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Get More From Digital Imaging - From Microsoft,
"Digital
Image Editing 101",
"Image
Rescue for Everyday Photo Problems", and
"Tips
for Taking Your First Digital Photos".
http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/more/default.mspx |
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Fun With Photos - This practical educational site suggests several
ways in which digital photography can be integrated into your students'
curricular activities. It includes tips, activities, practical tutorials
in Word, and more, all beautifully presented for teachers and students.
http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/funphotos/ |
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MediaBuilder: Includes Tutorials! - The Image Library is one of
the biggest on the Internet. Use online tools to instantly make 3D
banners and buttons online, and to optimize your images so they will download
faster. The FontMapper tool gives you the code for your
font and assesses its compatability with browsers. (site)
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Silly Billy: Learn Computer Art - Drawing pictures on the
computer and more--includes kids' and teachers' sections.
Choose either Shockwave mode (plugin required) or Regular mode (no plugin
required).
http://www.sillybilly.com/draw95.html |
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| Adobe Studio, Photoshop, Creative Suite, Image Ready | |
Adobe Studio - "Design resources for Web,
print, digital imaging, and digital video professionals" (site) - Tips
and tricks, plugins and helper files, groups and forums, and more, applicable
to all Adobe products.
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Adobe® Photoshop® 7, Creative Suite
(CS) and ImageReady® tips, tricks, tutorials - Several short tutorials
worth exploring.
http://www.heathrowe.com/tutorials.asp |
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Learn Photoshop 3.05 and Learn Photoshop 4 - PhotoShop
tutorials: http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Learning/Photoshop3/ http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Learning/Photoshop4/ |
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GrafX Design PhotoShop Tutorials - Digital graphics and web graphics
tips, techniques and tutorials.
http://www.grafx-design.com/phototut.html |
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Introduction to Web Design with Adobe Photoshop - Detailed
introductory and advanced tutorials on all aspects of PhotoShop re: creating
web graphics.
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/Photoshop/ |
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Perfect Pixels, Photoshop Tutorials, Tricks and Tips - Some tips
and tricks for Photoshop, as well some tutorials for newer users.
http://www.perfectpixels.com/index.cfm?method=photoshop
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Hands-On Training by DocOzone - "Hands On training is, of course,
the best way to learn just about anything. There's only so far a manual can
take you, and then you've got to simply plunge in, and make your own
mistakes...." Photoshop tutorials.
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| Microsoft Picture
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How To Learn The Basics Of Picture It! -
From Microsoft comes this one-web-pager step-by-step illustrated guide to
the very basics of Picture It!.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-gb;499603 |
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Microsoft Expression - Microsoft's "Creature
House Expression TM 3" is an innovative vector-based illustration and graphics
tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in
print, web, video, and interactive mediums. Download available for
Mac as well as for Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/ |
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| Corel DRAW, PhotoPaint | |
Corel DRAW! Tutorials - Animated Logos,
Cracked Text, Page Curl, Yahoo! Style Buttons, Creating Complex Shapes, 3D
Textured Text, Contoured Text, 3D Buttons, Drop Shadows...
http://www.grafx-design.com/coreltut.html |
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Visionary Voyager's PhotoPaint Tutorials
- Created to showcase what can be done with PhotoPaint, explore lots of tutorials
developed under several categories to help you take advantage of the features
of PhotoPaint 8, 9, and 10.
http://www.visionary-voyager.com.au/corel/photopaint/ |
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Painter Classic - Created by and for primary
school teachers, this tutorial explores
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/ict_art/painter_classic.htm |
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| JASC PaintShop Pro | |
JASC Learning Center: PaintShop Pro
Tutorials - Use these PaintShop Pro tutorials.
http://www.jasc.com/support/learn/psptutorials.asp |
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Paint Shop Pro - Created specifically by and for teachers
of primary school students, this site contains tutorials about
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/helps/paint_shop_pro/index.htm |
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| Gimp | |
Gimp - "a freely distributed piece of software
for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It works on many operating systems, in many languages." Site includes
tutorials as well as downloads and documentation.
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| Sound/Audio Tutorials | ||
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Teaching With Audio Artifacts - This site explains through examples
and facilitates through support materials the integration of audio artifacts
into lesson development. Audio examples primarily address American
history.
http://ed-web2.educ.msu.edu/CEP817F03/Grant/default.asp |
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Sound Collecting and Editing - This straightforward tutorial for
educators explains sound formats, downloading sounds, and how to use Windows
Sound Recorder to record and edit sounds.
