Name: Delbert L. Hall, Ph.D.
Aud_Level: Intermediate
Length: 60 minutes
Description: Everyone complains that teaching an Internet
course requires an incredible amount of time to prepare when compared
to traditional course. But what if you could put your traditional
courses on the Internet? It would be easy to do if you could just
put a video of you lecture on the Internet. But everyone who has
used video on
the Internet knows that it takes a huge bandwidth just to send
a tiny, fuzzy, and jerky image over the Internet. This option
is not practical at this time.
However, still images saved as .GIF or .JPG files can quickly
be sent over the Internet to most Web browsers. And, many radio
stations broadcast their programs over the Internet using streaming
audio. But, is there a way to marry these technologies to our
benefit? Yes. There is inexpensive and easy to use software that
allows the synchronization of PowerPoint presentations, saved
as HTML, with Real Audio sound files that can be streamed over
the Internet. Together, they can create presentations of significant
length (we typically create presentation of 60 to 90 minutes in
length from lectures done for Instructional TV courses) that are
can be made available on demand over the Internet. One course
at East Tennessee State University is currently using this method
as the primary means of delivering lectures to students over the
Internet.
This session will demonstrate how to create Internet presentations
using this software and discuss it advantages over other technologies.
Abstract: Can a course on the Internet be more like a traditional
course, with real lectures that the students can hear and see?
Can these presentations be asynchronous? Can these presentations
be
full-screen? Can students with 14.4K baud modems get them? Can
a presentation be started at any point in the lecture? Can these
presentations be created in hours and not weeks? Can these
presentations download in seconds instead of hours? Can this be
done without spending thousands of dollars for software, require
gigabytes of hard drive space to store, and be created by someone
without a Ph.D. in computer science? The answer is "Yes."
Preferred Track: Track 1
Session Type: Lecture/Presentation
Address:
Delbert L. Hall
ETSU
Box 70730
Johnson City, TN 37614
Affiliation: East Tennessee State University
Equipment: Data projector
Email: halld@etsu.edu
Phone: 423-439-5826
Audience: Faculty
Fax: 423-439-6798