VIERAILULUENTO

Prof. Thomas Ottmann (Freiburg) pitää vierailuluennon torstaina 21. 9. 1995 klo 14:15 - 16 tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitoksen salissa B450 (Teollisuuskatu 23, 4. krs) aiheesta

Authoring on the fly

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We report about experience gained during the production of courseware for teaching computer science at university level. Our interest is focussed on the tools required for supporting potential authors of educational software. We briefely sketch the traditional form of authoring in a team and the attempt to transfer the paradigm of seperating form and content from paperbound documents to multimedia documents. Then we describe a new way of authoring called authoring on the fly. Here, we automatically convert a talk given using the computer into the core of a multimedia document. As an electronic substitute of the chalkboard we used the whiteboard of the Mbobe toolset. The Mbone tools allowed us also to transfer the computer talk to remote locations. Our software not only allows to record an Mbone session but also synchronizes the whiteboard actions with the audio and video streams. Furthermore, links between this part and text and animations can be established. Though current tools for our approach are by no means perfect we can demonstrate how lecturing in class, distance teaching, and authoring of multimedia educational software may merge together in the future.

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