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Creation And Use Of Computer Software
Author:
Tony Gates, ICLC
CD-ROMs (In Texts Or Created
By Instructor)
CD-ROMs are frequently included
with textbooks. If you have chosen a text with a CD that you want
to use to augment your instruction, you should let Tony Gates
know about this as soon as possible (gates@sbcc.net,
SBCC Phone#: 965-0581 ext. 2668). You should also supply Tony
with a copy of the CD so that it may be tested and any necessary
changes made on the computer platforms available in the LRC. The
LRC staff will be trained to assist the students in using the
CD resource and check-in personnel will be trained to direct the
user to the proper computer area. It is important that this process
is done in a timely way, preferably well before the beginning
of the semester.
It is possible to create your own CD in the Faculty
Resource Center containing resources such as web pages, Word documents,
URLs, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat or interactive HyperGasp documents.
Such a CD or CDs could be handed out to students who request them
in the LRC. Before creating a CD, it is important to check with
Tony Gates regarding the content of the CD to make sure that the
proper supporting applications are available on LRC computers.
Also, a copy of the CD should be tested in the LRC lab environment
to make sure that it functions properly before creating more copies.
Produce Your Own CD In The
Faculty Resource Center
Lori Gastineau
If you have course materials you would like to burn
on a CD, contact David Wong in the FRC (wong@sbcc.net
SBCC Phone#: 965-0581 ext. 2862).to discuss your project. You
should bring a copy of your course materials to the meeting. Accessibility
and copyright
issues will also be discussed at this meeting. Once it is approved
the FRC staff will begin the mastering process.
Mastering a CD requires optimizing all audio and
video files so they will play properly (no skipping or jerkiness)
from the CD. The audio and video will be compressed. Photos will
be compressed as needed and presentations will be checked to see
that objects and animations are running correctly. Upon your approval
the project will be burned on a CD for testing and any necessary
changes made. If there are no problems a master CD is burned and
a copy is given to the instructor.
Creation Of CD-ROMs
Jack Ullom
The FRC is able to help all faculty prepare materials
for CD-ROMs that can be reproduced (by faculty member on CD burner)
for distribution to students or for use in laboratories and the
classroom.
The kind of material put on CD-ROMs:
- Course Syllabus
- Course Outline
- Course Assignments
- Power Point Presentations
- Graphics, Video and/or Audio
For those faculty teaching online, certain graphics,
video and audio, as well as PowerPoint presentations are much
more effectively presented on a CD-ROM than they are on the Web
because of downloading time and the poorer quality of video, audio,
and PowerPoint over the Web.
The compression of video and audio on a CD-ROM requires
a great deal of lead time and can only be done by two individuals
in the FRC, Lori Gastineau and Jeff Barnes. The use of
DVD eases the concerns of compression, but DVD players are not
yet standard equipment on current computers like CD drives. A
24X CD drive is a minimum specification drive for quality video
and audio reproduction.
For online classes and hybrid courses
that use a large number of graphics and incorporate audio
and Power Point presentations, it is recommended that a companion
CD-ROM be developed for the class to present all of these media
rather than using an HTML version of PowerPoint or streaming audio
and video. The quality is superior and there is no download time
for the user at home. This allows the web to be used for discussions,
emailing, posting of assignments or syllabi.
Html Pages And URL's
(Of Currently Standing Pages Or For Those Created By The Instructor)
If you have discovered sites on the Web that you
think will be useful to your students, bookmarks for those sites
can be included in the "Bookmarks" in the Netscape browsers
in the LRC. Of course, make sure that the sites' URLs are spelled
exactly and sent to Tony Gates. If you want to attach bookmarks
to an E-mail and send them to Tony Gates, make sure that they
are created in "Netscape Navigator." Also, if you have
created a web page that you wish students to use, you should save
it to a ZIP disk or a floppy and then deliver it to Tony Gates
so that he may test it in the LRC. Web pages can be made available
on individual machines in the LRC or over the network. Pages that
are created for use in the LRC should be optimized for Netscape
Navigator.
