Multimedia Internet Resources by

Gary Lewallen

Intended Audience: Adult learners, HS students
Site Description: This site developed by the College of Education at the University of West Florida gives a fairly text-intensive tutorial on some of the basic functions using PowerPoint. It would be inappropriate for younger students or adults with no or little prior background with computers. For others, however, they might very well appreciate this fairly direct introduction.

Intended Audience: Teachers
Site Description: This is another site developed by the College of Education at the University of West Florida to provide education students an introduction to multimedia authoring principally using HyperStudio. The tutorial is fairly text intensive but might be just the right amount of direction and help for those with prior computer experience.

Intended Audience: Teachers, Students, Community
Site Description: James Hogg Middle School is in Houston, Texas. This link takes to a page featuring student work. In particular, there are a couple links specific to a greenhouse project that PowerPoint presentation that students created about the project. The other link is of digitized pictures that students could use in the presentation and offers a idea for creating a image resource page for students working on digital presentations.

Intended Audience: PowerPoint Users
Site Description: This page on Microsoft's PowerPoint site offers links to free plug-ins, converters, and viewers for people using various versions of PowerPoint to allow other to see your files or upgrade the capabilities of a previous version of PowerPoint.

Intended Audience: Teachers
Site Description: This site is from the Ohio School Net EAST project. (Educators Accessing Scholar Teachers) This section is a primer on multimedia that answers a number of teachers questions including What You Need that features sections on Hyperstudio, PowerPoint, digital cameras, connecting computers and televisions, using laser disks and more.

Intended Audience: Presenters
Site Description: This is an online magazine for people that make presentations and are interested in hardware and software to make presentations. While the focus is more business oriented, teachers can easily adapt concepts to the classroom and this could also be a resource to show students the presentations skills they are learning are indeed in demand and valued by the world at large.

Intended Audience: Business, Teachers, general online public
Site Description: This is another online magazine. This one has a fairly wide swath in that "new media" can be any of the digital electronic devices and software propelling us onward into the Information Age. One section I think would be of interest to teachers is called Digital Radar which details all the newest hardware and software on the horizon.

Intended Audience: Teachers
Site Description: Several state agencies in Minnesota have a project to help teachers use technology and the internet. This page offers some links to join a mailing list on HyperStudio. There are also links for view the list archives (which are sent via email).

Intended Audience: Teachers
Site Description: This site, also from Minnesota, may look fairly plain but it has a few good links to HyperStudio related sites including examples of student work and a message board archive with 2500 postings.

Intended Audience: HyperStudio Users
Site Description: This is site of a company that offers a quarterly newsletter and annual CD ROM of HyperStudio resources. The samples and information available here make it seem pretty attractive.

Intended Audience: HyperStudio using Teachers
Site Description: This a section of the HyperStudio Journal site that lists a number of resources including a section of active message boards where you can get the answer to many questions and share ideas.

Intended Audience: Multimedia users and developers
Site Description: The most useful sections of this site to teachers are likely to the ones on resources. Internet resources, books, and periodicals all are good and especially so if you happen to be proud Canadian.

Intended Audience: Web/Multimedia authors
Site Description: This is a great list of resources on fair use in the realm of multimedia compiled by the Stanford University Libraries.

Intended Audience: Teachers
Site Description: This page features a short and sweet introduction to concept mapping and offers links to other sites for greater depth and a list of web resources to various publishers of programs and utilities.

Intended Audience: Educators and Businesses
Site Description: This is a review of the latest version of Inspiration that gives a nice overview of the software and the concepts involved making it suitable for people new to the idea of concept mapping.

Intended Audience: Casablanca buyers
Site Description: This is the site for the manufacturer of the Casablanca video editing system. They offer product information, links to support, FAQ's, user comments/ideas, and resources. It's not too deep but a good place to start.

Intended Audience: Photoshop Users
Site Description: This is a little gold mine of Photoshop tricks and tips. There are 39 listed on this page, each with step by step instruction, but be sure to follow the links at the bottom of the page for more Photoshop and general resources.

Intended Audience: Web page creators
Site Description: This is another great site for tips on using Photoshop and archives of free backgrounds and links to other resources and images.

Intended Audience: MM using Teachers
Site Description: This site is from one of the pioneers of computers and multimedia in the classroom, Fred D'Ignazio and his daughter Catie. This site is definitely worth spending some time browsing. If you don't get drawn into a project you will at least have an idea of what is possible.

Intended Audience: Digital Chisel users
Site Description: This online user's guide for Digital Chisel is one of the better designed online guides I've seen. The topics are well organized and the navigation is exceptional making this a very useful site for finding just the information you are seeking. Check it out.