COMM 7728 - Multi-Media Production

Prerequisite: admission to the Sixth Year Certificate in Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy. Online content construction (OCC) is a process by which individuals construct and redesign knowledge by actively encoding and decoding meaning through the use of ever-shifting multimodal convergent media production tools. This courses provides opportunities to learn powerful new tools for teaching and learning by combining technologies such as video, studio, graphics, interactivity, and text. Students will learn to identify, choose, plan, construct, and integrate online content into instruction. Students will learn to identify and evaluate multimodal resources, incorporate online content into instruction, know operations of hardware and software that support media, and know legal and ethical issues associated with convergent media tools and production.
3 credit hours.