Steve
we had a demo a few weeks ago of something similar from Boxmind
http://www.boxmind.com/ and we had similar feelings about it.
We compared it to PPT: Boxmind drives slides and notes from the video
timeline, although this can be rewound. Although you could embed
video/audio clips in PPT slides they would be controlled by the user's
selection of the slides. (But that may be better.)
Stephen Bostock, Keele
At 12:39 29/05/2002, Stephen Brydges wrote:
>I have just seen a demo by eLecture http://www.electure.com of a system
>that allows lecturers very simply to create an online lecture which may
>contain a talking head video, a synchronised powerpoint display and a
>transcript of what is being said. It is aimed to be very simple to
>create and edit an online lecture in this way.
>
>I certainly had my doubts about the value of what I saw, both
>technically and pedagogically, though I will give it full marks for the
>way in which it empowers the lecturer to produce a presentation without
>any hand-holding by technical staff.
>
>What other companies are marketing solutions like this? How much can be
>done with Powerpoint itself? This is not intended to be a collaborative
>system but I seem to remember conference reports about sessions with
>NetMeeting, where a message was that although a video was useful
>initially for setting the context, it quickly became a waste of screen
>space. Can anyone point me to any reports/projects on the subject?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
>
>
>Stephen Brydges
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