About TIM²S

A two-week summer institute, Teaching with Instructional Multimedia in Mathematics and Science at the Post Secondary and Secondary Schools, TIM²S, JULY 11-22, 2005, at CCBC Essex provides 40 secondary and post secondary school educators with supportive opportunities for developing instructional multimedia presentations using current software packages such as TechSmith's Snag-It and Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver.

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TIM²S is offered through funding from the National Science Foundation - Advanced Technology Education in the Directorate for undergraduate Education:
NSF-ATE DUE #0202260 - Instructional Multimedia(IM): Curriculum Development, Teacher and Faculty Enhancement with CCBC matching funds

TIMS Faculty

Todd Abramovitz
Andrew Beiderman
Kathleen Harmeyer
Brian Hoffman
Veronica Noone
Sylvia Sorkin
Donna Tupper

TIMS Instructional Assistants

Michael Ziegler

Prior Sessions

Summer 2002
Summer 2003
Summer 2004

IMMT Home CCBC Home

Summer 2005

Participants
Schedule of Activities

Useful Links

Dreamweaver and Snag-it Tips
Donna Tuppers' time savers and cool effects

Jakob Nielsen's s Web Page Advice
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Top Ten Mistakes Revisited

The Barebones Guide to HTML
Every HTML tag revealed

Perfect Little Programs
Collection of small learning objects created by CCBC faculty and students and TIMS participants

Math and Science Resources
Brian Hoffman's collected links. Brian has divided the links into convenient categories linked off this main index page.

Flash Resources
Help pages, list serves and code

University of Hertfordshire's (England) tutorial for Authorware
Very clear treatment of major topics up through frameworks.

MERLOT(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

WS_FTP Home
Download a free copy of a File Transfer Protocol program. On install, select "home" or "academic" use. If you plan to use it for business, there is a charge.

University of Texas Office of General Counsel
Discussions of copyright, ethics, fair use, and intellectual property

Bibliography

Russell Chun, Macromedia Flash Advanced, ISBN: 0-201-75846-6

Sandro Corsaro, The Flash Animator, ISBN: 0-7357-1282-4

James Paul Gee, What Video Games have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, ISBN: 1-4039-6169-7

Walter Foster, Basic Animation, ISBN: 0-929261-50-X (How to draw graphics for frame animation)

Mark Presnky, Digital Game-Based Learning, ISBN: 0-07-136344-0

Katherine Ulrich, Macromedia Flash MX, ISBN: 0-201-79481-0 (Basic functionality of Flash)