Item: White Risk Instructor - A Presentation Tool for Avalanche Educators
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Title: White Risk Instructor - A Presentation Tool for Avalanche Educators
Proceedings: Proceedings Whistler 2008 International Snow Science Workshop September 21-27, 2008
Authors:
- Stephan Harvey [ WSL Swiss Federal Institute for S now and Avalanche Research SLF ]
- Peter Eisenegger [ Atfront GmbH, Zürich ]
- Daniel Landolt [ Atfront GmbH, Zürich ]
Date: 2008-09-22
Abstract: Many avalanche educators meanwhile use the interactive avalanche learning-CD 'White Risk' for presentations in avalanche courses. Since this CD is designed mainly for autodidactic learning, it is not ideally suited to teach a class. However, all the movies, animations, photos, graphics and sound in 'White Risk' offer huge potential for other educational uses like presentations in avalanche training courses. Therefore SLF developed a presenter tool called 'White Risk Instructor' together with all Swiss organisations involved in avalanche education. This tool based on Flash contains a media folder with all movies, animations, photos and graphics from 'White Risk', a creator- and a player application. With the creator-application one can select e.g. movies or photos and order them into a slide show. Presentations can be saved as an xml-file, which does not use much space because each animation, video or photo is only saved once. Therefore presentations are very economic in disk space and can be exchanged easily among other educators e.g. by email. The player-application then will be used to run the presentation. White Risk Instructor is available in German, French and English.
Object ID: P__8168.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Stephan Harvey
Keywords: avalanche education, risk, white risk, didactics, teaching, presentation
Page Number(s): 591
Subjects: education
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