I've just posted Yvonne's 8.5 minute movie to the L&I Department website. Please download, view and post a comment by Friday midnight. As you already know this is a secret assignment. Of course, you are welcome to post more than one comment, or post replies, if you want. The Disqus commenting system has just been installed at the department's News page. Thanks in advance for contributing to the development of a wider multimedia using community!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Session 2 on Photography
This is to announce a couple of follow-up items from our class last night. First, I have posted the audio presentation from the first 50 minutes of class at the Photography Session 2 webpage. This is mainly for Bianca, but anyone can download.
Second, I do need three photos from each person. Currently I have a complete set of photos from 11 people: Beth Ann, Bianca, Cheryl, Dionne, Gina, Kristina, Lara, Melina, Monica, Navdeep, and Ramsey. For the other four folks I have either an incomplete set or no photos. No problem, but please make sure to get me your photos by Monday midnight at the latest.
Second, I do need three photos from each person. Currently I have a complete set of photos from 11 people: Beth Ann, Bianca, Cheryl, Dionne, Gina, Kristina, Lara, Melina, Monica, Navdeep, and Ramsey. For the other four folks I have either an incomplete set or no photos. No problem, but please make sure to get me your photos by Monday midnight at the latest.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Bonus Extravaganza
There are currently 4 bonus packages posted at the Session 2: Photography webpage. All of these bonus materials are optional downloads, but you still might want to check out if any of them might be useful to you.
To make things visually simpler, I will always post bonus materials in the form of colored web-stickies (you'll see what I mean when you visit the page). Thus it should be very simple for you to see what materials were the foundational learning materials for a session (regular black titles) versus materials posted later as bonus materials.
To make things visually simpler, I will always post bonus materials in the form of colored web-stickies (you'll see what I mean when you visit the page). Thus it should be very simple for you to see what materials were the foundational learning materials for a session (regular black titles) versus materials posted later as bonus materials.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Pixels-vs-Vectors Bonus Movie
This is the second bonus movie created during this crazy and hectic week. This one tries to address some of the questions people have been posting in the Knowledge Digs about pixels and vectors. The movie was developed quickly, so the most noticeable issue is that I haven't optimized the sound levels. You'll need to turn up the volume more than usual with this movie (as well as the first bonus movie).
To find out more about this bonus movie, just visit the he special entry on the Session 2 Photography page in the Learn section.
To find out more about this bonus movie, just visit the he special entry on the Session 2 Photography page in the Learn section.
Session 3 Materials Ready
All of the learning materials for Session 3 on Audio are ready to be downloaded. No new resources have been posted, but the page itself has been updated so it's clearer and more complete. Make sure you can download these items before this upcoming Friday class. If you experience problems, then let me know. I'll bring a USB flash drive that you can use to transfer the materials to your computer in class.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Looking-at-Photos Bonus Movie
I've created a bonus movie to describe how/why I took some of the photos I did this past summer. The themes covered in this 30 minute movie include: audience as performer, compositions, groups, posing, quick timing, shooting angles, and wide angle lenses. This is an optional download.
I created the movie partly to demo how presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote) could be integrated into the creation of multimedia products. In addition I wanted to demo how a somewhat lengthy product could be made in relatively little time. Read more at the special entry on the Session 2 Photography page in the Learn section.
I created the movie partly to demo how presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote) could be integrated into the creation of multimedia products. In addition I wanted to demo how a somewhat lengthy product could be made in relatively little time. Read more at the special entry on the Session 2 Photography page in the Learn section.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New Commenting System
After investigating the very recent changes to the service I was using for hosting this website's comments, I found their new service to be . . . terrible. Seven days ago the company I was using completely changed their commenting features. Typically this involves refining or expanding features (which would have been fine), but this particular company decided to get rid of almost all of their good features and replace them with marketing hype. So after several hours of thought and work, I've redone this website to work with a new commenting service named Disqus (pronounced discuss).
As of today the Disqus page replaces the old "Discuss" page. Most of you have not added any comments yet, but for those of you that have, you'll need to resubmit. If you made a longish comment then just email me and I can send you the full content of your previous comments.
By far the best way to submit a comment is to first create a Disqus profile. This is very easy as you'll only have two options when adding a comment for the first time: comment as a guest or comment via a Disqus profile. To create a profile click on the DProfile link (see screenshot below).
When you click on the DProfile link up will pop a registration window! You don't even need to go to another website. Here's what it looks like:
The advantage of using a Disqus profile is that it will subsequently be easy to track the various comments of any given person in the class.
I'll briefly discuss the positive features of Disqus at our first class, but amongst those key features is the ability to sort comments, subscribe by email to the complete commenting thread (a big feature), to submit new comments via email, the ability to edit and remove comments, and more. Check it all out at:
As of today the Disqus page replaces the old "Discuss" page. Most of you have not added any comments yet, but for those of you that have, you'll need to resubmit. If you made a longish comment then just email me and I can send you the full content of your previous comments.
By far the best way to submit a comment is to first create a Disqus profile. This is very easy as you'll only have two options when adding a comment for the first time: comment as a guest or comment via a Disqus profile. To create a profile click on the DProfile link (see screenshot below).
