2021 | Multimedia and Representation Techniques

2021　Multimedia and Representation Techniques

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Academic unit or major: Teacher education courses

Instructor(s): Murota Masao

Class Format: Exercise

Media-enhanced courses

Day/Period(Room No.): Intensive ()

Group: -

Course number: LAT.A205

Credits: 1

Academic year: 2021

Offered quarter: 1-2Q

Syllabus updated: 2021/3/19

Lecture notes updated: -

Language used: Japanese

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Syllabus

Course description and aims

This course deals with several digital media such as text, voice, image, and video, and those processing techniques and expressions technique. Students will learn through lectures and practical training how to organize digital contents to make them "easy to read, easy to see, and to be compelling content".

In these days the opportunity to make presentation using digital media has been growing explosively. Therefore it is very important to understand the characteristics of digital media and to know how to use and organize them.

Student learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) have knowledge and skills how to use and organize multimedia such as text, voice, image, and video effectively.
2) create contents which can transmit the information to the people effectively.

Keywords

Multimedia, Media Processing Technology, Interface Design, Content Production

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills

Intercultural skills

Communication skills

Critical thinking skills

✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Three-day intensive course including lectures and practices.

Course schedule/Required learning

	Course schedule	Required learning
Class 1	Introduction	Students are required to evaluate document design.
Class 2	Fonts and Typography	Students are required to use fonts appropriately.
Class 3	Sentences and Itemization	Students are required to design documentation materials.
Class 4	Document Design Exercises	Students have mutual evaluation and revise their work.
Class 5	Diagrams, Graphs, and Tables	Students can use multimedia representation technique to design their contents.
Class 6	Layout and Color Schemes	Students are required to design presentation contents.
Class 7	Presentation Design Exercises	Students have mutual evaluation and make summary of this course.

Textbook(s)

・Yuma Takahashi et al (2016), Basic design Rule, Gijutsuhyoronsha (in Japanese)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

・Shinji Sakamoto (2015) "Introductory Classroom of Design" (in Japanese)
・Seiichi Nishihara et al (2014), Practical Multimedia, CG-ARTS Association (in Japanese)

Assessment criteria and methods

Midterm report (50%), Final report (50%)

Related courses

LAS.I111 ： Information Literacy I

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Not specified.

Other

Intensive Course. In 2021, this course is held from 13:30 to 17:40 on 26th June, 10th, and 24th on July.

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