Announcing Multimedia Literacy
A Textbook and Multimedia CD to Teach Multimedia Concepts and Skills

Dr. Fred Hofstetter, Professor and Director of Instructional Technology at
the University of Delaware, hereby announces the publication of his new
book and CD entitled Multimedia Literacy. It consists of a beautifully
illustrated full-color textbook and a multimedia CD produced by Pat Fox,
head of the commercial graphics program at Trident Technical College. The
book presents multimedia concepts, tools, and techniques in a tutorial
format, and the CD brings them to life with multimedia examples and
exercises tied to each chapter's objectives.

You can obtain a copy of Multimedia Literacy at any bookstore by asking for
ISBN 0-07-911956-5. Published by McGraw-Hill, it is available now. There
is also an Instructor Guide that shows how to use Multimedia Literacy to
offer credit-bearing courses in multimedia. The Instructor Guide is ISBN
0-07-029381-3.

Multimedia Literacy has seven parts. The first four are conceptual, dealing
with definitions, principles, applications, hardware, future trends, and
societal issues; and the last three are tutorial, in which you learn
multimedia application creation tools and use them to make a simple and an
advanced multimedia application.

Part one defines multimedia, tells who uses it for what, talks about how it
is changing the world, tells who needs to know about it, and provides a
taxonomy of multimedia objects that you can use when creating your own
applications.

Part two deals with multimedia applications. Dozens of full-color screen
prints and photos illustrate how multimedia is being used in classrooms,
board rooms, homes, retail stores, just-in-time training, cinema, video
arcades, government, and industry. The CD-ROM that comes with this book
includes demonstrations of these applications that you can run on any
multimedia PC running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher. The CD also
demonstrates several of the development packages that were used to create
these applications.

Part three focuses on multimedia hardware. It reviews the competing
multimedia standards, recommends the one to follow, and provides a
checklist of features to look for when buying a multimedia computer.

Part four looks into the future of multimedia, discussing societal issues
regarding how it will impact us all. Acknowledging the rapid rate at which
the technology is advancing, it recommends how you can keep up with this
fascinating field, continue to increase your multimedia skills, and help
influence future uses of multimedia.

Part five provides you with a multimedia toolkit. Step-by-step tutorials
guide you through the creation of text, graphics, sound, and video. You
will learn how to enter text, import clip art, digitize existing pictures,
create new ones, record sound, create MIDI sequences, make CD Audio clips,
edit digital video, and make videodisc clips.

Part six teaches you how to do hypermedia, with which you link your
multimedia objects into presentations and applications. Using the
hypermedia application generator on the enclosed CD-ROM, you will make a
simple multimedia application on the History of Flight.

Part seven is a more advanced tutorial in which you create a multimedia
application about the Information Superhighway. You will also learn how to
distribute your multimedia application on CD-ROM, diskettes, and the
Information Superhighway itself.

Fred T. Hofstetter                         Phone:  (302) 831-8162
Professor and Director                       FAX:  (302) 831-2089
Instructional Technology Center           E-Mail:  fth@udel.edu
University of Delaware
305 Willard Hall Education Building
Newark, DE 19716

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