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Multimedia in Online Courses - Bells and Whistles or Solutions?

Flash

 

 

Introduction
text and audio
text, audio, and graphics
Flash - 1st generation
Flash - 2nd generation
Flash - 3rd generation
Powerpoint to Flash
Powerpoint to QuickTime

Flash - Cool stuff

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3rd Generation

Here is one of our most recent courses. We keep getting better at this all the time. After viewing these movies for his course, the instructor said that they illustrate the concepts better than he can ever imagine doing in the classroom.

EE 5301 - Advanced Engineering Analysis

Click on the Go button and advance the slider bar to 3:42 to see a wonderful example of using Flash to present content:

The player functionality and frame was created by one of the Center's media techs and Flash developer, Mark Chapman. In this second generation of the player, we added the frame around the movie and enhanced the graphic interface and functionality to include the scrolling copyright statement and timer window.

Project Manager and Designer: Eli Collins-Brown
Media Technicians and Flash Developers: Ron Savarese, Brett Benham

What about using content already in Powerpoint?........

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Presentation made by Eli Collins-Brown at the
19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Madison, WI
August 13 - 15, 2003

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