Supplies students should provide:
1. Students are expected to maintain current backups of their files. Students can use CD-R or DVD-R media, or USB flash memory drives.
2. Students may need a digital camera for field assignments. SmartMedia and CompactFlash are the supported formats. And students may also need a camcorder for field work. MiniDV, VHS, and SVHS tapes are supported.
3. A pad of grid paper may be useful for sketching, taking notes, etc.
4. Students should also upgrade their home PC's with multimedia plug-ins for their web browser. They may also want to download trial versions of the development and production software (Adobe CS3):
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
(download Acrobat Reader, the Flash player and the Shockwave player)http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
(download QuickTime player, QuickTime Pro recommended)
Many of the SINC site labs maintained by Instructional Computing run the same software as the CS Multimedia lab:
http://moya.ic.sunysb.edu/Sinc/
Emedia Arts:
http://emedia.art.sunysb.edu/emedia/
Applications training:
573 course work requires the use of many software applications. Independently acquiring skill in the use of these tools is the student's responsibility. The following resources are available in the CS department:
Additionally, there are free-of-charge internet training resources:
Adobe Design Center:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/iLife (iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand, and iMovie):
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
QuickTime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/
To further supplement their training students may choose to consider:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp
Lynda.com is a provider of multimedia applications traning CD's.
For $25 users can view all of the training archives on-line for one month.http://www.vtc.com/
Video Training Courses (VTC) offers lower-cost training CD's.
The following links are provided to facilitate independent research by students:
Comparison of Multimedia and Classroom-Based Instruction:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-solutions/a-comparison-of-multimedia-courseware-and-classroombasedinstruction-6381Best Practices in Multimedia Courseware:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9892/multi.htmAssessment of Multimedia Instruction:
http://www-adl.stanford.edu/images/viamm.pdfCognition and Multimedia Design Principles:
http://www.unm.edu/~moreno/PDFS/chi.pdfEducational Multimedia Design:
http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper80/paper80.htmPrinciples of Interaction Design:
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.htmlEducational Software Design Guidelines:
http://www.dental.pitt.edu/informatics/edswstd/Design Document Wizard (click on Design Mode link):
http://www.edu-design-principles.org/dp/designHome.phpEdutopia - The George Lucas Educational Foundation:
http://www.edutopia.org/Serious Games:
http://www.seriousgamessource.com/Food Force, a game developed by the UN World Food Program:
http://www.food-force.com/Educational Games developed at Carnegie Mellon's Educational Technology Center (ETC):
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/projectgallery.html