5

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Sound Formats and Tools

• Digitisers into snd, wav and other file formats
• Edit packages such as Soundedit
• Develop compositions and play them through midi
  interfaces-Personal Composer
• Ref1 Ref2 Ref3

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Exercise 1

• http//www.alltheweb.com/
• http//www.dogpile.com/
• Find animal sounds for a unit of work
• Capture and or listen to them.
• Use Windows Media player
• Use Audacity

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Graphics-Formats and Software

• Draw v Paint software
• Software specific formats
• Older formats-TIFF, MetaFile, Pict
• Non Compressed formats-bitmaps
• Web compressed formats- jpeg(scenes), gif(256)
• Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, Fireworks.
• ref

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Exercise 2

• http//www.alltheweb.com/
• http//www.dogpile.com/
• Find Animal Pictures for a unit of work
• Capture them to Drive E
• Combine the Sound files and Pictures in
  Powerpoint or Kid pixs

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Movies

• Digitised movie files as .mpg, mov, avi, files
• Software applications like Adobe Premiere,
  Pinnacles Studio 9,
• Final Cut Pro
• iMovie do-able video editing
• for education
• Ref
• Windows Movie Maker

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Animation

• Gif89a allows a simple animation format
• Macro media Flash allows sophisticated
  animation(some features of which are in
  Dreamweaver)
• GIF animator for free
• http//gif.creabit.com/

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3D rendering and animation

• Software for 3D design
• Maya 4, Universe 3,Bryce 4
• Realistic rendering
• Apples VR Suite
• Cubic Gallery

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Media Integration 1.

• Macromedia Director-sound, movies, pictures-uses
  the stage metaphor and timelines
• Lingo language for programming

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Media Integration 2.

• Web Authoring Environments
• sounds, graphics. movies, animations, text and
  colour
• Javascript for customising interaction
• Develop and maintain sites
• Eg. Dreamweaver, FrontPage

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References

• Grabe and Grabe, (2004) Using Multimedia Tools
  in Integrating Technology for Meaningful
  LearningChapter 7