Digital Media Curriculum Materials - Listed by Modules and Chapters

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Chapter 1. Background

Chapter 1. Background (text) revised 06-19-2004

Converting Analog to Digital -- Sampling and Quantizing (interactive)

Base-10 vs Base-2 Notation (interactive)

Decimal to Binary Guided Practice (interactive) posted 06-04-2004

Interactive Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Clock (interactive) revised 03-23-2005

Video examples of different levels of compression:

QuickTime Uncompressed (~60 MB)
QuickTime using Animation codec (~50 MB)
QuickTime using Cinepak codec (~5 MB)
QuickTime using Sorenson codec (~3.5 MB)
MPEG-2 (~1 MB)

Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Digital Imaging
Chapter 3. Capturing and Editing Digital Images
- Chapter 3. Capturing and Editing Digital Images (text) revised 08-19-2004
- Understanding and Applying Histograms (interactive tutorial and exercise)
- Tonal Range Adjustment in Scanning (interactive) posted 07-17-2003
  - Sample images (.tif, ~5.3 MB each)) refered from the interactive tutorial:
- Understanding and Applying Curves For Color Adjustments (interactive tutorial and exercises) posted 08-05-2003
- Optical Color Mixing in Pointillism, Dithering, and Inkjet Printing (interactive) posted 07-31-2003
- Image PPI vs Printer DPI revising...
- Resolution: Making Sense out of Megapixel (worksheet)
- Choosing Amongst JPEG, GIF, and PNG (worksheet) posted 08-15-2003
  Sample image for the worksheet exercise:
  - continuous tone -- terrace (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - continuous tone -- steamboat (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - continuous tone -- heron (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - continuous tone -- drums (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - scanned slide of art work -- pen and ink drawing with background cleaned up (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - scanned slide of art work -- pen and ink drawing (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - scanned slide of art work -- watercolor painting (.tif, ~1.4 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - solid color illustration exported from a vector graphic (.tif, ~1.5 MB) posted 08-08-2003
  - solid color -- pear (.tif, ~4.8 MB) posted 08-08-2003
Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Digital Audio
Chapter 5. Capturing and Editing Digital Audio

Chapter 5. Capturing and Editing Digital Audio (text) posted 01-21-2006
Working with Digital Audio Application Programs (Screen Capture Movies):
- Preparing for Audio Recording: Set up Recording Control in Windows (Flash, ~750 KB) posted 12-21-2005
- Recording in Adobe Audition (Flash, ~600 KB) posted 12-21-2005
- Applying Noise Reduction in Adobe Audition (Flash, ~2 MB) posted 12-21-2005
- Reassembling Waveform Using Adobe Audition (Flash, ~900 KB) posted 12-21-2005
- Creating and Editing MIDI in Cakewalk SONAR (Flash, ~2.1 MB) posted 01-05-2006
- Working with loops in Adobe Audition (Flash, ~1.2 MB) posted 12-21-2005
- Working with loops and Volume Envelop in Sony ACID Pro posted 12-21-2005
Example Web Pages with Embedded Audio-only QuickTime
- Example 1: Embedded Audio as Background Audio -- hidden posted 12-21-2005
- Example 2: Embedded Audio Displays a controller with 3 buttons -- volume, play/pause, and options posted 12-21-2005
Embedded MP3 Audio Using QuickTime to Play posted 12-21-2005
Example Web Pages with Embedded RealAudio posted 12-21-2005
Example Web Pages with Embedded WMA posted 01-20-2006

Chapter 6. Fundamentals of Digital Video
Chapter 7. Digital Video Production and Post-Production
Chapter 8. Interactive Multimedia Authoring

CS Module: expand all | collapse all

Chapter 1. Digital Data Representation and Communication
Chapter 2. Digital Image Representation
Chapter 3. Digital Image Processing
Chapter 4. Digital Audio Representation

Chapter 4. Digital Audio Representation (text) revised 08-16-2005

Audio Aliasing

Interactive posted 10-03-2004
Worksheet posted 10-03-2004
Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 10-07-2004

