ECI 304 - Educational Applications of Computers: Agenda for February 22 and 23

Commercialism and Schools

Channel One was a useful example of how advertising is infiltrating educational institutions. The following list of links contains both official Channel One web sites and two of their leading critics. Take some time and see if anything here changes your stance about Channel One.

• Channel One
• Channel One Teacher
• Primedia - (new name for K-III, the owner of Channel One)
• The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education on Channel One
• Commercial Alert on Channel One

Television Current and Future

• How television is transmitted
  • Unitedstreaming
• How television is stored
  • A Short Course in Digital Video
• How television is made
  • iMovie

If time permits, we'll briefly work with iMovie's editing tutorial.

Break

PowerPoint

Creating a Basic Presentation

We will go through making a basic presentation together in class. I will provide handouts for each step. Links to the Web materials are below:

• The Basic Slide Show

Complete Last Week's Presentation

Using these ideas, complete last week's presentation.

1. Download and complete your budget for 5 computers
2. Present to the class
3. Critiques

Advanced concepts

Explore more advanced ideas with:

• Advanced Tutorials

Interactive Multimedia

• Using Buttons in a Slide Show
  • Download Show using Action Buttons
• Using Sound in a Slide Show

Assignments due next week

• Complete Tech Tools
• Prepare for midterm

 

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