STANDARD COMPETENCIES

 

 1. Define key elements in the development of computational media.

 2. Compare and contrast the properties of computational media, including: capabilities;

 expressive potential; security; universality.

 3. Analyze benefits and drawbacks of specific computational approaches.

 4. Use various programming methods to explore the expressive potential of computational graphic design.

 5. Create artifacts of practical multimedia graphic design.

 

 

 TOPICAL OUTLINE

 

 I. Development of computational MGD.

  A. History of computing: ancient to late 20th Century

  B. Contemporary computing developments

  C. Web computing

  D. Mobile computing

  E. Visual-based computing vs. code-based computing

 II.  Properties of computational media.

  A. Procedural

  B. Participatory

  C. Encyclopedic

  D. Spatial

 III. Characteristics of computational media.

  A. Immersion

  B. Agency

  C. Transformation

 IV. Visual based programming overview.

  A. Methods

  B. use of existing code to build new applications

  C. Limitations

        D. Benefits of visual-based coding over procedural and object-oriented coding for multimedia graphic design

 V. Programming multimedia graphic design exploration.

 VI. Practical applications of computational multimedia graphic design lab.