... following: Audio fidelity will attract attention to media. Audio fidelity will affect people's memory for audio information. People will evaluate better audio fidelity differently than poorer audio fidelity. I won't go into the experiments that they conducted here, but I'd thoroughly recommend you check the book out for yourself. So, audio fidelity does matter. Now in an age in which it is increasingly easy to communicate using audio (podcasts, adding narration to ... tempted to put out any old thing, recorded using poor quality equipment and with little care. If Reeves and Nass are ...

... preparation and someone who dares to be clear in how to enhance the overall quality. After a lot of experiences, we came up with a few guidelines on audio: Script! Unless you are a natural breath taking speaker, put everything you want to say on paper; Audio and text should complement each other. Do not allow audio to interfere with reading from the text and ... €¢ keep your audio short and to the point. Avoid extended narration. • If you are speaking to an international ... mistake, gets the learner's attention as well. KISS, keep the audio script short and simple. Break it into ...

... and not studio-quality audio recording). Also of interest: a brief how-to video on Blue’s website ... I recently talked about the Blue Snowball USB desktop microphone I use for my eLearning narration work. Despite the explosion of consumer desktop PC audio recording and podcasting in recent years, the selection of good USB microphones is still inexplicably limited. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just plug an XLR mic into some kind of magic dongle to give it USB connectivity without needing a breakout box or mixer cluttering up your desktop? Yes it ...

Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content ... thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain ... or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout ... try a search on "federal reserve". This could be huge if expanded to other content. If you only think of YouTube as a provider of whimsical video, then you are ... channel. My Northstar Nerd Channel will give you just a taste of some of the high quality content available via YouTube.

The Big Question on the LCB for January is: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? There's a lot involved in this question and I plan to revisit it several times during the month. I'm hoping to see some contributions that will help thinking. Let me start with some important words of wisdom ... when its really worth it to spend dollars on what we might consider a higher quality solution than providing something ... a PowerPoint + Audio as compared to an hours worth of fun, interactive courseware. But, if the cost is ...

... elearninglive.com » Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size. The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. 32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling. tags: captivate , e-learning , audio ... losing quality. Facilitating online communities - WikiEducator Course from Wikieducator on ...

IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too. tags: primarysources , audio AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition) Terry Anderson has edited the second ed. of this book, available online under a CC-NC license. You can download ... , technology , quality , ...

Games by GAMBIT: AudiOdyssey A game developed so that visually impaired users can play it, using either a Wiimote or keyboard. One of the goals was to create “an engaging game that relies more on high quality audio than visuals.” Very interesting concept; quality accessibly game design could also help designing for other applications. tags: games , accessibility From Degrading to De-Grading Alfie Kohn on reasons to abolish the current ... for challenging tasks… Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking… ...

The last couple of days the eLearning team has been working on videos that show students from around the world following the Short Course on AntiRetroviral Therapy (SCART) in Antwerp, Belgium. We wanted the students to become accustomed with the multimedia aspect of blogging, so we mounted the videos on a videoblogging site: itmvodcast.blogspot.com that will be implemented in the curriculum with added movies from the field, seminars ... It is a great experience combining high video and audio quality with student interest and enthousiasm. Used technology: Sony HDRHC5 HD 4.0 ...

... link a couple of minutes before the session starts. This allows you to test your audio/video devices. Please keep in mind that you need a headset with microphone if you are planning to talk. This enhances the audio quality, open speakers give the microphones a hard time. (a small side remark: if you have been using audio/video software during the day ... virtual classroom and allows interactivity (audio/video and chat and 'raising hands', the last feature enables you to ask for ... ! This session is audio/video enabled, which means you can use a headset with microphone. This will enable you to give audio ...

... quality audio shows with Propaganda software £ D ... Listen, download and subscribe to audio files Free ... Available 1pixelout audio player Plugin allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages Free D   Audio Acrobat Create audio ...

... making this about the tool (PowerPoint + audio) when he should be talking about the method and the quality of instruction. The simplest tools, in the hands of an artisan, can make a masterpiece. On issue one : does audio in e ... Al Moser trashes voice over PowerPoint in this blog post about using multimedia in eLearning. He feels audio is a ... group, evn though both groups received identical animation and words. On issue two: does audio with eLearning reduce ... ’s faster.  I’m baffled by this reasoning. On issue three : does audio reduce accessibility? The ...

... online through Skype, using the Pamela add-on, but tests showed that the audio and video quality wasn't going to stand up ... responses to the questions using their webcam, at the best audio and video quality available. I've been surprised so far how at how natural the interviewees' responses have been and at the technical quality they are able to achieve with low ... volumes so the interviewer and interviewee are comparable. I've added a few niceties, like a logo and audio 'sting' at ...

Full Motion Video (FMV) is a series of pictures shown in rapid succession to simulate coherent movement. It can also include an audio track. FMV can be live video, animated, or a combination. They can also have text superimposed. Full Motion Video can stand-alone, such as in a movie or television, or can be included as a cut scene in a computer game or ... quality, sim, game, or pedagogical success, their frames per second , and their resolution. Usually, the FMV is of higher quality than the fully interactive portions. If the same game engine is used to render the cut-scene as the full ...

