PRE-WORKSHOP TUTORIALS

TUESDAY

JUNE 27, 2000

The location of the Pre-workshop tutorials will be posted in the hotel and on the Web site, best to check for last minute changes. Workshops are open to non-workshop registrants after June 1 depending on availability. An additional fee of $50/ full day and $25/half day will be charged to non-registrants except to University of Utah staff. We reserve the option of canceling workshops with fewer than six registrants.

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Creating Web-based Multimedia with SMIL ($85 with lunch). Hands-on, Limit 20 Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $110. Marriott Library Computer Lab Room 1745.

INSTRUCTORS: Sebastian Uijtdehaage and Zhen Gu, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Who Should Attend: Anyone who realizes that effective learning environments can be created with synchronized multimedia. The workshop will help participants start creating SMIL multimedia presentations.

Prerequisites: The participants should be familiar with basic HTML, digital image formats (e.g., jpeg, gif), and with RealPlayer G2.

Synopsis: Creating synchronized multimedia for the Web was cumbersome until the recent introduction of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). SMIL is a surprisingly simple, HTML-like language with which a Web designer can synchronize video, audio, text and images. In this hands-on workshop the participant will: (1) learn how to prepare media for streaming delivery over the Web, (2) create a simple SMIL presentation, (3) review SMIL authoring tools, (4) assess SMIL alternatives.

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Wonders of QuickTime Pro Player as a Video Editing Tool. ($85 with lunch). Lecture/Demo format. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $110. Marriott Library Room 1715.

INSTRUCTORS: Paul E. Burrows, Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Synopsis: Whether working from a Windows or Macintosh computer, most think of the QuickTime Player (formerly known as Movie Player) as a way to view digital movies. It's much more than that. With the professional upgrade of your QuickTime Player, you have in your hands a powerful editing tool. You gain entrance into the multiple tracks of multimedia data that can be part of a QuickTime "movie." This workshop will demonstrate the editing functions of the QuickTime Pro Player. We will illustrate the various tracks (video, sound, music, text, 3-D, Sprite, MPEG, Flash) and show how the Player can be a great editing tool.

No prerequisites. Benefit in Attending Session: Don't want a full non-linear editing software package for your digital videos? What if your editing needs for QuickTime are straight forward and you want to prepare a finished movie for distribution? The QuickTime Pro Player may be the tool of choice.

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Technologies for Building Interactive, Database-Driven Web Applications: Features, Frustrations and Foibles ($85 with lunch) Lecture/Demo. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $110. History of Medicine Room, Eccles Health Sciences Library

INSTRUCTOR: Sharon E. Dennis, M.S., Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Prerequisites: For a beginner audience. Familiarity with basic Web terminology (Web server, browser, URL, etc.)

Synopsis: Everyone agrees that the best way to create and maintain Web site content and interactive Web applications is to build dynamic Web pages linked to a database. The question is, which technology to use to accomplish this? If you're confused by the alphabet soup of dynamic Web technologies (ASP, JSP, PHP) then attend this workshop to help you decide which technology is right for you. (If you'd like to learn how to code ASP's, see the pre-workshop "Introduction to ASP: Building Interactive, Database-driven Web Applications.")

Topics to be covered: Compare and contrast advantages and disadvantages of three dynamic Web server technologies: Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Page (JSP), and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor#. Explore various options for the back-end database to hold your content, depending on the type of content, your platform, technical expertise and how much traffic you expect to generate. Discuss experiences with graphical tools that claim to make it easier to generate dynamic Web pages without programming. Demonstrate a small application using all three technologies.

8:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Encoding, Editing and Authoring DVD and Streaming Video ($85 with lunch). Lecture / Demonstration. Preregistration required and limited to 10. Cost to non-workshop registrants $110. Eccles Health Sciences Library, Upper level

INSTRUCTORS: Jimmy Miklavcic, Univ. of Utah Center for High Performance Computing, and Nancy Lombardo, Eccles Health Sciences Library

Synopsis: The information age is demanding new ways to present information to those who seek it. Tools to produce multimedia presentations, whether they are passive or interactive, are abundant. This workshop will take the participant through the process of creating multimedia presentations for the Web, DVD, and video on demand (VOD). From capturing and encoding to editing and authoring, attendees will learn the basics in video streaming and servers, video production (edit, compositing & titling), and CD/ DVD authoring.

9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Getting Started with Macromedia Director 7. A Hands-on Introduction to a Popular Authoring Environment. ($150 with lunch) Preregistration Required. Limited to 15. Cost to non-registrants $200. Room 1705A Marriott Library

INSTRUCTORS: Michael Schacht Hansen and Jens Dørup, Section for Health Informatics, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Prerequisites: No prior experience with Director is required, but basic computer skills are.

