IDM 3020  VIRTUAL ARTS AND SCIENCES  FALL 2002

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Course Goals: This course is about using your current IDM skills along with developing new ones to create an interactive multimedia module that adds value to real time meteorological data.  Skills that you will develop or enhance include:

1. web page editing and design, including forms
2. image manipulation and creation
3. sound and video creation and design
4. animation creation and design
5. basic programming (likely perl scripting)

Using the above skills, you will access meteorological data collected here at LSC that includes temperature, pressure, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction and dew point temperature.  With this weather data, you will create a multi media module that effectively displays this information such that it is easy to interpret for the common lay person.  You will add value to this information by providing some  meteorological context within which the observations are made.  This will allow the user to better understand the meteorology creating the current observations and the weather being experienced on campus.

Course Prerequisites: IDM 2020 and IDM 2030 or IDM 2040

Required text: None: although reference texts may be provided during the semester.

Makeups and late assignments: All assignments must be turned in on time.  NO credit will be given to late assignments.  An assignment is late 10 minutes after the due date/time.

Grading: The grading breakdown for your course grade is as follows:

Grading Scale for all assignments

100-90% A

89-80% B

79-70% C

69-60% D

59-50% F

Attendance and Academic Honesty: As per Lyndon State College Catalog. If you miss class more than 4 times without prior notification of your absence, you will fail the class.

Course Outline

1. Introduction to the course and project
   • Identification of software tools
   • Identification of skills, strengths and weaknesses
2. Tutorials- presentations to be given by students in class
   • Web authoring tools
   • Web page design
   • Image creation, manipulation
   • Animation
   • Meteorology
   • Programming
3. Breaking down the project into specific tasks
   • create teams based on skill strengths and weaknesses
   • teams begin work on specific tasks, or subprojects
   • identify, discuss and solve problems as they arise as a class
4. Periodic presentation of progress on subprojects
   • identify, discuss and solve problems as they arise as a class
   • modify scope or direction of the project as needed
   • make sure that subprojects are consistent and compatible with each other
5. Put together and test final project

last updated: 11/11/02