Multimedia Literacy

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Curriculum Development Workshop at LSU > Brian's Page

The basic idea of this course is to introduce students to the nuts and bolts of multimedia - the file formats and programs to manipulate/create them. Perhaps discuss binary here?

Overview

Binary representation

binary vs. decimal vs. hexidecimal

Sampling Rates

Bit-depth

Aliasing

File Formats

image

rgb, scanning, downloading, etc.

tiff, jpg, etc.

audio

dac/adc

aiff, wav, ogg, mp3

digital video

avi, qt, wm

animation

flash et.al.

Editing Programs

Gimp / Photoshop

Audacity, Ardour / Pro-Tools, Logic

Blender, POVRay / Maya, Final Cut

Upload content to web?

Mash-ups?