Technical Talks

Short presentations on technical multimedia-writing related topics will be presented to the class during our web development project, podcasting project, and creative or professional projects. Each talk should run about 20 minutes and include both the presentation of some concept (5-10 minutes); a hands-on activity for the class to do (5-10 minutes) and a list of resources for more information or a handout on the topic (dependent on the topic of the talk).

Each group must propose their topic to the instructor prior to the date their talk is due in a memo format (1 page or less). In the memo, include the following:

1) A paragraph that describes your topic and articulates why it would be of interest and relevance to this class
2) Resources that you are getting your information from (your own personal experience/knowledge can be listed as a resource)
3) What you plan on doing for the hands on class activity
4) What each group member’s role is in the talk.

Examples of talks include (but are not limited to):
• Podcasting publishing options
• Cool new writing technology on the WWW (like google docs)
• RSS feeds
• Integrating PHP to create a dynamic navigation
• SQL basics
• Using Alt-Text and other accessibility options
• CSS tricks and tips, etc.
• Cool open source software
• Copyrighting through creative commons

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