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Multimedia in Online Courses - Bells and Whistles or Solutions?

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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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PowerPoint to QuickTime

A year after finishing CSE 5348, another professor came to us with fully developed powerpoint lectures. We looked again at PowerPoint as a way to present content that would not incur the vast amount of development hours of Flash, and discovered a way to sync the audio with the PowerPoint slides and create a QT movie that is cross-platform and cross-browser. The development time for this type of media is about half of the time to develop Flash.

For diagrams that do not display clearly in these movies, we provided full page PDF notes that the student can access and print.

CSE 5350 - Computer Architecture II

Project Manager and Designer: Eli Collins-Brown
Media Technician: Ron Savarese

As a side note, shortly after we completed this course, we came across a nifty little program called LiveSlideShow (http://www.liveslideshow.com/) that automated this exact process, speeding up development time to 2 days per 30 minutes of content. Quite an improvement!

Well into our Flash development learning curve, we also were able to create some really cool stuff........

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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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