Course Duration: Fall Semester, 8-25-08 to 12-13-08
Section number #30075 Online Section
#34718 Online section
Class Description: Introduction to multimedia, including production processes, tools, techniques, trends and opportunities. Includes industry overview, societal issues, cultural implications, visual literacy and career opportunities.
(TR: CSU/UC)
*SKILLS ADVISORY: Eligibility for English 100, 103.
Upon Successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Define multimedia and be able to use multimedia terminology.
2. Identify occupations/career paths in multimedia.
3. Identify hardware and software technologies used to create multimedia products.
4. Identify and describe steps involved in designing and producing a multimedia project,
---from story-boarding to formative evaluation.
5. Articulate the aesthetics principles of multimedia, related to its functionality.
6. Use a functional file-management system in your projects.
This is mainly a theory course. You will have to complete seven readings covering different aspects of multimedia.
There is going to be a reader available in the bookstore for purchase. The text has been underlined and notated by your instructor.
You may also check the "bibliography section" on this site and check out the required books in a local library. You will be responsible for having the texts available the week that they are needed.
http://soma.sbcc.edu/users/ajarabo/intro_Multimedia/Multimedia_bibliography.htm
http://soma.sbcc.edu/users/ajarabo/intro_Multimedia/Chapters_reader.htm
http://soma.sbcc.edu/users/ajarabo/intro_Multimedia/Class_schedule.htm
You may find these texts very challenging. This is normal. You will need to read them several times and highlight them with at least three different colors. Also make your own notes as you go through them.
The purpose of highlighting is that you differentiate different types of content in the text and make marks that will allow you to quickly come back to these points.
In the discussion groups in WebCT you will be asked about different points covered in the text and you will have to find that piece of information, dissect and analyze it, and make a post summarizing the ideas.
An example of successful highlighting would be: terminology in the text in yellow, concepts that you don't understand in blue, words that you need to look up in the dictionary in orange (then write down the definition on the side of the page).
Work Flow
We will work around the readings to assimilate fundamental concepts in multimedia.
Discussion groups and Quizzes will help you reflect on the text's content and give you points towards your final grade.
You will also put together several assignments throughout the course. These will prepare you with the necessary skills needed to put together your 2 research projects (mid-term and Final project).
Your research projects will be delivered as multimedia presentations, combining images and text.
A multimedia presentation is very different from a paper with pictures. You can use PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or html format as a way of arranging your content.
Your text in the presentation should be clear, short and specific; something that you can quickly read on a screen.
As for the images, you can create your own images in PhotoShop, or appropriate images from the internet if you don't know how to process or compress digital images.
Your images should never be larger than 800x600 pixels. They should always be compressed as .jpg or .gif.
As the course progresses you will be able to see examples of successful previous research projects in the help website.
http://soma.sbcc.edu/users/ajarabo/intro_Multimedia/introMultimedia_links.htm
Make sure that you compress you research project before uploading it to WebCT. Zipping the file is the easiest way to go.
You can keep a copy of your digital work for the class in the server-space assigned to you in Xythos. Xythos is the school server.Make sure that you upload your work inside the folder called Web in your Xythos account. Your name and password are the same as you use for Pipeline.
Make sure that you keep a copy of all your work in your local computer. If you are using the school's computers in the DAC lab, you will need a USB-thumb drive (256 Mb, 500 Mb or 1 GB) to store your files and be able to work efficiently with them.
You need to keep track of your work, organizing files within folders of similar media types, inside project folders. You need to use clear, short names. Always begin your file name with your name (ex. alejandra_picture1.jpg, alendra_picture2.jpg).
File Management will be graded and it is a requisite to pass this class.
WEEK |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | TOTAL: 2500? points | |
| ASSIGNMENTS | 100 | 200 | 50 | 150 | 200 | 30 | 730 | |||||||||||
| DISCUSSIONS | 30 |
30 30 |
30 | 30 | 30 | 45 | 45 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 500 | |||
| QUIZZES | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 300 | |||||||||||
| RESEARCH PROJECTS | 500 | 580 | 1080 | |||||||||||||||