Media Magic

Using Images in Other Mediums

By Anthony Critchley (Winstanley College)

Q Project – Chemistry Clips for Dangerous Experiments Video Clips readily accessible from

the College Intranet HTML files created by Chemistry

teacher using Microsoft FrontPage View Clips

Why HTML? Adding video clips to PowerPoint can

create huge file sizes Accessible to the students via the

college intranet from home at anytime

How we use the materials Learners – Valuable reference/learning

material available to them via the college intranet, which is also accessible from home via a password

Staff – The project has inspired departments to follow suit. Staff are becoming more creative in their ideas on how to improve the teaching & learning experience using IT as a tool.

College – Winstanley College will benefit greatly as a learning organisation as students are able to access quality materials.

Lessons Learnt Plan the project thoroughly – create/draw

storyboards. Be prepared that mistakes can and do happen. You

may need to film a clip more than once! Time management is vital Ensure that you have the correct

equipment/software to digitally capture video clips Staff need to be available to create the video – 1 to

film and 1 to partake A reasonably lit, quiet room with a plain background

is recommended Be patient and learn from your mistakes

Evaluation of the Materials Very pleased with the quality of the

video clips Valuable experience in technical

ability Mistakes made will ensure that

future projects will be improved further

Technical Details 8mm Camcorder with tripod used to film

clips. TV/Video capture card for PC to convert

digitally Web development software such as

Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage installed on PC

CD Burning software such as NERO and a CD Read/Write for the PC to create CDROMS

Step by Step Guide

•Create folder to store all webpage documents – including a ‘video_clip’ folder.

•Copy your video clips into the new folder.

•Within FrontPage you can create your webpage.

•Highlight the text you wish to make a ‘hyperlink’ to the video clip.

•Then click the ‘insert’ button on the toolbar – choose ‘hyperlink’

•Clicking the button placed in between the globe and envelope allows you to browse your local files

•Browse your files until you find the clip you wish to hyperlink to (should be within the folder you created earlier) – highlight and click ‘OK’

•The highlighted text will then turn blue, to indicate that it is now a ‘hyperlink’

•You must now save your webpage within the folder you created earlier

•You will now be able to view your webpage in a browser such as Internet Explorer

•Clicking the link will automatically bring up Windows Media Player. The video will play for you.

Further Developments Video Editing software purchased-

(Adobe Premiere) A PC dedicated to just video editing

is to be purchased Boxmind Software purchased to

improve the quality of resources - sample

Thank You…

Any questions??