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=Levels of Practice=

Practice
Students will engage in various degrees of both multimedia literacy and technology. This will occur through various project-based projects that will foster creativity and imagination.

The goals of this class are to help students preparation levels in digital multimedia, increase digital multimedia literacy, professional preparation, and help students prepare to keep up with current aesthetic fashions.

Participation
Students will participate in a various "traditional" learning methods (i.e. readings and responses), through both in class lectures and demonstrations, as well participating online through both a interactive class website, and later their own produced content.

Community
= = Students will form both an online community through the use of forums, as well as an in class community.

The purpose of both these communities is to use both student and instructor's individual knowledge bases to help throughout process of various projects. With a wide range of students levels of Discourses, it is very possible for students to use each other as much as they use the instructor in order to create professional projects.

There is also the implication of the use of the broader "online community," which should be equally encouraged. Many popular tools and designs can be found through participation within these communities. However instructor guidance is necessary in order to guide students to appropriate communities.

Potential Student Resources
[|Lynda.com]-Online video tutorials of tools students will be using [|Tutvid.com]-Online step by step tutorials of web-specific project based tools [|Simple Web Design]-Clean examples of simple design with Web 2.0 aesthetics [|Photoshop Web Tutorials]-Step by step instructions on creating websites in Photoshop [|Ken Stones Final Cut Pro]-Resource for Final Cut video production from basics to advanced [|FreePlayMusic]-Copyright free music