Synopsis: Director is not something that can be mastered in a day, but this introduction will help the participants to get past the first few hurdles. The program will be divided into a morning session where everything is done by pointing and clicking with the mouse and an afternoon session where the attendees will get a first taste of Director’s very powerful scripting language, Lingo.

The following topics will be covered:

• Introduction to the environment. Understanding the Director metaphor.

• Basic animation (without scripts).

• Basic navigation (using the behaviors that ship with Director).

• An introduction to scripting in Director.

• Creating the first behavior.

• Deployment. Stand-alone application or the Web.

9:00 a.m. -4:30 p.m. Beginning JavaScript. ($150 with lunch) Hands-on. Preregistration Required. Limit 10. Cost to non-workshop participants $200. Computer Lab, Eccles Health Sciences Library, lower level.

INSTRUCTOR: Ulrich Woermann, Division for Instructional Media, University of Bern, Switzerland

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of HTML (especially forms) and a basic understanding of programming

Who should attend: Anyone who wants to add interactivity to a Web site without too much effort.

Synopsis: JavaScript is a world wide standard that allows Web authors to create cross-platform interactivity by controlling the various elements of HTML. JavaScript is not as powerful as compiled programming languages such as C++ or Java, but it is much easier to learn and to implement. Included are how to change an image (rollover effect), change the content of a frame, open a new window, and simple calculations. Debugging with the Netscape Console and Internet Explorer will be covered as well as MIME type mapping on the WWW-Server.

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Using LiveStage Pro to Create Interactive QuickTime Movies. ($75) Lecture/Demo. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-registrants $100. Marriott Library Room 1715

INSTRUCTOR: Paul E. Burrows, KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Synopsis: The software from Totally Hip Software, Inc. called LiveStage Professional was released in January of 2000. With it, a novice or an advanced user can create cross-platform QuickTime movies with multiple tracks of data (video, sound, music, 3D, text, Flash, MPEG, etc.) with clickable interactivity and hyperlinks. The finished movies can be distributed via the Web, as stand-alone, or embedded media.

Benefit: Get under the hood of QuickTime without being a programmer. With the use of LiveStage Professional, you can create multi-track QuickTime movies with interactivity and hyperlinks. These movies can be embedded in any Web page, just like regular QuickTime movies. QuickTime is more than a digital movie format, it is an entire architecture that acts as a container program for a host of digital media and interactive events. From linear digital movies and audio files, to VR, animated sprites and interactive buttons and hyperlinks...QuickTime can house them all within its "movie" format.

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. QuickTime for Java (QTJ) for Project Coordinators and Developers. ($75). Preregistration Required. Cost to non-registrants $100. Marriott Library Room 1745.

INSTRUCTORS: Martin Adler, Inga Hege, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Who should attend: A technical overview of QTJ for programmers demonstrating sample code and the use of the API. If you bring your own laptop you can experience the demonstrations on your own machine.

Synopsis: QuickTime became a quasi-standard for multimedia productions. With its low-priced streaming capabilities, QuickTime still holds its ground against competitors like REAL or Microsoft’s Media server technologies. QuickTime for Java (QTJ), first presented in 1998 and published in 1999, was the next logical step. This workshop will provide project coordinators and developers with all the information they need for the use of QuickTime for Java in their own multimedia projects. Integrate movies into Java applications and applets. QuickTime for Java and SUN's Media Framework seemed to be the only available solutions.

1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Finding and Using Rich Content for Medical Education. Hands-on. ($75) Preregistration Required. Limit 15. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $100. Computer Lab, Eccles Health Sciences Library, lower level.

INSTRUCTOR: Robert S. Stephenson, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Prerequisites: None. This session is designed to show faculty how to enrich their courses by finding, evaluating and linking material already on the Web into their courses. A great place to get started if you are an instructor and NOT interested in creating new content.

Synopsis: Rich Content, such as simulations, animations, 3-D models and interactive quizzes and tutorials, helps students to learn better, learn more, remember better and enjoy it more. Since it leads to more effective teaching Rich Content will soon be a staple in every course. Besides scientific accuracy, Rich Content must adhere to principles of sound design and pedagogy. The Harvey Project (http://harveyproject.org), an open course collaboration to build rich content for physiology, has developed procedures and standards for peer review of Rich Content. There are a number of databases that allow you to search for Rich Content of a particular sort on a particular topic. This introduces Beads & String, an open source tool which allows a faculty member to assemble a collection of Web pages into a particular sequence (like stringing beads for a necklace) and then give that string to students to follow in a Web browser.