ET620 Multimedia Design in the Classroom
Agenda
for Class 1 AM
- Digital Video Teaser
- Groups 1 and 2: How can you explain how to correctly divide
28 donuts among 7 people?
- Groups 3 and 4: How can you explain the flaws in Lou
Costello's thinking?
- Three ways to use digital video: Watch, Analyze, Create
- Announcements and Questions
- We meet every Tuesday and Thursday through July 30 (fasten
your seatbelts)
- Textbooks
- You should get Ivers & Barron, Multimedia Projects in
Education at the bookstore
- You should get Marcovitz, Powerful PowerPoint for Educators,
2nd Edition at the bookstore
- Introduction to Course
- Who am I?
- Who are you?
- Class Schedule
- Morning Session: 9:00am-11:30am (end of morning is
approximate)
- Lunch is about 11:30am
- Class vote: 30-minute, 45-minute, or 60-minute lunch?
- 30-minute lunch means class will end no later than 3:00pm
but it is difficult to go off campus
- 60-minute lunch means class will end no later than 3:30pm
(as scheduled)
- Lots of good nearby restaurants: http://tinyurl.com/loyolacolumbiafood2013
- Afternoon Session: approximately 12:30pm-3:00pm (depending on
lunch)
- End Time
- Class is scheduled until 3:30pm (if we decide on a
30-minute lunch, that changes to 3:00pm)
- The scheduled end time is the time we are guaranteed to be
finished (I will not keep you past that time)
- There is extra time built into the schedule so some days we
will finish up to 30 minutes before the scheduled end time
- Last Day of Class (Tuesday, July 30) is morning only
- What will the course cover?
- Instructional Design (Decide, Design, Develop, Evaluate Model
from Ivers & Barron)
- Interactive Multimedia (including PowerPoint with VBA from
Marcovitz)
- Digital Video (from Bull & Bell -- not required text)
- Syllabus
- Assignments (all assignments should be turned in via Moodle's
Assignment)
- See class web site for most course information:
http://www.loyola.edu/edudept/facstaff/marcovitz/et620/
- PowerPoint Version
- Recommended versions are 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac)
- 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 can work
- 2008 will not work (Mac users should use 2011)
- Options if all you have is 2008
- Borrow a computer with another version
- Get 2004 or 2011 on your computer
- Upgrade
- Use a lab computer
- Get a free one-month subscription to Office 365 (regularly $9.99 for a month or $99.99 for a year)
- Check Network Access
- Try to login to your Loyola email
- Try to login to Moodle (http://moodle.loyola.edu) REQUIRED
- Note the instructions for accessing your network files at home
(on class Web site)
- Call the Help Desk (410-617-5555) today if any of these things
don't work
- What is Multimedia?
- Five Types of Media (Marcovitz, Chapter 1)
- The Multimedia Principle
- Before Using PowerPoint (Chapter 2)
- Other Things You Should Know
- Avoid saving directly to removable media; always save to the
hard drive and copy to floppy disks, Zip disks, CDs, or flash drives
- Avoid copying and pasting images from outside of PowerPoint;
always save the images and import them
- Create a folder for each presentation you create in PowerPoint
and save all files to that folder; copy the whole folder to your
removable media when you are finished
- Brief Review of PowerPoint (focus on intermediate topics) --
Chapter 3
- Pictures (from clip art, from the Web, from a file)
- Hyperlinks (within the presentation, to the web, to other
documents)
- Sounds (from the gallery, from the microphone, from a file)
- Linking vs. embedding sounds
- Action buttons
- Action buttons with recorded sound
- .pps vs. .ppt (2003) OR .ppsx vs. pptx vs. .ppsm vs. .pptm
(2007-2013)
- Slide Master
- Pick-a-Partner PowerPoint
- The Scenario
- The Assignment
- The Template: Download from "Course Documents" in Moodle
- The Digital Camera
- Adding Sound
- Work Time
- Be sure to save your file as a PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (*.pps)
or Macro-enabled PowerPoint Show (*.ppsm)
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This page was prepared by Dr.
David M. Marcovitz.
Last Updated: May 13, 2013