Welcome to the

Streaming Video and Audio Workshop

CSTL Wired-Wednesday Workshop

March 31, 2004

Steven J. Hoffman

What is it?

• Streaming Video and Audio is a way to bring multimedia presentations into the classroom or deliver it to students online.

Why should I do it?

• Because it's cool

• Because it lets me deliver content I otherwise couldn't

• Because it lets me deliver information in a different way

• Because I keep control of the presentation, which might be important in terms of copyright law

• Because it's easy

Examples

• streaming audio

  • historic speeches

  • music

• movies/videos online

  • Ferris Bueller

  • Stand and Deliver

  • Dead Poets

Note:  if you have audio or video that you want streamed, just bring it to CSTL and they will do it for you.

 

The best use, though, is to be able to make your own Streaming PowerPoint shows:

Some examples, with lessons learned, from using streaming PowerPoint over the years:

1. think about introduction slides.

   • American Architectural History

2. prepare a script, don't just, ah, talk.

   • US107

3. use more images/slides than you would in class (no more than 30 seconds per slide).

   • more US107

   • more US107

4. try not to talk through slide transitions.

5. make sure you record in a relatively quiet place.

6. be prepared for students to have problems.

 

Currently we have to use Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint to stream PowerPoint presentations at Southeast (because it's free).  So, what does it do?

Video plus narrated slides

• cool Microsoft example of school kids' project

• my stupid example

Just narrated slides

• example of what I would do

How do you do that?

• Microsoft Producer walkthrough PowerPoint

 

Links to some useful supporting material, including download information