Course Announcement: Multimedia in Programs and Exhibitions
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The current explosion in interactive multimedia technologies provides us
with exciting new communication tools-and challenging educational,
financial, and management issues. In this course, you explore the
innovative ways in which both conventional media and such innovations as
CD-ROM, WWW sites, interactive kiosks, virtual reality and hyperlinks to
the Internet, attract, educate, and entertain audiences.
You also take a critical look at their role and effectiveness in
achieving exhibition and programming goals. Topics include:
- impacts and implications of the communications revolution
- evolving audience needs and interests
- innovative multimedia approaches
- reaching new audiences: around town/around the world
- influence of medium on message
- interactivity in the learning process
- balancing authentic and virtual experiences
- design, technical, and management issues
- a look to the future
Instructors: David Vogt, Director of Science for Science World, has
extensive experience in the innovative uses of multimedia in exhibitions
and programming. Recent projects for Science World have included the
Virtual Science Centre and Science, Eh?, an interactive Internet science
magazine. He is a member of the SchoolNet Advisory Board, the Canadian
Educational Network Coalition,  and served as chairperson for the CBC's
Advisory Committee on Science and Technology.

Dates: April 15-24
Please register by: March 18
Fee: $589 Canadian (Credit and Non-credit participation available)
Accommodation: On-campus bed & breakfast accommodation is available for
$60.00/night. Program staff can advise on off-campus alternatives.

For more information, please contact:
Brenda Weatherston
Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
University of Victoria
Box 3030
Victoria BC V8W 3P2
Tel: (604) 721-8462
Fax: (604) 721-8774
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Website: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/crmphome.htm