Appendix Two
A New Generation of LTAs

This is only a short representative list of Multimedia Software, which fits the philosophy and characteristics of LTAs and which empowers the user like never before. Most of these programs are for the Macintosh platform. The PC in most cases has an equivalent These truly are promises of things to come.

Multimedia Authoring

EzediaMX http://www.ezedia.net
Revolutionizes media integration and editing allowing anyone to quickly create digital portfolios, storyboards, business presentations, multimedia slide shows, animations and interactive quizzes and CD ROM projects

QuickTime http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Many people mistake quicktime for just a movie/video player. It is much more, it is a powerful multimedia authoring platform. It has multiple programmable tracks which will manage multiple media.

eZediaQTI http://www.ezedia.com
Released in January 2003 eZediaQTI is a QuickTime authoring program. Based on the EzediaMX model it creates rich and interactive internet content. Users can quickly combine and enhance video, graphics, animation, sound, VRs and text to rapidly develop web sites, internet banner ads, interactive videos and online presentations

Image Management Editing and Storage

iLife http://www.apple.com/ilife/ At the end of January 2003 Apple released new versions of its iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD. As well as a great many new features, the main new development is how the four programs are integrated and work together. This philosophy is consistent to that of LTA's and provides a strong platform for faculty to develop Multimedia

iPhoto http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
Digital cameras are revolutionizing the way we take pictures. This software revolutionizes the way we save, organize, share and enjoy them. It lets you import your pictures from your digital camera, organize them, edit and improve them, and share them in a number of different ways.

iMovie http://www.apple.com/imovie/
This software has completely revolutionized non linear digital editing for the everyday user. It is truly a LTA which empowers the user to capture, edit ,add transitions and effects and sound editing. It is so simple yet so powerful

iDVD http://www.apple.com/idvd
This DVD authoring software gives you the tools to create top-notch, professional-looking DVDs in a few simple steps. It’s the perfect way to distribute the movies and digital images you create on your Macintosh.

Music Management and Authoring

iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/
An easy to operate yet extremely powerfula nd flexible digital music player.The intuitive interface lets you quickly encode music Cds inot Mp3 files, create playlists and burn music Cds

SmartSound Movie Maestro http://www.smartsound.com/moviemaestro/
This is soundtrack authoring, making your movies sound like professionally produced “Hollywood” films has never been easier. Perfect for home video enthusiasts and educators, it is designed to be the easiest audio software on the market,

Interactive Quiz Authoring

Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

Webpage Conversion

GoClick for Macintosh http://www.terrymorse.com/
It still converts any document into a Web page with one click, plus it maintains even the most complex document layout

Click to Convert for PC http://www.clicktoconvert.com/
It quickly and efficiently publishes your desktop documents into HTML and makes them available on the Internet, Intranet or Extranet to anyone with a web browser.

Open Source e-Learning Platforms and
Asynchronous Discussion Forums

Discus http://www.discusware.com
Discus (freeware) and Discus Pro are discussion board software packages that can be installed onto any Unix or Windows web server. This program can be integrated with a static frames based website and can emulate a Blackboard or WebCT virtual learning space. For an example see http://virtual-campus.acu.edu.au/edre515

Colloquia http://www.colloquia.net/
Colloquia is described as a peer-to-peer learning management and groupware system. It is a software system that supports group working and group learning. It allows any user to set up a working or learning group around a particular topic (a context), add people to it, add resources (web pages, documents etc) to it, set up group tasks, and then engage in group and personal "conversations" about the topic.

Claroline http://www.claroline.net/
A free GPLsoftware working with PHP/MySQL. It is a course based educational tool allowing the teacher to create, admin and feed his/her courses through the web. To launch e-learning with Claroline, an organisation needs to spend money only on hardware and bandwidth. All software required can be downloaded free of charge, both server side: Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postfix (or Sendmail), Claroline. And client side: any browser.

The solution, as the recent success of Linux and other Open Source solutions shows, is to create a true community of users, developpers, debuggers, translators... Claroline has already been translated in 12 languages and benefits from debugging and development from all over the world. Universites, schools, companies and organisations collaborate around claroline to get the tool working better and to have it fit their needs.