"Fritzfield!" is a new series created in-house at our school district to get kids in grades K-2 excited about reading. It features our head librarian, Pat Naismith, and a hilarious puppet named Fritz (voiced by Jim Henson Company puppeteer Christopher Scheer!). They tell stories and read children's books, and the show also features interviews with famous children's book authors and illustrators, tips and techniques to help young readers learn how to read, reading comp questions, and songs about reading written and performed by students from the high school.

TRAINING Provides instruction on authoring effective multimedia products for use in instruction, communication, gaming, and similar settings. Students survey theoretical concepts, media elements, and hardware/software components of multimedia production. This semester concentrates primarily on developing products in Photoshop CS4, Flash CS4, and Final Cut. Hands-on experience includes digital photography, image manipulation, audio digitizing and editing, graphics and animation, actionscripting, and creation of delivery systems using a variety of software packages. Unit topics include digital image editing, Flash animation, Flash web page development, basic interaction programming, digital sound and video editing. Other instruction includes production management, product evaluation, media psychology, and principles of effective interface design. Although the course topic menu indicates clean separation of these subject areas, the actual approach is more holistic and cumulative. Objectives: This course will provide students an opportunity to: demonstrates skills in developing high quality media elements including text, graphics, digital photos, animation, video, sound effects, appropriate musical content, and narration. demonstrate skills in developing effective computer-based interactive and non-interactive products using text, graphics, digital photos, animation, video, sound effects, appropriate musical content, and narration. demonstrate familiarity with multimedia support technologies including computers and related peripherals, image scanners and software, audio digitizers and software, presentation equipment, and multimedia-friendly facilities. demonstrate ability to evaluate multimedia products and identify qualities of effective multimedia. demonstrates increased understanding of basic principles of communication psychology as they apply to multimedia. demonstrates increased understanding of basic principles of visual design and as they apply to multimedia. demonstrate ability to apply efficient multimedia design and production techniques

Creative Team: Carly DiBona, Thomas Donkin, Megan Galllagher, Chris Hartzell, Samantha Mola, Michael Saldutti, Natalie Vespe The “Peace Day Philly” project was a large-scale interdisciplinary project with seven students from four different majors (Graphic Design Communication, Interactive Design and Media, Animation, and Professional Commu­nication) working together as a team to brand and promote September 21 as the International Day of Peace locally—in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love—and globally. This complex project had several deliverables, including Brand Identity and Logo; Business Stationery; Website; and Integrated Public Awareness Campaign including print (bus shelter and small scale posters) as well as motion in the form of PSAs (Public Service Announcements).

The newly designed HBLL Tour is integrated into Brigham Young University’s First Year Writing program. Four library research sessions are team taught by university writing and library instructors. The tour is taken after the second research class as homework. Students check out iPods from the library and are given a Library QR Code Tour map. Students locate and scan the QR code/s on each level of the library. The appropriate video plays on the iPod (or device of their choice) about library services available in that area. Students take the quiz on the back of the map. After students have scanned all QR codes and watched the videos, they turn in the iPods and quiz. A self-guided tour of the Harold B. Lee Library has been taken!

This tool is provided as a review for the weekly quizzes and tests that occur throughout the semester. This tool was developed with several Adobe products and utilizes video and interactive components with immediate auditory and visual feedback and reinforcement. Given that this is used in an online course, this tool simulates the instructor's ability to interact with the student on a one-on-one basis. http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Anthony_Fellow/jeopardy/episode1/index.html