INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA. MAT 103

Alejandra Jarabo

Multimedia Arts & Technologies Division. Santa Barbara City College
Class Schedule

 


 

 

CONTENT
CONTENT'S ESPECIFICS
DISCUSSIONS
ASSIGNMENTS
QUIZZES
Week 1
Multimedia handout
 
Discussion 1.
Student self-introduction
Post on Multimedia concepts

Q1_Multimedia
concepts

Week 2
Graphic concepts handout

Text 1.Understanding Media, by Marshall Mc Luhan.
Chapter 1a.
Reading
Post on Graphic concepts
Post on Intro to Gestalt
Q2_Graphic concepts
Week 3

Web graphics handout

Post on Web Graphics
Post on Intro to McLuhan
A1_Web graphics/Scanning images
100p
Week 4
Visual perception (Gestalt) 1

Text 6. Art and Visual Perception,
by Rudolf Arnheim.
Reading
Post on Gestalt & Visual Perception
Q3_Gestalt principles
Week 5
Visual perception (Gestalt) 2

Text 6. Art and Visual Perception,
by Rudolf Arnheim.


Reading
Post on Gestalt. Second part
A2_Examples of Gestalt princliples
200p
Week 6
Text 1 (revise).Understanding Media, by Marshall Mc Luhan. Chapter 1a.

Chapter 1a.Text 2. Digital Mc Luhan, by Paul Levinson.
Reading
Post on Digital McLuhan
Week 7
Text 1.Understanding Media, by Marshall Mc Luhan.Chapter 1b, 1c.
Reading
Post on Cold and Hot media
Week 8
Text3. The Soft Edge, by Paul Levinson.
Mid term's project deadline.
Mid Term
Post on "the first digital Medium"
Marshall McLuhan concepts
presentation
500p

Week 9

Designing a digital layout (online information)
Post on Web layout 1
A3_Digital color-palette
50p
Week 10
Text 4. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte.
Reading
Post on Web layout 2
Q4_Digital Layout
Week 11
Text 5.The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility(first part)
Reading
Post on Walter Benjamin
A4_Multimedia Job description
150p
Week 12
Text 5.The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility(second part)
Reading
Post on walter Benjamin 2
A5_3 page presentation. ppt/html
200p
Week 13
Text 7. Hamlet on the Holodeck,
by Janet H. Murray

Reading
Post on Janet Murray
Week 14
File management
Extra assignment_html presentation in Xythos server

30p
Q5_File management
Week 15
Readings review for final project
Getting ready for the final presentation
Week 16
Final presentation
Final presentation
Final presentation on reading of your choice
580p
 


5 quizzes, worth 50 p each. Total worth 250 points.

16 Discussions worth 30p each, 1 Discussion worth 60p. Total worth 540 points.

Midterm project worth 500 points.

Final project worth 580 points.