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Multimedia and Streaming Media Resources

The ATC collection of Multimedia resources

What is Multimedia? Multimedia is any combination of text, sound, graphics or video. When you enable users to control the pace and direction of information with a computer, the program becomes interactive multimedia.
Why use Multimedia? At its best, multimedia presents subjects to students in a more memorable, interresting way than books or a single medium can. Multimedia addresses different learning strategies. Researchers have shown that students learn better and retain more when audio-visual aids are added to a lecture. And when they "learn by doing," they retain up to 70% more than they do by simply listening to a lecture.
What can you do with Multimedia?

Using digitized images and sound, computer - controlled laser disk players, CD ROMs, a presentation system and a variety of software, a faculty or staff member could:

  • Create a slide show with a soundtrack on the computer,that is easily presented at a conference or in the classroom through the internet.
  • Design simulations to let students practice processes that are messy, expensive, or dangerous, i.e., an interactive model that enables students to "dissect" a frog.
  • Digitize and import movies into various applications to create interactive presentations.

 

Multimedia Resources Multimedia Authoring
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/
A unique tool to allow you to view color combinations
http://www.paletteman.com/
A non dithering web color chart
http://www.webdiner.com/annexe/hexcode/hexcode.htm
Additional Clipart Images
http://www.clipartconnection.com/index.html

 

Multimedia Resources Streaming Media Resources
http://www.rtsp.org/2001/resources.html
Technical Papers and Related Links
http://streamingmedialand.com/

 

We also provide tutorials, and user aids on specific development tasks and multimedia software to help you meet you goals.