Lessons Online Lessons by Artful Dancer
7/3/2009
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guest access to   Database for Professional Communications
guest access to   ASP: as Special Readings/Topics
guest access to   Multimedia And New Media Streaming - assignment example:click
guest access to   New Media Writing For The Web - assignment example:click
guest access to   Digital Video And Web Video - assignment example:click
guest access to   Web Radio - assignment example:click

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View examples for course-assignment pages by clicking the "Example" links in the table above (on the right side).

Click here for the overall course example page: http://s.web.umkc.edu/StrongM
with links to each of the assignment-page examples.

Course-Materials Resource Note: For class-usable media files for video editing, media and other classes pick up
a disk in the PACE office. They are free, for you to keep, and contain a lot of trial/and/free software as well
as a bonus fan movie - ask at the desk for the disk (kept in a transparent file folder my box) (if needed I can mail you a copy)
Applications include: FTP programs, HTML editors (text and graphical), trial video editor, Open Office and more

Post your files to the web using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in Windows Explorer
Click here for an explanation of where your files are (what is local and what is on the web)
and of how to make at FTP connection using Windows Explorer.


Creating Web Pages - For assignments in most courses (not 400D)
NOTE: For the moment the web tutorial is being fleshed out so I've just put up a number of related pages. This is not a course but a helper for most of the courses listed above and is intended (when done) to replace the "How To Make Web Pages" document linked to above. I will consolidate and re-write this assortment of pages later. For now consider them a click-around-in resource. It will take a few weeks to get this helper utility ready to go. In the meantime use what you will.

See below for a video orientation for these courses.
 

Course Start and End Dates:

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Thank You,
Mike Strong

Pre-Requisite Note: Four of the courses assume that before taking them you will have taken a course in creating a website which, as a result, is a site currently alive and working on the UMKC personal website area. If you don't have that already under your belt you will be spending much more time than necessary trying to create your site and make a multimedia links page. And I will have to give you a short, short course in web pages in addition to this course.

NOTICE: Because of changes on campus from Office 2003 to Office 2007 the Access Database course has overlapping lessons, one set for Access 2003 and the other for Access 2007. Because you may have either version, click the lesson links for the version you are working with.

Personal note on Office 2007 : These are not really changes and improvements. These are mostly cosmetic blankets which add a ton of overhead (chewing up more CPU cycles without giving more worth). Some are losses, not improvements, especially in killing most of the menus and substituting tabbed tool bars. There are a couple of actual improvements but puzzling and largely incomplete. I've been actively doing database programming since the early 80's (my first FORTRAN program was in the fall of 1966 on an IBM Systems 360, but I was so non-comprehending it is hardly worth counting except to note the date). Xerox's PARC had an electronic office going in the early 1970's. Office applications were common and widespread in the late 70's to early 80's already. By then we had the 90-95% of the core functions we have had ever since. The recent changes in Microsoft Office look to me more like some new manager trying to justify why he or she was hired than it looks like needed changes.


 

Download Media Files (streaming or editing)

For Video Editing Projects - These are 3mbps WMVs in lieu of AVI's which are more than ten time the size. The quality is high enough they can be used for edit projects.

  1. Normally you are using AVI's in your projects, usually from capture
  2. Notice that you can edit a wide range of video formats directly, including Apple's MOV files.
DIgital Video Class files

For various exercises:
camelotTrombone_3mps.wmv - 8.9 mb
camelotWadeBridget_3mps.wmv - 9.3 mb

For cut-on-beat exercise:
JamCut_enter_3mps.wmv - 9.8 mb
JamCut_finale_3mps.wmv - 8.1 mb
JamCut_Louis_3mps.wmv - 6.4 mb

For Two-cam cut exercise
rafanya_CamLeft_3mps.wmv - 7.8 mb (left-side camera view)
rafanya_CamRight_3mps.wmv - 7.8 mb (right-side camera view)

For the Chroma-Key exercise
KungFuGreen_3mps.wmv - 8 mb Kung-Fu Green Background (3mps)
GolfBalledWindshield_sml.jpg - 439 kb Golf-Ball hole in windshield

Media Streaming class file

To create your set of three or more own versions to be linked/streamed if you have a video editor
Sierra Latina 40-sec Promo - 15.15 mb

 
     
 

Download applications

FileZilla FTP program (application) - This is a terrific small FTP program which handles UMKC sites very well. FileZilla allow you to move (copy) files between your own machine (local) and the web server (remote). FileZilla is especially nice in that it can be installed on a thumb drive and used on any machine you are at where you can install a thumb drive.

Download Page: http://portableapps.com/news/2009-02-21_-_filezilla_portable_3.2.2
Documentation: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation

Basic Instructions for using FileZilla with UMKC user sites (opens in new window)

 
     
     
   

Contact Information:
Email info (for non-UMKC students): StrongM@umkc.edu - 816-444-4459,  personal page, same as photo CV
For Lab times - appointment : Royal Hall 314 or the PACE office. For appointments during the day I usually prefer the PACE office lab because it doesn't generally fill up.
Note: PACE Program Website for sign-up information. 816-235-1588, UMKC, 104 Scofield Hall. (or PDF catalog
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Combined Book List for Courses (pulled from each course)

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