Multimedia presentation in class

• Who: Prof. Glenn Gass
• Department: Music in General Studies
• Class: Z401 The Music of the Beatles
• Project Title: Beatles Multimedia Companion
• Delivery Format: Firewire Hard Drive
• Instructional Goals:
  • Heighten students' listening skills
  • Enhance lecture with integrated audio, video, text and images
  • Efficiently combine materials from a variety of sources to reduce class time used to queue up media

Z401 is a song-by-song look at the music, lives and times of the Beatles.The course focuses on the Beatles' music and aims to heighten student listening skills as well as foster a deeper appreciation of the Beatles' music. The music is supplemented by a multimedia companion that provides biographical information, video clips and a closer look at the Beatles' songwriting and recording process.

Professor Gass creates each screen in Adobe Photoshop and digitizes video and audio clips for the modules. The TLTC assists in putting the screens together and adding functionality in Adobe Director. Use of the modules enhances an already dynamic lecture class and helps students take notes and make connections with the material.