Creating Educational Objects Using QuickTimeTM

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Creating Educational Objects Using QuickTimeTM

• James E. McClurg James D. Myers
• Department of Geology and Geophysics
• University of Wyoming

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Educational Objects Definition

• independent building blocks

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Educational Objects Visual Components
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Educational Objects Visual Components

• annotated photographs
• photo galleries
• interactive slideshows
• videos
• Interactive videos
• panoramas
• 3-D objects
• scenes

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Educational Objects Learning Components
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QuickTime A Suitable Multimedia Format

• necessary software
• QuickTime player
• QuickTime plug-in
• downloadable and free
• delivery mechanisms
• Web
• CD
• PDF
• PowerPoint

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QuickTime Movie Types

• time-based images played sequentially
• Virtual Reality viewer manipulated immersive
  spatial environment
• scenes multimedia collections accessed via
  clickable hot spots

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QuickTime Time-based movies

• hold, display, edit manipulate multimedia (gt30
  types)
• stored in tracks
• nine types
• any combination
• real worldviews or computer generated
• illustrate
• temporal change
• scale and scope

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QuickTime Virtual Reality

• mimics real space
• panoramas (360o views)
• objects (3-D items viewable from any angle)
• computer generated or real items/places
• viewing sequence controlled by user
• convey sense of place and three dimensions

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QuickTime Scenes

• collection of multimedia
• common theme, e.g. national park, geologic
  process, event
• viewing sequence
• controlled by hot spots
• determined by user
• depict places or events

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QuickTime Creation Simple Movies

• Apples QuickTime Pro
• capabilities
• edit video, e.g. add, delete, move frames
• compress video clip
• add text and sound tracks
• simple learning curve
• Windows and Mac versions
• inexpensive (lt 50)

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QuickTime Creation Complex Movies

• movies with
• complex tracks (3D, tween, sprite, MPEG, Flash)
• user interactivity
• special software, LiveStage Pro 3.0 or 4.0
• expensive ( 900)
• steep learning curve
• proprietary scripting language (Qscript)
• with time, can create virtually anything

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QuickTime Creation Virtual Reality

• special photographic equipment
• panoramic heads
• object turntables
• special software
• QuickTime VR Authoring Studio
• VR Worx
• Stitcher 3.5

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QuickTime Examples Annotated Photograph
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QuickTime Examples Slideshow
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QuickTime Examples Photo Gallery
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QuickTime Examples Video
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QuickTime Examples Panorama
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QuickTime Examples 3-D Object
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Summary

• some final thoughts