Directions for Using the Alphabet Book Template with sound.

1. Copy this folder to your hard drive. Double-click on the 
   copy of the folder. Select "Select All" from the Edit menu.
   Right-click on any one of the files and select "Properties"
   from the pop-up menu. Click on the "Read-only" box so that 
   it is not checked and click OK.

2. Copy the graphic files (in jpg format) into the same folder.

3. Rename the graphic files "a.jpg", "b.jpg", "c.jpg", 
   etc, according to the letter that they represent.
   (If the graphics are not in JPG format, either use a graphics
   editor to change their format into JPG or change the graphic 
   links on each html file to reflect the actual format 
   of the graphics).

4. Edit the title page, "index.htm" in a text editor such as NotePad
   or SimpleText.  Replace "Our ABC Book" and "Created by the 
   students of ..." with your own titles. Save it.

5. Attach a microphone to the microphone input on the back of the 
   computer (marked with a microphone symbol).  

6. Open the Windows sound recorder in Start --> Programs --> Accessories 
   --> Entertainment --> Sound Recorder

7. Click on the round red button to begin recording.  Click on the black 
   square button to stop.  

8. Select File --> Save to save the sound for each letter "a.wav",
   "b.wav", "c.wav", etc. Save the sound files in the same 
   folder as the other files.  

9. Select File --> New to clear the old sound and repeat steps 7 and 9 for 
   each slide that has a sound.

10. If you would like to add a caption to any of the slides, open
   the corresponding page (e.g. a.htm, b.htm, etc) in a text 
   editor such as NotePad or SimpleText, type in the caption between
   the <h2> and </h2> tags, and Save. (If you don't have captions,
   you can skip this step and leave these files alone).

11. To view the alphabet book open "index.htm" in a Web browser.
   Click on the letters to view that page.  Click on the arrows to 
   move forwards and backwards.

Note: If you are using downloaded sound files rather than recording your
own sounds, open the corresponding slide file and change the name of the 
sound file (where it says <embed src="s.wav") to match the name of the 
file that you downloaded (including its extension).  

The format of the sound files 
can be changed to any type that is playable on your computers: e.g. 
AU, AIFF, MP3, or MIDI.  For example, if you are using MP3 sound files 
instead of WAV sound files, simply change the sound links on each page 
to match: for example,  s1.mp3, s2.mp3, s3.mp3, etc.

If any of your pages do not have sounds, remove the line that reads
<embed src="" width=144 height=45 autostart=true>
in the HTML text for that page, so the sound controller won't show
omn that page.