These were early ways of syncing video with slides, and so could be used for recording presentations and lectures for the web. This particular mechanism unfortunately only worked with Internet Explorer, which was a shame, and limited its applicability. It also coded all the pages in a really complex way that was a bit of a nightmare to look through. Nevertheless, by looking at all the code, it was possible to make minor changes, and get video/slide sequences to be linked to each other. In addition, it wasn't the fastest thing on earth to load up pages.

The 'Route Finder' was a quick demo I made with a video camera one morning in May to show how interactive guides could be made so that people could find their way to a conference or registration or perhaps find a facility on campus. This would nowadays be done in something like Google Streetview, but this was some six or seven years before that. This has the advantage of showing people the routes that they _should_ take rather than all the places that they can get to as they wander around in their virtual world.

When you get into the library, if you choose to go up in the lift (You have special needs or are very lazy), listen for the librarian in the background asking whether I have permission to film in there which I ignored as I disappeared to the elevator. I suppose that I was a bit rude filming her place of work without asking, but I was sort of counting on the filming of the demo taking 10 minutes and not involving filling in a countersigned form.

This was a frivilous (and quick) demo of the technology. What we were doing was exploring techniques by which a student could follow different routes through a complex sequence of video and slide clips designed to make the student experience more of a journey of discovery. The techniques used here were being pedagogically in other departments, notably by the Department of Continuing Education and by Professor Mick Short in the Linguistics Department.