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OID: SIANME Forum October 29, 1999 -- New Tools, New Techniques

Scholarship in a New Media Environment

New Tools, New Techniques
Fact Sheet

Scholarship in a New Media Environment Forum
October 29, 1999

Real Slideshow

Freeware downloadable from http://www.real.com. You have to search a bit to find it. Be sure to download the FREE version, which is RealSlideshow, and not the $29.95 version, which is RealSlideshow Plus.

With RealSlideshow, you can put together a fairly sophisticated narrated slideshow and post it directly to the web. What follows is not a complete tutorial. RealSlideshow Here are the basic steps:

What you need:

  1. RealSlideshow (PC based program)

  2. Microphone for recording. We suggest LabTec C-350. Available at BestBuy for circa $20 or via the web.

  3. Some scanned or downloaded images saved in JPG or BMP format. (You can use Powerpoint to generate the slides, if you want, by saving your slides as a web presentation, and then importing the JPG images.)

  4. CD for background music.

  5. An account with Photopoint (http://www.photopoint.com). To set up the account, you need only give them your email and a password. After that, you can upload images as well as a slideshow.

What you do:

  1. Import all the images into RealSlideshow

  2. Add a voice narration

  3. Add a background track

  4. Generate the slideshow

  5. Publish to the web using Photopoint (or any of the other choices)

ThirdVoice

Available at http://www.thirdvoice.com. A new web conferencing and notation tool. You can use it to make personal notes to yourself as you surf the web (these notes are kept on YOUR computer) or to publish your thought to a group of your own making. You can enroll your students in the group and assign them the task of viewing the web pages and responding to your note. Each note is embedded in the page (viewable ONLY by you or your group) at the exact point on the page that you wish to comment on, almost as if it were a footnote. Once you post to the group, each member of the group will be notified by email that a new note has been posted, just as happens with a Listserv. Only with Thirdvoice, you view the notes in context.

What you do:

  1. Set up account with Thirdvoice. To get it, go to http://www.thirdvoice.com and register. You will download a client application, which will reside on your computer.

  2. Visit sites, post notes, create web-based conferences.

WebEx

Available at http://www.webex.com. Virtual conferencing tool that can be used to confer one-on-one with students or as a web-based whiteboard with which to teach a small class (not recommended for a large class). With WebEx, you can set up a virtual office where you can post public files, keep a public calendar, or confer one-on-one in a WebEx meeting with a student.

What you do:

  1. Set up an account with WebEx at http://www.webex.com.

  2. Begin using WebEx.


For More Information

Drop by the Faculty New Media Center at 270 Powell, Room 13, or email Steve Rossen at srossen@ucla.edu or Andrew Thomas at Andrewt@ucla.edu .