Module Descriptors
MOBILE WEB AND MULTIMEDIA
COWB70359
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 7
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Rachael Trubshaw
Email: R.T.Trubshaw@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 39
Independent Study Hours: 111
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
Various mobile phones
Web and Multimedia authoring environments
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Disqualified combination - CE00535-7 Mobile Web and Multimedia
Module Indicative Content
This module will address topics of:-

Uses and types of media on mobile devices for web and applications
Sensors for multimedia applications
Mobile web pages
Use of HTML / CSS to create mobile web applications
Comparison of native to browser based applications
Use of style sheets for mobile web applications
Offline API / Geolocation
Use of JavaScript frameworks to create applications effects
Wrappers to send HTML applications to the app stores
Design / User experience for mobile
Mobile gaming
Module Additional Assessment Details
Students will create two related practical mobile artefacts consisting of a web application using current standards, and a mobile multimedia application (Learning Outcome 1). To support these two artefacts student's will write a supporting report section of 1500 words (being a literature review on an area of emerging technologies and standards for mobile web and multimedia, with practical insights to their own work) (Learning Outcome 2).
Module Learning Strategies
The module is taught as a 3 hour lab per week over 9 weeks, which will contain mini-lectures to support the underlying knowledge and skills required to complete the module. Students will be encouraged to expand their knowledge in the area outside tutorial slots.
Module Texts
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Digital Classroom, Smith, J, Osbourn J, AGI Creative Team (2012), John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 978-1-118-12405-5
The Web Collection Revealed, Premium Edition: Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, Flash CS6, and Photoshop CS6 (Adobe CS6), Bishop, S, Shuman, J. E, Reding, E. E (2012), Cenage Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1133815143
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design (Voices That Matter), Colborne, G (2010), New Riders Publishers, ISBN-10: 0321703545
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Bible, Padova, T, and Murdock, K, L (2010), Wiley publishers, ISBN-10: 0470584769
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Digital Classroom, Smith, J and Osborn, J (2010), Wiley publishers, ISBN-10: 0470607793