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STREAMED AUDIO FOR WEB-BASED COURSES
A one-day workshop from ALT

DATE: 4 July 2000
VENUE: University of Portsmouth
TIME: 0930-1630
COST: stlg 70 (ALT members), stlg 120 (non-members)

OVERVIEW
The workshop locates audio and streamed audio in the range of 
educational multimedia and considers the pedagogic and 
technological issues surrounding its use.

Streaming audio has many advantages for web-based educational 
applications:
* Audio is relatively easy to produce. At its simplest a microphone, 
a sound card and suitable software is all that is needed 
* The educational value of a "talking head" on video is doubtful 
* Streamed audio files are much smaller than streamed video of 
comparable duration, in fact, small enough to work well through a 
modem, and so a good match for current resources 
* Talking about some images projected as slides is a well- 
understood form of didactic teaching that translates easily into a 
web-based environment 
* The approach is very useful for distant learners who may be 
working through a modem

The workshop will review the technologies available for developing
streamed audio and offer participants practice in developing 
streamed audio using various approaches. Practical work will 
enable participants to create their own streamed audio in which a 
spoken commentary is automatically synchronised with a set of 
slides that may themselves be produced using PowerPoint, 
scanned images, digital photographs or html text. Educational 
applications of the technology are developed by exercises and 
through practical work.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED
1. The role of audio in web-based education
2. Streamed and unstreamed media
3. Using an audio track to trigger events
4. Embedding streamed audio in a web page
5. Different systems
- Real software
- ASF software
- QuickTime software

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Tertiary teachers and learning support staff who are likely to be
involved in the development of educational web pages

PRE-REQUISITES
* Some teaching experience as a practitioner or in a support role 
* Some experience of producing web pages 
* Some experience with PowerPoint or similar presentation 
software is desirable

PROGRAMME
0930 Registration and coffee
0945 Introduction
1000 Using audio in education - the difference the web makes
1030 Tea/Coffee break
1050 The technological options - Real software; the Microsoft         
        approach; QuickTime
1145 Design of a streamed audio presentation with synchronised    
        slides
1215 Lunch
1300 Practical preparation
1315 Using RealSideShow
1415 Using RealProducer
1515 Tea/Coffee break
1530 Selected project presentations
1615 Plenary
1630 Close and depart

EXPECTED OUTCOMES
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
* Implement a presentation using streamed audio with 
synchronised slides
* Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the various 
approaches
* Deliver the streamed presentation over the world wide web

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Jonathan Crellin, Terry King and John Rosbottom all teach in the
Department of Information Systems at the University of 
Portsmouth. All three have a long-standing interest in the 
educational uses of multimedia and the world wide web.

Maxine Wesley is a multimedia programmer in the University's 
Media Development Centre and has experience of developing on-
line presentations involving streamed audio and streamed video 
combined with text and images.

VENUE
The workshop is being hosted by the Department of Information 
Systems at the University of Portsmouth.

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
The workshop will be held in the Portland and Buckingham Building 
on the University's Guildhall campus. For travel information and 
maps, please visit: 
http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/~johnr/WhereWeAre.html

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