Media elements

Learning objectives

• you will know (be confident in) the special properties of digital text, picture, sound, video, animation

Reading
Inside the course this module contains a lot of readings and exercises as well. None of the modules are compulsory and we find important to emphasise it in this case here in this module! Not every teacher would like or because of lack of time is able to retouch a picture, make noise reduction in a sound, edit a video, apply effects and make from these files a whole interactive multimedia application. There are some who are interested in that and can have some time, too. Maybe he or she will not make every part of the electronic material, but he/she could get an insight into multimedia and can help more adequate the professionals. One of the main reasons is that not only the pedagogical purposes count but a lot more other factor, too.
Who feel the power in themselves be brave and do it (it will not be easy, we tell it before), the other members just read through the books or articles in which they are interested in.

We have got to know the idea of multimedia during the first (TC01) module. Now we go on and take a look at the details, we do exercises not only in theory but in use. We wil know what does a media element mean and what kind of properties they have. It will be clear how to integrate the various elements and even how to create each of them. One of the most important skill we will get is how to plan an electronic course and later how to create one!
Above all we will get to know the digital text, image, motion picture (video, animation), sound amongst the multimedia elements and their properties or features.

After reading the theoretical parts you will get the practical knowledge, useful exercises and little tasks from additional books.

Bibliography:

[1] Tay Vaughan: Multimedia: Making It Work, Berkeley, USA, McGraw-Hill, 1996.