time / location:
fall 2010
Mondays 10am to noon from 9/13 to 11/8
Adult Education Center SJC room 23

Instructor:
Paul McManus
paulmcma@gmail.com

Summary:
Digital media  provides students from any discipline with the opportunity to experience and create and manipulate a variety of digital media. through project work and active participation, students will express creativity and demonstrate conceptual and critical thinking. students are encouraged to conceptualize projects that integrate technology arts and media with their own academic interests.

Students will have the opportunity to learn  web design with Shutterfly, photo book creation with Picasa and media storage and portability with Itunes and Ipod.

The first session will include a presentation on Digital Media, setup of Gmail and Google Docs, and exercises in Shutterfly.




If attendance is sufficient to continue with course a schedule of the remaining 7 week will promptly be made available.

Materials:
notebook (low tech device for taking notes)
portable storage device: the internet, gmail and google docs

Attendance:
this class requires students to be present in order to create, review, and discuss the work that is being produced. Therefore, individual attendance is essential to the dynamic of the class as a whole.

Freedom of speech:
This class is held in an academic university setting and due to the inherent nature of the internet and broad range of topics that your project work will explore it is inevitable that we will come across issues relating to technology. My role during such discussions will be a facilitator, a mediator, and as impartial as humanly possible. All students are encouraged to participate in open discussion and academic discourse.

Lab Procedures:
Food and drinks are not permitted inside the lab. This is not an open lab, only students who are enrolled in the program should have access to the computers.