Welcome to

the Fall 1996 "Multimedia Authoring" class

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In this class we all (including the instructor) learn what's new in multimedia authoring. Which explains why the class has yet to be taught twice in the same way. Hopefully we can all glean some fundamental insights of lasting value--but the specifics are bound to obsolesce almost overnight. In this field, "continuing education" is a given, and the web is probably the best conduit to ongoing learning.

So what are we focusing on this semester?

• We start again with HyperCard--because it is accessible; because HyperTalk is the prototype of many scripting languages that came after; and because, with Apple positioning it as the premiere QuickTime Media Layer editor, it may still have a role to play for cross-platform web-based development.
• We continue with Director 5--because it is still the one program that most people think of when they think (have they nothing better to do?) authoring; because it is definitely cross-platform; and because with Shockwave it offers a direct outlet to the web right now.
• We conclude with miscellaneous media in web-compatible formats packaged on an HFS CD-ROM. The list of actual media is still being scrutinized and weeded out (it would take several semesters just to touch on all the multimedia technologies being deployed on the net).

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