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Participants will explore & apply techniques and strategies to foster deeper learning using multimedia and graphics.

This course will include an overview of techniques and strategies that research has shown to improve learning outcomes using multimedia and graphics for learning. The role of graphics will be explored to move from the use of graphics from decoration to those that truly foster deeper learning. We will also discuss classroom delivery of multimedia. Participants will apply these concepts to improve and design instructional multimedia.

This course is not on how to create multimedia. Participants should use multimedia they already know how to use.

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posted message: Two of my goals for this course is to learn how to add sound in multimedia or use multimedia that has sound and to learn how to animate simple images. The sound might include recording myself singing or playing guitar. As a language teacher that would be very useful in teaching pronunciation as well as bringing live culture to the class (since my class is all over the world and only connected to me by internet.

21 Oct 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

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Bryan Oct. 21, 2011, 6:19 p.m.

Hey Sam,

Not to confuse the issue, however, you have a multitude of tools at your disposal both free and paid.

In my experience, cheaper ( or free ) software does not normally play well with higher end applications ( WebEx). Your best bet is to stick to a suite of tools ( ie Adobe Captivate for video and Adobe Audition for audio) or stay with higher end tools like Screenflow or Camtasia.

Regarding hosting platforms, I would steer clear of Vimeo as they are somewhat late to the HTML5 game, and I have had one too many customers experience difficulties viewing content. Some alternatives are Brightcove ( my personal favortie), YouTube, Screencast.com, Blip.tv, or Viddler. These are all pretty intuitive platforms and vary from free to expensive.

There are a ton of factors that go into making a decision, but hopefully this post helped rather than hurt.

:)

Regards,

Bryan
Steve O'Connor Oct. 21, 2011, 4:11 p.m.

Audacity will be your friend. It's available on any platform.

Audio coupled with graphics is a powerful combination as you will see in the class.

Steve
karen Oct. 21, 2011, 3:45 p.m.

That's cool, Sam. Do you use any movie programs like Windows Movie Maker (free) or Premiere? That's how I usually add sound to multimedia. For more sophisticated editing or mixing, I also love Audacity (free, open source). I mostly use Windows. You?
Sam Oct. 21, 2011, 4:27 p.m.
In Reply To: karen Oct. 21, 2011, 3:45 p.m.

I have not used any movie programs, but probably should. I need to learn them and then I need to figure out if they will work in webex as a shared file.

Thanks to you and Steve for the suggestion. (btw, are you on the rez there in NM and AZ? You said you were out in the middle of nowhere).
karen Oct. 21, 2011, 4:43 p.m.
In Reply To: Sam Oct. 21, 2011, 4:27 p.m.

Steve, with Audacity, you still have to bring the resulting audio files into some kind of video program to get them together with images, right? I've always wished there were some kind of enhanced podcast type feature w/Audacity, but am not aware of one myself.

Sam, for online courses, I like to post my video elsewhere and stream them. It's faster for uses. I like Vimeo. It's like YouTube, but not blocked at most schools, has a more friendly environment, allows long files (I've uploaded videos over an hour), and supports open licensing. (I hate YouTube's terms of service.) I would guess you could share a video in this way through WebEx. It would basically just be a link (or you could embed).

I'm not on the res. (I have done some work on some res schools, but far north of here. We're south close to the Mexican border.) Just out in the high desert in some open range land with not much else around. It's very nice. :)
Sam Oct. 21, 2011, 4:53 p.m.
In Reply To: karen Oct. 21, 2011, 4:43 p.m.

Thanks. I am not terrible technical and don't seek out lots of techy stuff, so although much of the names I am hearing are familiar, I do not know how to use them. I guess I will have to look them up and teach myself how to use these things that you and Steve are suggesting to me.

I spent jr. high and high school in the Amazon, so although I lived in a small town and not way out in the jungle, I know the beauty of remoteness.
Steve O'Connor Oct. 21, 2011, 4:58 p.m.
In Reply To: karen Oct. 21, 2011, 4:43 p.m.

Karen--

Garageband can do that, but I don't know of a windows program that does. I'm almost ashamed to say that I have not worked much with Garageband or IMovie for that matter. I've mostly worked with Keynote which allows addition of audio. It can export to QuickTime Mov and retains the user controlled advance. It's not the most polished but it gets the job done.

I too prefer Vimeo. Just seems to be a nicer neighborhood and gives the creator licensing options including the ability to allow the content to be downloaded.
Sam Oct. 21, 2011, 5 p.m.
In Reply To: Steve O'Connor Oct. 21, 2011, 4:58 p.m.

Steve and Karen,

I will definitely look into Vimeo. Thanks again for the advice.
karen Oct. 23, 2011, 6:37 p.m.
In Reply To: Sam Oct. 21, 2011, 4:53 p.m.

Sam and everyone else, I posted a couple quick start guides for Audacity and Windows Movie Maker in the "help desk" task in the event that they are useful.

Please post any other help resources that you've found useful. YouTube is a good place to get help too!

(The Amazon, wow! I lived in Africa for a couple years. It was amazing.)