MultiMedia Education

"I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." An interview by Sylvester Viereck, The Saturday Evening Post, 1929.
Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."


  • Course Info. Cover page: WebCam: Planet Arrakimm.
  • The imaginative cover page points to the future direction of this course as the bandwidth of the Internet increases. The web site design will increasingly use multimedia elements, with component of the course represented as spaces within a larger environment. Eventually it is projected that this course will have a strong virtual reality and 3-D construct that incorporates the full range of media available to current computers. That work will go on as the course is taught. In introducing a comprehensive range of 21st century composition and reading options, participants will make it once around Bruner's spiral. That is, participants build an online digital composition that increasingly integrates text and frame pages, still images, video, music and audio, animation, 3D and virtual reality, and sensors and remote control.


    Facilities
    Sub-sections

    Design Center

    "Their design center appears to be deeply embedded into the planetary core. Not only is it observeably connected with the surface "kitchen" area but there are likely underground links to the functions of sites within the encircling ring architecture which is partially buried in the sand." (Bakersmith Report, 2015, p.7)
     
    The design center addresses concepts, models and other design guidelines.




    Kitchen

    "Their capacity to control gravity made this outdoor kitchen possible. Numerous flowing streams, absence of bugs and moderated temperatures made this an ideal gravitationally suspended kitchen. This area appears to have been heavily used for meetings, dialog and recreation." (Bakersmith Report, 2015, p.16)
    The "Kitchen" is the place for dialog, interaction and calendar and priority setting.
    Forms
    These database(s) will be used as needed throughout the course.
    Course Problem Solving Return to the Top of the Document.



    The Multimedia Library

    "Their mobile satellite library appears to be space worthy and its purpose is apparently to accompany project teams operating in remote sites anywhere on the planet or off. A small red-white surface object plays some kind of transportation role between the floating library and the design center." (Bakersmith Report, 2015, p.24)
     
    The terms multimedia and unimedia are used synonymously in this text. Together they represent a comprehensive form of communication using many different media in the same composition. The multimedia library section provides access to brains (people and organizations); shelves (books and other resources stored on them) and drives (the hard drives of the Internet).

    Person/People/Organizations

    Place - Shelf Resources

    Internet Files/Sites

    Special Topics

    The bibliographies in each media chapter provide more detailed sets of resources.





    Temporary Files

    Selected Participant Projects:

    Periodic Course Projects:



     
    Further Professor contact Information
    Robert S. Houghton, Ph.D.
    College of Education and Allied Professions
    Phone: (704) 227-7108
    Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 28723