• Introduce trainers and the agenda
• Set out the "storyline"
• Discuss the procedure

• Listen to presentation.

Introducing Audio to Your Online Course: First Steps in Building Multimedia Components (PowerPoint Presentation), delivered by Steve Kerby

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Check microphone connection
• Open Goldwave
• Adjust Goldwave settings; Record short script.
• Save audio file to .wav format.
• recording

The recording will sound like this.

1. Demonstration:  Watch and Listen.
2. Short Workshop: Work Individually.
   • Ask for Help when you need it.

• Review relevant editing techniques (edit & effects menu).
• Remove silence from beginning and end of recording.
• Adjust DC Offset . 
• Use Normalization technique to maximize levels. 
• Adjust amplitude range to reduce clipping.
• Reduce unwanted noise, such as a background hiss
• Review changes.  
• Save modified recording.

1. Demonstration:  Watch and Listen.
2. Short Workshop: Work Individually.
   • Ask for Help when you need it.

1. Stretch your legs.
2. Ask questions

• Open Real Producer
• Use Recording Wizard
  • record from file
  • title = Introduction 
  • author = Your Name (e.g., John Smith) 
  • target audience = 56K 
  • audio format = Voice Only 
• Click on Start, under Recording Controls to encode file.

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Under Web Publishing heading, select Create Web Page wizard
  • locate encoded RealAudio file (intro.rm), next
  • select Pop-up Player, next
  • caption:  Welcome, next
  • filename, next
  • click on Finish button.

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Publish RealMedia files to Polaris/Nova server.
• Under Web Publishing heading, select Publish Web Page wizard
  • select, next-->next
  • under publishing profile, select Any Standard Web Server from the drop-down list, next
  • fill in your username and password (from STEP C), next
  • click on Finish button.

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Launch Browser (Netscape Navigator)
• Go to homepage, e.g.,   http://polaris.umuc.edu/~username/intro.html
• Click on link.
• Listen to recording.

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Copy and paste URL to WebTycho classroom.

• Everyone in Lab do this together.

• Locate and save (using edit page) web page on Polaris server (generated by RealProducer in exercise #4).
• Add text and format web page.

• Optional exercise to be completed after the workshop.

• Use WS_FTP to republish web page to Polaris server.

• Optional exercise to be completed after the workshop.