Creating your own web page has become a relatively
easy thing to do using the composer feature of Netscape Navigator
or one of the many applications created for this purpose or by
simply turning a Word document into a web page. This is a feature
of Miscrosoft Word . A couple of times each semester The Faculty
Resource Center teaches teaching staff how to use "DreamWeaver,"
a powerful but easy to use web page creation application. Notification
for these courses along with other offerings by the FRC is given
during faculty orientation at the beginning of each semester.
E-mails are also sent to faculty from the FRC as a reminder prior
to the course offering.
Besides the FRC, User Support Specialist,
Liz Auchincloss, offers courses in web page building and other
applications. Notification for these courses is usually announced
by campus wide E-Mail. Liz may be reached at 965-0581 ext: 2813
or by E-Mail: auchincl@sbcc.net.
Text Documents
(Scanned At FRC, Or Created By Instructor)
Text documents, including syllabi, information,
assignments, etc. may be placed by themselves or imbedded in HTML
documents you have created and then placed in folders on the network
in "Student Storage" on LAB 1 volume 1 with your name
and class name on them. This area on the network is available
to students and staff in the LRC and to staff from their offices
or other computers on campus. The folders will be created automatically
for teachers who will be teaching classes in the LRC. If you are
a staff person who does not have a class in the LRC and you wish
to share documents with students who use this area's computers,
you should contact Tony Gates with the information he requires:
Teacher's name and the class for which the folder will contain
documents. You will be given rights to this folder, which will
allow you to save or delete documents and otherwise manage its
contents upon logging in to the network using your staff login
name and password. Students logged in on a LRC computer will be
allowed to read or copy documents from the folder that has been
created for you.
If you do not have a network name and password,
please phone: 965-0581 ext 2668 or E-Mail Tony Gates: gates@sbcc.net
and request that they be created for you. Please supply Tony with
a proper spelling of your name, your department and the course
you will be teaching. Also, let Tony know how to contact you
You may also scan documents in the FRC and imbed
the image of that document in a Word document or an HTML page.
User Support Specialist, Liz Auchincloss,
offers courses in the Microsoft Office suite, which includes Word.
The FRC will announce courses during faculty orientation and by
E-Mail. COMAP courses are also offered in the Business and Communications
building. These courses are listed in each semester's Schedule
of Classes.
Resource Tools (Dictionaries,
Handbooks Etc.)
Sometimes, teachers discover tools they would
like to share with their students; for example, English handbooks
and dictionaries, interactive CD's. If you discover something
of this nature that could be installed on computers or shared
over the network in the LRC, contact Tony Gates with the information
and supply him with the resource itself if you have it. Testing
will take place and questions such as licensing and availability
will be addressed prior to installation.
Computer Based Presentations
(PowerPoint And HyperGasp)
Teachers have used presentation software such
as PowerPoint and HyperGasp to present a course outline or to
illustrate subjects within their course work. Other formats such
as QuickTime movies can be incorporated into presentation documents
or used as stand alone presentations. These possibilities may
be explored in the FRC or discussed with David Wong, E-Mail: wong@sbcc.net,
phone: 965-0581 ext. 2862. Also, courses in the Microsoft Office
suite, which includes PowerPoint, are offered by Liz Auchincloss.
Liz may be reached at 965-0581 ext: 2813 or by E-Mail: auchincl@sbcc.net.
COMAP courses teaching PowerPoint are announced in each semester's
Schedule of Classes.
Computer Programs
If you feel that your teaching and/or student
learning would be enhanced in the LRC by the installation and
use of new computer programs, please discuss this with Dr. Jerry
Pike, the Director of the LRC (E-Mail: pike@sbcc.net.
Phone 965-0581 ext.2673). Upon Dr. Pike's approval, acquisition
and installation will be facilitated.
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