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This site was developed for and by "The Authoring Group" at Maricopa Community Colleges. It has links to the following areas: authoring languages, centers for multimedia development, multimedia resources, authoring listservs, and commercial multimedia producers.
This site contains links to multimedia software from Apple, resource material, multimedia developers, and multimedia news.
This site has links to Learning Technologies, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Information Access, Workflow, Mobility, Other Resources, and Campus Sales.
The New Media Centers has links to news, academic members, corporate memebers, resource center, and new media clips.
This site has links to Products and Solutions, Sales and Service, Technology and Developers, Corporate Overview, Sun on the Net, and SunSite.
The HyperCard Home Page has links to Hypercard/Apple News, Technical Help, Archive Sites, Home Pages, Developers, the Hypercard FAQ, Comparisons, Commercial Sites, etc.
The SuperCard Home Page has links to its home company Allegiant, the new internet software Marionet, tecnical support, and current news.
The Hyperstudio home page has links to What's New, Online Catalog, The Gallery, Roger's Laboratory, Hot Hyper Sites, Download Library, and Guestbook.
The Macromedia home page has links to the industry, tools, service, gallery, toys, and guide.
Authorware Interactive Studio with Shockwave is designed specifically for delivering interactive information over intranets. It combines media creation tools with an interactive authoring environment. Studio can be used to produce graphics, animation, high-quality audio, and interactivity for sharing information, assessing learning, and collecting end-user data.
Digital Chisel is a lower end authoring software package. It allows developers to create interactive screens with graphics, animation, QuickTime movies, sound, and hypertext links. It also has quiz templates which are linked to a database to record student progress. A new version of Digital Chisel will be released in early 1997 which will be platform independent, connect to the Internet, and have a more powerful database.
HyperGasp is an extension to HyperCard which allows developers to create interactive presentations and courseware with graphics, scanned images, sounds, QuickTime movies, animations, videodisc sequences and text. It also includes templates, such as guided writing exercises, exploratory simulations, and electronic quizzes.
Libra is a stand-alone application based on HyperCard's object-oriented and event-driven environment. Libra can be used to created interactive courseware and is organized as a set of template stacks. These templates consist of basic expository displays, question formats, and a variety of informative displays. Libra's other tools feature straight-forward procedures to integrate these and other components (such as, QuickTime movies, color graphics, and digitized sound) into the lessons.
Super MacLang is an easy to use authoring system for the Macintosh that permits authors to contextualize conventional language activities (fill-in, jumble, comlumn matching, and multiple choice) with text, graphics, sound, and video. It permits authors to deal with multiple correct answers, anticipated incorrect answers, and feedback. It also keeps track of student input.
My favorite web site, Cool Tool of the Day presents a new web tool every day with a full description of its features and a link to its web site.
Claris Home Page is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that allows you to create dynamic web pages with frames, tables, forms, and multimedia plug-ins quickly and effectively.
The Real Audio System is software that allows playback of audio in real-time over internet connections of 14.4 kbps or faster. It consists of three pieces: the Real Audio Playe, which plays files encoded in the Real Audio format, the Real Audio Encoder, which encodes files into the Real Audio format, and the Real Audio Server, which delivers RealAudio over the internet. The Real Audio Player and Encoder can be downloaded for free, but the Real Audio Server is relatively expensive.
It is possible, however, to serve Real Audio files via the internet without the Real Audio Server. The sound files don't stream, but the Real Audio Encoder has reduced the size of the files enough so that the wait time is reasonable. I have made some test pages, and sound files of about one minute in length are downloaded in about 25 seconds.
JavaScript is a programming language for adding functionality and features to HTML pages. JavaScript scripts are embedded in HTML files and run on the browser side. It currently runs only on Netscape's browsers. View Robert Beard's On-line Russian Grammar. He has written explanations for all the major grammar topics accompanied by interactive web quizzes made with JavaScript. See also the JavaScript web quiz I wrote to go with our photo album pages.
LiveCard is a CGI that works in conjunction with a Macintosh web server to serve HyperCard stacks directly over the web.
This software package has just been released, and it allows instructors to create and serve interactive, multimedia quizzes to students over the World Wide Web. The complete package includes FLIQ, which serves quizzes and logs student progress, FLIQ Builder, which creates, tests, and installs new quizzes, FLIQ Edit, which edits existing quizzes, and FLIQ Stats, which generates graphs showing statistics of student performance. The examples of the quizzes on the web site are minimal, but there is a web-based copy of FLIQ Builder which allows one to create and test an interactive quiz online but not save it.
I created a demo quiz with a link to a photo and a Real Audio sound, and it worked well. FLIQ Builder provides a form on which the instructor fills in instructions (which can include links to images and sounds) and the quiz questions, with appropriate answers and hints. Then, the instructor clicks on the "Create Quiz" button at the bottom of the page, and FLIQ Builder automatically creates the CGI script for the quiz form and produces a web page with the newly created quiz. It takes about 5 seconds. Then, the instructor can test the quiz, click on the "Correct Quiz" button at the bottom of the quiz and receive feedback on the answers.
I'm waiting now for FLIQ to be installed on the UNIX system at St. Olaf, and then I'll put some example quizzes on this page.
This site describes the new products from Voxware -- ToolVox Web Player and ToolVox Web Encoder -- which provide a simple and low cost way to play speech over the Web. At this site, you may download free copies of the ToolVox Web Player (Macintosh version not available yet) and the ToolVox Web Encoder.
This site has information about the Kodak company, photography, product information, digital imaging, and customer solutions.