Multimedia - general and M Guide - Resources and Review

Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of communication studies.
 
Information about an initiative to study and develop educational and cultural products and services accessible via television sets, computers and networks in Europe. Describes the history and background of the task force, its projects, news and events.
 
Project aiming to produce a sustainable approach to making searching, finding, browsing, accessing and retrieving multimedia resources as easy as possible, tools for the maintenance and security of information resources and mechanisms for monitoring the quality of information.
 
MIDAS
NET is part of the European Union's INFO2000 program, and exists to help multimedia information delivery for trade, industry, business and libraries. Includes full text of the Eurohighway newsletter
 
Journal intended to present and disseminate historical multimedia projects, provide a forum for multimedia research in all fields of history, and offer reviews which contain audio and video samples.
 
A series of online multimedia related documents, searchable by author, date, project, title or type. Issues covered include hypermedia, interfaces, agent architecture, virtual reality and integration.
 
News, tools and tutorials for webmasters developing and managing Internet multimedia content.
 
Journal for professional developers using Macromedia Director. Includes back issues and mailing lists, code for downloading and resource lists.
 
Gives an overview of the history and evolution of multimedia, highlighting its impact on art, technology, and culture. Intended for students, teachers, artists, and critics, the resource includes essays and sections on pioneers.
 
Final report of EC project examining the process of innovation in multimedia technology development. Highlights the importance of social learning, and argues that the evolution and success of multimedia depends on interaction between producers, users, and policy makers. Presented as a PDF file, or in MS Word format.
 
Online version of the magazine dealing with 3D graphics, CAD, animation, visualisation, virtual reality and multimedia. Includes tables of contents of the latest issue, and an archive of previous issues from 1995 onwards, with selected articles available online.
 
Descriptions and links to high
quality Internet resources covering, film, video, television, animation, multimedia, news, and journalism.
 
National visualisation, animation, and video service, free of charge for the UK academic community. Video sequences can be created from a range of sources, including digital images and analogue video tape. Possible output format includes video tape, QuickTime, AVI or MPEG files, CD, Video CD or CD
I. Details of software, training, procedures, file formats, and complementary services are available online.
 
Lists UK undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.
 
Source of information on interactive and electronic media, including reviews of books and journals, a guide to web design and full text articles. Provides a collection of annotated links to Internet usage statistics and to websites which exploit new media.
 
Forum for authors, offering demonstrations, sample scripts, guides to object oriented programming, Internet resources and applications which can be downloaded.
 
Project to train university staff in authoring and offering hypertext and multimedia packages and produce a series of illustrative applications.
 
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