2024 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Teacher education courses
Multimedia and Representation Techniques
- Academic unit or major
- Teacher education courses
- Instructor(s)
- Masao Murota
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAT.A205
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course deals with several digital media such as text, voice, image, and video, and those processing techniques and expressions technique. Students will learn through lectures and practical training how to organize digital contents to make them "easy to read, easy to see, and to be compelling content".
In these days the opportunity to make presentation using digital media has been growing explosively. Therefore it is very important to understand the characteristics of digital media and to know how to use and organize them.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) have knowledge and skills how to use and organize multimedia such as text, voice, image, and video effectively.
2) create contents which can transmit the information to the people effectively.
Keywords
Multimedia, Media Processing Technology, Interface Design, Content Production
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Three-day intensive course including lectures and practices.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction | Students are required to evaluate document design. |
| Class 2 | Fonts and Typography | Students are required to use fonts appropriately. |
| Class 3 | Sentences and Itemization | Students are required to design documentation materials. |
| Class 4 | Document Design Exercises | Students have mutual evaluation and revise their work. |
| Class 5 | Diagrams, Graphs, and Tables | Students can use multimedia representation technique to design their contents. |
| Class 6 | Layout and Color Schemes | Students are required to design presentation contents. |
| Class 7 | Presentation Design Exercises | Students have mutual evaluation and make summary of this course. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
・Yuma Takahashi et al (2021), Basic design Rule, Gijutsuhyoronsha (in Japanese)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
・Shinji Sakamoto (2015) "Introductory Classroom of Design" (in Japanese)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Midterm report (50%), Final report (50%)
Related courses
- LAS.I111 ： Information Literacy I
Prerequisites
Not specified.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
murota[at]ila.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Please make a reservation by e-mail in advance.
Other
Class schedule will be announced on the teacher education Web page.
https://www.te.ila.titech.ac.jp/