Decibel (worksheet)

Fourier Transform

Introduction to the Fourier Transform (interactive) posted 08-16-2005
Comparison of DFT and DCT (interactive) posted 08-16-2005
Windowing Functions for the Fourier Transform (interactive) posted 08-16-2005
Introduction to the Fourier transform (worksheet) posted 08-16-2005
Implementing the Fourier transform (programming worksheet) posted 11-04-2005
Comparison of DFT and DCT (worksheet) posted 08-16-2005
FFT and Spectral Leakage (worksheet) posted 08-16-2005
Fourier transform and windowing functions: Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 07-22-2005

RMS Amplitude: Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 07-22-2005

MIDI

Worksheet posted 03-01-2005

Audio Concepts in Practice (worksheet) posted 02-20-2005

Chapter 5. Digital Audio Processing

Chapter 5 Digital Audio Processing (text) posted 08-16-2005

File Size and Data Transfer Rate (worksheet) posted 02-20-2005

Audio Dithering

Interactive posted 02-20-2005
Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 02-20-2005

Noise Shaping

Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 08-16-2005

Non-Linear Companding and mu-Law Encoding

Interactive posted 02-20-2005
Mathematical Modeling (worksheet) posted 02-20-2005
Implementing mu-Law Encoding (programming worksheet) posted 11-04-2005

Audio Processing: Adobe Audition (worksheet) posted 02-20-2005

Chapter 6. Digital Video Representation
Chapter 7. Digital Video Processing
Chapter 8. Multimedia Programming

Art Module: expand all | collapse all

Chapter 1. Art in Digital and Digital in Art
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Digital Imaging in Digital Art
Chapter 3. Creating Digital Images for Digital Art

Chapter 3. Creating Digital Images for Digital Art (text, ~83 MB !!) posted 06-29-2006

Photoshop Basics -- Workspace (Flash, ~860 KB) posted 11-04-2005

Photoshop Basics -- Tool Palette (Flash, ~1.1 MB) posted 11-04-2005

Photoshop Basics -- Selection (worksheet) posted 06-15-2005

Photoshop Basics -- Using Layers

screen-capture movie (Flash, ~1.3 MB) posted 11-04-2005
worksheet posted 06-15-2005

Photoshop -- Defining Custom Brushes (Flash, ~3.5 MB) posted 06-26-2006

Photoshop -- Using Extract Filter (Flash, ~6.9 MB) posted 07-03-2006

Photoshop -- Patterns

Defining a custom pattern and fill a selection with the pattern (QuickTime, ~5 MB)) posted 06-26-2006
Layer blending of the pattern (Flash, ~7 MB) posted 06-26-2006

Light Metering Emulation (interactive)

JPEG Compression Artifact (worksheet exercise) 08-06-2003
Sample image for the worksheet exercise:

sample image (.tif, ~1 MB) posted 08-05-2003

Understanding and Applying Curves For Color Adjustments (interactive tutorial and exercises) posted 08-05-2003

Channel Mixing (worksheet exercise) posted 08-06-2003
Sample image for the worksheet exercise:

sample image (.tif, ~5 MB)
smaller version (.tif, ~1.2 MB) posted 08-06-2003

Making Sense Out of Random Words (project and activity) posted 07-01-2005

Source Image for Example 1: chain scuplture (.PSD, ~4.5 MB) posed 06-26-2006

Source Images for Example 2: lighthouse (.PSD, ~28 MB), earth and moon (.TIF, ~950 KB) posted 06-26-2006

Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Digital Audio in Digital Art
Chapter 5. Creating Digital Audio for Digital Art
Chapter 6. Digital Films
Chapter 7. Digital Video Production and Post-production
Chapter 8. Interactive Art and Design

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0127280. (PI: Yue-Ling Wong; Co-PI: Jennifer Burg)
This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0340969. (PI: Yue-Ling Wong; Co-PI: Jennifer Burg; Assessment Expert: Leah McCoy)
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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