format of multimedia and hard-copy teaching materials

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Format of multimedia and hard-copyteaching materials

Format of multimedia and hard-copy teaching materials

Dr. Flavio Melcarne

Coordinamento SIBAEd. “Studium 2000”Via di Valesio73100 – Lecce, Italyhttp://siba2.unile.it; [email protected]

English version: George Metcalf

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List of contents

Types of file and relative formats:– text– images– audio– video

Configuration of the servers:– Eco-Governance site– e-learning portal– post-graduate qualification in Eco-Governance– audio/video streaming– members only area (upload)

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Text file formats: slides (.ppt)

Background: Eco-Governance Image

Character font, size and colour for the title:

Verdana bold, 24 pt., white

Character font, size and colour for the body of the text:

Verdana, 20 pt. – min. 18 pt., white

Character font, size and colour for notes (where applicable):

Verdana, 14 pt., black

Single-concept slides

No animations

Max number of objects (graphics/formulae/tables/images) per slide: 2

Slides per hour: 20-40

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Formats of image files for slides

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format): format suitable for images with a maximum of 256 colours (flat colours without shading), e.g. graphics, formulae, tables, icons.

JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): format suitable for images of photographic quality requiring thousands or millions of colours and shades.

Limit the size of the images.Stick to a maximum of 640x480 pixels, respecting the proportions, with a maximum resolution of 72 pixels/inch

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Tex filter for the conversion of formulae to GIF

Service activated by SIBA on the MOODLE platform of the E-Learning server

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Text file formats: documents (.pdf)

documents (.rtf) images (.tiff)

document (.pdf)

pre-defined model for paging documents

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The frame on the left contains a list of the objects and functions of the InDesign software to be used when formatting a document

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Text file formats: documents (.rtf) Character font, size and colour for the title:

Arial, 14 pt., black

Character font, size and colour for the subheading:

Times New Roman, 11 pt., black

Character font, size and colour for paragraph headings:

Times New Roman, 12 pt., bold, black

Character font, size and colour for the body of the text:


Character font, size and colour for figure captions:


No macros

Objects (graphics/formulae/tables/images) must also be supplied separately as TIFF files

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Formats of image files per documents (.tif)

TIFF (Tag Image File Format): is the most commonly used format in the field of printing because it entails no loss of data and is universally recognised.It is a flexible and reliable method for memorising bitmap images in black and white, grey scale, colour scale, RGB, CMYK.It can be saved with or without compression.

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Body of the text

Title

Sub-heading

Paragraph heading

Draft

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Audio file formats (.mp3)

MP3 with a bitrate of 128Kb (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3 with compression at 128 Kbit/s) is an audio compression algorithm to be able to drastically reduce the quantity of data required to reproduce a sound, while maintaining its fidelity to the non-compressed original.

This technology makes it possible to reduce audio files to one twelfth of their original size.E.g., a file containing 5 minutes of stereo music (two channels, 16 bits, 44,100 MHz) can be reduced from 60 MB in the original to just 5 MB as an MP3 file, maintaining nearly the same quality as an audio CD.

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Video file formats

ANALOGICAL:–VHS/VHS-C–SVHS/SVHS-C–Video 8/Video 8 Hi–Betamax DIGITAL:–DV/MiniDV–MicroMV–Digital 8–DVD CAM–DVCPRO–DVCam–Digital-S–D-VHS

WMF

RM

QT

MPEG4 (H264 100Kbit/s)

coding and compression

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