Robert.Gibbs@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU (05/30/91)
THIS IS EARLY NOTICE BEFORE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT VIA REGULAR MAIL. CALL NOW TO REGISTER EARLY. LIMITED SPACE AT THIS RESORT AND WORKSHOP. NerComp Workshop Multimedia on Golden Pond: Producing High-Quality Interactive Multimedia for Education and Training Joe Henderson, MD Director, Interactive Media Laboratory Dartmouth College July 29-31, 1991 Minary Center Dartmouth College Squam Lake, NH WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Educators, including teachers and corporate trainers, who may wish to produce and use high-quality interactive multimedia: use of text, computer graphics, and motion video to create vivid, engaging programs for individual and group learning. Prior experience with multimedia is desirable, but not required. DESCRIPTION: This is an opportunity for educators and trainers to learn about producing exciting interactive multimedia programs of high quality, using tools that are available today at reasonable cost. There is an emphasis on use of motion video, as well as sound, computer graphics, and text. The workshop will follow a lecture/demonstration format. Presentations will include demonstration of exemplary programs and detailed analysis and discussion about how they were designed and produced; a main goal will be to describe and demonstrate the process of producing high-quality interactive media programs, as well as to share "tricks of the trade" and war stories. Other lectures and demonstrations will dealing with each of the media in turn (text, sound, photographs, video, still and animated computer graphics). DEMONSTRATIONS: Demonstrations will use a multimedia workstation having microcomputer, Laserdisc player, CD-ROM player, computer RGB display, NTSC video monitor, and digital motion video card. Both Macintosh and MS-DOS worlds are represented. The latest microcomputers, media-work peripherals, and software (mostly Mac-based) will be used to create, enter, scan, frame-grab, manipulate and edit text, images, and sounds. Resources will also include ability to edit videotape and write-once videodisc recorder/player or magneto-optical drive with video digitizing board. PROGRAM: Monday, July 29 2:00-4:00 Arrival Minary Center, room assignment 6:00-10:00 Dinner, overview, demonstrations of programs Tuesday, July 30 7:00-9:00 Breakfast, informal discussions 9:00-noon Lecture and demo: producing interactive media programs Noon-2:00 Lunch, informal discussions 2:00-5:00 Lecture and demo: working with text, sounds, and images Evening Free time, dinner, informal discussions, opportunity for hands-on Wednesday, July 31 6:00-9:00 Breakfast, informal discussions 9:00-10:15 Lecture and demo: emerging technologies and concepts: interactive media, cyberspace, and virtual realities 10:30-Noon John Dewey, interactive multimedia, and experiential learning Noon Workshop ends Fee for Tuition, Room and Board in the Lodge at Squam Lake, $770.00 Registration Multimedia on Golden Pond July 29-31, 1991 Name__________________________________Telephone________________ Title/Department____________________Institution______________________ Address_______________________________________________Zip_______ Make check payable to: "NERComP" and mail seven (7) days prior to seminar date to: NERComP, Inc., 350 Lincoln Street, Suite 215, Hingham, MA 02043 (617) 740-0001. For information call, Robert Gibbs, President. Note If you would like to spend the weekend at the Lodge before the Seminar begins, it can be arranged if we know in time. Separate Charge.