UCL - Worksho: Multimedia Initiation

[COMU2662]

[15h + 30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Jean-Pierre Couwenbergh, Philippe Verhaegen

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

By the end of the course, students will:
understand the main (communications and technological) processes at work in a multi-media discourse;
be able to design and produce the model of a multi-media tool, and make it available on a network.

Main themes

This course introduces students to the issue of, and concepts relating to, multi-media communication. In concrete terms, it introduces them to the design, production and evaluation of a small interactive environment, and defines the role and place of the communicator in setting up a discourse.

Content and teaching methods

Contents
1. Languages
- Internet and Web (Recall)
- The form and content of the Web
- The basic tools for Web Designer
- XHTML
- CSS
2. Graphics and ergnomique
3. Content Development

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Course requirements: a knowledge of basic IT (understanding of an operating system, and of the usual peripheral factors).
The evaluation focus on:
a) skills acquired in the field of analysis of multi-media discourses;
b) students ability to see a multi-media-based project through.
Assistance from a member of the scientific staff for follow-up on, and supervision of, students work.
The course will need a multi-media room and a video-data projector. Students will also have access to a multi-media room and appropriate interactive software.