Dr. Alaa Sadik

Testing Presentationtube

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:16:27 PST

PresentationTube

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:31:35 PST

http://presentationtube.net

PresentationTube provides a video presentation desktop recorder and sharing network to help instructors, students, virtual presenters, and business professionals record, publish and share quality, accessible, and interactive video presentations from the comfort of home or office. PresentationTube integrates a variety of presentation aids and synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, drawing board, and Web content. PresentationTube provides a slide scrollable thumbnail allowing the user to move to the respective video content and control both the time and progress of video presentation. A PresentationTube presentation allows interactivity via scrollable thumbnail, discussion board, and self-assessment quiz, allowing participants to be heard and involved. No need for new or third-party software or hardware. It is free, with no ads, no banners, and unlimited bandwidth and storage space.

TECH4101 ePortfolio

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:17:27 PST

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PresentationTube

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:25:35 PST

This interactive video presentation has been recorded using PresentationTube at http://www.presentationtube.net. PresentationTube provides a video presentation recorder and video sharing and streaming network to help instructors, students, virtual presenters, and business professionals record, publish and share quality, accessible, and interactive video presentations from the comfort of home or office. PresentationTube integrates a variety of presentation aids and synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, drawing board, and Web content. PresentationTube provides a slide scrollable thumbnail allowing the user to move to the respective video content and control both the time and progress of video presentation. A PresentationTube presentation allows interactivity via scrollable thumbnail, discussion board, and self-assessment quiz, allowing participants to be heard and involved. No need for new or third-party software or hardware. PresentationTube recorder and network are free, with no ads, no banners, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited storage space.

PresentationTube

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:44 PST

PresentationTube Network provides a video presentation recorder and video sharing and streaming network that facilitates the process of producing, publishing and sharing quality, accessible, and interactive video presentations for instructors, students, virtual presenters, and business professionals. Although producing and delivering video tutorials is not a new idea, few simple and efficient solutions have been found to help users produce and publish interactive video presentations.

PresentationTube recorder is a simple tool that integrates and records PowerPoint presentations, freehand drawings, text typing, web content, and direct presenter’s video view. It helps presenters annotate on slides by clicking on the annotation tool and then using the mouse or any graphic tablet to draw or write with. In addition the presenter can use the visual presence to implement translation techniques, including facial expressions, and natural gestures. Presenters can register for free to upload and publish their video presentations as interactive presentation, with slide thumbnail to navigate through the video presentation based on slide number, add Facebook social plug-in for further interaction between the presenter and the audience, and add quizzes for self-assessment.

PresentationTube presentations are a completely standard HTML/Flash pages with synchronized video presentation, slides, and easy-to-navigate slide thumbnail which can be accessed via any computer or smart device. Simply, download and install PresentationTube Recorder, open PresentationTube Recorder and follow instruction to record your presentation, upload the flash video to PresentationTube and complete the presentation publishing form, and finally, get your video presentation link and share it with your audience via email or social networks. No registration is required to watch or share the presentations published or shared by a presenter.
http://presentationtube.net

Testing from TECH2111 Class

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:26:46 PST

This course is designed for ILT students and focuses on the educational uses of the computer and its roles in the educational environment. This practical course balances fact, theory and application as it examines the computer's role in education as a tool of the mind. It presents theories and models relating to computer-assisted instruction and discusses strategies for using computers in education settings, demonstrates practical applications and closes with a discussion of management and administrative concerns.

Technical Information

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:40:03 PDT

Version
Version 1.8.3 NEW, June 16th, 2011
First release December 25th, 2010

OS
All versions of MS Windows.
Windows 7 is recommended.
File size: 7.0 MB
Download

realshow.zip
Standard Windows-style setup wizard with uninstall capability.

Supported output formats
WMV (different formats), AVI, FLV, SWF

Requirements
Software
MS PowerPoint^® 2000/03/07/10
DirectX^® 9.0 (if not installed)
K-Lite Codec Pack (for better encoding)

Hardware
USB Webcam and microphone

License
Freeware for "personal and educational" use only. Using RealShow in a company or other similar scenarios is classified as commercial use and requires a commercial license. The freeware version of RealShow has no limitation on features compared to the purchased version. The only differentiation between the two versions is little caption of RealShow. To buy the full version please use your credit card or PayPal account.

RealShow: Produce and Share Accessible Video Content for All

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:27:43 PDT

RealShow is a research-based project. It provides a free software and video sharing network to facilitate the process of producing and sharing quality and accessible video content for learners in developing regions, particularly in the Arab World. Although producing video tutorials for learners is not a new idea, few simple and efficient solutions have been applied to help educators prepare accessible video and flash content, particularly for those who are deaf or tend to be visual. The software provides a simple technique to integrate popular PowerPoint slides, freehand drawings, text typing, web pages, and direct teacher’s video view in one single window. It allows teachers create video and flash content using several translation techniques, including facial expressions, natural gestures, and sign language, which help convey messages. RealShow encourages teachers in developing nations to produce video content using a cost-effective solution and share their content via RealShow website and electronic or mobile media, which can be used to bridge many gaps. RealShow helps educators and presenters apply principles for the design of multimedia materials and human cognitive processing in delivering their PowerPoint slides. It takes advantage of the dual-channel structure of the human information processing system by means of text, pictures and audio. It promotes active cognitive processing by allowing the presenter to guide the processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating information. RealShow gives visual aids and fosters human contact between the presenter and the audience. The presenter can clearly identify the main points and communicate in a way that will have the desired impact on the audience through texts, illustrations, slides, and visual presence of the presenter.

Other Benefits

1. Produce video and flash content for e-learners.
2. Create supportive materials in blended learning and face-to-face environments.
3. Support physically disabled learners or those with medical conditions who cannot attend classes.
4. Share knowledge and record remote/virtual conference presentations.
5. Prepare per-recorded video presentations for job interviews.

Features
RealShow helps teachers and presenters to:

1. Focus on vision, as the hearing impaired student's primary means of receiving information.
2. Reduce background noise by presenting only one source of visual information at a time.
3. Open and display real PowerPoint slides within the same RealShow window.
4. Use their already made MS PowerPoint slides.
5. Extract slide note and display it in a small text box beside the slide for easy narration.
6. Navigate through slides the same as they move in PowerPoint full screen mode, or using the simple control panel (next, previous, first and last slide).
7. Display current slide number, title and total number of slides in the status bar.
8. Connect and display unlimited number of USB or integrated web cams.
9. Display presenter's video in a full screen mode or within/beside the slide.
10. Display presentation title and presenter's name beside the presenter's video.
11. Illustrate ideas using slides, text, freehand drawing, and the web.
12. Record presentations as a video file in standard and flash formats (AVI, WMV, FLV and SWF), with different recording settings.
13. Pause, resume or stop while recording.

RealShow: A new way for producing and communicating virtual conference presentations

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:18:56 PDT

Microsoft PowerPoint is the leading presentation software used in our professional and educational world for years. It is easy-to-use, flexible, popular, and cost-effective, and allows presenters to create digital multimedia content quickly and efficiently. However, PowerPoint is recognized as a presenter-oriented tool and slides are not substitute for the in-depth information and guidance a presenter should deliver. If the audience are not seeing or listening to the presenter, then reading the slides in isolation will be less valuable. In addition, PowerPoint is not an interactive medium and requires the use of additional supportive technology, such as a whiteboard or flipchart, to engage the audience. At the same time, video is demonstrated to be an expanding channel for communicating ideas. It is socially acceptable and therefore it can be a powerful link between the presenter and the audience. Teachers and presenters usually record their presentations for class revision, knowledge sharing, and distance education purposes. However, taking video of the presenter and materials projected on a screen or whiteboard is not an easy task and associated with many technical problems. RealShow is a desktop solution that automates the process of recording and producing video presentations. It combines presenter’s PowerPoint slides, freehand drawings and illustrations, screen text typing, and video view in one single video object. RealShow helps presenters apply principles for the design of multimedia materials and human cognitive processing in delivering their PowerPoint slides. It takes advantage of the dual-channel structure of the human information processing system by means of text, pictures and audio. It can promote active cognitive processing by allowing the presenter to guide the processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating information. RealShow gives visual aids and fosters human contact between the presenter and the audience. The presenter can clearly identify the main points and communicate in a way that will have the desired impact on the audience through texts, illustrations, slides, and visual presence of the presenter. This solution would be very useful in helping virtual presenters to record and share their conference presentations via the conference website or YouTube. In addition, it gives the audience a sense of interaction with the presenter while watching the presentation. Later, the presenter can receive feedback on the video or interact with the audience asynchronously via the conference forum or social networks.

