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=Changes in Practice=

Goals
Students should design effective media content and presentations using multiple digital media formats. Media includes images, text, sound, animation, and video. Students will become proficient in contemporary content creation tools (primarily Adobe Dreamweaver and Apple Final Cut Express) to think creatively about media and its possibilities.

The central goal is to foster an understanding of new media design in a broad conceptual sense and of the processes involved in taking creative ideas from thought to product. Tools for this process are only a snapshot of what is possible at this point in time. The tools being used in professional careers in a few years will be different than what is available now.

Lastly to help students in understanding the design concepts and the development approaches (regardless of the specific technology) in order to have enduring value.

Project goals for purposed course is for students to create usable and functional web sites, computer-based presentations, and multimedia projects. Students will combine conceptual understanding, technical skills, and design principles to create web sites, presentations, and multimedia projects that achieve targeted goals.

Objectives

 * Apply previous software knowledge about creating and manipulating text and images.
 * Apply previous knowledge of file and directory organization to manage project materials.
 * Recognize and develop the relationship between content, structure, and presentation of web sites, as it relates to HTML, CSS, and web standards.
 * Explain key concepts and technical terms for successful web sites, presentations, and multimedia projects.
 * Build a structured approach for web site development (define audience, identify goals, organize content, create structure, design presentation) to the creative development of a complete web site.
 * Compose computer-based presentations based on the image-centered approach defined in class.
 * Develop a structured approach for multimedia development (storyboard, script, narrate, edit, assemble, and produce) to the creative development of a complete multimedia project.