On Tue, 19 Apr 1994 08:39:34 GMT Bert Deivert said: >>I'm curious: what film/tv programs out there are integrating multimedia >>and internet in their curriculum? The University of Southern California >>has a class bringing close textual analysis and multimedia together. Any >>others? I know that Wadsworth is developing a CD-ROM disk (for IBM compatibles) that will serve as a basic production "textbook"--though I'm not sure if it's for video or film (probably video, though). The project is at the beta stage, as I understand it. Ought to be appearing soon. >interesting part is that papers will be left on a server so that other >students may comment on their peer work. They will be using Word 5.1 and >making comments that can be read but not seen on printout. Nothing advanced Norton has released (I just got a demo copy yesterday) some software that will facilitate this sort of paper sharing: Norton Textra Connect. It allows students to use the Textra word processing program to write papers, but it goes beyond that. The "papers" can be shared among a class, or sent only to the professor and they can be commented on in this split screen kinda deal by other students or professors. It also has an e-mail element so that messages can be sent among students or to the professor. It's, as far as I can tell, limited to IBM compats and runs in DOS (or a DOS window in Windows). A professor at the University of Alabama helped to develop it: Myron Tuman. He could give you more info, if you're interested: [log in to unmask] >by the Fall. I think it would be exciting for the students to have a forum >where they could exchange ideas and experiences with students from other >countries. Maybe it would be possible to set up communication between two >basic film courses in different countries and have a BBS on one of the >computers for communication and discussion as pat of the required >curriculum? > >Anybody out there doing this already? Almost. I was interested in trying to use PMC-MOO (the journal Postmodern Culture's "MUD Object Oriented") for conferences like this, but I found the MOO environment inhospitable. It would be simple to set up an e-mail discussion group for students along these lines. And doing some sort of real-time conferences might even be possible, though that's a bit more difficult. Give me a buzz when you start getting students on-line. ---------- The Dadaist gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and a distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that this bells began to buzz, his safes frowned, and his honors list broke out in spots. --Hans Arp ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |