Fred+Davis+Wk5+Storyboard+Continued

Here is my Week 5, updated Storyboard for the Multimedia Presentation

[|Multimedia Presentation Wk5.docx]

Fred, Is there a way to make the boxes and content larger so I can read it. Thanks Val

Val, The easiest way is to use the zoom feature under the view tab. If you zoom to 200 %, everything becomes much more legible.

Val, My apologies for not indicating the use of the zoom lens. Thanks for raising the point. In new and additional work, I'll increase the font size in the Inspiration software before transferring it to Word. Because Inspiration has to be at the receiving end -- and unfortunately it's not -- to make sure the software works, I have to transfer to MS Word, which is tantamount to ROM. Inspiration is such a great program that it's a shame it's not more widely used and known in higher education. In fairness to higher ed, the critical thinking software technically is K-12, though it performs at much higher grade levels

Fred.

Jason

Thank you Jason you are right! Val 4/14/2011

Hi Fred...

I think that you taking a really interesting approach to creating your storyboard. It is really interesting to follow the history of broadcast news as you move around the concept map. What is the current need that your company is looking to address? How do you envision the history and the research that you have gathered framing that need?

Mike :) 4/12/2011

Hi Fred Which solution are you leaning towards? Val

Val & Mike,

Good questions! My innovations objective is to see electronic journalism -- specifically television journalism -- make more effective use of videotelephony such as Skype, Logitech Vid, along other multmedia and digital technologies. For once, broadcast technology is on pace and even ahead in some annals of the marketplace with video and audio technology through high def. But the tools available to the electronic news industry for getting news and newsmakers quickly on air don't rise to the level of the video and audio that come across my 1080, 120 Hz, HDTV screen. Videotelephony is a godsend for the broadcast news industry, because there is very little or no cost involved with such technology channels as Skype and Logitech Vid to put news on the air. But there is such a huge difference in the quality of this technology when it appears on air. I is often dull in appearence and the audio rises and falls like the stock market.

Like newspapers, broadcasting has cut news staffs and operations significantly in recent years to remain in business. The technology toys that are in today's marketplace have allowed news operations to come across more resourceful than they really are. That has to continue if stations want to remain on the air. Training news staffs to take advantage of all phases of multimedia and digital technology not only allows a discriminating public to be served fully, but it helps broadcast stations continue to keep operating costs low. News get on the air quickly, but there literally is not a lot of heavy lifting when Skype or Logitech Vid are used.

As for research and history regarding my innovation, one report as of 4/15/11 showed 30 million online users of Skype. I do not yet have the figures for Logitech Vid, though they are no doubt significantly smaller because of the the exposure Skype continues to get through very high-rated TV news programs such as NBC's Today and CNN. Therefore, based on the S-Curve for Skype and the cost-savings to the electronic news industry in maximizing muktimedia and digital technology, not training their staffs to use these technologies beyond where stations are today would be a travesty. The stations have to assist in perfecting the technology that is already there. To do so assures them that there technology costs will remain low.

Hope I addressed your excellent questions fully.

Fred