Re: MultiMedia Presentations?

[Mary Jo Heller <maryjoh@GUEST.NWNET.NET>]

One of the great new "toys" we have enjoyed playing with is the "video
fusion" program that came as an "extr" with our PowerMacs- it needs video
"in" capabilities but has the kids really searching for neat segments to
add to a report/presentation format.  It does take a syquest or zip drive
to store, since you're looking at a meg per second.  But with video out,
we can also put these final reports (on Claris Works slide show) onto a
video cassette, eliminating the hassle of taking a computer to the
classroom with PC Viewer, etc...  we are doing this with 16mg of ram and
it's not bad- we will upgrade to 32 and let you know!

Mary Jo Heller
Einstein Middle School
Shoreline, Washington


On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paula Neale wrote:

> I hope you will post a hit or possibly there can be some general discussion.
> I too would like to begin multimedia but unless I can come up with a grant
> we will have to go slowly.  What would you start with if you had to build
> this piece by piece over a few years.
> Equipment and software too becomes outdated so fast but I know this is one
> area where we need to plan for something that will be functional for a
> while.  The majority of our teachers are not even mouse literate,so our
> start at this needs to be pretty simple, yet I also want it powerful as far
> as having a system, cart, etc that can be set up ready for use.  I know from
> past experience that if you have to any moving components around and
> switching cables, no one will tackle it but me and I will burn out pretty
> quickly.
>
> Most of all I want the computer to have enough memory so how much is enough?
> I am getting a Syquist drive for the Macs this year, so maybe that will help
> with storage; but I want enough ram to run all needed applications
> preferably without having to turn off extensions and tweek the control
> panels.
>
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