Trends in this week

Working on the project has been key through this week. We had sessions on managing multimedia productions from the idea up to when the project closes by Prof. It was indeed a constructivist approach. From the group discussions it was clear that there are stages involved: Pre-production, production and post production. During this time, there is need for management of the project. Later on tuesday, we looked at the budgeting process of multimedia productions using case examples. Video production indeed proved expensive than animations here in Belgium. Then we had the opportunity to work on our projects by asking some questions.

I filmed the talking head on thursday. Thanks to Ayoub, the Director of the video. Today friday, I have been editing. I got the help needed and by monday, I should be through with editing and compressing. I hope the coming week will see me synchronise video and powepoint and then may be importing it to my user interface.

Nice weekend.

A weekend that was....

It was an enjoyable weekend. We had a day off as tourists to Brussels. We moved by train up to Brussels Noord(North?). It was a good experince. We saw some good buildings and passed via the famous red light street. We then headed for Brussels Centraal (Central?). Oh, there we indeed became tourists. We entered a bus that makes people tour around. We saw historical and beautiful places of the city. Check out from the pictures.

The essence of multimedia for learning

Hi. Last week was quite great. We had sessions and importantly: the userbility design complemented by learning with multimedia-a pedagological background. These really give a more profession way to develop multimedia for learning. Thanks for the lessons. Back home, one can therefore develope multimedia for learning concentrating on its essence not accidents.

Slight change in workplan

After two days: one for studying how to assess a learner in a package using flash and then the other day for streamlining the workplan, some changes have been made. I will film on 10th June. Currently, I am working on the user interface and the assessment using Dream Weaver and Flash Professional respectively. So far so good except programming the Exit button. A learner should be able to end the programme on any page. Today we recieved literature about userbility design. If followed, it shows how professional one is. I am going to start working on assesment tomorrow.

Bye for now.

What has been my weekend like?

Check out for the pictures to tell.

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.