Tag: multimedia

  • Multimedia – Lab/Project Help

    Today’s Lab will be used to assist anyone with issues they have been experiencing with labs, projects, or project planning reports. We will be meeting in Memorial as per our regularly schedule lab time. Tuesday of next week, we’ll be discussing Copyright Law and Fair Use as this is an important part of creating a…

  • Multimedia – Video (w/ Lab)

    Check out the Music Video I made! Whee. I will be taking autographs later. As many of you may already know, myPlymouth and WebCT is down (and has been since 3am). This directly effects my duties in IT and will be needed in the office during official class time. However, here are the slides which…

  • Multimedia Final Projects

    According to our Final Project document, your first Planning Report was due today. I have pushed the due date off until next Tuesday (4/18) so as to give more ample opportunity for you to ask questions. Here’s the exerpt on what you will need to do: Description of 1st planning report: Each of the following…

  • Multimedia – Flash (Lab 2)

    This week’s lab (which is due 04/14) is more free-form where you have the opportunity to really explore Flash and see what it can do. With this lab, you’ll experiment with more complex animations. I highly suggest you do the flash tutorials that come with the application – you can find them by clicking on…

  • Multimedia – Flash

    Today’s Topic…Flash! w00t. This lab is due next Friday (04/07) @ midnight Before we get started, here are some terms you should know: Tween: In animation, it is used to describe intermediate frames often added by an assistant animator or by computer. See tweening. Motion Tween: In animation, refers to movement of an object along…

  • Multimedia – Animation and Authoring Tools

    Today we’ll be discussing Animation and Authoring Tools in preparation for our lab on Flash w/ ActionScripting!

  • Multimedia – Audio and Project Planning

    Today we’re discussing Audio briefly, then we’ll move right in to Project Planning…which prepares you for checking out the Final Project document!

  • Multimedia Quiz

    Our March quiz has been moved to the 16th. I have updated the Syllabus accordingly.

  • Multimedia – Webpage Critiques

    This assignment requires you to pick 3 websites and critique them (in a document and place them on WebCT) telling what you like/dislike; what the rules the site is breaking; what is usable/what isn’t; what it can do to improve. Obviously I’m not expecting you to jump right in without any background on what is…

  • Multimedia – Web 2.0

    O’Reilly has a document on “What is Web 2.0?“. For class on Tuesday, please read the article as it really encapsulates the movement in web application design/architecture. The important topics discussed are: Web as a Platform Harnessing Collective Intelligence Data is the Next Intel Inside End of the Software Release Cycle Lightweight Programming Models Software…

  • Multimedia – Image Lab

    In this lab we will be using Adobe Photoshop Elements to create and edit images. Images are often a large part of multimedia production, thus having a decent understanding of them is important. This lab will consist of 3 parts: Watching videos on some basic tools and menus & creation of images Creation of two…

  • Multimedia – Compression

    Today we’ll be discussing Compression. Here are the slides. Here’s the assignment for this week. Its due next Friday at midnight! Next Tuesday: Quiz (everything we’ve covered thus far)

  • Multimedia – Security Fair

    Folks, official lecture time today is cancelled due to the Security Fair, which is being held in the HUB MPR Room. This is a collaborative effort among ITS students, staff, University Police and others. The event will include information on firewalls, backing up, phishing, virus protection, safe computing, wireless security, file sharing, password management and…

  • Multimedia Lab – Advanced Powerpoint Navigation

    Chances are, most of you have used Microsoft Powerpoint. For the class slides, simple presentations and such we only use the most basic features of the MS product. We are going to explore some of these features. The goal isn’t necessarily to expand our knowledge of Powerpoint but to experiment with some of the forms…

  • Multimedia – Navigation

    This week is a simple continuation from last week. We’ll be discussing Multimedia elements and navigation. Here’s the slides. Reminder: We have lab on Thursday, so we meet in Memorial. I will be posting the lab assignment on this blog before lab.