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/soundrec.html |
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Using Sound Recorder - "You can use Sound Recorder to record,
mix, play, and edit sounds. You can also link sounds to or insert sounds
into a document." (from the Microsoft site)
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DevX: Project Cool - The menu page links to a huge
array of tutorials on many tech topics. The Audio tutorials address:
http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Door/7051 |
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Tutorial—How to Link an Audio Clip to a Lesson
http://ed-web2.educ.msu.edu/CEP817F03/Grant/Tutorial.htm |
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Audacity Tutorials - Three tutorials for the freely
available cross-platform Audacity sound editing software are available
on the Audacity site. Access walk-through Flash animations that address
topics such as "opening an existing sound file, making simple edits, and
exporting it again. Learn about multitrack recording in Audacity using the
AGNULA Linux distribution. Use an Audacity 1.0 Tutorial that "comes
with sample sound files for you to mix together".
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/tutorials.php |
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| Presentation
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| PowerPoint | |
PowerPoint in the Classroom - This wonderful
student-oriented guide to building PowerPoint presentations includes printable
tutorials, a teacher's guide and lots of extras.
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PowerPoint: Jefferson County Schools Technology Tutorials -
a collection of locally developed PowerPoint resources, addressing needs
at all levels and covering a large range of topics, general and specific,
relating to PowerPoint.
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/ppt.html |
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BT Education Programme: Animated Tutorials: Multimedia
Presentations - An animated introduction to creating a PowerPoint
Presentation, with extra help provided as needed.
http://www.bteducation.bt.com/ict/resource_bank/ict_tools/multimedia/tutorial.cfm |
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Using PowerPoint for Macintosh - Covers creating a presentation,
working with slides, using slide views, working with objects, adding slide
builds and transitions, and printing presentations. http://www.it.utk.edu/itc/courses/ppt/macrecipe.html |
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PowerPoint Tutorial - Department of Computer Science at The University
of Rhode Island - A tutorial containing good instructions and a minimum of
images--suitable if your load time for websites is slower. Good for printing.
http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html |
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Powerpoint Basics Introduction - A modulized tutorial, which steps
you through the development of a PowerPoint presentation, and gives you some
very good visual design information. This tutorial works best if the
PowerPoint program is open simultaneously while the tutorial is accessed
through the web. This is an excellent example, but for some computer
configurations this may be too RAM intensive.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cpeterse/powerpointintroduction.htm |
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PowerPoint Tutorials - The Media Services department of Eastern
Illinois University has created a thorough tutorial for PowerPoint '97.
http://www.eiu.edu/~mediasrv/ppoint97/PowerPoint.html |
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Land-Grant Training Alliance Online Lessons, Learning Microsoft
PowerPoint 2000 - An free online workshop on PowerPoint 2000 for
Windows.
http://www.lgta.org/ppt2000/ppt2000.contents.htm |
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PowerPoint 2000 Basics Tutorial - From the Web By Design site
at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, this easy
to follow tutorial is hyperlinked throughout, making the tutorial succinct
where necessary, and helpful when you need it.
http://www.iupui.edu/~webtrain/tutorials/powerpoint2000_basics.html |
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PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial - This excellent image and text-based
tutorial from Florida Gulf Coast University allows you to flow either
linearly in a step-by-step tutorial, or to jump to the sections you want
to focus on.
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/ppt/index.html |
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| Kid Pix | |
Becks Bits and Bytes Tutorials - Kid Pix
Deluxe - This five part tutorial is excellent and includes: Directions for Creating a Kid Pix Curriculum Template http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/howtomake.htm
Using the Typewriter, Managing Graphics and Printing.
Create a Multimedia Presentation with Kid Pix Deluxe: Importing Digital
Pictures
How to Save Your Kid Pix Slide Show as a Movie
Using the Text Box - Changing font and size |
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Kid Pix - Create a Slide Show - How to create a slide show using
Kid Pix.
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/kidpix/kid_pix.html |
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| Hyperstudio | |
Hyper for HyperStudio - This tutorial
was created by Christopher T. Alldredge, Lead Trainer, Technology Integration
Department, Alpine School District. "HyperStudio is a powerful, educational
tool for both educators and students alike. This application allows one to
easily create multimedia projects that can be used for presentations,
student-learning modules, electronic portfolios, and even quizzes and tests
that grade themselves! In this tutorial, you will learn the basics
of using HyperStudio to create fantastic multimedia projects." (site
introduction)
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=14179 |
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HyperStudio Guide - This highly visual tutorial by Linda Acocelli,
Graduate Student, University of Central Florida, includes actual examples
as well as project ideas and a marking rubric.
