ITDP's Flash-based Tutorials

Welcome to the world of flash-based instructional sequences...

Want to learn something new on a 24/7 basis? Check out any of these...

Need the most recent version of the Flash Player? You can find it here...

 

Flash-based Tutorials
Using PowerPoint in
Your Instruction
Using Articulate's Presenter to Narrate and Flash Your PowerPoints
How to Use this Software What Is the ITDP?
Using Ad-Aware to
Clean your Computer
Using Photo Story to
Create Instructional Videos
Using SmartBoards
at Providence College
Using Photoshop Elements to
Create Panoramas
Using SnagIt to
Enhance your Instruction
Using Camtasia to
Supplement your Instruction
Development Tools
We Use in the ITDP
Photoshop Elements 101
Instructional Use of Graphics
Developing Your Portfolio Creating Flash-Based Instructional Handouts Using Engage
Flash-based Evaluations
2005 Faculty/Student
Technology Survey

 

For these tutorials and evaluation reviews, you'll need the Flash Player which is down-loadable here. You probably already have it installed in your browser, so try the tutorial first... Check here if you want to see how to install Flash.

Want to learn how we put these together? Check out the overview of the software development tools we use in the ITDP...

Using PowerPoint in Your Instruction

ITDP Office

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about:

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  • The PowerPoint Screen
  • Creating Slide Shows
  • Designing Slides
  • Inserting Objects in slides
  • incorporating Charts
  • Using media: graphics, audio, and video

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Flashing & Narrating Powerpoint -- Articulate's Presenter

ITDP Office

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • How Articulate's Presenter accomodates your audio narrations.
  • How Presenter "flashes" your PowerPoint so it can't be distributed
  • About the workflow process that results in both a PowerPoint and a Flash version.

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What Is the ITDP?

ITDP Office

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • How to pronounce this indecipherable acronym.
  • What it actually means...
  • What we do and how we do it!

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How to Use this Software

How to use these tutorials...

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • How to download Ad-Aware from LavaSoft.com.
  • How to set the program defaults for a thorough scan of your system.
  • How to delete infected files from your system.

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Using Ad-Aware to Keep your Computer Clean

Using Lavasoft's Ad-Aware

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • How to download Ad-Aware from LavaSoft.com.
  • How to set the program defaults for a thorough scan of your system.
  • How to delete infected files from your system.

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Using Photo Story to Create Instructional Videos

Using Photo Story 3

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • about Photo Story basics
  • Import and Arrange your graphics
  • Import and arrange your graphics
  • Add titles and captions
  • Narrate and customize motions
  • Add background music
  • save and export your video

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Using SmartBoards at Providence College

Using SmartBoards

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • What SmartBoards are
  • The Basics about what a SmartBoard does
  • How to use the software that comes with the SmartBoard

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Using PhotoShop Elements to Create Panoramas

Creating a panorama

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • to use Photoshop Elements to lay out graphics and develop a panorama.

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Using Camtasia to Supplement your Instruction

Camtasia

In this Camtasia tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • Overview the basic screen/video capture process
  • Find out where the software can be obtained online.
  • Explore the different ways you can capture graphics, text, screens, and web site graphics.

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Using SnagIt to Supplement your Instruction Up Arrow

SnagIt

In this SnagIt tutorial, you’ll learn:

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  • Overview the basic screen capture process
  • Find out where the software can be obtained online.
  • Explore the different ways you can capture graphics, text, screens, and web site graphics.

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Development Tools We Use in the ITDP Up Arrow

Search for the Instructional Grail

In this overview of the software development tools we use in the Instructional Technology Development program, you’ll learn:

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  • qSome limitations imposed by the complexity of Flash
  • qAn overview a Rapid Application Development alternative
  • qA tool that consolidates differently-formatted files
  • qProcess of “putting all the pieces” together in workflow format

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Photoshop Elements 101 -- Instructional Use of Graphics Up Arrow

Adobe Photoshop Elements

In this introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements and the use of graphics for instructional purposes, you’ll see an:

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  • Introduction to the use of graphics
  • Overview of the different ways we can use graphics instructionally

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Creating Flash-Based Instructional Handouts Using Engage Up Arrow

engage

In this introduction to Articulate's Engage and the use of Flash-based handouts for instructional purposes, you’ll see an:

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  • Introduction to how Engage Works, and the types of handouts it produces
  • Overview of the ten different interactions that will let you display your information

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ITDP Report Card (Program Evaluation Summary) Up Arrow

ITDP Report Card

How are we doing? Ask our faculty. We do -- and here's what they have to say...

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2005 Faculty/Student Technology Survey Up Arrow

2005 Tech Survey Findings

How well, to what degree, and in what fashion is technology being integrated into Faculty courses? We ask both faculty and students at the end of the academic year. Here are last year's findings for both groups... Seven key indicators were polled in May 2005.

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