Sunday
Half Day Tutorials

Music and Voice over the Web - Alan Anderson
What's New in Two? - Steve Ball
Building Better Presentation Skills - Less Burr

Outline: Consumer grade software for audio recording, editing and delivery via the Web has come as a boon for the computer user aiming to enhance their Web presence through integration of music and/or voice. Nevertheless, people with little experience or training in music, audio production or broadcasting can find it challenging to make the most of this software. This tutorial is designed to provide basic skills and information on soundtrack composition, digital audio recording, mixing and mastering, so that both the novice and professional Web user can produce and deliver music and voice over the Web with confidence.

Topics to be covered will include:
• Multi-track recording and sequencing
• Virtual instruments, digital signal processing and effects
• Mixing
• Mastering
• Factors affecting playback quality
• Composing and synchronizing music, soundscapes and effects to video
• Distribution formats
• Podcasting and the application of radio production techniques

No pre-requisites, novices most welcome

Biographical Details: Alan is an experienced professional musician and manager. In addition he has taught in music programs at Southern Cross University, the University of Otago and private practice. Dr Anderson holds BA, MEd and PhD degrees and has published in the area of technology supported education and training.

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Presenter: Steve Ball, CTO, Packaged Press and Explain <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>

Note: Unfortunately Steve has had an ice hockey injury and will be having a knee replacement operation at the time of the conference. He has been able to arrange with a colleague Hoylen Su to present his tutorial. Hoylen knows the AusWeb series and has been a presenter at a previous conference. Short Bio: Dr Hoylen Sue was formerly Senior Research Scientist at DSTC, the Technical Manager of the Australian W3C Office and a member of the W3C XML Query and XML Schema Working Groups. He is an expert on XML technologies and has presented on the Semantic Web before, making him a excellent person to present these tutorials. He is currently the "Technical Architect" at NEHTA (National E-Health Transition Authority) and working on Web services

Title: What's New in Two?

Outline:

A Review of XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0. Outlines the new features of XPath, XSLT and XQuery, along with changes toexisting functionality of XPath 1.0 and XSLT 1.0.

Topics covered will include:
• XPath 2.0: expression syntax
• XPath 2.0: FLWR statements
• XSLT 2.0: Death of Result Tree Fragments... rejoice!
• XSLT 2.0: Grouping
• XSLT 2.0: Functions
• XSLT 2.0: Text processing
• More built-in functions
• Schema-awareness, data typing

Biographical Details: Steve Ball is the Chief Technical Officer of Packaged Press - the innovative electronic publishing company - and Explain.  He is author of Web Tcl Complete (McGraw-Hill), several magazine articles and numerous research papers.  Steve has developed and manages a number of Open Source software projects, including the DocBook round-tripping system, the XSLT Standard Library, the Simple Content Management System (an XProc implementation) and the TclXML family of packages. Since 1997 Steve has been involved in XML standards and in developing best practises for engineering XSL stylesheets and designing XML-based systems.  He has been an Information Architect and XML consultant for several organisations, including the Federal Parliament of Australia, the ABC, State and Federal Government Departments.  Steve has been training Web authors and developers in all XML related topics, such as XML, XSL, XML

Schemas, SVG and DocBook for many years. Previously, Steve was a researcher at the Australian National University and the Advanced Computational Systems Co-Operative Research Centre.

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Presenter: Les Burr, Charles Sturt University, <lburr@csu.edu.au>

Title: Building Better Presentation Skills

Outline: This half-day tutorial is a partly subsidised AusWeb professional development activity for those who wish to improve their conference presentation skills. The first part of the session will analyse the role of the presenter in the context of the audience and the message, particularly as it relates to the AusWeb Conference format.

Topics covered:

• Considering the audience as learners
• Presentation styles
• Presenting your message upwards to the big picture and downwards to the detail
• If there is a Web then why are we all here at AusWeb?
• Benefiting from the AusWeb format
• Speak selectively rather than quickly
• Provide a linked presentation
• Consider alternatives to Powerpoint
• Update, don't recap, your paper
• Provoke discussion, don't play safe
  

Biographical Details: Les Burr was born. Despite several early attempts to reverse that process, one involving the disassembling of a fully wound clockwork train, another a practical investigation of charged paper capacitors, Les still finds himself fascinated by the relationship between learning and technology. Les has an extensive background in educational technology with qualifications in educational research, teaching, technology and management.? In 2003 he was awarded an MPhil for a thesis which analysed the nature of online interaction. Les is Deputy Director of Student Services at Charles Sturt University. Previously he was the Manager of CSU Online, responsible for Charles Sturt University's online environments. Les is a regular contributor to AusWeb. He presents regularly to a variety of audiences and is also a part-time media commentator.

NOTE: This workshop is being partly subsidised by AusWeb and the presenter is not requesting payment. AusWeb attendees are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this discounted professional development opportunity. Some of the comments from last years attendees included:

• The topics covered were relevant, interesting and informative.
• The style was relaxed, non-threatening and fun.
• I appreciated the energy built within the room.
• Thanks for the tips and tricks.
• Thanks for the relaxed learning environment - counteracts the nervousness of presenting.
• The impromptu speech method is excellent.
• Great workshop! Thanks. have taken away many practical ideas for my presentation this week.