Lecture enhancements

[Michael J. Lew]

Dear all,

I am a university lecturer and have for many years used large and 
small applications (initially Hypercard and now Revolution) to 
enhance my teaching, although, to be honest, my early attempts were 
more tolerated than embraced by my students. Nowadays I have several 
large applications that are used as standalone CALs (computer-aided 
learning [modules]) and a lot of small, single screen widgets that I 
show as part of my lectures., They are often just simple animations, 
but some are simulations of experiments. The faculty Biomedical 
Multimedia Unit has recently started to promote the production and 
use of similar widgets by other teachers.

There is some question as to whether the widgets need to be movies 
and Flash animations so that they can be embedded into PowerPoint 
(mostly) and Keynote slide presentations. I don't find it to be 
difficult to simply switch between the slides and a already-launched 
Revolution application.

Do any of you have similar experience?

Regards,
-- 
Michael J. Lew

Senior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010
Victoria
Australia

Phone +613 8344 8304

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New email address: michaell at unimelb.edu.au
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