... but the free account is fine for most uses. The image quality is superb. The user interface is fairly self-explanatory.  PowerPoint users beware.  It is nothing like PowerPoint. You can add text, images, flash, video, audio, charts ... -good points. There doesn’t appear to be an option to toggle audio off and on.  (For this reason, I chose to remove the audio from my sample presentation below.) Likewise, there is no pause button.  When crafting ...

... audio editor. Wink , the free software capture/demo tool. Along with all the usuals, including Skype, Del-icio-us, etc ... . Cubase 4 upgrade, for digital audio production. All in all more than £1000 (about $1800). The irony is that these ... -Royce to get into my Lada'. Cost doesn't seem to equate with quality. In fact, most of the applications that I have ...

Shows how sub-titles can be included instead of audio content, or for accessibility. Also includes an example scenario ... interventions . Demonstrates the use of high quality video plus a quiz which asks a random selection of questions ... screen readers. Audio controls and either mouse or keyboard-only operation helps learners with hearing or ...

Talk face-to-face - with high-quality video and audio - to friends, family, and co-workers ... screen as video (with audio) and pictures. £ D ... , document, application and desktop sharing, remote control, and multiparty audio and video conferencing ... Genesys Meeting Center On demand audio and video web conferencing ... Audio and web conferencing £ H ...

... see what I mean. The man had tools I didn't even know existed! And I've spent quality time at Home Depot over the ... you can see how the overall quality of the project goes up. I see this in eLearning tutorials. A little bit of attention to details goes a long way. Removing the clicks and breathing from the audio track. Checking navigation ...

By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. There's more of it about and a generally positive disposition, at least in the case of employers, to use more of it in future. Naively, I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely ... appropriate rather than gratuitous) use of all the media at our disposal - photographs, diagrams, animation, audio and video ... perhaps within blended or informal contexts) as long as we can do something about the quality. Just don't take too ...

... iPods for Learning - Knowledge Jump So, what is the iPods' value in a corporate setting? For example, you could place an audio and visual guide of your organization on an iPod and send new hires on a "tour" of their own (just like the Museum of Modern Art does), rather than having them wait for a class just to sit through a PowerPoint presentation. Or perhaps record a step-by-step procedure of a task, along with a few picture and/or notes to an iPod and use it as a ... "higher order" categories in order of relative importance to their firm's overall performance: agility and quality ...

I spent Sunday playing with Windows Movie Maker and Camtasia. Camtasia gives me more options with captions and an extra soundtrack. Movie Maker provides better titles. After spending 7 hours playing with the editing, I've learned the following: - I REALLY want more than 2 audio tracks. You'll hear it with the bad cuts between the theme music and my narration. - I spent way too much time in the bathroom. It was a very nice bathroom. Female golfers would ... may prove to be a good investment. Sorry for the video quality. I'm still figuring out how to optimize my ...

... that I would like to approach again for future events. I recorded some quick ‘n dirty audio, though the levels ... -production tweaking, but be warned, the quality of the files below varies quite a bit. Apologies. Sebastian ... social software tools, allowing them interact while making their own platform choices. [ Sebastian’s audio (MP3 ... to provide welcome and constructive disturbance within higher education. [ Rob’s audio (MP3) ] Scott ... itself from the grips of big central systems. [ Scott’s audio (MP3) ] I didn’t do as good a job as ...

... download. Advanced Features The Flash video format provides some very nice features for overlays and interactivity. Quality Debate There is quite a bit of debate on the web about the quality of the resulting video and also about the relative bandwidth required for the video. Several sources say that the same quality flash video format movie will have a larger ... user's hard drive and can be easily accessed-and possibly stolen by the user. By contrast, audio, video, and data ...

... simple, linear audio and video. What got me thinking this way was the first of the sessions I attended at DevLearn, with ... video iPod. The quality looked great, even when there was a fair amount of text on the screen, so I had to have a go. So ... get to the output formats I wanted, but I was worried about what all this processing would do to the quality. In the end ... to remove the noise made when I clattered my mouse half way through. Once I was happy with the quality, I first ...

... context that is also in need for that particular learning outcome, hence saving you time. Quality If you have the means to invest in a good video studio, please do. But setting outstanding standards for your audio and video quality or the ... , you could fine-tune your audio and video to your or your participants' requirements. Pointers for buying video compression software: • Does it have compression for mobile devices? • Does it allow audio and video auditing? • Does it ... . This will decrease the quality, but it will enable them to look at the movies you have posted. This is where ...

At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity - Business Week While Six Sigma was invented as a way to improve quality, its main value to corporations now clearly is its ability to save time and money. 3M was systematized in ways that were unheard of and downright heretical, even though the guidelines would have looked familiar at many other conglomerates. Early during the Six Sigma effort, after a meeting at which technical employees were briefed on the new ... ," gives some great advice for creating a presentation that supports your message and keeps your audience engaged. Audio ...

... easy to use tool for online sessions that enables audio and video (if you want to), has a whiteboard and a content ... want to help me in moderating everything that is going on, you are more then welcome, it will also enhance the quality ...

... to create high quality tutorials/documentation. It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than ... only). Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better. Input formats: Capture screenshots ... ). Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much ...

... continue to increase ways in which people can learn. Courseware Quality : Higher quality courseware (simulations ... issues. This environment makes it easier to justify PowerPoint plus audio type courseware, but customers are never satisfied with the quality. New Competitors : If you're in IT - Microsoft and other vendors like to give away training, ...