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The first SIANME forum of the 2001/2002 is a show-and-tell demonstration and discussion of some intriguing new instructional applications developed over the summer (or still in the works) here at UCLA.

The Module Maker. Susan Schaffer, Spanish, Eric Thau, Spanish. The Module Maker permits faculty to create online exercises using a mix of video and/or audio arranged in a structured format and enriched with assessment tools. This tool facilitates what is often a laborious process of converting video and audio into presentable and usable online forms. Currently in use in several sections of Spanish 4.

The Bidding Game. John Riley, Economics. For his economics class Dr. Riley devised an online game as an instructional exercise, creating a bidding game to teach his business economics students the risks and strategies of bidding.

The SMIL Maker: Andrew Thomas, Faculty New Media Center. SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a fancy word for streaming video and text over the internet. This tool, a companion to the Module Maker, permits an instructor with a digital video file to convert the video into a streaming video file with scrolling text accompaniment to accommodate the seeing-impaired.

My Homework and the Annotator: Jill Stein, Sociology, Mike Franks, Social Science Computing. This tool, in use now at Social Science computing, is a one-click way for an instructor to display, or not display, a piece of homework submitted to an online bulletin board. Simple, but extremely useful and effective.