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/webcamp/final_projects/acocelli/INDEX.HTM |
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A Quick Tutorial to HyperStudio - This tutorial, created by teacher
Andrew Lummis, is particularly good for use with upper elementary students.
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/alummis/hyperstudio/hyperstudiotutorial.html |
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University of Alberta, Hyperstudio Tutorials - From the
EDPY202 Development Team. These tutorials guide you step by step through
learning how to use Hyperstudio. To complete these tutorials, you must
have access to Hyperstudio 3.1. Tutorials include:
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edpy202/tutorial/hstudio/hstudio.htm |
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Land-Grant Training Alliance Online Lessons, Learning Corel
Presentations 7.0 and 8.0 - The
Land-Grant Training Alliance is an informal, unfunded group of computer education
and technology professionals, most of whom are employed by universities within
the United States.This tutorial is one of a series written by these professionals
to take you, step-by-step through the use of Corel presentation
software. In both cases below, you can print the entire lessons
as a continuous document (to use as a hand-out).
http://www.lgta.org/pres7/ (Version 7) http://www.uaex.edu/pres8/ (Version 8) |
| Keynote | |
Creating Presentations With Keynote - from
the Apple site, a series of tutorials, complete with QuickTime movie support,
about Keynote:
http://user.training.apple.com/demo/keynote/ |
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Keynote Tutorials - This commercial site does contain a number
of free Keynote tutorials focusing on specific tasks within Keynote. Uses
Quicktime.
http://www.vtc.com/products/keynote-tutorials.htm |
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KeynoteUsers.com: Keynote Tips &Tutorials - Lots of
useful tips and tutorials; includes an FAQ section and a comparison between
Keynote and PowerPoint.
http://www.keynoteuser.com/tips/ |
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GIF Animation on the WWW: Constructing
animations - (site outline is replicated below)
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm |
| Flash | |
University of Victoria, Studios for Integrated Media,
Flash Tutorial - This tutorial is composed of a number
of projects that guide you through the basics of creating a Flash movie.
http://www.finearts.uvic.ca/sim/help_docs/tutorials/flash_tutorial/ |
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Flash Kit - A huge site of short tutorials on a wide variety of
Flash-related topics.
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/ |
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| Multimedia Tutorials | ||
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Adobe Studio - "Design resources for Web, print, digital imaging,
and digital video professionals" (site) - tips and tricks, plugins
and helper files, groups and forums, and more, applicable to all Adobe products.
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Kids' Vid - "The mission of Kids' Vid is to offer teachers and
students assistance in enhancing learning through the power of digital media."
(site) Designed specifically for students, and supported by a substantial
teaching resource, this site leads students through the process of creating
video. Student sections include Scripting (including a storyboard tool),
Making the Video, Editing the Video and Showtime!
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Youth Media International and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences Teacher's Guide Series - "These teaching guides [for teachers
of secondary school students] focus on the art of the many craft areas involved
in creating a motion picture. Students will learn about different aspects
of film making as they complete the activities in these kits. The activities
are designed to capitalize on students' natural interest in current films
and the excitement generated by the Academy Awards to teach valuable lessons
in critical thinking and creative writing, and to develop visual literacy
skills. Each teaching guide is available in its entirety to download and
print." Guides are available for the following topics:
http://www.oscars.org/teachersguide/index2.html |
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Making a Movie - Visual Literacy How do I make meaning? -
This tutorial developed for students examines visual literacy, pre-production,
production, and post production.
http://portals.studentnet.edu.au/literacy/Minisites/SCEGGSDarlinghurstrevised/index.htm |
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Videomaker Magazine - Tips for Getting Started - Preparation Tips,
Packing checklist, Shooting checklist, Talent Release (to be read aloud),
The Seven Deadly Camcorder Sins, Twelve Helpful Tips for Shooting Great Video,
Ten Helpful Tips for Recording Great Audio, and Videography FAQ's on Getting
Started, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production, Business and Distribution,
and Legal Issues.
http://www.videomakerexpo.com/scripts/lobby.cfm?id=27 |
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Digital Video & Stop Action Animation Resources Web Site -
Designed for teachers and students in Calgary Separate School District, this
site provides lots of support for those wishing to learn about digital video
and stop animation in general and about LegoStudio in particular.
http://www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/digvid/Default.htm |
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Apple: QuickTime: Tutorials: QT is Track-Based -
"Learn how to create QuickTime tracks, audio and video tracks, text tracks
and chapter tracks. This section also teaches you QuickTime and JavaScript,
how to work with Apple Script, and how to create QuickTime Media Skins. Get
started with QuickTime Tracks."
