Course Contents

What is called New Media with a focus on the Web. A balance of :

This course focuses on multimedia and its delivery on the world wide web. It introduces multimedia as a combination of text, graphics, video, animation and sound for the purposes of information access, storage and dissemination. Topics such as the nature of multimedia and types of multimedia objects, components of a multimedia system, Web authoring, multimedia delivery tools, multimedia applications and societal implications of multimedia. Students will have the opportunity to create multimedia applications using HTML, JavaScript, animation, sound, video and 3D.

General knowledge about New Media (eg from the main textbook)

Some practical knowledge, mainly associated with the Web

Exploration of some tools and CMS

Some small exposure to the other side of the web