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The Internet has
obvious promise for the dissemination of instructional material, either
formal or joyously informal, over very large distances and into remote
corners of the world.
 To that end, AICS Research, Inc. has created two products: QCShow Player, a freely-downloadable player, and QCShow Author, an inexpensive authoring tool that translates PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files into exceptional quality audio and image slideshows at very low bandwidths. The quality, reliability and ease-of-use of these products is sufficiently high that they are likely to have a revolutionary effect on the way that the internet is used. A few of QCShow's more important features are outlined below: The Major Features of QCShow
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QCShow Uses
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Sample Presentations
(requires the use of QCShow Player) Worldwide Scientific & Technical Lecture Distribution 
Search for Life in the Universe
In 1995, we only knew for certain of the existence of the nine planets in our solar system. Now, the count is approaching 150 known planets. Of the planets that have been discovered since, the majority of them have been discovered by the team of Geoff Marcy, Paul Butler and Debra Fischer. These people have discovered many times more new worlds than Galileo could have ever dreamt of, and in this talk, Exoplanets, Yellowstone, & the Prospects for Alien Life, Geoff Marcy estimates the chances that we will discover life on these new worlds. Encoding bitrate: 44 kbps 
The Future of Life on Mars
It's possible that at some time in the future we might recreate a habitable climate on Mars, returning it to the life-bearing state it may have enjoyed early in its history. Chris McKay, of NASA's Ames Research Center, talks about biology and future of life on Mars. Part science and part science-fiction, serious studies of planetary ecosynthesis on Mars began after the results of the Viking mission indicated that all the compounds needed for life were present on the surface of Mars, suggesting that we can rebuild a living Mars at some time in future, if we choose to do so. These thoughts have implications for the objectives and conduct of current robotic and human exploration. Encoding bitrate: 44 kbps Internal Corporate Training 
Medical Residency Training
Keeping laboratory personnel current and certified represents an enormous expense for a hospital. Everyone who is trained must have a trainer, thus training becomes a significant expense. These expenses are magnified when there is a high turnover rate. In a teaching hospital, the advantages of using QCShow become especially obvious, particularly so for the training of residents in pathology. Residents learn pathology by viewing tens of thousands of sectioned slides during their residency period. Dr. Barry Lawshe, Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, has been converting his lectures to QCShow format, creating an on-line library of training material. One of his lectures, Introduction to Gastric Pathology (Excluding the GE Junction), is presented here. Encoding bitrate: 96 kbps 
Very Low Cost Distance Education
The cost to produce a 10- or 30-minute lecture in QCShow is only very slightly more than it is to produce and present the original PowerPoint slides, but the lecture can now be viewed by anyone anywhere in the world — in their native language. The use of educational television to achieve the same effect, which is an extraordinarily expensive medium and has a very short reach, is no longer necessary. In this lecture, Dr. Irena Boulytcheva of Hospital No. 62, Moscow, Russia, presents a short lecture on osteochondromas in Russian, but similar lectures could just as easily be presented on agricultural techniques in Hindi or microbanking in Mandarin. Encoding bitrate: 55 kbps 
Telephone Webcast Redone
If you're watched live webcasts, you've undoubtedly noticed that things tend to go wrong more often than not. You lose connection, the servers crash, the sound disappears, or the player stalls. Even so, the slides and sound file exist and they can be resurrected into a high-quality presentation that can be watched at any time in the future. That was done in this instance. More than 1400 college students die each year due to alcohol abuse. In this talk, An evolution of environmental prevention models, Bob Saltz of the Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA presents data suggesting that the best way to forestall these completely unnecessary deaths is to change the environment, both on-campus and off. Encoding bitrate: 40 kbps Professional Presentations 
Mark Twain Excerpt
In 2001, Ken Burns released "Mark Twain", another in his sequence of extraordinary documentaries on American life on PBS. This Mark Twain demonstration presentation was assembled early in the life of QCShow, based on that work (Hell, Sam Clemens would have said "stolen from" — if the words weren't so abysmally impolite). To create the QCShow presentation, a number of images were scanned in from the accompanying book, "Mark Twain", by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. The sound track for the presentation was created by copying snippets of sound from the show's video tape and CD. Encoding bitrate: 50 kbps 
Audio Graphic Book
"The Seashell on the Mountaintop" is an extraordinary story about the dawn of the modern world, in that period of Western history when organized knowledge began to replace superstition. Alan Cutler of the Smithsonian Institution has written a captivating story about the life and times of Nicholas Steno, the first person to see "deep time." Cutler's book was made into a HighBridge audiobook, of which Chapter Five: Tongues of Stone is presented here in a new audio graphic book format using QCShow. Encoding bitrate: 50 kbps Student-Created Presentations 
High School Student Reports
The Loretto Academy is a highly regarded Catholic high school for the girls of Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico. Zoology is a one-semester class taught in the spring. The girls were given only ten minutes instruction on how to use QCShow Author and then left alone to complete their presentations. The choice of the technical content, the formatting of the PowerPoint slides, the narration and its editing was wholly left to the girls themselves. One result can be seen here: The evolution and physiology of fish. Encoding bitrate: 58 kbps |
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Creating a QCShow Presentation How hard is it to create a QCShow presentation? If you routinely create PowerPoint slides and give presentations using them, you've already done 95% of the work. From the first day that QCShow's design was drawn on the blackboard, the intention has been to create a mechanism to distribute very high quality lectures over the internet at very low costs, perhaps one-thousandth the cost of creating an equivalent televised lecture. But the intention has also been to make the creation of these lectures be so simple that anyone can do it. There are only three distinct actions required to assemble a lecture in QCShow. They are:When you download and install QCShow Author, you'll find that it isn't one program. Rather, it's a collection of three programs, each representing one of the three principal steps you'll perform in creating QCShow presentation: Ordering QCShow QCShow is composed of two programs: QCShow Player and QCShow Author. The Player is distributed freely, at no charge. You are free to download as many copies as you wish. Similarly, QCShow Author is priced extremely inexpensively: US$249.99 |
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