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Audio, Video, and Graphics to Engage On-line Students. Kimberly Morton and Crystal Hunnicutt University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Objective.
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Audio, Video, and Graphics to Engage On-line Students Kimberly Morton and Crystal Hunnicutt University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Objective • To demonstrate inexpensive and easy-to-use software programs that will help faculty and technology personnel to learn new ways to add content driven pizzazz to standard on-line courses. These tools will help to engage the student into an active learning role through the use of interactive games, audio, video, and pictures. • Photoshop Elements • StudyMate by Respondus • Impatica for PowerPoint • Impatica OnCue • SoftChalk
Why bother? • “Millennials” or the Net Generation or Generation Z, as they are often called, are used to being entertained • They process small bites of information • They want their information delivered in an interactive format • They want lots of eye candy
Photoshop Elements • Cost: $69 • (Academic pricing through www.journeyed.com) • Used to create: • Backgrounds • Icons • Banners • Other uses: • Altering pictures • Creating collages • Adding text • Demo: -> -> ->
StudyMate by Respondus • Cost: $79 • (Academic pricing through www.respondus.com) • Uses: • Create ten Flash-based activities and games and easily upload them to a website or WebCT/Blackboard course. • Allows you to import items from MS Word files and publisher test banks, making it easy to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. • Does not require programming knowledge. • Demo:
Impatica for PowerPoint • Cost: $499 (Free trial available) • http://www.impatica.com/ • Uses: • Lets you deliver fully narrated and animated PowerPoint presentations to pretty much any Internet device without plug-ins. • It converts the PowerPoint file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. Usually 95% smaller than the PowerPoint HTML files. • Demo:
Impatica OnCue • Cost: $499 (Free trial available) • http://www.impatica.com/ • Uses: Allows video files to be integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint and delivered over the Internet without the need for plug-ins and at a much smaller file size. • Demo:
SoftChalk Lessonbuilder • Cost: $450 (Educational Version)www.softchalk.com • Uses: Creates professional interactive web pages that include pop-up text annotations, self-assessment quizzes, and interactive learning games. The presenter will demonstrate this tool and how easy it is to create and upload into a WebCT course. • Demo:
