Besser, Howard. (1998). The
Shape of the 21st Century Library, in Milton Wolf et. al. (eds.), Information
Imagineering: Meeting at the Interface, Chicago: American Library Association,
pages 133-146
At 11 AM, in one single group you need to walk into room 127 Dwinelle
Hall and sit down quietly in the back of the room. You will be watching
the second hour of Medieval Studies course where half the students are
at Columbia University and half are in Berkeley. The class is co-taught
by Charles Faulhaber (Director of the Bancroft Library and Professor of
Spanish & Portugese) and Carmela Franklin, professor of Classics at
Columbia. Watch how this works for about half an hour, then Tom Hutcheson
from Office of Media Services (who will also be watching) will escort you
(filing out quietly and slowly) into an adjoining room to engage you in
a discussion of how distance learning works, how it can be used, what it's
good and not good for, etc.
Find guidelines or criteria for reviewing multimedia programs.
Bring these to class and plan to make suggestions on how to improve the
class' "Multimedia Review Categories" or to just critique it.
Read at least 2 evaluations of multimedia programs and make some
basic comments on these. Submit the names and URLs of what you looked
at.
Review a Multimedia program (ideally something that has some narative
and that forces a user to branch between different parts of the narrative;
complex video games are ok)
Email your notes on the evaluations you read as well as the evaluation
you wrote (in html format) to Jenny Louie (jwlouie@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Assignment due next week:
See readings for Nov 6
Send a one-paragraph description of your final project to Howard
(howard@sims.berkeley.edu)
Nov 6
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