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Boston College
Creating Engaging Multimedia Course Content
Through the Use of A Database Driven Template
EDUCAUSE 2007
Elizabeth ClarkInstructional Design and eTeaching Services,
Boston College
The Problem
• Faculty members have lots of content: text, images, audio, video, but too often they are presenting it to students in a linear, disconnected fashion.
“We Need A Better Book”
• Malleable material
• Visual learning• Maximizing class
time• Student
ownership
The “Rome Project”
• Case study: History of Roman architecture from 1370 - 1700
• Main idea: A walking tour of Rome• Complexity: The variety of factors that
influenced why, where and when buildings were erected
The “Shelley Project”
• Case study: One cultural moment• Ideas: Movement across media• Complexity: Tension and
reinforcement
Envisioning the site: Content
• Requirements:– Multi-platform use– Small file size
• Formats:– Text – Images– Audio and video
Envisioning the site: Structure
• Multi-purpose access:– Content relationships– Directed progression– Keyword searching
• Dynamic interface– User-driven– Clear navigation
Moving from the Specific to the General
• How do we move from creating time and resource intensive projects toward building an application that can be used and sustained by many faculty, one that is usable across a variety of disciplines?
• Can we turn this into a template?
MEMEO
• My Educational Multimedia Explorer Online
• Atoms, widgets and templates• The technology:
– PHP/MySQL– Flash Remoting– AJAX
MEMEO
• Building an effective user interface
– Basic feature: single items are added to a MEMEO instance and the metadata determines where it will “live”
– What Rome gave us: Timeline and map elements– What Shelley gave us: Topic and slideshow elements
MEMEO
• What we gained:
– Comparison function was improved– Tags added: This allows users to cross reference
items in the overall presentation– More functional search: It’s contextual, so if an item
exists in multiple areas, it will show in the search that way.
MEMEO
• What we gave up:
– Music isn’t attached to objects as in the Flash-based Shelley presentation
– Integration with Library databases– Filtering on the map
Where To Go From Here?
• Integrated user authentication• HTML or Drupal “wrapper”• Integration with other databases and
systems on campus• Extending content development to students• Sharing this with other academic institutions
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