Visualizing Information: digital storytelling and interactive media design
Thom Gillespie, School of Library and Information Studies, Indiana University
email: thom[at]indiana.edu
Homepage of author: http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/resume/print.html
Homepage of course: http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/courses/visual.html
Title of course: Visualizing Information: digital storytelling and interactive media design
Aimed at what category of students: Students of Library and Information Studies
Objectives of the course:
By the end of the course the student will have an understanding of visual multimedia design informed by the practical experience of actually creating a preliminary design specification and using rapid prototype tools to develop a working model of a multimedia system.
List topics of course:
- Introduce some of the voluminous historical, aesthetic, and cognitive theoretical basis of visual information/multimedia systems
- Develop the practical design skills for organizing and communicating information in an appropriate visual fashion
- Develop creative conceptual skills to brainstorm new system design ideas
- Work as a team to create a professional design specification for a multimedia product and to submit this design specification for consideration to a commercial publisher