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(10/11/02 TLT-SWG #39 Approx. 3 pages from Allan Carrington
of Australian Catholic U. <allan@unity.com.au>
ARE THERE ANY LOW-THRESHOLD OPTIONS FOR DEVELOPING SOME
KINDS OF MULTIMEDIA FOR INSTRUCTION THAT MANY FACULTY
MEMBERS COULD LEARN AND USE MOSTLY BY THEMSELVES?
Carrington is asking how he can help a faculty member who
has just decided to try to develop some "multimedia" as
support for a course. This person has no staff or grad
students assigned to provide assistance; and no special
funds for purchasing expensive equipment, software, or
training. This faculty member expects to develop the
multimedia himself/herself, and is willing to spend some
time - but not too much - doing so.
Can you suggest some tools, readings, Websites that would
help? Could you do so more easily and credibly if the
needs were limited to a specific academic discipline or
division or level or course? Can you offer some Low-
Threshold, especially low INCREMENTAL COST, options? LT
Applications? LT Professional Development resources for
self-teaching/learning?
For a start, see:
http://www.tltgroup.org/OpenSource/Base.htm
and
http://www.tltgroup.org/LTAs/Overview.htm
Carrington offers a set of useful, more focused questions,
but he ends with this request, offer, and final question:
"Please email me or post to the TLT-SWG List links to any
online, freely accessible, resources to help educators
build and use multimedia [broadly defined]. I will
consolidate the feedback and publish the links on a web
page in consultation with the Team at TLT ... ASAP!
...
"Should we build a definitive resource site with articles
and online courses and advice on 'how to' for the latest
revolution in instructional design thinking and desktop
software/tools?"
To what extent CAN such resources actually enable someone
to develop good quality multimedia for teaching and
learning? What are the characteristics of faculty who
could use these resources effectively? Under what
conditions?
Having plenty of time? Good independent learners? Self-
disciplined? Optimistic? Tenured?)
Steve Gilbert
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G'day
And greetings from Downunder. My name is Allan Carrington
and I work as a Learning and Teaching professional officer
for the Australian Catholic University here in Sydney. I
have a Masters in Interactive Multimedia from the
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and I am also in the
middle of my Masters of Education majoring in Online
Learning with the University of Southern Queensland (USQ).
Hyperlinking lead me to the TLT Group website during the
research for an assignment for my MEd. I wish I had found
it four weeks ago.
The assignment is to write a paper for a simulated academic
conference which is part of the course, Multimedia
Applications in Education. First we had to write a
proposal which I think will interest those of the TLT
community. It is about LTAs (I only discovered this as a
term today) for the production of multimedia. Please read
it on
http://www.unity.com.au/assignments/propac.htm
I was wondering if you would help me with some resource
material/URLs to address point 4 of my proposal. It reads
"4. What are the latest technologies (including software)
that enable faculty to produce multimedia projects that
reflect best practices, using Interactive Desktop Education
Applications (what a good I.D.E.A.)? The paper will focus
on their strengths and weaknesses".
To see where I'm going with this I am going to approach it
as if a faculty member says he/she has decided that
multimedia is the best support for their online course they
are developing. Also that reality and resources are forcing
them to develop the multimedia product themselves.
I am asking for help from the group in the areas typically
identified by the questions running through the mind of
these "brave academics". They actually become needs
analysis
1, Where do I start? COMMENT: Such things as planning
resources and mind maps, how to plan, lists of pedagogical
strengths and weaknesses of each multimedia technology.
2. What choices of what types of multimedia could I or
should I use? COMMENT: Explanations of the different types
of multimedia and their strengths and weaknesses for
educational application e.g. Sound - both audio and music,
Video - planning, shooting and production for the internet,
animated images and their uses for movement and
demonstration., slideshows, interactive quizzes inside
flash and other ways like JavaScript and finally QuickTime
3. Good grief not "legal-speak" please, what is the bottom
line on fair use? COMMENT: Resources that explain copyright
in lay terms. Speak specifically to using excerpts from
movies and TV for teachable moments.
4. What software can I use? Is it hard to learn? COMMENT:
Such things as overview from an educational perspective, of
current "hot" software. Their features and benefits and
their learning curves.
I am looking for available tutorials and open source
resources available via the Internet, that will help the
Academic get started. Material for "Producing Educational
Multimedia 101".
I titled my proposal for a conference paper "Creative
Curriculum for Dummies - Producing Best Practice Multimedia
for the Rest of Us" I think from some of the feedback that
some of my peers were a little taken back by the reference
to "Dummies". I wonder if I wasn't being too smart linking
it to the brilliant publishing themes of IDG with their
Dummies series.
I am looking for easily accessible LTA training and
resources for the rest of us (apologies to IDG) i.e. The
normal overworked academic.
It all started when I stumbled on and quickly purchased
EzediaMX from http://www.ezedia.ca It is the most exciting
multimedia manager and authoring tool I've seen since
Director. Ezedia's software is definitely built for the
rest of us. I see EzediaMX, the iMovie plugins and the soon
to be released QTI (QuickTime Interactive) as programs that
will empower the faculty member to do a lot more
professional work themselves from their desktops.
+++ TO SUMMARIZE +++
IS THERE AN ONGOING NEED FOR THESE RESOURCES: I believe
there is. This morning I put "Producing Multimedia for
Education" and other combinations into Google and went
surfing for resources to help faculty produce best practice
multimedia for their curriculum and use. After a solid long
day of research and compiling: They are "as scarce as hens
teeth" as they say here in Australia. If I was an academic
trying to push the envelope with creative pieces to support
pedagogy ... I would be saying right now. "It's not worth
it, I will just post a PowerPoint file and forget it" :-O
POSSIBILITIES:
1. Please email me or post to the List links to any online,
freely accessible, resources to help Educators build and
use multimedia. I will consolidate the feedback and publish
the links on a web page in consultation with the Team at
TLT ... ASAP!
HELP! Could you respond quickly please as I would like to
share the research with my fellow students of my Masters.
2. Am I correct? Is there a wonderful opportunity here to
address a major need of the teaching and learning world?
Should we build a definitive resource site with articles
and online courses and advice on "how to" for the latest
revolution in instructional design thinking and desktop
software/tools?
Are we re-inventing the wheel or would it be a blessing,
dare I say a lifeline, for "the rest of us" educators who
want LTAs to produce Multimedia pieces to support
curriculum.
What do you think?
FINAL COMMENT AND COMMITMENT:
I am prepared to serve as instigator or goad of a TLT-SWG
conversation on this topic, under the leadership of the TLT
team, should it be so requested.
Your help on these things will be much appreciated.
Regards Allan
Life-Long Learning is no longer optional
+ "In times of change LEARNERS inherit the earth; while the
LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with
the world that no longer exists" -- Alvin Toffler
+ "We must become the change we want to make." -- Mahatma
Gandhi
+ "When you are through changing, you are through." -- Will
Rogers
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Allan & Glynis Carrington
131 Auburn Road Birrong NSW 2143,
Australia Tel: +61-2-9738 8961
Mobile: 040 2468777
Email: allan@unity.com.au
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