Presenter
Steven K. Sharp, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA
When?
2-29 September 2013
Registration
Space in each course in limited to the first 18 participants, with no more than 6 participants at the special rate.
Deadline: 7 days before the course starts
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This course prepares participants to create multimedia lessons and materials for online delivery. Using templates and models, you will customize online multimedia materials. Participants will experiment with a variety of such materials and determine appropriate use for their students. The use of pre-existing multimedia will also be addressed.
What Will I Learn?
- Identifying media needs and possibilities
- Creating and editing audio and video
- Creating and editing images
- Using web based templates for interactive exercise creation
- Using authoring programs for interactive exercise creation
- Understand the relevant copyright and fair-use restrictions on pre-existing media use.
- Course-specific requirements: The instructor will require participants to download software, or to use already owned software, for applications for video editing such as iMovie or Movie Maker; photo editing such as Photoshop and Graphic Converter; audio editing like Audacity or GarageBand and exercise creation like Hot Potatoes.
Participants should be familiar with navigation in the Desire2Learn Website, able to download items from the site, including being able to read PDF files and various kinds of media. Participants may need to have access to some kind of video recording device that they are comfortable with (preferably a webcam) but this is not required. They will need to have access to a microphone for their computer, or a way to import self-recorded sounds into their computer.
About the Instructor
Steven K. Sharp is the CALL Coordinator at the Maryland English Institute, a part of the University of Maryland. With 10 years of experience assisting educators in both the public school and the higher education setting, he is experienced in using technology in instructing ESOL students. He has been a member of the Steering Committee as well as the Chair of TESOL’s CALL Interest Section. He was the Electronic Village Coordinator for 2 years at Baltimore and Long Beach Conventions. He is also a member of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), and has made many presentations on CALL related issues at local, national and international conferences.