http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 03:44:44 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 03:44:44 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85631 Handouts and step-by-step lab activities for a short course in Digital Sound and Music. Introduction to digital sound recording and playback. Digitizing sounds with a microphone and from a tape recorder. Use of sound processing software to edit, amplify, display sounds graphically, and change file formats. Downloading sounds from the internet. File formats and sound player programs for au, wav, aiff, and mp3 files. Playing sounds in Web pages, slide shows, and Powerpoint presentations. constructing an audible alphabet book. Copying songs to your hard disk from audio CDs. Recording (burning) custom audio CDs from sounds and music files on your hard disk. Converting audio tapes and vinyl records to audio CDs. Reducing noise in old recordings. Making slideshows with backgrouond music. MIDI: downloading, arranging, and playing MIDI songs. Computer Karaoke. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85655 Handouts and software for a simple method of using templates and text editing to create multimedia projects for publication on the Web, incorporating prepared graphics, images, and sounds into Web pages, organizing class-based Web projects related to a curriculum topic in which each student in the class contributes the content (writing and artwork). Includes free downloadable templates for Web-based slide shows, alphabet books, and general class projects, with and without sound. Includes a large number of actual class projects created by students in a public elementarty school. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85629 Handouts and step-by-step lab activities for a short course in digital photography. Selecting a digital camera. Using Windows to download pictures from a digital camera, organize photo files, print your pictures, send pictures via email, copy pictures to CD-R. Using a scanner to scan prints. Installing and using Picasa 2. Installing Paint Shop Pro Studio at home. Rotating, cropping, sharpening, adjusting brightness and contrast, setting exact photo size for print-outs, color correction, recovering faded and dark photos, "one-step photo fix״. Using Studio to repair old and damaged photos; redeye removal; printing several pictures on one page; selective adjustment to portions of a photo. Adding text labels and captions to photos; importing images into other computer programs; making a photo collage; artistic and creative effects. Free Web-based photo album sites. Introduce Shutterfly on line (uploading your pictures to a website for free so that others can view them). Using layers: how to cut out a portion of one photo to paste into another photo. Making slideshows of still images. Making video slide shows to show on TV with a DVD player. Introduce creative projects to do (newsletter, greeting card, etc.); HP website projects. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76022 Illustrated tutorial on signal processing, especially as it applies to instrumental measurement. Signal arithmetic; Signals and noise; Smoothing; Differentiation; Resolution enhancement; Harmonic analysis; Convolution; Deconvolution; Fourier filter; Integration and peak area measurment; Curve fitting. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85633 Handouts and step-by-step lab activities for a short course in basic personal computer troubleshooting. HTML, DOC, and PDF formats. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76028 Technology-enhanced Web-based lesson on the science and mathematics of color. Includes Student Worksheet for students to record their observations and answers.