With nothing more than a few mouse clicks, xMediaEngine can take control of all of your external media devices including over 25 models of videodisc players, any CD-ROM drive which supports audio CD play, Kodak photoCD, digital audio, external text windows, quicktime movies and more. Using xMediaEngine, the hypermedia author is free to concentrate on content as all coding required to control the media is directly handled by the this application. With very little practice, an instructor can create dictation or cloze lessons driving commonly available audio CDs, digital movies, or videodiscs. The dictation fully supports Apple's WorldScript technology and has been tested in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and most western languages. Guided Reading Guided Reading is a template whose purpose is to assist in the creation of media-based annotations of texts.
Annotations can be page-based, or sentence based, or both.
It provides an easy means for the instructor to answer questions that she knows the students will ask over and again each semester, and to provide rich background material for the concerned text. With very little practice, the instructor will be able to create annotated texts using digital sound, compact disc audio sound, interactive video, graphics, glossaries, and supporting texts, designed to provide collaborative and annotative support to the intermediate and beginning language student as they investigate short stories, poetry or excerpts in the target language. Annotations can be for an entire image or sequence of moving images, or, tied to regions within a still image or any segment of a longer movie series of images, or both. With very little practice, the instructor will be able to create annotations of images using digital sound, compact disc audio sound, interactive video, graphics, glossaries, and supporting texts, designed to provide collaborative and annotative support to ones students. Read the version histories of xMediaEngine Classic.