Honors 3004 - Multimedia Technology and Projects - Syllabus

General Information

• Course Name: Multimedia Technology and Projects
• Course Number: H3004
• Index Number: 4004
• Location: Williams 319, then floating - see Calendar
• Time: Mon 3 - 4:30pm
• URL: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~h3004fox/

Organization

• 3-5 interdisciplinary groups of students will be assembled from the class, so everyone is included, and so each group has a good mix of skills needed to undertake a project in the multimedia area (e.g., recruiting materials for Virginia Tech, interactive educational materials for Cyberschool and/or Engineering's SUCCEED effort, WWW info on the Blacksburg area for BEV, a videotape documentary on multimedia technology, training materials for information literacy on campus, ... --- each project will have a client from the university or community who will have the project delivered at term-end)
• A possible theme for projects is Using Multimedia to Make Education at Virginia Tech Exciting meaning that the aim of the projects will be to show, convince, ... faculty that we should and can improve learning on campus with multimedia. Projects may show how multimedia fits into learning, may show how students can help in this campaign, may give examples/guidance, may help publicize this effort.
• Student projects will be thoroughly tested, with real "users", through iterative refinement.
• Often, we will use McB 102/104/110 as the "classroom" since it has a number of small rooms, and lots of facilities, so groups can work and meet there.
• We will try to ensure that the class has experts in the various media forms. Thus, we hope to have at least one person:
  • expert in each of Photoshop, Premiere, SoundEdit
  • composer
  • videographer
  • host/narrator
  • writer/editor
• In the first month, students will meet with professors to select a suitable project. Those will be carried out by groups which will be assigned grades for their work, as will each individual based on group participation.
• Professors will give demonstrations and presentations of multimedia technologies, allowing hands-on practice where possible.
• Up to 30% of the grade will be based on student work related to the presentations (exercises, quizes) and the rest will be assigned based on projects.