Multimedia Web Site Design and Development
Students will produce as their final projects in the course multimedia web sites. These can be scholarly, creative, or pedagogical. Half of the course, taught by members of the Center for Instructional Technology, will be devoted to development of the website and the requisite animation and digitizing of images, video, and sound as needed for the projects.
Grades will be based partly on class participation [25%] but primarily on the web site [75%]. For class participation students will be asked to bring a page or so of their reading notes to class or take a short quiz on the assignments for the Lab classes.
Texts: Required: DiNucci: Elements of Web Design. Laurel, Computers as Theater; Recommended: Siegel: Creating Killer Web Sites, 2nd Ed; Grunspan, Creating Killer Interactive Websites, Weinmann, Designing Web Graphics.2, available at the Co-op and Desert Books.
Please note: Basic computer skills are not
taught in this course. Students should be familiar with
keyboarding, operating systems, word processing, and must have or
acquire basic HTML skills in the first month. Students will also
need an IF computer account and provide their own storage, that
is, get a UNIX account or a ZIP or JAZ cartridge, and/or some
blank Cds if they are going to store their site on a CD.