A variety of skills can be required to fully take advantage of technology when creating Web-based education. Few will have all skills listed, and they are not prerequisites for getting started. These skills include:

• Understanding intellectual property issues related to publishing on the Web, or through electronic media.
• Converting a text syllabus to a Web document; knowing how to modify a print document to one suitable for electronic viewing; enhancing a text document with hypertext features.
• Understanding file formats for each medium: text, sound, graphics, video, animation.
• Converting images from slides, drawings, or other graphic file formats to a digital format recognized on the Web; knowing how to handle large image files.
• Converting video clips to digital format appropriate for the Web; editing the video; knowing how to compress these files; knowing what the user will need in order to view them.
• Creating animated or 3-D images.
• Digitizing sound recordings for use on the Web.
• Creating a multimedia presentation using authoring software, such as Quest.
• Using special software, such as WebCT and Black Board, for creating online courses and components.
• Creating a Web form for electronic submission; manipulating the data from such a form in a program such as Access.
• Identifying and evaluating existing, off-the-shelf computer-based learning aids.
• Knowing what software is needed to accomplish any of these skills.
  
  

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