When you click on the DProfile link up will pop a registration window! You don't even need to go to another website. Here's what it looks like:
The advantage of using a Disqus profile is that it will subsequently be easy to track the various comments of any given person in the class.
I'll briefly discuss the positive features of Disqus at our first class, but amongst those key features is the ability to sort comments, subscribe by email to the complete commenting thread (a big feature), to submit new comments via email, the ability to edit and remove comments, and more. Check it all out at:
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Welcome
Welcome to Multimedia Learning! This is the Fall 2009 semester version of the course. Our first live meeting will be on Saturday, August 22 @ 9:00 a.m. I've sent out an email to all pre-registered students in the course so you can get a bit of a head start if you want. I'm doing this because the beginning of our semester is a bit hectic with teaching weekends on both August 22 and August 28. Your first task is to read all of the news entries below this one to get some key information about the course.
Handbook of Multimedia Learning
Many of your readings will come in the form of original research articles that I post to this website. However, we will also be using one text titled The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning edited by Richard Mayer and published in 2005. I did not think I would use this book back in April, and as a result it will not be available at the USF bookstore. This is not a problem as you can easily buy it at Amazon and other online book services. That said, please order this $50 book as soon as possible. You won't be doing any readings in the handbook for our August 28th class, but there may be some readings in the book for the September 11th class session.
Getting Started
You have a variety of learning materials to download for Sessions 1 and 2. All of the Session 1 print materials I will distribute in class. However it's useful to also download the electronic versions of the documents (such as the course syllabus).
For Session 2 you'll have a collection of learning materials including an audiobook, a QuickTime movie, and more.
Notice that you can access the learning materials for a class session by going to the Learn section (see top tabs) then selecting the appropriate class (see options just under the banner image). Alternatively use the Sidebar and scroll down a wee bit until you see the area labelled Learning Materials. This provides you with direct links to all of the class session learning materials.
For Session 2 you'll have a collection of learning materials including an audiobook, a QuickTime movie, and more.
Notice that you can access the learning materials for a class session by going to the Learn section (see top tabs) then selecting the appropriate class (see options just under the banner image). Alternatively use the Sidebar and scroll down a wee bit until you see the area labelled Learning Materials. This provides you with direct links to all of the class session learning materials.
Three Assignments
The beginning of this particular semester is quite difficult since class 1 and class 2 are only one week apart. I have made some accommodations for this, but nonetheless there are still a number of things that need to be accomplished in this first week. Beyond using the learning materials for Session 1 (Overview) and Session 2 (Photography), you have three assignments to complete:
Technology Survey
This will take you less than 5 minutes. You can easily complete it during your first weekend. There's nothing you need to learn before you take this survey.
My Exciting Summer
This is a very simple assignment to make sure all of you know how to use the commenting system built into this course's website. Again, this assignment could easily take you less than 10 minutes to complete.
Knowledge Dig 2
This assignment can't be done until after you've used the learning materials for Session 2 on Photography. It's where you need to post at least one comment or question about the content in the learning materials.
Please note that all of the assignments for an upcoming class will always be posted at the top of the Sidebar (see the far right top of the screen under the banner image). In this area you'll see when each assignment is due and you'll be provided with a link that takes you directly to the relevant page.
Technology Survey
This will take you less than 5 minutes. You can easily complete it during your first weekend. There's nothing you need to learn before you take this survey.
My Exciting Summer
This is a very simple assignment to make sure all of you know how to use the commenting system built into this course's website. Again, this assignment could easily take you less than 10 minutes to complete.
Knowledge Dig 2
This assignment can't be done until after you've used the learning materials for Session 2 on Photography. It's where you need to post at least one comment or question about the content in the learning materials.
Please note that all of the assignments for an upcoming class will always be posted at the top of the Sidebar (see the far right top of the screen under the banner image). In this area you'll see when each assignment is due and you'll be provided with a link that takes you directly to the relevant page.
Mobile Devices
This website is iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android enabled. This means the website can identify whether you are using a web browser or if you are using one of the 3 mobile devices listed above. If you are using an iPhone/Touch/Android then you'll see a version of the website that contains the same information but has been formatted to read much more easily, and load much more quickly, on those devices.
The menu options work a bit differently on the mobile devices to optimize space. But you will be able to navigate everything, see text at a good and easy reading size, plus more.
The mobile device version of this website is not good for downloading materials, and probably not good (though possible) for submitting your knowledge dig comments. But the mobile device version of the website can be great for keeping up to date with new posts in the News section or new comments in either the News or Office sections. So if you have one of the devices listed above, insert this course's web address, bookmark it in your device, and use as best fits your learning needs.
The menu options work a bit differently on the mobile devices to optimize space. But you will be able to navigate everything, see text at a good and easy reading size, plus more.
The mobile device version of this website is not good for downloading materials, and probably not good (though possible) for submitting your knowledge dig comments. But the mobile device version of the website can be great for keeping up to date with new posts in the News section or new comments in either the News or Office sections. So if you have one of the devices listed above, insert this course's web address, bookmark it in your device, and use as best fits your learning needs.
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