Monday: What is Streaming Media?

As you progress through activities for this week, think ahead about Thursday's assignment.

	Required:	· Questions to consider when viewing presentations: o How easy is it for you to understand what you are supposed to do to watch/listen to the streaming media? o Do you feel like you are controlling the technology, or is it controlling you? Streaming Media Tutorial Illustrated Audio Tutorial An Introduction to Streaming Video

	Skim:	Highly Interactive Streaming Media (Follow the link "Watch it Now" halfway down the page.) A Portfolio of Innovation Brainpop.com

	Optional:	Graphic: Delivering Streaming Video Introduction to SMIL A Little Humor Presented in Streaming Media Just for Fun -- Welcome to the Internet Helpdesk -- John West Salmon

	Assignment:	Respond to two of the following in Web Board. Limit to one word-processed page each. React to a classmate’s response to the topic you do not directly address yourself. o Streaming media come in many formats and layouts. In viewing these presentations, do you find any which you suspect might be improved by an alternative format? o React to this statement: Streaming video should never be used to present a "talking head". It takes up too much bandwidth that could be used more economically. Video should only be used when visual action is critical to instruction. o What can streaming media do that other, more "traditional" media cannot? How might a teacher make use of this technology?