Session 7
Outcomes

By the end of the session you should:

understand the term Multimedia
understand how the ICT National Curriculum thread Exchanging and sharing information leads up to producing multimedia presentations
know some of the applications which can be used to produce multimedia
have viewed some sites from which clip art, video and sound files can be downloaded
(optional) have created a short video using PhotoStory

Multimedia

Discuss meaning - then check using either the dictionary within Word or http://www.wikipedia.org/
Brainstorm applications which can be classsed as "multimedia"

Microsoft Photo Story for Windows 3 - a free download - search Microsoft Downloads and an example movie file
Help in its use: from BwD.
Web authoring - not sure about the tools within LCC's Moodle - but BwD's learning platform allows all users to create custom web pages.

Remember to respect copyright and also to acknowledge sources.

your own still digital camera (for PhotoStory, using the full size files from the camera will give you more scope to pan and zoom - but for inserting images into PowerPoint there is no point in them being larger than 1024 x 768 pixels - users of Windows XP can use Microsoft Image Resizer to create smaller copies - users of Windows Vista can use VSO image resizer
digital video cameras - Digital Movie Creator or better still? Creative Vado cameras in conjunction with Widows Movie Maker software (which comes with the operating system). Don't forget many still cameras can shoot video.
scanned images
sound recorded on your own computer (in PowerPoint, Microsoft Sound Recorder or a host of other applications - icluding Audacity), or digital voice recorders
CD ROM collections (e.g. Sherston Primary Clipart Collection)
websites -
- on BwD site
- Wikimedia (a really useful search)
- Ictopus Picture Library (you need to be logged in - but it's free to register)