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Kimberly Morton and Crystal Hunnicutt

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Objective

• To demonstrate inexpensive and easy-to-use software programs that will help faculty and technology personnel to learn new ways to add content driven pizzazz to standard on-line courses. These tools will help to engage the student into an active learning role through the use of interactive games, audio, video, and pictures.

– Photoshop Elements– StudyMate by Respondus– Impatica for PowerPoint– Impatica OnCue– SoftChalk

Why bother?

•“Millennials” or the Net Generation or Generation Z, as they are often called, are used to being entertained

•They process small bites of information

•They want their information delivered in an interactive format

•They want lots of eye candy

• Cost: $69 – (Academic pricing through www.journeyed.com)

• Used to create: – Backgrounds– Icons– Banners

• Other uses:– Altering pictures– Creating collages– Adding text

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Photoshop Elements

StudyMate by Respondus

• Cost: $79 – (Academic pricing through

www.respondus.com)

• Uses: – Create ten Flash-based activities and

games and easily upload them to a website or WebCT/Blackboard course.

– Allows you to import items from MS Word files and publisher test banks, making it easy to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content.

– Does not require programming knowledge.

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• Cost: $499 (Free trial available)– http://www.impatica.com/

• Uses: – Lets you deliver fully narrated and

animated PowerPoint presentations to pretty much any Internet device without plug-ins.

– It converts the PowerPoint file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. Usually 95% smaller than the PowerPoint HTML files.

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Impatica for PowerPoint

Impatica OnCue

• Cost: $499 (Free trial available)– http://www.impatica.com/

• Uses: Allows video files to be integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint and delivered over the Internet without the need for plug-ins and at a much smaller file size.

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SoftChalk Lessonbuilder

• Cost: $450 (Educational Version) www.softchalk.com

• Uses: Creates professional interactive web pages that include pop-up text annotations, self-assessment quizzes, and interactive learning games. The presenter will demonstrate this tool and how easy it is to create and upload into a WebCT course.

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