CSE 332: Multimedia
Design and Development
Spring 2008
Professor: Glenn David Blank Phone: 758-4867 Office: 328 Packard Lab
Hours: TTh
Teaching Assistant: Mike Sands Phone: 610-217-5798 Email: mjs207@lehigh.edu
Course description: Analysis, design and implementation of multimedia
software, primarily for e-learning courses or training.
Projects emphasize user interface design, content design with storyboards
or scripts, creation of graphics, animation,
audio and video materials, and software development using high level authoring
tools, such as Flash.
Prerequisite: CSE12, CSE15, Engr 1 or consent of instructor. Blank.
Required textbooks:
David Unruh, e-Learning with Macromedia
Flash MX 2004, Mike Sands has updated the first seven chapters of this earlier book
which are
available as a pdf file (also exercises in a zip file) on Blackboard, for the first three weeks.
David Unruh, e-Learning with Macromedia Flash, links to the current version available in the syllabus below.
Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, 2nd edition, Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer 2007.
Recommended text (available from Professor Blank, who will circulate it in class):
Lisa Lopuck, Multimedia Design (PeachPit Press, 1996) (out of print, on reserve in Fairchild-Martindale Library)
Requirements (no exams):
Weekly blog reflecting on class lectures, readings, lab work, and project progress reports 10% (here's a nice blog)
Flash lab exercises 20%
Class
participation 10%
Team
project (analysis, UI prototype, design (script/storyboard),
user observation report and final project): 50%
Class Topic Readings
(assignments due)
1/15 Goals of course; what is multimedia e-learning?
1/17 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Drawing and text Unruh chapters 1-3
1/22 Project proposals & assembling a multimedia team Lopuck
pages 2-8 (compare 2 e-learning titles on blog by Monday)
1/24 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Timelines and animation Unruh ch 4-6, Lopuck ch5&6
1/29 Multimedia software life cycle Lopuck ch 2 (form teams)
1/31 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Multimedia Unruh ch 7
2/5 Multimedia structures and tools
2/7 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Learning interactions Unruh eLearning 1 (project analysis (Word document))
2/12 User interface design and paper prototypes
2/14 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Introduction to ActionScript Unruh eLearning 2
2/19 E-learning&cognitive principles Clark ch 1-4
2/21 Flash lab (EWFM 292): More ActionScript Unruh eLearning 3
2/26 User
interface design, storyboards and scripting
Lopuck
ch1 & 4
2.28 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Menus and hypermedia maps Unruh eLearning 4
3/11 Modality and redundancy principles
Clark ch 5-6
3/13 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Text and XML files Unruh eLearning 6 (demo user interface prototypes)
3/18 Graphics; discuss project design and user interfaces (project design I)
3/20 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Drag & drop, pre-loaders Unruh eLearning 5 & Unruh eLearning 8
3/25 Sound; Coherence & Personalization principles Clark ch 7-8 and Johnson, Rickel and Lester
3/27 Flash lab (EWFM 292): Flash and databases (project design II)
4/1 Usability analysis; Examples & Practice principles Clark ch 10-11
4/3 Flash lab: (EWFM 292): Games Unruh eLearning 9
4/8 Intelligent tutoring systems; Who's in Control? Moritz, Wei, Parvez and Blank; Clark ch 13-14
4/10 Flash lab: EWFM 292):Preloaders Unruh eLearning 7
4/15 CSS and Dynamic HTML
4/17 Flash lab: Micrsoft .NET and Silverlight
4/21 Content and copyright
4/23 Present content prototypes (project user observation reports)
5/5 or 5/6 Final project presentations