Coming Along, with Adjustments

A quick update on the progress towards my CCSU project. I have migrated my Mandopelli site over to Dreamweaver, and have become more comfortable with the user interface of that program. I am still not as proficient as I was with GoLive, but it is coming along. The basic framework for my instructional unit page is done, using the Spry elements, particularly the tabbed panels widget. This approach is greatly simplifying the navigation across my unit. My enrichment podcasts are almost finished. I am providing one with each unit focusing on a different world percussion instrument. The podcasts were created in GarageBand and will be finally processed as flash video files for posting to the site. The videos are proving to be as complicated as I thought. The ChromaKey is pretty easy to use in Final Cut Pro, but the difficulty lies in creating the visual connection between the live an animated characters. I dont want to get too hung up on this, so my fallback would be to go back to all Flash animation, and just use Nick Beat by himself, along the lines of the work I did in the Flash class at CCSU. Other odds and ends are coming along as well. 

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