Arab eContent Award

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:22:20 PDT

RealShow has received the Arab eContent Award 2011, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Photo: With Prof. Peter Bruck, Arab eContent Award, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bahrain.
http://www.alaasadik.net/realshow

في راديو مونت كارلو RealA2V لقاء عن برنامج

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:02:20 PDT

TECH4102 e-Portfolio Submission

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:58:17 PDT

Abdo and Menna on PhotoPeach

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:53:05 PDT

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Record and share accessible video presentations and tutorials

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Convert and Share Your Audios via YouTube and Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:24:40 PDT

Have you been thinking about sharing your interview, lecture, classroom, or radio audio records, or even MP3 files on YouTube or Facebook? If your answer is yes, then you may need to use a video editing software (such as, Windows Movie Maker) or multimedia tool (such as MS PhotoStory 3.0) to combine audio with video or still pictures, which is time consuming and require adjusting and timing skills. RealA2V 1.0 uses a smart technique to combine audio source track with one single picture and convert them to one video file, ready for uploading and sharing on YouTube or Facebook.
RealA2V: http://realware.webs.com/reala2v/index.htm

ترشيح أكاديمي من جامعة السلطان قابوس لجائزة عالمية

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:37:59 PDT

Oman Daily Newspaper Tuesday March 29th

RealShow has been nominated for the World Summit Award Global Contest by Information Technology Authority in Oman as the best e-Content example in e-Inclusion & Participation.

Record and share accessible video presentations and tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:24:45 PDT

Record and share accessible video presentations and tutorials using RealShow 1.0. For more info, please visit http://www.alaasadik.net/realshow

Record and share accessible video presentations and tutorials

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RealShow: Record and share accessible video presentations and tutorials for all

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:27:41 PDT

بالرغم من أن تسجيل أو إعداد عروض الفيديو للطلاب بالمدارس و الجامعات ليس أمراً جديداً، فإن هناك عدداً محدوداً جداً من التطبيقات التي تساعد الأساتذة علي إعداد عروض فيديو تعليمية جذابة و شيقة بسهولة و في وقت قصير جداً. يعمل البرنامج علي مساعدة المعلمين علي تسجيل عروضهم عن طريق دمج محتوى شرائح البوربوينت المعدة مسبقاً، مع ما يؤدونه من رسوم و أشكال توضيحية، و كتابة نصية مباشرة علي الشاسة، و كذلك صوت و صورة المعلم في نافذة واحدة. يساعد الفيديو الذي ينتجه البرنامج المتعلمين علي مشاهدة المعلم مباشرة اثناء العرض و هو يعلق صوتيا، أو يكتب، أو يرسم أمامهم علي الشاشة، أو ينتقل من شريحة إلي أخرى، أو يستعرض أحد مواقع الإنترنت. يمكن للمعلم بعد ذلك أن يضيف الفيديو إلي مقرره الإلكتروني أو موقع اليوتيوب، أو يتبادل ملف الفيديو مع الطلاب عبر أجهزتهم المحمولة. من أهم تطبيقات البرنامج استخدامه لإعداد الفيديو للطلاب المعاقين سمعيا أو ممن يعانون اضطراباً في الإدراك السمعي و يفضلون المواد البصرية.

Although recording classroom presentations and tutorials for ordinary learners is not a new idea, little effort has been applied to provide simple solutions to prepare complementary video materials to students. RealShow automates the process of producing effective video materials for learners and provides functions that combine popular PowerPoint slides, freehand drawings and illustrations, screen typing, web content, and teacher’s video view in one single window. It allows teachers to create video presentations using several visual techniques, including facial expressions, natural gestures, and sign language which help convey messages for deaf learners. It provides students with a clear and direct view of the teacher and provides teachers a flexible way to deliver accessible teaching materials via electronic media, mobile devices, and the Internet which can be used to bridge many gaps.

Courseware Evaluation

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:38:17 PST

Develop a questionnaire to collect data about teachers' or students' perceptions, views, or reactions toward one or more of the technical or pedagogical aspects of an instructional software (e.g., application, tutorial, drill & practice, multimedia, games, etc.). Provide a brief description of the software, including purpose and audience then post your assignment to Bolgger, with link to the questionnaire. Leave your comment in this page with a link to your post.

Evaluation of Computer Assisted Instruction

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:22:21 PST

Based on your review of aspects of evaluation in CAI, develop a survey/questionnaire/checklist/rating scale to evaluate one of the technical and/or pedagogical aspects of an instructional software then post your instrument to Survey Console. Write a short post in Blogger describing this instrument with link to the survey at Survey Console (follow the class guidelines).

Evaluation Strategies

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:16:16 PST

This post describes strategies that teachers may use to assess and evaluate the quality of their teaching and its impact on student learning: 1) teaching dossiers; 2) student ratings; 3) peer observations; 4) letters and individual interviews; 5) course portfolios; and 6) classroom assessment. Please provide us with real examples of these strategies.

