Converting a Traditional Multimedia Kit into an Interactive Video CD-ROM

Abstract

For twenty-five years, Educational Television (ETV) programs have been available to schools in Hong Kong through broadcasting and video tapes. Supporting materials including booklets of Teachers' Notes and Pupils' Notes are also produced and used together with the programs. The emergence of desktop video means that an ETV program together with the supporting teaching and learning materials can be converted into digital data, integrated into a courseware, and stored in a CD-ROM for easy retrieval. In addition, the advantages of interactivity, where a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate, can also be of use. This article reports the development of a courseware with full motion and full screen video stored in a CD-ROM by making use of the latest compression and decompression (CODEC) technology.

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