How-to Documents

Use these various links and files to guide you on how to use our various programs that are available in the Fiddle Lab. For BlackBoard Help, visit our wiki.

Instructional Design | TaskStream | Data Storage | CatFiles | Digital Video | Audio | Images | Other

Why use Multimedia in Teaching and Learning?

• Why bother with Multimedia?

Instructional Design Tips:

• Things you can do to enhance your classroom
• How to administer your class list
• Why chunk your course content?
• Tactical and Structural Recommendations for Course Design
• Principles for Good Practice in Education
• Rubric Samples
• TLT on Rubrics
• Why use a blog?
• Why use a wiki?
• ePortfolios with WordPress
• Course redesign for hybrid delivery
• Strategies to encourage original student work

TaskStream

• Authors (students)
• Evaluators

Working with Optical Media Data storage (such as CD/DVD):

• How to burn your portfolio to a CD or DVD
  • Using Windows Program (PDF)
  • Using Nero software - Windows XP users (PDF)
  • Using Windows DVD Maker for Media files - Vista Users (PDF)
  • Using Toast7 in a Macintosh (highly recommended for extra large data files) (PDF)

Working with network storage (such as CatFiles):

• How to access CatFiles (PDF)
• How to access CatFiles (Flash movie)
• How to send a ticket using CatFiles (PDF) 
• How to send a ticket using CatFiles (video)
• Catfiles Sharing and Permissions (PDF)
• How to set up a Network Place for CatFiles
  
  • Windows XP users (PDF)
  • Windows Vista users (PDF)
  • Macintosh users - Connect to server for drag and drop (Quicktime movie)

Working with digital video:

• Digital video steps - in a nutshell
• iMovie
  • How to work with iMovie HD (PDF) 
  • Video Editing in iMovie HD (video tutorial series)
  • Video Editing in iMovie
• Movie Maker
  • How to work with Movie Maker 2 - Window XP (PDF) 
  • How to work with Movie Maker 2 - Vista (PDF)
  • Video Editing with Movie Maker (video tutorial series)
• Other software tips
  • How to work with Final Cut Express
  • How to extract a video clip from an existing DVD or VIDEO_TS folder - Using Toast 7 in a Mac (PDF)
  • How to capture mini DV tapes to Quicktime from digital capture station in the EMS Lab
  • Handbrake - rip and convert DVDs to MP4 movies (for iPod)
• Working with video cameras
  • How to use the a Sony Webbie HD Video Camera
  • How to use an ultraHD Flip Video Camera
  • How to use the Kodak Zi8 HD Video Camera
  • Which camera should I choose?
• Copy free audio resources
  
  

Working with Audio :

• Audio Primer (PDF)
• How to work with Audacity (PDF)
• How to create a pause in an audio timeline using Audacity (Flash movie)
• How to create a pause in a recorded audio timeline using GarageBand (.mov file)
• How to create a pause in an imported audio timeline using GarageBand (.mov file)
• How to use GarageBand to make a Podcast (note: Macintosh only)
• How to extract an audio file from iMovie
• Top 5 Sites - Free audio effects
• Incompetech - collection of Creative Commons licensed music.

Working with Still Images and Animations:

• Still photo tips (PDF)
• How to edit images in Photoshop (PDF)
• How to make a screenshot
• How to make a simple animation with Image Ready (available in Adobe CS 2 only)
• Other Photoshop tutorials
• 10 Free Web based alternatives to Photoshop
• EveryStockPhoto.com – Search engine that can be used to find free images on the web.
• Scanning Slides and Negatives on the Plustek OpticFilm 7400

Other Tasks:

• TurningPoint Anywhere clickers
• How to set up a Dreamweaver 8 site to work with CatFiles
• How to use the slide scanner (PDF)
• How to use the Scanner (PDF)
• How to use the FDL digital camera (PDF)
• How to create PDF files (PDF)
• Skype Basics

If you have any needs or questions, please contact Jo Meyertons at 503-883-2715 or jmeyert@linfield.edu