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      Teleste Educational June´99 Newsletter

      Dear Reader,

      We at Teleste Educational would like to welcome you to the first of
      what we anticipate to be both an informative and an enjoyable series
      of ongoing monthly newsletters.  We are hoping that this will serve
      both as a space to present ways to further your productive use of
      educationally based software, and as a forum to share the ideas of
      those involved in a broad spectrum of education-related fields.
            It is an exciting time to be involved with "computers".
      Information and communication technology has reached many far corners
      of the educational world, causing many changes and shifts of both
      attitudes and paradigms.
            We trust that you are working to make your learning environment
      as productive and interesting as possible, and we are offering this
      newsletter as a means of bringing ideas together.  As such, we
      welcome and encourage you to send feedback, your opinions, remarks,
      ideas, and any questions you might have about how others use the
      tools you have at your disposal.  By doing so, you will be letting us
      know how to help make this newsletter serve you and your needs in the
      best way possible.
            A little bit about the format:  We will be creating the
      newsletter
      with two different readers in mind.  Firstly, considering those of
      you who have used Teleste Educational products but who still have
      questions.  As with any educational tool, one´s own imagination is
      the greatest means of developing good lessons, presentations, or
      communications.  We will thus be attempting to open up all avenues of
      thought in order to create a helpful "glossary of uses".   Your input
      is much appreciated, as you all have valuable working experience
      which can be of benefit to others.
            Secondly, we will be including some technically-oriented
      information for those of you who will be more interested in these
      specific aspects. Here also, we encourage you to give us feedback, as
      technical insights anticipate the improvement of existing products
      and  the development of future products.
            As a footnote to this first introductory letter we would like
      to
      introduce some insights into our digital audio and video recorder,
      Divace.

      Divace gives you full digital programming capability.  But what does
      this mean? And what are Divace´s distinguishing features?

            "Text Synchronisation", for example, is one of the most
      interesting features of Divace. This implies more than just adding
      subtitles to an audio or video recording, even though that in itself
      gives you the interesting possibility of putting whatever text or
      words you want to be seen concurrently with a video or an audio
      recording.  Subtitles in other languages, vocabulary practice,
      questions to the viewer which they can reply to by typing in their
      own subtitles or recording their own voice.
      What else?  Digital recordings from your laptop, which you can play
      back
      immediately while typing in notes to yourself for later expansion.
      Extracting audio from the internet and typing in source notes.  Notes
      for lesson plans.  Ideas to develop.  Sharing audio recordings and
      notes via web sites in order to develop a program or presentation
      with someone else.

      But this is what future newsletters will deal with: possibilities.
      These begin with questions and comments about ideas  you might have,
      and can and will be as detailed as necessary to assure that you use
      tools like Divace to your full advantage.

      Also, if you know of anyone else, colleagues or friends, who might be
      interested in receiving or contributing to this forum, please have
      them send correspondence, along with their e-mail address so that
      they can be a part of future newsletters.  If you do not wish to
      receive future newsletters, please let us know, using the formatted
      document below.

      Thank you again for joining us here.  Have an enjoyable summer.
      We hope to be hearing from you!  We will be putting out a full-length
      newsletter in August.

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