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Module VI Technology Digital Media and Curriculum Integration Digital Media 1. Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game: A Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) is a game in which an unlimited number of players can participate. Players assume the fictional role of one of a select number of characters that interact within the fantasy setting initiated within the game. Players have limited control over the actions of their characters. MMORPGs are different from small multiplayer or single player games not only by the number of participants but also because the game’s virtual world persists and evolves, even when the player is absent. The player base for MMORPGs is over 15 million, which shows their popularity worldwide. Players are not limited to children and teens. In fact, the age of players ranges from 18 to 45 years and is expanding on both ends of the scale each year. 2. Video Editing with Final Cut Studio: Are you looking for innovative ways to make professional looking videos? Well, look no further. This sensational video editing design studio produced exclusively for Apple OS X users contains six applications, which include: Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, and Color, a newly designed application for professional color grading. Final Cut Pro’s applications encourage innovation, giving amateur and professional producers the freedom to create custom solutions and to share project data using QuickTime. Using QuickTime allows students to move media easily between computers. Projects can also be delivered via a wide range of delivery formats — including those supported by the Web, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and broadcast servers.  3. Web Publishing with WordPress :WordPress is a free Web publishing package. It traces its roots back to a team of programmers trying to develop a blog writing system that would be exceptionally easy for its users to manage. It shares some features that are similar to other open-source programs. Open-source software permits users to use, change, and improve the software. With WordPress, for example, users are free to extend its capabilities through ancillary programs and scripts called plug-ins. Besides its ease of use as a Web page editing system and blog writing system, WordPress capabilities are often extended through the use of plug-ins. These plug-ins allow bloggers to include pictures, video, sound, etc. in their blogs, which is more than what visitors usually expect to find in a blog. WordPress is also a content management system (one that helps developers keep track of content, images, and other media). WordPress is an outgrowth of the Web 2.0 features in which developers are looking to combine static Web pages with products that easily permit and support multiple author and end-user changes and modifications. 4. UB the Director: How do you encourage students to be interested in a book that does not relate directly to them? One technique is to use booktalking, a concept that means telling stories about the context and background in which the book is written. Digital booktalking allows students to read the content as if they were going to make a movie out of the book. Digital booktalking utilizes digital media to tell the story. Students are taught text-to-screen techniques and then learn how to pull important details from a book to create a book trailer. A book trailer is a short 2–3 minute video that encapsulates the essence of the book, main characters, metaphors, and so on. Using easy-to-use video editing software like Apple’s iMovie, Microsoft's PhotoStory or Movie Maker, students can easily build their own movies. Examples of trailers can be found at Digital Booktalk. In fact, this Web site accepts student-produced work. 5. Keynote :Keynote is a digital media presentation application that comes with Apple’s iWork suite. Keynote includes features such as cinema-like transitions, pre-set animated text and titling effects, photo masking, and the ability to seamlessly add video clips. Keynote is easy to use allowing today’s digital students to transition to learning the essence of digital storytelling. Keynote works seamlessly with iLife applications such as iPhoto and Garageband.