This part of the course begins the hands-on tutorial that will prepare you to create your own multimedia applications. You will learn how to use a set of everyday multimedia tools and, through practice, develop techniques that will make you proficient in creating applications.
Read chapter 18 to learn about screen design principles, and then read chapter 19 to get started putting those principles into practice via PowerPoint. Note: PowerPoint was chosen for this course because it runs cross-platform on both Windows and Macintosh computers and is the most widely used multimedia program in the world. Users who are familiar with other packages will realize that many of the PowerPoint techniques taught in this book can be applied using other sets of tools. What is important here is not the choice of a specific tool, but rather the concepts that are being presented. Later on the student can apply these techniques using the tools available in different software packages.
This module consists of two units of instruction containing online activities that prepare you for completing the course assignments. Follow the links below to study the unit of your choice:
| Unit 5-1 | Screen Design Principles, provides you with guidelines and examples of good screen design. |
| Unit 5-2 | Creating Applications with PowerPoint, gets you started creating multimedia screens. |
