Key Term Website Resources

Avatars

• Avatarity http://www.avatarity.com/
  
• Avatar, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) format

• AVI Overview http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html
  
• Digital FAQ http://www.digitalfaq.com/

Electronic slide show

• Electronic Slide Shows for Science http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/guide/slideshowk6.html

Extensible Mark-up Language (XML)

• Extensible Markup Language, from W3C http://www.w3.org/XML/
  
• Extensible Markup Language http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html
  
• XML, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

Full immersion systems

• Encompassing Education http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0519.html?printable=1

Haptic interfaces

• The Haptic Community Website http://haptic.mech.northwestern.edu/
  
• Haptics, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptics
  
• MIT Touch Lab http://touchlab.mit.edu/index.html

Head mounted display (HMD)

• Head Mounted Displays, from DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/MTO/displays/hmd/index.html
  
• Changing the Interface of Education http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=5663

Hypermedia

• Smart Library on Literacy and Technology, from NCREL http://www.ncrel.literacy.smartlibrary.info/NewInterface/
  
• Hypermedia, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia

HyperStudio

• The Official HyperStudio Website http://www.hyperstudio.com/

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format

• MPEG.org http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/index.html
  
• MPEG, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG
  
• How Are Movies Stored on DVD Disks? http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question596.htm

Multimedia

• Multimedia Education, from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/multimedia_education
  
• Multimedia, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_multimedia

QuickTime movies

• QuickTime, from Apple http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
  
• QuickTime, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime

QuickTime VR Authoring Studio

• QuickTime VR, from Apple http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/qtvr/
  
• QuickTime VR Authoring, from Apple http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/tools/authoring.html
  
• QuickTime VR for Educators http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/QTVR/

Storyboard

• Storyboarding Your Movie http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/
  
• Interactive Storyboard Exercise http://www.plugincinema.com/plugin/film_school/interactive.html
  
• Making Movie Storyboards http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/storyboarding/

Video editing software

• About Video Editing http://www.aboutvideoediting.com/
  
• How Video Editing Works http://computer.howstuffworks.com/video-editing.htm
  
• Desktop Video http://desktopvideo.about.com/

Virtual Reality (VR)

• Virtual Reality Resources http://vresources.jump-gate.com/
  
• The MOO: A Virtual Reality Learning Environment http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech010.shtml
  
• Virtual Reality in Education http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/technology/shaffer.htm
  
• Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction http://www-vrl.umich.edu/intro/

Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

• VRML Works http://vrmlworks.crispen.org/
  
• A Beginner's Guide to VRML http://wp.netscape.com/eng/live3d/howto/vrml_primer_index.html
  
• VRML, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

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