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Multimedia in Online Courses - Bells and Whistles or Solutions?

Powerpoint

 

 

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

What's next?
 
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PowerPoint to Flash

One of our instructors had all of his lectures in PowerPoint presentations,complete with extensive animations. We worked with PowerPoint to sync the audio with the slides, but the end product was not cross-platform. So we created Flash movies that resembled the look and function of PowerPoint, while giving us the flexibility to sync audio and add detailed highlighting.

CSE 5348 - Multimedia Systems

Move the slider bar to the right just above the 'n' in education to see some very nice use of animating illustrations to demonstrate the concept more clearly.

Project Manager and Designer: Eli Collins-Brown
Media Technician: Chris Bowden

But our development times were still very high, so........

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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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