Topics include instructional video research, video equipment, terminology and systems, and message design issues. Students use a range of traditional, interactive, and emerging technological interventions in analog and digital formats. Students demonstrate skills via the composition and publication of several media documents using available tools and resources. Students use instructional computing applications and understand the roles and uses of computers in instruction. Students select and use instructional computing hardware and software appropriate to instructional goals and settings.
Students use electronic networks for instructional purposes.
Students demonstrate skill using basic productivity software through structured assignments and collaborative projects. Students develop skill in advanced aspects of the operation and use of the range of instructional technologies from desktop to distributed computing environments. Students use operating systems, learn network administration, do technology planning, and work with basic authoring tools. Skill is demonstrated through a series of projects including development of a technology plan for a specified work setting and authorship of a prototype program. EDC 547 or consent of instructor.