Yes, the way to implement multimedia back home

Today's lecture/training has been very handy for me. It has actually to a great extent removed my worry of what has to be done when I get back to my place of work. We had it all about Multimedia Management which can be offline(I am to use this because the nature of distance learners without internet), online(website), and Hybrid. We looked at multimedia on different levels and how it is all about management, the stages of a multimedia project, the instant multimedia we have, how to integrate and implement, test and deliver multimedia that is client based. I found it interesting because we should know this. As for me, I have a very big task for multimedia production of most modules of all courses on distance programme. I am not an expert in the content. Now I know what to do.

I look forward to see how budgeting is done and strategic planning to start or improve a multimedia center in the education setting because, the university is planning yet it is lacking basic knowldege. Oh, I will be handy in this.

For my project, I have made the main user interface, have made powerpoint to teach on monday when filming the talking head and have put some content in pdf format. Let me see monday through with filming the talking head.

Have a nice weekend.

Dream- "Weavered" to reality(Dream works)

May be at last. The project is gaining shape. After going through Macromedia Dream Weaver today, now I have a sample structure of my CD ROM or DVD (different thoughts, designs weaved today). By monday, the first GUI should be complete. Yes, then I have my shooting of video on monday so that I already build up my folder for the video.

Keep your eye here to find latest developments in the project.

Counting down

Hi. Today has been cool. We worked on our plan of activities for the project we are to make. We are actually counting down to have final products. With guidance from Bieke Schreurs, all of us have a tentative time table. Oh, I look forward to having my final product. I am happy that I am seeing the way.

Have a look at my workplan

No	Activity	No. Of days	Starting date
1	Finalising content in PowerPoint	1	Wed 28/05
2	Structuring CD ROM or DVD	1	Thurs 29/05
3	Filming talking head	1	Mon 2/06
4	Editing video	2	Tues 3/06
5	Compressing video	1	Thurs 5/06
6	Developing main user interface in html	2	Fri 6/06
7	Creating layout of CD ROM or DVD	4	Tues 10/06
8	Synchronisation of video and PowerPoint using Flash	4	Mon 16/06
9	Creating learner assessment codes by html	4	Fri 20/06
10	Putting project on CD ROM or DVD	1	Tues 24/06
11	Testing the product	1	Wed 25/06
12	Debugging and correcting errors	1	Thurs 26/06
13	Making final product	1	Fri 27/06
14	Making other copies of product	1	Mon 30/06

Hoping for the best with all support.

The project will be a success

What has been puzzling me since I came to this training is the transfer of knowledge in Uganda and particularly for the first time in Uganda Martyrs University where I work. Actually, the nature of my job wants me to be a master in deciding which media to use to get best results in all disciplines taught to get best results. At the end of the training, I feel I sh'd be knowing each and everything at the course because I will use it one day. More over, having an International Certificate in Audio Visual Learning Materials from the famous Catholic University of Leuven demands that the Affective, Psychomotor skills are highly evident in what I do. This has been my puzzle. Yet I can't be a master in all. Well, things are going on well. I need to perfgect my HTML. I had studed it during my masters course but whem Macromedia Dream Weaver and Front Page were introduced later, I forgot important tags. Where I work, Open Source is the policy. Oh... then I must practise and perfect my HTML programming.

From today's work, I developed the content and the Coordiantor of the training, assured us how HTML will be handy in our projects. So tomorow, I will work on my plan of actvities. I hope for the best. Jah bless.

Project at take off stage?

After presenting a story board, it became clearer after the expertise advise that for my project to be as interactive as I planned, the best way to finally produce it is through use of Hyper Text Mark Up Language (HTML). Tomorow, I will go through the basics and I hope, I will remember some basic tags that I had once used. The talking head in a classroom situation will be done as soon as possible. There is therefore hope to succeed for I thought Flash was going to make it.

Living like a Monk

I can best describe today saturday as a day of living like a Monk. I literally spent the whole day in my room. Monks according to tradition(correct me if I am wrong for I have never seen one) were dedicated Catholics who lived indoors for most of their life praying and doing great writings to defend the church. They did alot of doctrine writings.

Today, I found myself indirectly praying that God gives me wisdom to think about my story board. So, I kept in doors, prepared my meals from the microwave and thought of my story board. So far, the content of the project is finished, the Look and Feel is also finished and decisions of which media to use at which level of the simple flow chart of my project have been identified. Even the navigation tools are clear. I have eventually started writing the story board. I am not yet through and may be next time.

You could have a look at something done from the pictures in this post by double clicking on the picture to see full size.


Bye for now till a new post is available.

Story Board progress

I thought making a story board for my project will be as easy as narrating a story. Today has been a day for making a story board for my project in this training. From experience now, a story board makes you to know the load of work you are going to have in your project. You have to determine the Look and Feel of the project. You also have to make the choice of the medium to use at each part (Tutorial, simulation, audio, video, an education game, Hypermedia). The graphics, still pictures, how you will guide and control the learner during the learning process, when you may assess and allow the learner to practice for retention or when are your to reinforce some knowledge or put hints. All this need one to be having a flow chart to have the logic of the whole project. All the story board is made basing on the authoring tools of ones' project. My tools are Pro Cut 10 for video, PowerPoint for tutorial and Flash as the final tool to synchronise the media I am going to use.

Aaah, will I meet the target of monday to finish with the storyboard of my project. Keep your eyes on the next posts may be. The story board will be there for comments. It is my wish that monday makes it so that I can begin scripting and making shotlists for the video I am going to use. I hope that the supervisors of the project will accept my story board and then I proceed.