Course Duration: Fall Semester, 8-22-16 to 12-10-16
Online Section #30075
Face to face class #34718

The class will work on Canvas.
You can access Canvas by first logging into Pipeline, then looking for the Canvas link ON THE TOP_RIGHT of the newly design homepage in Pipeline, a bit to the right to the Moodle, link.
Once you get to Canvas you should see the name and section number of your class and you should be able to click on it to get to the homepage of your class, where you will see the list of Modules with dates and activities.

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.

Please note that this is transferable class. A good reading level is expected.
To take this class you should be able to read articles and essays, understand them and be able to construct your own thoughts around them.
Instead of writing papers, we will develop basic multimedia pieces that use images and short pieces of text to present ideas.

This is not a software class; it is a theory class at core in which we might use diverse software (of your choice, since we are not specifically teaching software here).

We will use a graphic editor to crop/resize and compress images. Adobe Photoshop preferred.
We will use a text editor to preview post answers and write text content of your presentations. Microsoft Word or a file translated to a PDF document (not an open source text editor: we constantly have problems with that).
We will use a presentation software to put together our midterm and final project. Microsoft Powerpoint, a pdf document or a Prezi file, worked over the internet.
We will use an HTML editor to put together basic web pages. Adobe Dreamweaver preferred.

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.

SLO 1 - MEDIA PRESENTAT - Make a short media-presentation combining visuals and text that shows a basic understanding of communication principles, basic graphic composition and visual display, referred to a chosen topic in Electronic Media theory.

SLO 2 - MEDIA TERMINOLOGY. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to use media terminology, basic technical, visual and project-development concepts to comment and dialog on current media production and its social implications.

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 to put together your 2 research/presentation projects: the mid-term and the 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.

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 so your file size doesn't get out of hand.

You can 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 keep a copy of all your work in your local computer. If you are using the school's computers in the DAC lab, you should use your GOOGLE DRIVE to organize and store your files. This way you will be able to work efficiently wherever you can connect to a computer. If you have problems with the Internet a home, use a USB thumb drive. Please make sure you have copies of your work. Save different versions of a project if necessary

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 assignment-file name with your name, get used to use underscores instead of spaces in your file-names (ex. alejandra_picture1.jpg, alenjandra_picture2.jpg). File extensions (.jpg in the previoius case) are very important when  you upload files to a server.
File Management will be graded and it is a requisite to pass this class.