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Multimedia Tools to Accommodate the Adult Learner
William F Perry, MA, RN
Objectives
At the end of the day you will be able to: Manipulate images, audio and video Use Web 2.0 tools to collaborate/communicate
Tools and techniques
Educate Communicate Collaborate
Computer Microphone Digital camera Webcam
Hardware
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
Free to download Free to use It is protected by copyright
Different from Free, Public Domain or Creative Commons
What is “Open Source”
Yes
Constantly under revision and improvement by a global community of developers
Does NOT absolve you of the need to practice safe computing.
Is it safe?
Just about anything you need. Audio/video/graphics Tools Collaboration tools Tools to create tests, polls, surveys Images
What’s available?
Great concern re: spyware, malware, viruses Many online services may be blocked
YouTube Blogs iTunes
Can I use them in my facility
Looking at Learning Preferences
Auditory Visual Kinesthetic
Auditory preference
Auditory learners listeners may repeat to hear own voice and process
information engage in mental dialogues
Visual preference
Visual learners prefer seeing what they are learning pictures and images help them understand Translate descriptions to images
Kinesthetic preferences
Kinesthetic learners want to sense position and movement 'get their hands dirty’ often favour scenarios and labs
Learning style inventory
Online learning style preference assessment:
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
http://www.learning-styles-online.com/
Multimodal learners
Most people have greater retention with a multimodal approach
Today’s students & instructors
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 Gen X: 1965 – 1980 (28-43) Gen Y: 1981 – 1989 (19-29)
Baby Boomers
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 Transistor radio: 1950’s 8 track cassette player: 1960’s
Gen X
Gen X: 1965 – 1980 (28-43) Video games (pong): 1970’s Personal Computer, Sony Walkman:1980’s
Gen Y
Gen Y: 1981 – 90 (18-29) CD players, World Wide Web: 1990’s iPod: 2000
“Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.”
Marc Prensky “Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants” http://www.marcprensky.com/
Digital natives
Building on familiar tools
PowerPoint Images Audio Video
Finding images
Clip art in PowerPoint Commercial libraries Digital photographs Internet
Free images on the Web
Public Health Image Libraryhttp://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
Stock.XCHNGhttp://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml
Royalty free images
Resizing and Cropping Images
Change of physical dimensions Cut out unwanted portions
Don’t forget to decrease file size
Smaller files = faster loading
Resize and Crop in PowerPoint
Compress the images
DPI and Format
DPI= dots per inch 72 -150
GIF – 256 colors – lossless PNG – lots of colors – lossless JPG – photographs – lossy
Online image editors
Online http://www.pixlr.com http://www.picnik.com
Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
Paint.nethttp://www.getpaint.net/
Image editors to download
Converting PowerPoint
PDF or Flash No need for PowerPoint Table of contents Small file sizes
PowerPoint Tools
AuthorPoint Litehttp://www.authorgen.com/authorpoint-lite-free/powerpoint-to-flash-converter.aspx
Open Officehttp://www.openoffice.org
Creating Audio
Narrating PowerPoint Creating mp3 files
Insert into PowerPoint presentations Create podcasts
Audio Formats
MP3 – wide variety of players WMA – Windows Media Audio MP4 – iPod and iTunes
File Size and Audio Quality
The bitrate of an audio file is a key indicator of the quality level of that file.
2 minutes of audio 128K 2MB CD quality 64K 1MB FM radio 32K .5MB AM radio
Time to download
2MB Dial-up: 5-8 min Broadband: 10-30 sec
1MB Dial-up: 3-5 min Broadband: 5-15 sec
.5MB (500K) Dial-up: 1.5-2 min Broadband: 2-8 sec
Tools to Create Audio
Audacity Microphone
Podcasts
Audio files place on an Internet site Subscription option – automatically updated
Gcast: Podcasting the easy way http://www.gcast.com/
Subscribing to a Podcast
Feed reader
Google Reader http://reader.google.com
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com
Video – Vodcasts and Screencasts
Vodcast: video with subscription options Screencast: video and narration of screen
activity
http://www.screencastcentral.com/
Video Formats
Windows Media Files - .wmv Quicktime - .mov Shockwave Flash - .swf Flash video - .flv iTunes – mp4
Tools to create and edit video
Software bundled with your camera Debut Video Capture – capture video Microsoft Movie Maker – edit video
Tools to Create Screencasts
Commercial Camtasia Captivate
Free/Open Source CamStudio Jing Screen Toaster
Putting Video in your Presentation
Be careful of file formats PowerPoint can embed .wmv Use a link to play other video formats
Collaboration Tools
Wiki Shared
documents Mindmaps
Using a Wiki
A website that can be edited by anyone Able to revert to earlier versions Wikipedia http://www.AskDrWiki.com
Shared Documents
Google Docs Zoho Docs
Mindmaps
Graphical diagramming
Communication Tools
Asynchronous Email Discussion boards/forums
Synchronous Text chat/instant messaging Video chat
Discussion Boards
Usually available in your LMS Threaded vs unthreaded
http://www.allnurses.com
Instant Messaging
LMS Meebo
Video Chat
Skype Google talk
Option to use/not use video Can function in text only mode
Blogs to Journal the Journey
Different from a wiki Individual focused No revision history Does allow comments and responses
Blogger Wordpress
Blogs as a teaching tool
http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/
Self Assessment Tools
LMS Camtasia Captivate
Udutu – http://www.udutu.com
Course development tools
Virtual Rooms
Classroom Office hours 1:1 help
Personal Start Pages
PageFlakes NetVibes iGoogle
RSS
What is RSS and what does it have to do with this topic?
Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication
It’s a way of automatically checking various Internet resources for updates and delivering the content to your browser.
Once you have “subscribed” to a site your computer checks for new content without having to go to each site.
What is RSS?
RSS Readers
Read online using a browser Google Reader: http://google.com/reader/ Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com
Create a self updating bibliography
To automatically search PubMed for articles on a specific topic go to http://pubmed.gov or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/.
Enter you search terminology and click the “go” button. When the resulting list of citations is diplayed, click the drop down next to “Send to” and select RSS feed. An address will be generated that you can copy into your feed reader.
Searching PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov
Create a self updating bibliography
Your search is automatically updated and sent to your reader as new articles are added toPubMed.
Survey Monkeyhttp://www.surveymonkey.com
Survey Gizmohttp://www.surveygizmo.com/
Surveys & evaluations
New Directions
Games Virtual worlds iPods
Games & learning
Characteristics that keep user attention Engagement Action Problem solving Visible results Strategies to include active participation Computer games as a serious training tool
Second Life
iPod
Audio Video iTunes University
Directory of elearning tools
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/
Finding more resources
Thank you!
Bill [email protected]