The lecture will support the two lab sessions. The lab sessions will support the underlying knowledge and skills required to complete the module, and will be facilitated with booklets, course texts, and the internet. Within the lab sessions the students will learn new and emerging technologies, focus on media resource creation, learn advanced scripting, and the process of design and evaluation. Group discussions will also take place in these sessions. (1:n) (1:20)2

Students will look at advanced areas of web multimedia including the following
- Scalable Vector Graphics - production and practice
- Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language - production and practice
- Streaming Media - setup and reasoning
- Live Broadcast
- Web Accessibility
- Advanced scripting for web multimedia - Action Script
- Multi-user distributed multimedia
- Podcasts

100% assignment assessing Learning Outcomes 1 to 4.
- A practical artefact, being a high multimedia content web site. It is likely that the artefact will be based on a rich media case study, such as a online Travel Agents with dynamic pages, rich content to display locations and multiple examples of detailed scripting.
- A 5000 word report to support the created web site.

References to material from books and the web will be given.

Background Reading
Writing for Multimedia and the Web, Third Edition : A Practical Guide to Content Development for Interactive Media, Garrand, T, (2006), Publisher: Focal Press, ISBN: 0240808223
Macromedia Flash Professional 8 : Training from the Source, Green, T, Chilcott, J, L (2005), Publisher: Macromedia Press, ISBN: 0321384032
WWW.W3.org - for web standards

Prior study of CE00354-2 Web Multimedia or equivalent

The web, Media Server, web server, Current software