For eLearning developers and other media professionals. Efficacy,
technology, usage & the history of speech enabled media.
This is the blog of Steve Olenick, the founder of AudioLink and President of Olenick Media Group, Inc. both of Watertown MA.
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ItSpeaks is now live! Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Robert LaRose in his paper Audiographic Telecourses for the Web: An Experiment, asks “…just how much of the multimedia ‘coolness’ of the World Wide Web is really necessary to produce a college course that students can learn from? Continue reading How Much Multimedia is Enough? Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. In a classic 1956 article, (Horton and Wohl) suggested that even though the relationship between a television personality and a television viewer is one-sided, with no possibility of real time interaction, skilled personalities use direct address camera views (in which the personality seems to be looking at the viewer), informal speech patterns, sincerity, and simplicity to generate a ‘(sense) of conversational give and take [that] may be called para-social interaction.’ Continue reading The voice creates a social entity Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. From At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Virtual reality. Simulation rides. Home theater. IMAX films. State-of-the-art video conferencing. Computers that ‘talk.’ Although these emerging technologies are different in a number of ways, each of them (and many others) is designed to give the user a type of mediated experience that has never been possible before: one that seems truly ‘natural,’ ‘immediate,’ ‘direct,’ and ‘real,’ a mediated experience that seems very much like it is not mediated; a mediated experience that creates for the user a strong sense of presence Continue reading Presence & Immersion Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. From the Australian Journal of Educational Technology. “Modern views of working memory suggest that it consists of separate processors for auditory and visual information … limited working memory may be effectively expanded by using more than one sensory modality making learning easier. For example, a visual diagram accompanied by an auditory text can be more efficient than the equivalent diagram with (visual) text. To understand the instruction, the learners must mentally integrate the diagram and its associated text. Continue reading Using Multiple Memory Channels Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The concept of Multiple Intelligences was first published by Gardner in 1979, where he defined 7 different intelligences that we all have in different amounts. (verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, intrapersonal, mathematical-logical, rhythmic-musical.) Others have defined different types of intelligences in other groupings. In Gardner’s grouping ‘verbal-linguistic’ includes both the written and the spoken word. The Learning Disability field often divides students into three groupings. Visual Learners, Auditory Learners and Tactile/Kinesthetic learners. Continue reading Multiple Intelligences Show-&-Tell is shown below, it is a fully functionging flash presentation that can be created in minutes from an audio file and a directory of images. The time of each image in the audio file and the titles are put into an XML file. This flash player is embedded into this page and can be resized smaller or larger depending on your need.
(Embedded Flash files will not show on Facebook) Show-&-Tell is shown below, it is a fully functionging flash presentation that can be created in minutes from an audio file and a directory of images. The time of each image in the audio file and the titles are put into an XML file. This flash player is embedded into this page and can be resized smaller or larger depending on your need. Click on the titles of sections to hear them.
(Embedded Flash files will not show on Facebook) Show-&-Tell is shown below, it is a fully functionging flash presentation that can be created in minutes from an audio file and a directory of images. The time of each image in the audio file and the titles are put into an XML file. This is from my fiance’s active outdoor company. Click on the titles of sections to hear them. (If you do not see the embedded file, click on the link.) |
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