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/tracks.html |
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| iMovie | |
iMovie Tips: Managing the iMovie-Infused Classroom - "Whether
you have only one computer or a 20-plus computer lab (Count your blessings
if you do!), the following suggestions should keep your projects from becoming
your entire curriculum." Practical tips from a fourth and fifth-grade
teacher who has used iMovie with students for two years.
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm |
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Atomic Learning: iMovie 2 -Series of around 50 tutorials
developed by Atomic Learning, each detailing specific steps to complete various
tasks within iMovie 2.
http://www.atomiclearning.com/imovie2x.shtml |
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iMovie tutorial - Step by step, learn how to use iMovie using
this online tutorial developed by Apple. From connecting your camera
and creating your iMovie project file, to moving video to your Mac, arranging
and cropping clips, adding digital pictures and titles, and saving your movie
to videotape, this tutorial provides excellent instruction complete with
video demonstrations and printed information to provide extra support when
needed.
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/index.html |
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iLife Tips and Techniques - includes support for iMovie, iPhoto,
and iTunes
http://www.apple.com/ca/education/ilife/howto/ |
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The Unofficial iMovie FAQ - A large and very practical resource
of tutorials, tips and tricks and more to help you use iMovie; lots of help
on advanced topics.
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml |
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| Movie Maker | |
Movie Maker for Beginners - "Find everything
you need to start making movies on your computer" (site) using Microsoft's
Movie Maker. Tutorials cover everything from choosing a digital video
camera, to making and sharing your movies.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx |
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Windows Movie Maker Manual - "...get started using Microsoft®
Windows® Movie Maker.
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Create Home Movies with Windows Movie Maker - Tutorials, articles,
and tips from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx |
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| Premiere | |
Adobe Studio - "Design resources for Web, print, digital imaging,
and digital video professionals" (site) - tips and tricks, plugins and
helper files, groups and forums, and more, applicable to all Adobe products.
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Adobe Premiere Pro
http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/premiere.html |
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| Final Cut Pro | |
Page Elements Final Cut Pro Tutorial : Introduction to Final
Cut Pro 3 - Modules address the topics of Input, Let's See It, Let's
Hear It, and Output.
http://www.sjmclib.umn.edu/viscomm/finalcutpro/ |
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Atomic Learning: Final Cut Pro Basics - Series of around
50 tutorials developed by Atomic Learning, each detailing specific steps
to complete various tasks within Final Cut Pro.
http://www.atomiclearning.com/finalcutprox.shtml |
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Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD - Lots of practical support
is provided in this column examining the step-by-step process of creating
a DVD using Sonic Solution's MyDVD. Related links are also included.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/bridgman_burndvd.mspx |
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Apple: Support: iDVD: Hot Tips
http://www.apple.com/ca/support/idvd/hottips/ |
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Apple: QuickTime: Tools and Tricks: Tutorials: Delivery
- "Get to know the difference between RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol)
and RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol), and the relative strengths of each.
Also, get a good grasp of the data transport issues you need to keep in mind
as you learn how to prepare and delivery your QuickTime movies for delivery
on the web. Get started with the basics of QuickTime Streaming."
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/streaming.html |
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Nero 6 Ultra Edition - "Capture, copy, burn, edit, author, backup,
playback and share." (site) Includes a free trial and supporting tutorials.
http://www.nero.com/us/index.html |
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Apple: QuickTime: Tools and Tricks: Tutorials: Interactive
- "Animation is the name of the game. Build interactive websites. These
QuickTime tutorials show you how. Spice up your content with QuickTime sprites,
QuickTime Cubic VR movies and Flash tracks. Start with Interactivity." (site)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/interactive.html |
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VR Worx Tutorial - "Are you interested in creating a Virtual Tour
as a part of your online learning project? Follow these easy steps to create
an outstanding basic Panoramic Movie with your students!" (site)
http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/ict/2learn/mmspeight/convention/html/tutorial.htm |
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VR Toolbox Products - VR PanoWorx, VR ObjectWorx ,VR SceneWorx,
VR Worx. Download demos, updates, tutorials, camera templates, and
more. VR Toolbox products are for creating QuickTime virtual reality.
http://www.vrtoolbox.com/vrthome.html |
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