Wednesday, November 15th

November 14, 2017 9:40 PM

ArchiCAD 19 Check
If it needs to be renewed use the following code: S4UGMAR7GCX0A4IGVJ2P

Work in pairs to answer the following questions. Be sure both names are on the document that gets submitted to school loop.
When digital media becomes a nightmare

Complete Trolley Car exercise - show me your completed image.

Introduction to Layers and Masks in Photoshop

Introduction to Animation
Timeline, keyframes, layers, creating symbols, library, motion tweens
Animated Graphics - Introduction to Macromedia Flash - your turn.
Bouncing Ball Exercise - show your completed flash files and questions to your instructor for teacher check.

MCAD, AEC, GIS

Introduction to 3D Modeling and CAD
Building a Garage and shed with ArchiCAD - teacher assisted lesson

Continue work on Criterion D - the plan, work on the site structure of your web site. - external site structure due Friday.
Update Criterion C - add what you did today to your timeline.

Criterion B - Cloud Storage - google drive space?
Hosting site - amount of space, bandwidth, cost, .....

Homework

Complete the Web Style Guide Interface Design questions and post to school loop - Due Friday.

News article due Friday. Choose your own focus for this article.
Anthony and Cameron will present news articles Friday.

Work on Criterion D - the plan, work on the site structure of your web site. - external site structure due Monday.
Update Criterion C - add what you did today to your timeline.

Key terms—animation, bit-map versus vector graphics, object-oriented, clip art, CAD, hypermedia,
hypertext, pixel, resolution, MP3, MIDI, morph

What

3.6 Multimedia/digital media - page 32
Introduction
Multimedia/digital media involves the use and integration of media (for example, text, images and graphic
elements, animation, sound and music, and video) to create digital products that are available online or

IT concepts to address in this topic
Theoretical concepts
• Design guidelines for creating multimedia/digital media
• Design methods: for example, site map, storyboard
Data collection
• Primary and secondary data
• Multimedia file formats: for example, text formats, audio formats, video formats, presentation formats, image/graphics formats
• Policies, copyright, citing sources, Creative Commons, licensing and watermarking
• Digital rights management (DRM)
Product development
• Folder and file management: importance of file and folder naming, appropriate folder structures
• Tutorials: for example, help pages, online manuals
• Templates and wizards, online and provided with software
• Importing and exporting data
• Integrating software applications and online tools: for example, embedded videos, web-based
database
Components
Text
• Text-processing software
• Formatting: for example, page layout, fonts, headers and footers
• File formats: for example, PDF, RTF, TXT
• Typography
Graphics, images and animations
• Software types: for example, albums, animated, 3D, bitmapped, vector, photo editing, photo casting, simulation
• Bit depth, colour depth (grayscale, shades of gray, millions of colours)
• Layers, grouping, divisions, alignment
• Resolution, pixels, dots per inch (dpi)
• File formats: for example, JPG, GIF, TIF
• Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
Audio
• Audio-editing software, podcasts
• Digital audio: for example, MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer 3), MP4
(MPEG-4 part 14), WAV (waveform audio format)
• File formats: for example, MP3, MP4, WAV
Video
• Video-editing software, vidcasts and special effects (for example, morphing, transitions)
• Digital video: for example, AVI (audio video interleave), MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), video
CODECs (coder-decoders)
• File formats: for example, AVI, MOV
Integrating the components
• Software types to house and display the multimedia components: for example, word processing,
desktop publishing, presentations, web pages
Generic techniques
• Differences in files (for example, graphics, images, audio, video) for print and online versions
• Inserting and manipulating objects (graphics, sound or video files)
• Tables: cell merge, borders, cell padding, cell spacing, nested tables
• Layers
• Links: relative and absolute, internal and external, for example, anchors, pop-ups
Syllabus content
34 Information technology in a global society guide
Word processing and desktop publishing (DTP)
• Referencing and reviewing: for example, spellchecker, thesaurus, outliners, word count
• Inline and floating graphics
Interactive multimedia, slideshows and websites
• Applications and online tools used for creating and making available interactive multimedia, games,
presentations, slideshows and websites
• Use of scripting in creating web pages (for example, HTML, JavaScript, URL links to online media)
• Integration of online tools

Why

Understanding when and how to use various graphics tools to create and modify images is a valuable skill.

How

By completing the drawing exercises.