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This highly praised handbook presents proven strategies for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. The authors use the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE) to show how to select and plan multimedia projects, use prsentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, and evaluate student work.Significantly updated and expanded, the second edition of this highly praised handbook presents proven strategies and ideas for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. With a strong focus on student learning, the authors show how to plan and implement multimedia activities and effectively engage students in expressing themselves through a variety of media. Using the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE), educators learn how to select and plan multimedia projects, use presentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, create a Web page, and evaluate student work. In addition, the authors offer numerous examples of projects involving such tools as PowerPoint, HyperStudio, and HTML. Project suggestions come complete with a scenario, an overview, topics, and reproducible worksheets, and can easily be adapted to different grade levels.

Provides a close-up look at Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs, covering everything from installation and set up to how to integrate the PC with a home network or home theater system, detailing such features as the system's Remote Control Interface, My TV, My Music, My Pictures, My Videos, and Play DVD. Original. (Beginner)

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Product Description: In this book, we review many examples of multimedia item types for testing. We also outline how games can be used to test physics concepts -- discuss designing chemistry item types with interactive graphics; study how culture-specific linguistics can help inner-city kids and new immigrants learn better; suggest approaches for automatically adjusting difficulty level in interactive graphics-based questions; and propose strategies for giving partial marks for incorrect answers...read more

Product Description: DVDs and their buried easter eggs -- Halle Berry emerging from the ocean in Die Another Day; Nicole Kidman in hysterics in Moulin Rouge; the alternative action sequence in Speed -- are even more thick on the ground than when the first volume of Jo Berry's look at outtakes, hidden extras, unscripted and ungarded moments first appeared in 2004...read more

Product Description: Teaching with Multimedia Volume 2 continues with a further collection of 12 essays that bring curiosity, skepticism, experience and imagination into the pedagogy/technology debate in a way that guides and inspires. This volume focuses on examining what benefits and pitfalls new digital technologies offer the 21st century learning and professional practice environments; incorporating digital and web technology and tools into the way we teach; and outlining the challenges these new media present in terms of emerging digital media issues, new remix forms, and the impact of technology on creativity, production, and learning...read more

Product Description: Maximize the power of the iLife suite The iLife suite, pre-loaded on every new Mac, includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb. This straight-to-the-point guide shares key features, tips, and techniques to help you make the best use of each of these tremendously popular applications...read more

Product Description: Get the most out of the latest iLife suite with this full-color, friendly guide! The iLife software suite from Apple is comprised of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, all of which assist with organizing, viewing, and publishing digital content such as photos, movies, music, and Web pages...read more

Product Description: In the past, interactivity has often been studied from the perspective of a particular subject area. Much effort has been expended on classifying and topologizing interactivity from the perspectives of media studies and information science...read more

Product Description: As poets continue to use digital media technology, functionalities of computing extend aesthetic possibilities in documents focusing attention on crafting verbal content. Utility of these machines and tools enables multiple types of compounded articulation (combinations of verbal, visual, animated, and interactive elements)...read more

Product Description: This book details what system developers need to know and need to be able to do in order to develop usable new multimodal applications. It covers the theory of modalities and multimodality and presents nine key multimodal usability parameters.

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