ABSTRACT:

Instructors and faculty in higher education find that it takes a large amount of time to learn to use new technologies in the classroom. Multimedia specialists who support faculty find that if faculty have a hard time using the technology they will not be enthusiastic about applying it to their teaching. It is difficult for university faculty and teaching assistants to carve out large blocks of time to acquire new skills. They want technologies that can give them a large benefit from spending a minimal amount of time. It is particularly difficult for them to achieve their teaching objectives using multimedia.

This workshop will introduce an effective and practical approach to select and provide easy-to-learn multimedia technologies for instructors to use in an online format. These methods will encourage instructors to use technology to enhance their teaching. This workshop will demonstrate both audio and video multimedia technologies through which instructors can quickly acquire and easily apply skills to their teaching activities, and get a notable improvement of their teaching. It will consist of two sections, audio, and video.

The audio section will introduce easy-to-use methods for instructors to add audio narration to PowerPoint slides for online presentations, methods that do not require a lot of additional work. These online narrated slideshow can be used in classroom lectures, conference session previews, or other teaching or training activities. This workshop will cover methods using Microsoft's PowerPoint, Apple's QuickTime, and RealNetwork's RealPresenter. The video section will cover the evaluation and choosing of a reliable and easy-to-use desktop video editing system with a focus on Adobe Premiere. Adobe Premiere allows for integration with both analog and digital video and can be supported easily on the university campus. Built-in export features used to compress video clips that are new in Premiere 6.0 will be demonstrated. Example clips will be exported in a variety of formats.

BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:  

This workshop will appeal to instructional designers, technologists, faculty development specialists, student technology support staff, instructional librarians, university faculty and graduate assistants who are actively working in technology and digital audio/video support and integration in the higher education field. In this workshop they will learn easy-to-learn-and-use methods for presenting audio and video technologies online using PowerPoint, QuickTime, RealPresenter, and Premiere 6.0.

Taeyeol Park
Dahlgren Memorial Library
Georgetown University Medical Center
3900 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: (202) 687-5089
Fax: (202) 687-1703
Email: tp3@georgetown.edu

CO-AUTHORS:
Trevor James
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University
37th and N Streets, NW
Washington, D.C., 20057
Email: tj3@georgetown.edu