JSmirk CETIS Development Page Distributed eLearning - eTools
JSMIRK will be a java based authoring tool for creating slideshow multimedia. The user will be able to draw graphic elements on a slide by slide basis, much as they would in PowerPoint, but also have the ability to add audio to the slides. Eventually the slideshow can be exported as an XHTML+SMIL or SMIL multimedia presentation or as an accessibility-guidelines-compliant HTML page. Such outputs will be bundled in SCORM packages.
SMIRKBOARD will be a server environment to which such presentations can be uploaded. However it will also allow viewers of presentations to post dynamic comments over those presentations which will reappear during subsequent viewings of those presentations. This attempts to combine the logic of the discussion board with that of the web presentation. Slides will appear with the comments that were provoked by them alongside. When the slideshow moves on to the next slide, those comments will too disappear and new ones pertaining to the subsequent slide will appear in their place. These learning activities will too be exportable as a SCORM package for offline perusal and evaluation.
Steve Bennett
Email: S.J.Bennett@herts.ac.uk
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Address: Dept of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB.