0. Course Support, Needed Resources, and Skills
1. Read Multimedia Introduction
2. Read and do. This Frameset's design and the Composition Assignment
3. Study and Explore. Example of Frameset Using a Variety of Media (Ch1) The first click of this link with put the example in the main frame on the right. Note that it is a frameset of 4 frames. This is too crowded. Right click this same link and open this in a new window and explore what its various media do. This example is a chapter for a different course.
4. Read. Syllabus.
5a. Read. Rationale for Multimedia. Much of the educational concept of multimedia has long been nourished by and grown out of the history of the media literacy movement. More.
5b. Read. Literacy Thinking: Writing Composition Challenges in the 21st Century
7. Read: Media Education, Arts, and Literacy Project, was a three-year program conducted in partnership with the National Association for Media Literacy Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.It is a requirement to read just the 5 page executive summary of the Evaluation. It is optional to explore other branches as time allows. More.
7.5 Read: Transmedia Storytelling. Through this course we are working on transmedia lesson planning and teaching.
9. Assignment. Send me an email with three ideas for course project themes. One or more themes will be used as the topic around which to build multimedia materials.
10. As Web conferencing plays a critical role in classroom management and the teaching of this course, it is a best of class example of many Web media designs for teaching and learning. Wimba is currently used by WCU. Blackboard bought both Wimba and Elluminate, with plans for merging the features of both systems for use in the fall of 2011. The CEO of Elluminate will lead this merge project. The Elluminate Training pages review their many features for Participants or Moderators. Further, get your own Elluminate vRoom account for your own and further course use.
11. Click the picture in the upper left corner of the frameset for this chapter. If this picture is not visible, return to step one above and click the second link in the multimedia design introduction. This link makes an additional point. Any web page in a frameset can contain text and other media with links that place other text and media in any frame or out and above the frameset. The information can be your own web pages, or web pages from other web sites. Electronic engineers and designers have been merging PDA's or handheld computers with cell phone concepts into products called Smartphones. The picture links to a presentation about some of the most recent innovation in this area, some of the many new features of the iPhone from Apple Computer. This goes on for an hour. Watch the first ten minutes of this market introduction to this new product to get the main idea. Skim the iPhone and iPod Touch web pages to see how media rich the mobile device market has become.
12. Interaction with the reader (reader input) is also an important element of digital literacy. View these blog sites of mine. eCROP ; Unimedia Composers. Find a post of interest and add a comment after you've created your own blog site at blogger.com
13. Understand the blog concept and create your own blog site with which to experiment with the ideas encountered in this course.
14. One can link the current blog home page or create a separate link to any posting. At the ecrop.blogspot.com site, I've been experimenting with multimedia and phone blogging, see these examples:
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