Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria
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Registration is underway and a draft course outline is now available for
our upcoming course, "Multimedia in Programs and Exhibitions", April
15-24, 1996.

COURSE OUTLINE SUMMARY
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MONDAY, APRIL 15
- Introductions: Course and Instructor
- "Content" in the Multimedia Age
- Student Project Design Lab
- Describing Product & Audience

TUESDAY, APRIL 16
- Victoria Field Trip & the Royal British Columbia Museum
- Student Project Design Lab
- Beyond Interactivity - New Learning Paradigms

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
- Understanding the Information Superhighway
- Tools and Technologies Analysis: I
- Student Project Design Lab
- Tools and Technologies Analysis: II

THURSDAY, APRIL 18
- Project Development Workshop
- Guest Speaker - Rage Productions
- Student Project Design Lab
- Partnerships: The Cooperative Imperative

FRIDAY, APRIL 19
- Vancouver Field Trip - Multimedia Producers

MONDAY, APRIL 22
- Funding Strategies - Introduction
- Guest Speaker - Morgan Media
- Student Project Design Lab
- Grant, Sponsorship & Endorsement Opportunities

TUESDAY, APRIL 23
- Business Strategies - Introduction
- Guest Speaker - MultiActive Technologies
- Student Project Design Lab
- Building a Multimedia Business Plan

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24
- Product Maintenance and Evolution
- Student Project Presentations
- Course Conclusion

Preface from David Vogt, Instructor:
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Every cultural organization needs a hypercurrent technology vision to
avoid becoming road kill on the information highway. The Internet,
multimedia, high-bandwidth services, virtual reality and other
cybertools can make or break your future - whether you use them or not.
If you choose to stay off the highway, you still need to know where all
the traffic is going. And if you're on, you have to move fast even if
you choose the slow lanes! This course is about building a vision and
keeping it fresh. Appropriate application and integration of new
communications technologies into exhibitions and programs begins easily
with the wisdom you already have.

The course will include discussions of:
- understanding content and audience in the information age
- critical analysis of the new multimedia tools
- what works and doesn't work in multimedia applications
- taking culture and education well beyond 'interactive'
- integrating advanced media with conventional media
- management, staffing and internal development issues
- the project design process
- innovative approaches to funding and revenue generation
- strategic partnerships and alliances
- predicting the future

This course is designed for cultural resource managers with wisdom and
the need for a vision. On-line or multimedia experience would be useful
but certainly not necessary. Course components will be delivered in an
interactive group format with case studies, site visits and simulated
project design sessions. Participants are encouraged to bring ideas,
questions, problems, projects and products related to their own
organizations. There will be a particular focus on programs and
exhibitions involving the Internet, live videoconferencing, and
high-bandwidth connectivity, but stand-alone and unconnected multimedia
products, vitual reality applications, and large-scale simulations will
also be considered.

Instructor: 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