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Multimedia Design and Development Professor Glenn D. Blank E-mail: gdb0@lehigh.edu (please send large e-mail here!) http://www.eecs.lehigh.

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Course description: Design and implementation of multimedia software, primarily for computer based training (CBT). User interface design. Use of high level tools for authoring and creating of graphics, animations, audio and video materials. Prerequisite: some experience with software engineering process Required text: Tay Vaughan, Multimedia: Making it Work, 4th ed (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1998) Requirements: Papers comparing and critiquing Universal Machine and Analytical Engine: 5% Small pieces implemented in Authorware and Dreamweaver, plus other tools: 25% Team projects (with periodic progress reports and prototypes during semester): 60% Project presentations by each team participant: 5% Class participation: 5% Extra credit: seminar presentation on a topic related to the course Syllabus Week Topic Readings (assignments due) 3/25 Assembling a multimedia development team Chapters 1 and 3 Multimedia development as software engineering process Chapter 14 4/8 Overview of Authoring tools Chapter 8 (comparisons&proposals) Authorware 4/15 Authorware (continued) (preliminary analysis) Graphics production tools Chapter 6 4/22 User interface design Chapter 15 (Authorware pieces) Content design: storyboards and scripts 4/29 Closer look at text . Chapter 9 (detailed design) Closer look at image development Chapter 11 5/6 Closer look at sound, animation and video production Chapters 12 and 13 Web authoring: HTML, Dreamweaver Chapters 19-21 5/13 Presentation and discussion of project prototypes (Project prototypes due) Javascript, CGI, Shockwave 5/27 Testing, quality control, and delivery Chapters 17-18 (revised design) Presentation of second project prototypes (Dreamweaver web pieces) 6/10 Discussion of projects in progress and other topics 6/17 Discussion of final projects and other topics (Final projects due) (Topics for 6/10 and 6/24 determined by student interests and presentations.)

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