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DVD Authoring
Posted by: Laurie Trepanier | January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
I would normally have my instructional materials created at work by a small team of developers – technicians trained to create instructional materials under my guidance. As I have a limited supply of educational technology in my personal collection, I decided to complete this activity by creating a family scrapbook at home. This scrapbook includes some family photos, a video of my children ice skating, and some updates on the “family life” for the grandparents. I figure that this is akin to instructing our family on what we are doing in Cold Lake, AB since the big move (from Ontario) this past summer!
For the activity, the materials I selected includes several Word Documents (my children’s’ creations from school), a basic HTML document that the grandparents can open on their computer within a Browser and a three minute video. The word documents and the video are embedded in the HTML formatted document. The DVD creator I used was the Toshiba Disc Creator. I wanted to experiment with the off-the-shelf version that anyone would have at their disposal.
Reflections:
While the creation of the DVD was relatively easy, I was not impressed by the number of files present on the disk. My first instinct was to attempt to open all the files and see if there was anything interesting in each. Strange since I was the person that burned the files! I would prefer to have all the files hidden, with the exception of the one html file that supports all of the others. Perhaps I can do this at home, but I have yet to discover how.
Please leave a comment if you have any ideas on hiding the other files from the viewer when creating a DVD from home on this type of software.
Laurie
Comments
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It sounds like you burned a DVD-ROM–a data disk, essentially–rather than a DVD in the conventional sense.
Explore the Toshiba application and see if there’s a drag-and-drop “old school, DVD player-friendly” option. That should produce more what you’re looking for.