Download PLUG-INS for your favorite Web browser! Apple QuickTime Enable Netscape and Microsoft web browsers to display QuickTime-based media directly withiin a web page. Adobe Acrobat Reader View, navigate, and print .PDF (portable document format) files across all major computing platforms. RealPlayer Play RealAudio and RealVideo files, or RealFlash animations for on-demand, streaming media. Aladdin Expander Freeware available for Macintosh, Windows and DOS, allows users to decompress, decode, convert and access files from the most popular compression archive formats.   Download CLASS MATERIALS COURSE SYLLABUS Summer Session I 2000! Exam #1 Review Treatment & Content Outline Assignment Storyboard & Flow Chart Assignment Group Project & Production Book Assignment Exam #2 Review View Some Past Student Multimedia Productions! WEB ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES Web Accessibility Initiative [W3C: promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities.] Bobby [CAST: web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities.] Adobe Visual Impairments Website [ADOBE: provides tools & information to help make Adobe PDF files accessible to users with visual disabilities.] Equal Access to Software & Information [RIT: students & professionals with disabilities must have the same access to information & resources as everyone else!] University of Hawaii Accessibility Website [UHM/ITS: ensuring that campus computing & information resources are accessible to persons with disabilities.] OTHER DOCUMENTATION Ogden, M.R. (1998). Basic Webscaping 2.0: A "Bare Bones" Guide to Writing HTML Documents for the World Wide Web [Online Instructional Guide] Olympus D-200L Digital Camera [Online Instructional Guide] Also, read through the Olympus D-200L Orientation Guidelines LECTURE NOTES Password required to access! As a courtesy, lecture notes will be updated weekly at the following PASSWORD PROTECTED site. The lecture notes are presented as QuickTime "movies" of the in-class PowerPoint slides. Students may wish to review this material in preparation for their exams. Enter the password and "click" on the button:     Download FORMS for multimedia productions Production Book Checklist CONCEPT: Production Schedule Production Budget Multimedia Storyboard PERSONNEL: Production Team Roles LEGAL: Artist Agreement Permission to Use [copyright clearance form letter] EVALUATION: Audience Survey Group & Self Evaluation [for yourself & your teammates]   Download Macintosh multimedia TOOLS Here are some Macintosh shareware programs comprable to commercial programs used in the COM 337 lab. Although not as powerful, these programs are sophisticated enough to allow students to work at home away from the lab's more powerful programs. Unfortunately, these files are not hosted on a server that allows anonymous ftp access, so be sure to click on the "Save file" button when the dialog box appears... GRAPHICS: GifBuilder 0.5 Gifconverter 2.3.7 Graphicconverter 2.3 Tranparency 1.0 SOUND: SoundEffects 0.9.2 SoundHack 0.868 SoundMachine 2.6.2 VIDEO: Convert to Movie 2.0 FlatMooV MoviePlayer 2.5.1 WORLD WIDE WEB: HTML Editor 1.1.3 PageSpinner 1.2.2 RTF to HTML - Mac Web Map 2.0b9 MISC.: Hypercard Viewer StuffIt Expander 5.1.3 [in case Aladdin Expander doesn't run on your Mac] Olympus 3.0 [for downloading images from the Olympus D-200L digital camera]   Download Windows multimedia TOOLS For those poor misguided students who would rather work on a Windows PC, the following shareware programs are similar enough in function to the Mac ones above to allow students to work outside the lab on a machine more to their liking. [Mahalo to James Nebrija for compiling the Windows shareware offerings!] GRAPHICS: Abracadabra 1.25 [reduce, crop, edit & create images] Animagic 1.06a [create compact animated GIFs; 32-bit] A Square Image 1.0 [graphics & text editor in one] Take ONE 3.5e [design animated GIFs & cusors] SOUND: Audition 3.0 [play & edit sound files] Awave 5.0 [convert, edit & play audio files in many formats] Sound Gadget Pro 1.5.2 [sample sounds & special effects] VIDEO: Animator-9 2.9 [animate you digital camera images] AVI Constructor 2.6.5 [create AVI movies from still images] Pro Motion 4.0 [create animation suitable for the web or games] WORLD WIDE WEB: Coffee Cup HTML Editor 6.5 [popular web page designer/editor with JAVA] Style Master 1.3 [create web pages using CSS editor] Agile HTML Editor [design "groovy" web pages] Web Scripter [design web pages using JavaScript] Edit Plus 1.24 [edit plain text files, HTML docs, or program code] MISC.: Alladin Expander 5.0 [expand ALL compressed/encoded files from the web] NetZIP Deluxe 6.5 [download, unzip & install software automatically] PKZIP 2.70 [decompress & create ZIP files; 32-bit] [ Syllabus ][ Lab Assignments ][ Downloadable Resources ][ Back to Home ]   Copyright © 1999-2000 Webmaster: M.R. Ogden, ogden@hawaii.edu [Rev. 28 June 2000]