ELAR Multimedia Workshop: multimedia development for endangered languages

David Nathan and Robert Munro

25 April - 6 May 2005

Participants of this workshop will conceive, plan, develop and present an original interactive multimedia product utilising the collected materials of an endangered language. Participants will learn about basic concepts in multimedia, interfaces, and interactivity, and appreciate the interdisciplinary and multiskilled nature of multimedia development.

Notice: this workshop is provided for the ELAP MA linguistics program (our previous workshop "Multimedia development and language documentation" had open attendance).

Assessment and Lectures

• Schedule and Assessment

• Introduction
• Multimedia Genres
• Objectives
• User Needs (0.3 MB)
• Content Requirements (assets)
• Information Architecture (2.7 MB)
• Information and Navigation Design
• Visual Design (0.5 MB)
• Multimedia and Endangered Languages
• Multimedia development platforms

Other resources

• Survey and evaluation of multimedia productions
• User Experience diagram
• Summary of development platforms

• Nigel Chapman abd Jenny Chapman. 2004 Digital Multimedia. 2nd ed. Chapter 1.
• Andrew Bonime and Ken C. Pohlmann. 1997 Writing for New Media: The essential guide to writing for interactive media, CD-ROMs and the Web. Chapters 11 and 13.

Useful links

(all last checked on 27/04/2005)

• Interaction Design
• Interaction Design II
• User needs
• User Experience: list of texts and online resources
• Graphic Design
• Introduction to Macromedia Director
• Introduction to HTML