Quick Time Pro For Quick Time Teachers: A Teachers Guide To Unlocking the Power of Quick Time

About the Authors  Susan Abdulezer (Digital Storytelling), Gene Bias (Music Video), Chris Carey (Animation)

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Susan Abdulezer is a multimedia producer, writer, and teacher based in New York City. She is currently the Multimedia Coordinator for Special Education for the New York City Public Schools, which enables her to help teachers develop technology strategies that target special needs learners. She also writes feature articles on technology and education for Converge Magazine

As an early user of QuickTime technology in the schools, she developed a sign language resource called, "Streetsigns: A City Kid's Guide to American SignLanguage", and an interactive early childhood program, "The Virtual Alphabet Book", for which she won both the 1996 and 1997 ComputerworldlSmithsoman awards in Technology Innovation in Academia. Susan was also granted a Christa McAuliffe Fellowship to explore and develop digital media applications in the classroom.

Gene Bias (Music Video)

Gene Bias has taught in Orange County, Florida for the past thirty-three years. He first began using QuickTime when his high school English students were doing cooperative projects with Native American Lakota students at Pine Ridge High School in South Dakota. "Legends" became the first multimedia project CD co-produced by both groups of students. Later, he and his students produced the interactive QuickTime yR CD entitled, "Pre-Columbian Art Collection" for the Orlando Museum of Art, which was the recipient of a Computerworld/Smithsonian award.

He is currently assigned to the Orange County district office as a teacher-on-assignment working for the Technology Development Unit of the Professional Development Services where he does training for both teachers and students. He consults for numerous schools, school districts, and colleges and universities across the country on integrating technology into the curriculum.

Chris Carey (Animation)

Chris Carey is a twenty-four year teacher with Orange CountyPublic Schools (OCPS) who has worked with different forms of technology throughout her career. She has worked as a Media Specialist, Television Production Teacher, Computer. Animation Teacher, and is currently a Resource Teacher on Assignment with Professional Development Services for OCPS. Chris has consulted for numerous school districts helping to integrate technology into the curriculum. She also produced "The I Don't Do Manuals Guide to HyperStudio" and was the catalyst behind the Pics4Leaming web site. She lives with her husband and animal children, including Laura the pig who is featured in one of the projects in this book.

Product details

• Unknown Binding: 97 pages
• Publisher: FTC Publishing (2001)
• Language: English