Requirements for Multimedia Production

Textbooks
LyndaCampus
Software
Grading
Exercises - 50%
Project - 50%

Textbooks

Required - Castro : HTML, XHTML & CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide 6th Edition - Order | Companion Site

Week 2 Part 1
Chapter 1: Web Page Building Blocks
Chapter 2: Working with Web Page Files
Chapter 3: Basic (X)HTML Structure
Chapter 6: Links
Chapter 15: Lists
Chapter 16: Tables
Chapter 22: Testing and Debugging Web Pages
Week 2 Part 2
Chapter 7: Style Sheet Building Blocks
Chapter 8: Working with Style Sheet Files
Chapter 9: Defining Selectors
Chapter 10: (Text) Formatting with (CSS) Styles
Chapter 11: Layout with (CSS) Styles
Week 3 Part 1
Chapter 7: Style Sheet Building Blocks
Chapter 8: Working with Style Sheet Files
Chapter 9: Defining Selectors
Chapter 10: (Text) Formatting with (CSS) Styles
Chapter 11: Layout with (CSS) Styles
Week 3 Part 2
Chapter 5: Images

Textbooks Accessible for Free from Rutgers Libraries:

HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (2010 - 2nd Version; Wiley) Harris, Andy.
HTML, XHTML & CSS QuickSteps (2009; McGraw-Hill) Hart-Davis, Guy.
Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (2010; Wiley) Duckett, Jon.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (2009; Wiley) Huddleston, Rob.
HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (2011; Wiley) Lowery, Joseph; Fletcher, Mark.

LyndaCampus

SC&I is subscribing to a service called LyndaCampus that is a school-wide version of lynda.com, an online training library of over 80,000 video based training movies on over 1400 software titles. LyndaCampus is available for free for students registered in SC&I courses and can be used to learn software, programming skills, video techniques, etc.
Titles include: all of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.), all of Adobe CS5 & CS6 (DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, etc.), Fundamentals of Video, iMovie, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, SPSS, Google Docs, HTML5, CSS, MySQL, PHP, Python, C/C++/C#, WordPress, etc. Students can watch the videos, follow along with exercise files, and even print a certificate of completion upon completion of a course.
Login to LyndaCampus (when you first log into lynda, you are given the opportunity to personalize your profile).
Remember: you must be logged into LyndaCampus to be able to access the lynda.com videos included in the Lectures page of this course.
For more information and access instructions, please see http://lynda.comminfo.rutgers.edu. For any difficulties accessing the content of lynda.com please contact SC&I IT Services at help@comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Software

Required: Adobe Creative Suite 6 / (5 / 5.5): Web Standard Edition: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, etc.

You can use / buy the Educational Version:
Adobe has just released Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and the education price is $349 (you may find it for less on the Web).
Adobe is offering a monthly subscription model: Adobe Creative Cloud (academic price is $30/month for 1 year).
You do not need to buy the software and you can use SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I (formerly referred to as Citrix) to access the CS6 Adobe software for free as a web service.
You will need a SC&I network account: if you had a "studentweb" account in 550, then you have a SC&I account and can use the "studentweb" credentials to log into SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I web service. If you don't have a "studentweb" account (or can't remember your credentials, such as your password) and/or you would like your username and password to match your Rutgers NetID, then you must first (re)activate your SC&I Network Account before you can use SC&I cloud services, such as "Software Anywhere".
To activate or reactivate your SC&I Network account, please visit: http://account.comminfo.rutgers.edu.
NOTE: If you ever change your NetID password, you should also reactivate your SC&I Network Account if you want to use the same password for Rutgers and SofywareAnywhere services.
SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I web service: login at http://sa.comminfo.rutgers.edu
Resource pages (please read whole page):
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/software-anywhere/what-is-software-anywhere.html
When using Software Anywhere for the first time, you must install a client application on your computer:
Guide for PC/Windows Users | Guide for Mac Users
How to Access and Use Software Anywhere: Windows | Mac.
Very Important: you need to save the files created with Software Anywhere on your computer (navigate in the Save dialog to your hard disk and the folder that you want to save your file into).
To repeat: make sure to save your files on your computer!
Getting to Your Computer's Files in Software Anywhere: Windows | Mac.
For best and reliable performance, you need to be plugged into your Internet connection (performance over wireless connections can be more unstable).
Technical Difficulties
What to do if you are experiencing technical difficulties (application not launching or freezing, slow responsiveness, slow saving of files, lost work) please contact SC&I IT Services:
help@comminfo.rutgers.edu | (848) 932-5555
Important: SC&I IT Services has asked me to tell students to please contact SC&I IT Services and will try to schedule phone call so that they can see in real-time what is happening and troubleshoot. So please contact SC&I IT Services when you are experiencing persistent technical difficulties so that they can help to gather information and try to solve it. Without your active participation, it will be possible to provide a better service.
You can make use of free 30 Day trial of the Adobe CS6 software and start using it 30 days before the end of the course and use the SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I web service before then.
Adobe CS4 and CS5 are fine to use if you already own it, but if you are about to purchase the software, make sure to purchase CS6.
Adobe CS3 is okay to use if you already own it, however the CS4+ interface is different and certain CS3 features are not supported anymore in CS4+.

Grading

Please not the different grade scale than is more commonly used since you are able to resubmit exercises.

95 - 100	A
90 - 94	B+
85 - 89	B
80 - 84	C+
75 - 79	C

Exercises (50% of Course Grade)

There will be three exercises that you will be able to resubmit :

Exercise 1 Project Outline: Create Outline of Your Project Site – Due Week 3 | Revision Due Week 5.
Exercise 2 Navigation Design: Create Interactive Navigation Structure – Due Week 5 | Revision Due Week 6.
Exercise 3 Visual Storytelling | Animation design: Create Visual Collage and Flash Animation – Due Week 7 | Revision Due Week 8.

Project (50% of Course Grade)

The exercises will form the basis for the design and content of the project (no redo):

Project (50%) Multimedia Design – Create Multimedia Website using XHTML, CSS and Flash – Due Week 8.