Record your drawing and illustration using RealShow 1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:29:35 PST

Let me know your feedback please

PowerPoint for Young Learners

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:57:53 PST

Technology is being used with increasing frequency in early childhood education to develop children's knowledge and skills. Multimedia applications and presentation tools, in particular, are increasing in popularity and providing powerful tools for creation of learning materials and accessible information in several formats. When used appropriately in early childhood education, these software can support and extend traditional classrooms in valuable ways (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1996).

MS PowerPoint, as a multimedia authoring and presentation tool, has become the dominant presentation tool in early childhood settings because it is both readily available and easy-to-use by teachers (Grabe & Grabe 2007). PowerPoint allows teachers to create and manipulate presentations in a wide variety of contexts that can enhance children's interest and engagement (Mills & Roblyer 2006). It helps teachers clearly identify the main points of a lesson or activity while still providing the details through presentation (Loisel & Galer, 2004). In addition, teachers can incorporate multiple types of media formats (e.g., clipart, photo, drawing, sound and video) that cannot be easily integrated together into one single medium.

Young learners are also attracted to PowerPoint because of graphical, transactional, aesthetic and interactive features it provides. Chiasson & Gutwin (2005) believe that children's goals while learn with computers are typically education or entertainment rather than productivity. In order to be successful, a presentation needs to keep their interest and attention. In a series of studies on using Microsoft PowerPoint to support the development of learners in early childhood education, Parette and his colleagues tell us that well-designed and teacher-guided PowerPoint presentations help young children, particularly those at risk for reading difficulties, to build confidence, and to work and feel comfortable with the lesson format the teacher has designed for them (Parette, Blum, Boeckmann & Watts, 2009; Parette, Quesenberry & Blum, 2010).

In classroom settings, Parette and his colleagues at Illinois State University conducted a series of studies focused on the use of PowerPoint in teaching emergent literacy skills for young children. They concluded that the availability of digital projectors greatly enhances the group teaching potential of PowerPoint presentations and engages children in various learning activities that contribute to the development of their vocabulary, phonological awareness and comprehension of alphabetic and print principles (Parette, Wojcik, Stoner & Watts, 2007; Parette, Hourcade, Boeckmann & Blum, 2008). For example, the teacher might use the animation features to make slides more engaging for children and control the appearance of each letter in a word so that it is isolated, and can be linked with the sound that corresponds to it. In addition, a single letter could appear on the slide, followed by the sequential appearance of other letters, until an entire word is created, illustrating left-to-right sequencing in the construction of words and the reading process (Parette, Blum & Watts, 2009).

RealShow 1.0: Bring your PowerPoint Slides into Life

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:09:38 PST

www.alaasadik.net/realshow

MS PowerPoint^® is the leading presentation software used in business and education for more than twenty years. It has become the dominant presentation tool in our professional and educational world, usually with the intention of creating audio-visual presentations. The ease of use of PowerPoint^® can save time and encourage presenters who otherwise would have used other types of whiteboards or overhead projections, resulting in billions of PowerPoint^® files made each year.

However, although billions of PowerPoint documents are available and can support learning effectively, they are no substitute for the in-depth information and guidance a presenter should deliver. If audience members are not seeing or listening to the presenter, then reading the slides in isolation will be less valuable. However, it may not be possible for an instructor, student, conference participant, social worker, statistician, surveyor, financial analyst, manager or sales man to be there live or physically present at an event. So the next best option is to use RealShow^® to convert slides to video format with the presenter's actual presence and audio-visual guidance which can be shown in any media player. The user does not need PowerPoint installed to view the presentation. You can easily make presentation available via the Internet or even upload video to YouTube and blogs.

RealShow^® was designed to help education and business presenters apply principles for the design of multimedia materials and human cognitive processing in delivering their PowerPoint slides. RealShow^® takes advantage of the dual-channel structure of the human information processing system by means of text, pictures and audio. It can promote active cognitive processing by allowing the presenter to guide the processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating information. The presenter can elaborate and expand verbally and visually on their slides and help the audience to understand the whole concept, and not just the key points. RealShow^® offers more than slides because it gives visual aids and fosters human contact between the presenter and the audience. The presenter can clearly identify the main points and communicate in a way that will have the desired impact on the audience through texts, illustrations, slides, and visual presence of the presenter.

For more information, please contact Dr. Alaa Sadik.

RealShow Student Presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Alaa Sadik) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:23:19 PST

This class presentation was created using RealShow 1.0. RealShow is a smart solution for recording your PowerPoint tutorials. It helps presenters record and produce presentations with their video narration on the same screen. Using RealShow the presenter can guide audience through slides and provide them with the feeling of the actual lecture. Presenters can use this tool to record classroom presentations so distance students can see quality slides and fell the presence of the lecturer.