Faculty Teachlets

Introduction:

Teachlets offered by CALT are not typical workshops. The emphasis is on creating teaching materials.  You will learn the software as you create. Faculty are required to bring to the first Teachlet meeting an outline of the teaching materials or teaching application that they wish to work on..  The initial Teachlet will consist of a 1-hour overview of the software, its operation, and suggestions for using the software to create the particular teaching materials of interest. . The participant will then be given a resource text and the software will be installed in his or her office computer.  If needed, follow up support will be available in the form of  additional Teachlets.  Most Teachlets  will be brief, one-on-one sessions, lasting from 1/2 to1 hour.  Teachlets are offered by appointment at the Arnold campus throughout the year. Contact Bruce Bird, X2262 or blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us .

 The bookmark links in the Faculty Teachlets table above will take you down this page to Teachlet descriptions, assumed computer competency of participating faculty, and estimate of the level of difficulty of the software.  If you are not familiar with the software products covered in each Teachlet, be sure to use the resource links provided at the end of each workshop description. The table below gives my rough estimate of the level of each workshop assuming the participant has a certain amount of familiarity with Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Word, and Web navigation.

Workshop Descriptions

CD-ROM Recording

Participants in this Teachlet will work with HP CD-RW recorders, HP recording software, and Adaptec recording software to practice the process of recording files on a CD-ROM. Topics covered in this Teachlet include: Overview of the CD-ROM recording process, CD-R compared to CD-RW, recording software options, recording backup files, recording audio files, and recording multimedia teaching materials.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98,  Windows Explorer (folder creation and navigation), SaveAs dialog box

 Resource Book: Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying, Using, and Troubleshooting Recordable CD Equipment No Matter the Brand You Choose by Mark L. Chambers, IDG Books, 2000

CALT Resources:  Electronic Publishing: CD and DVD-ROM

   CD - Recording

Macromedia Flash 5.0

Flash 5.0 is a vector drawing, animation, and authoring program.   The free Flash player is now supplied with the latest versions of the Microsoft and Netscape browsers or it can be downloaded from the Macromedia site.  Some of the topics covered in the associated Teachlets are: vector drawing, frames and timeline, tweened animations, exporting as animated GIF, working with symbols and instances, buttons as rollovers, text animation, adding sound effects, text fields, adding actions to frames and buttons, ActionScript programming, publishing Flash movies, and importing Flash files into Web sites.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98, Web page editing, Windows Explorer (folder creation and navigation), SaveAs dialog box

Resource Book:  Macromedia Flash 5 - Creative Web Animation by Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton, Macromedia Press, 2001

CALT Resource: Flash 5.0 Links      Flash 4.0 Links , Flash 3 Animations , Flash 3 movies , Flash 4 movies , Flash 5 movies

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Microsoft FrontPage 2000

FrontPage 2000 is one of the most popular programs for creating, maintaining, and administering Web sites. Some of the topics covered include: setting up a Web site, hyper-linking between Web pages, adding text, tables, images, forms, and active elements to a Web page, importing word processing files, navigation schemes, image maps, and Web page design.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Windows 95/98 (use Windows Explorer to find files, create and name new folders, find folders and files with SaveAs dialog box); experience with Microsoft Word (use common icons, menus)

Resource Book: FrontPage 2000 for Windows, by Nolan Hester, Peachpit Press (1999)

CALT Resource:  FrontPage 2000, Web Publishing, Database Examples

Microsoft NetMeeting 3.0

Microsoft NetMeeting is free software that allows real-time conferencing and collaboration over the Internet.  Some of the topics covered by the Teachlet include: connection options and procedures, installing Microsoft Messenger Service, sharing Microsoft Office programs, whiteboard applications, chat applications, file transfer, audio and video communication.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98 and Microsoft Office 97

Resource Book: None Available

CALT Resource:  NetMeeting 3.0

RealNetworks RealSlideshow Plus 2.0

RealSlideshow Plus 2.0 software allows you to combine voice commentary with images and then use RealSystems streaming technology to make your presentations available over the Web. The topics covered in this Teachlet include: using RealPlayer 8,  adding images with RealSlideshow, adding audio commentary, generating RealMedia files,  importing files to FrontPage web, linking from web page to RealMedia files, adding links to images, adding logo and text regions to presentation, exporting files to RealServer using FTP, linking to files on RealServer  from Web page.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98, Web page editing, Windows Explorer (folder creation and navigation), SaveAs dialog box

Required Resource Book:  None Available

CALT Resources: RealSlideshow, StreamingMedia

RealNetworks RealPresenter G2 Plus 

RealPresenter G2 Plus is a plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 97 or 2000 that allows you to add audio commentary to your PowerPoint slides and them convert them to RealMedia files that can be streamed over the Web. Topics covered in this Teachlet include: using RealPlayer, recording your voice with Microsoft Sound Recorder, creating a simple PowerPoint slide presentation, adding voice commentary, using RealPresenter to convert files to RealMedia files, transferring files to RealServer using FTP, placing links to RealServer files in your Web page.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98, Web page editing, Windows Explorer (folder creation and navigation), SaveAs dialog box

Required Resource Book: None Available

CALT Resource: RealPresenter G2 , Streaming Media Examples

Sound Forge XP Studio 5.0

XP Studio 5.0 is a digital audio editor that allows you to create audio files and convert then to a streaming format.  This Teachlet will show you how to create streaming audio files and link to them from your web page.

Computer Literacy Requirement: experience with Win 95/98, Web page editing, Windows Explorer (folder creation and navigation), SaveAs dialog box

Required Resource Book: Under review.

CALT Resource:  Streaming Media Examples