New Media Technology multi-media manual

McKinney Engineering Libr ary Multimedia T utorial Production Guide A guide to the production of multi-media library instruction using streaming media technology .[...]

p. 2 p. 2 p. 3 T able of Contents Is Streaming Media the Right Choice? ........................................... 3 Planning Y our Instruction ......................................................... 4 Determining A vailable T echnology/Skill Sets .................................. 5 Script Creation ...............................................[...]

p. 2 p. 2 p. 3 Is Streaming Media the Right Choice? There are a variety of media formats that can fa- cilitate the successful delivery of online instruc- tion; the one you choose should reect the goals and abilities of your instructors and learners. This guide is based on the redesigned online Engineering Communications T utorial at the Universi[...]

p. 4 p. 4 p. 5 Course Goal: 1. Acquaint students with strategies for effective Internet searching. Course Objectives: 1. Students will be able to explain the differences between dif ferent search engines. • Google • Y ahoo • Altavista 2. Students will be able to dene relevance. 3. Students will be able to construct a Boolean search. 4. Stu[...]

p. 4 p. 4 p. 5 Determining A vailable T echnology/Skill Sets The technology with which you choose to deliver your instruction should complement the instruc- tional goals and audience proles that were de- ned in the rst section. This guide focuses on the use of streaming media (using Real® media delivery tools) to deliver audio, video, ani[...]

p. 6 p. 6 p. 7 Script Creation The rst step in producing your instructional ma- terials is creating the audio scripts for the indi- vidual sections. The audio will guide the learner through the information in each section of your tutorial, so the script should be crafted with your instructional goals and objectives in mind. Create scripts for ea[...]

p. 6 p. 6 p. 7 V isual Media Creation The options for visual media creation are limited only by your imagination—and project dead- line! Between static images, animations, video, and text there are innite combinations of rich, expressive visual delivery methods for your in- struction. The next step is to create visual media that will be displa[...]

p. 8 p. 8 p. 9 V isual Media Creation Flash segment itself. Short, simple animations are the easier to integrate with audio than pro- longed displays. Third, the more keypoints in your Flash movie, the larger the le. Keep keypoints to a minimum. Complex scripting should also be avoided. Although Real maintains that interaction with Flash element[...]

p. 8 p. 8 p. 9 Audio Media Creation There are as many software combinations avail- able for audio media production as there are for visual media production. In addition, a range of audio recording hardware is available depend - ing on your needs and expertise. Remember that the quality of your audio is affected by the quality of every step in the r[...]

p. 10 p. 10 p. 11 Synchronizing Y our T utorial with SMIL SMIL, the synchronized multimedia integration language, is an XML-based mark-up language. If you’ve ever used HTML to create a Web page, SMIL will look somewhat familiar . A very simple SMIL le and an included RealPix le appear on the right. Notice that in SMIL, as in XML, every tag [...]

p. 10 p. 10 p. 11 Synchronizing Y our T utorial with SMIL le—called “slides.rp”—is a RealPix le. The contents of the RealPix le appears to the lower right. RealPix is a lot like SMIL; it’s a mark-up language that makes it easy to dene transitions like fade-outs and wipes between your images. Notice that the RealPix le conta[...]

p. 12 p. 12 p. 13 Publishing Y our T utorial Online The nal step in producing your online tutorial is publishing it on the Web. Y our tutorial may consist of just one SMIL presentation, or it may be a series of presentations. Y ou must decide how to present these les in a way that facili- tates your instruction. Y ou may wish to provide a lin[...]

p. 12 p. 12 p. 13 Evaluating Y our T utorial Evaluation is a crucial step in the instructional design process. Evaluation allows you to con- tinuously increase the effectiveness of your instruction and hone your design skills. Since your instruction is an online tutorial, you’ll face unique challenges in evaluating your work—but don’t be disc[...]

p. 14 p. 14 p. 15 The redesigned Engineering Communications T utorial and the development process upon which this guide was based would not have been possible without the contributions of the staff at the Digital Library Services Division and the Dig- ital Information Literacy Ofce, eLeader Project. Thanks go out to Aaron Choate, Peter Keane, Ma[...]

p. 14 p. 14 p. 15 References 1. Nancy H. Dewald, “T rasnsporting Good Library Instruction Practices into the Web Environment: An Analysis of Online T utorials, ” Journal of Aca- demic Librarianship 25 (January 1999), 26. 2. Brandon Hall, Web-Based T raining Cookbook (New Y ork: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 4. 3. Dewald, 26. 4. ACRL Instruction[...]