Many instructors digitize media for use in the classroom or course websites. This section explains how best to prepare your materials for digitizing and how to use some of the basic media processing and delivery tools.
Processing Audio: How best to prepare audio media (casette tapes, CDs) for digitization in the ITC Lab (or using a similar software set-up).
Processing Video : How best to prepare video media for your class in the ITC Lab or on your home computer using iMovie and iDVD.
Accessing Audio and Video: How to access audio and video course content - instructions for browser plug-ins as well as Video Furnace (OID).
Audio & Video in PowerPoint: How to include audio and video content when making a Powerpoint presentation.
Wimba Communication & Assessment Tools : WIMBA is a suite of online communications tools as well as an Oral Assessment Builder. Instructors and students can communicate using Voice Email, Voice Discussion Boards, and Voice Direct (a voice chat tool). With the Oral Assessment Builder, instructors can create online oral assessments for students to take, as well as give oral feedback to students..
Audacity: Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
iTunes - coming soon...
Multimedia Overview: A brief introduction and overview of multimedia options and tools.
Related links and tutorials from OID TEC:
Camtasia, Digitizing Audio and Video, Flash, iMovie, Podcasting
Last updated September 30, 2006 by mg