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Week 4 Textbook Reading GuideMacDonald is skipping all the Hypermedia stuff. This is being folded into designing of Web Pages.
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MacDonald's Multimedia Ideas There is sooo much coming up in this are to make it easier for students (and teachers and instructional assisants) to use multimedia. Here are some of my current favorite tools. Digital Still Camera: No more do I have to worry about the fact that I can't draw and my "in house" artist, my daughter, is now married and in Australia!! I CAN take pictures and edit these with Photo Elements for my pages. (See engagement party pictures in Australia at http://www.lucyonline.com/engage.htm) My next project is to take pictures of students studying for my howtostudy.org web site and my continued commitment to encouraging reading, so I am taking pictures of folks reading. Now digital cameras are coming down in price. My husband's Christmas present 2 years ago was a Fuji for $179. It is only 2 megapixels which is not high enough quality for printl(you want at least 3 and 5 is better) but we just want to email and post on the Web and 2 does just fine! Now there are whole web sites for educators for curriculum integration with digital cameras! http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/ Digital Kids Club from Adobe is a wealth of resources and ideas. This includes both still pictures and video! I love their slogan: Help your students tell their stories! Photo Elements with training: http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/ Free Adobe PhotoElements course: http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/training/photoshop_elements/main.html Scanner: Of course, I've had a scanner for a long time, but until I got Photo Elements to edit my pictures, I didn't really use it a whole lot. Now I am scanning in all my old pictures on the flatbed and making web pages for my family. It's a good way to archive pictures. My new scanner also scans slides 4 at a time. It comes with a filter, which automatically takes out all dust spots and scratches from the old slides. I had taken a camel hair brush and gently "dusted" all the slides, but the dust was impregnated in the pictures! But, the filter took it out, so I didn't have to spend hours photocorrecting the images. 2005 update: I just bought an all-in-one printer, scanner, copier! Works great and I've save a lot of shelf space. When I bought one for my daughter, it also had a USB port for the digital camera. You could download and print pictures on the printer without having the computer hooked up.(Her husband sometimes has the laptop computer with him!) CDROMs: When I got my CDROM burner, I felt like a man with a hammer. (Yes, you have to have a burner to make CDs. This is a different piece of hardware and software than the usual CDROM. ) I was making CDROMs for everything! Last summer I did an institute at the SouthWest Texas University and brought all my handouts, videos, audios, web sites, links and free stuff on a business card CDROM. This small CDROM holds 50 megs and I had plenty of space!!! You could make these mini CDs for your resume and electronic portfoliosl (CAVEAT: principals that I interviewed said that they didn't have time to look at student cd portfolios. However, they would look at a web page, get interested and explore it more. Keep this in mind for marketing yourself in the 21st century!) Digital Video Camera: The next a little more spendy tool is the video camera! Digital, of course! Now with Apple's imovie it is soooo easy to edit your own videos with sound and text overlays and transitions and +++++ Don't worry out there in PC land. You do have some tools , too. A little later and more expensive, but ... In the Ed classroom at Chemeketa, on station 15 (I think) is Pinnacle's video editor, which you can use or look at. Last year, I met with a student on Friday afternoon, who had never even used a video camera!! By Tuesday, she had her whole field trip to the carousel and Gilbert house filmed and voice overlaid with music and transitions all done!!! Technology is getting easier to use and more "people literate." Now as a Grandma, I have my own digital camera. I luckily didn't video tape the floor, but I did videotape on top of some great footage! arggh. I am made a video house tour of my daughter's house in Australia and of course, there is lots of baby video! My next step is to do a Video Blog. Check out http://www.freevlog.org Videos - from VHS to DVD I did buy a Dazzle Editor, which is a little box that goes between the VCR and the computer and digitizes your VHS. I am doing this to archive my homemade VHS, because the tapes only have a life of 10 years! I also found out that I could use my new digital camera in the same way to transfer VHS to digital tape and then burn a DVD. Now I have a DVD burner. I made DVD of my daughter's wedding, just from still photos using the "Ken Burns" effect that comes with iMovie. You can zoom around digital still pictures and make it look like video! WebCam: These little camera eyes that sit on top of your computer, also have a place in the multimedia arena. Schools are using them for online tutoring. NetMeeting by Microsoft is open to all to try this out. Of course, band width on the computers is still a problem . This is how children are communicating with grandma and how home schools are participating in project with others to demonstrate their projects. The Audio Revolution: Any one listening to Internet Radio? Anyone have an mpeg player or an IPod? I DO listen to internet radio in my office during lunch. Students are burning CDs with mpeg music files. And the music industry is still trying to figure out where the market is, where the copyright legality lies and what the next generation will be. Now that Apple has opened the legal music store, I do download music from here at 99 cents a song. And the iPod has taken off! I am considering making mini lecture podcasts that students can listen to on their mp2 players or iPods. Jeremy, who teaches middle school in Astoria, uses his iPod in the classroom this way.
Best Audio Christmas Present! The best techno present was the ski cap with built in headphones with just a wire attachement for the iPod. At the $7per cap at Wallmart, this was the rage for the college students, who said that they were listening to their lectures on the slopes!! Ya, right! And that was in 2004!! Streaming Video: We are still trying to push the bandwidth for video. It's not there on slow modems, that for sure. However, it is getting there for cable modems and T1 lines. It's still not full screen. So the question is how do we USE video and how does it integrate into what we are teaching. One high school is doing a morning 5 minute announcements on streaming video into every classroom. Flash: One of the hottest new programs is Flash, which is small file size (comparatively) and incorporates both sound and animation. Right here in Portland, OR is the Flying Rhinoceros Company that wants to be the first broadband deliverer of educational content. Turn up your audio and visit Lucy's favorite is in Spanish. Don't worry. You'll understand it. It's about ants! On a slow modem (56k) is stops and starts, but you can still understand it. Try it at school or in the library! http://www.fraboom.com/boomtoons/spanish.html Yes, you CAN create your own materials in Flash, but I find it very tedious and VERY time consuming. That is until I found a little $29 program called Photoshow2, which makes Flash files for you with mp3 music, clip art, and animations. Last year a parent from Shirley School and I put together a slide show throughout the year. We had over 300 pictures of events and kids through the year set to music and it ran for 15 minutes. We also burned a CD and sold this to the parents. Building the program was easy and the presentation was more fun than PowerPoint. Here is an ad for my howtostudy site. This is a Flash file made with Photoshow2. See Photoshow at http://www.simplestar.com |
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