The Role of the World Wide Web in Music Education The Role of Multimedia on the Web

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The Role of the World Wide Web in Music
EducationThe Role of Multimediaon the Web

• Dr. Steven EstrellaShearspire, Inc.

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Brief History of the Internet

• 1969 U.S. Dept. of Defense ARPANET
• 1979 USENET News Network for profs
• 1980s NSF creates IP network
• 1985 NCSA Telnet, FTP, Gopher

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Brief History of the Internet

• 1990 WorldWideWeb
• First Web Browser
• Tim Berners-Lee
• HTML
• 1991-92 Text-only Web
• UNIX Workstations
• PCs and Macs
• Reference works online

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Brief History of the Internet

• 1993 NCSA Mosaic
• Marc Andreesen Eric Bina
• Graphical Web Browsing
• Image Tag
• 8-bit Sun AU audio format
• 1994 Mosaic everywhere
• Colleges
• Businesses
• Homes

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Brief History of the Internet

• Andreesen leaves NCSA to start Netscape
• Netscape gets popular in 1995
• Web gets commercial
• E-mail is killer app
• MIDI files online
• Text resources for music study
• JPEG photographs

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Brief History of the Internet

• Web for communication - Great!
• Vermont MIDI Project
• Internet Public Library
• Abridged Dictionary of Composers
• Multimedia on the Web - not great
• ShockWave, RealAudio
• Compared poorly to CD-ROM experience
• Jonathan Gay creates FutureSplash Animator

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1996-2000 The Crazy Years
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Brief History of the Internet

• 1996-2000 The Crazy Years
• Rush to publish and profit online
• Lots of venture capital but few business plans
• Browser wars - incompatibilities
• Lots of good ideas came and went
• NotationStation online notation software
• Beatnik interactive MIDI authoring
• FlashNik Flash Beatnik

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Brief History of the Internet

• 2001-2004 General Standards Emerge
• End of Browser Wars - W3C Wins!
• Streaming Linear Media
• QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player,
  Flash
• Interactive Media
• Director still dominates on CD-ROMs
• Flash dominates online but no MIDI support
• Notation Software Plugins
• No Interactive MIDI Standard

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Multimedia Web Today

• 68 million U.S. broadband users (55)
• 60 more broadband users than last year
• Wireless access is common
• Fast CPUs and big hard drives
• General MIDI and CD-quality sound cards
• More portable devices

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Music Education on the Web

• Articles, Tutorials and CAI
• Music Theory
• Music History and Appreciation
• Composition, Arranging, Improvisation
• Musical Instrument Information
• Choral Music Resources
• Symphony Home Pages
• Music Technology
• Course Management Sites
• Website development resources
• Games, Webquests, Calendars, Forums, etc.

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Music Education on the Web

• Animation with Sound for Linear Tutorials
• Interactive Audio and Notation for Drills
• Keyboard Input with Audio for Kinesthetics
• Keyboard Input with Audio for Improvisation
• Drag and Drop with Audio for Matching
• Track Progress by E-Mail or Database
• Online Database for Factual Content
• Notation Software Plugin with MIDI Sound

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Limitations Today

• Broadband Not Universal
• Reasonable Download 1 Megabyte
• Some Streaming audio is possible
• Streaming Video is impractical
• Interactive Video is still in the future

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Coming Soon

• DVD-ROM Quality Experiences Online
• Full-screen Interactive Video
• High-quality Interactive Audio
• Media Libraries on Demand
• Scalable content to fill the screen
• Software Delivered Online
• Web interfaces audio, video, and MIDI

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Pie in the Sky
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The Musical Web of the Future

• Broadband as common and fast as electricity
• Greater variety of input devices, RFID tags
• No need for CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
• No need to store software locally
• Fewer incompatibilities
• Reduced need for tech specialists
• New business models
• Wireless everywhere
• Puts music teachers in control

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What You Can Do

• Support public projects for Internet access.
• The Internet is not FOR you. It IS you!
• Get your own domain and web space.
• Domains cost just 8 a year
• Web hosting is as cheap as 50 a year.
• Learn a little HTML and use online tools.
• Use your notation software plugin.
• Learn a little Flash if you want to get fancy.

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