Digital Media Lab DIGEST

[Monica Biswas]

Message 1:
From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com>

>  I am looking a possibly new computers,
>digital cameras and camcorders, and the software needed to have a variety
>of options for digital media projects.  Any ideas, opinions and comments
>would be greatly appreciated.

<p>hi lora -

     i'm a fan of some multimedia storytelling software called 
"liveslideshow" (for mac and windows.)
it lets you create narrated quicktime slideshows for putting up on 
the web.  it's relatively inexpensive ($50) and not very difficult to 
learn.   http://www.liveslideshow.com   you can download a free demo.

     some quicktimes i created with liveslideshow can be seen at 
http://storymakers.net/massey.mov
(663 kilobytes)  and http://storymakers.net/tuckermusic.mov  (1.6 megabytes)

     if you don't have quicktime on your computer you can download it 
for free from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

        hope this helps,

              - phil shapiro
                arlington, virginia

btw, a good place to find the best prices on digital cameras is 
http://dealcam.com

<p>


-- 
Phil Shapiro  pshapiro at his.com
http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal)
http://www.mp3.com/philshapiro/ (guitar fingerpicking)
http://storymakers.net (multimedia explorations)

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Message 2:
From: "Weller, Chuck" <wellercd at MX.COM>
The 12-02 Harvard Bus Rev article by Mike Porter and Mark Kramer has a 
great summary of Cisco's web learning program for IT network 
administrators with 260,00 students worldwide that may be helpful.

<p>Charles D. Weller, Esq.
Tel. 216-736-7936
Cell 216-496-0836
Fax 216-523-1811
1100 Republic Bldg.
25 Prospect Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
wellercd at mx.com

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Message 3:
From: ouida66 at excite.com
Hello Lora,

I am the director of a creative technology program for the boys and girls 
club in nyc. I do ahve a few suggestions for you regarding setting up a 
lab. I find that Macs are much friendlier and great for creative digital 
media, if you have to go with PC, pentium 4's will give the most latitude. 
include in this hardware CD Writers/burners and DVD capability. Software 
to start: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere(video 
editing) and Pagemaker. Sound software-
ACid Pro 3, Mixman Studio. All of this software is great for young people 
to learn some basics and enable them to actualize their ideas not to 
mention be inpressed by the quality of the product. Professional 
mentors/volunteers are great to teach some of the more advanced elements 
of the software. We've found that projects like self portraits (video and 
collages) and designing ads are great to get them started. For the younger 
kids, software like Kidpix and Face Factory are fun ways to get aquainted 
with digital art.  I hope this is useful to you and I wish you and your 
kids the best.

Ouida Washington
Frederick Douglass Boys and Girls CLub
885 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10025
212 865-6337

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