Enhancing Music Instruction: Adding Sound to Electronic Documents Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb UTSA Division of Music 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999
Use of Sound in Class Presentations … retains student interest serves to illustrate concepts that are difficult to discuss using text and/or graphics only is absolutely indispensable in music (and foreign language) instruction 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999
Sound can be “dropped” into... Word Processor documents (e.g., Word, Word Perfect, etc.) Presentation files (e.g., Powerpoint, Compel, Astound, etc.) Spreadsheets (e.g., Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.) Databases (e.g., Access, FoxPro, FileMaker Pro, etc.) 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999
Sound inserted as “objects” … as easy as drag-and-drop WAVE files MIDI files CD Audio AVI files 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999
More Fun ... Examples in Microsoft Word Taking your document to the Web Dreamweaver Real Producer G2 FREE - http://www.real.com Navigating an audio CD Time Sketch Editor 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999
Contact Info: Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb UTSA Division of Music 6900 N. Loop 1604 West San Antonio, TX 78249 (210) 458-4354 (210) 458-4381 FAX lipscomb@utsa.edu http://music.utsa.edu/~lipscomb/ 2/4/99 TMEA Conference 1999