Supplies students should provide:

1. Students are expected to maintain current backups of their files. Students can use CD-R or DVD-R media.

2. Students may need a digital camera for field assignments. SmartMedia and CompactFlash are the supported formats. And students may also need a camcorder for field work. MiniDV, VHS, and SVHS tapes are supported.

3. A pad of grid paper may be useful for sketching, taking notes, etc.

4. Students should also upgrade their home PC's with multimedia plug-ins for their web browser:

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
(download Acrobat Reader, the Flash player and the Shockwave player)

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
(download QuickTime player, QuickTime Pro recommended)

Stony Brook Multimedia Links:

Many of the SINC site labs maintained by Instructional Computing run the same software as the CS Multimedia lab:
http://moya.ic.sunysb.edu/Sinc/

Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Multimedia Group:
http://www.celt.sunysb.edu/celtweb/

Emedia Arts:
http://emedia.art.sunysb.edu/emedia/

Applications training:

334 course work requires the use of many software applications. Independently acquiring skill in the use of these tools is the student's responsibility. The following resources are available in the CS department:

Additionally, there are free-of-charge internet training resources:

Adobe Design Center:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/

Photoshop:
http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

Flash:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials

Carrara:
http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/tutorial/

http://www.markbremmer.com/pages/TutMain.html

iPhoto:
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/

Garage Band:
http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/hottips/

iMovie:
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/

QuickTime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/

To further supplement their training students may choose to consider:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp
Lynda.com is a provider of multimedia applications traning CD's.
For $25 users can view all of the training archives on-line for one month.

http://www.vtc.com/
Video Training Courses (VTC) offers lower-cost training CD's.

http://www.macacademy.com/indexmac.html
MacAcademy is the oldest provider of software training CD's.

The following links are provided to facilitate independent research by students:

PBS Frontline documentary, "The Persuaders":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

New York Times Technology Section
http://tech.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

Multimedia and Authoring Resources on the Internet
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/media/resources/multimedia.html

Communication Arts magazine on-line
http://www.commarts.com/CA/

Advertising Age magazine on-line
http://www.adage.com/

CLICKZ - a new media marketing newsletter
http://www.clickz.com/

HotWired (Wired magazine on-line)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/

Webmonkey - web developer site
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Graphic Artist's Guild
http://www.gag.org/

World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/

The MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/

ACM SIGGRAPH: HyperGraph home page
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/toc.htm

ACM MMSIG: Multimedia Special Interest Group
http://www.acm.org/sigmm/

ACM SIGCHI: Interactions journal on-line
http://www.acm.org/interactions/

Links to exemplary multimedia production studios:

PIXAR: The 3D animation company that created Toy Story (and many other feature-length movies, such as Bug's Life and Monsters Inc.), and the venerable rendering software, Renderman
http://www.pixar.com/

Rythm & Hues: Digital media production studio
http://www.rhythm.com/

Voyager: Documentary CD ROM producer
http://voyager.learntech.com/cdrom/

Industrial Light and Magic (LucasArts): The special-effects team behind Star Wars and many other movies
http://www.ILM.com/

Flipside Studios: QuickTimeVR and digital photography
http://www.flipsidestudios.com/

Recommended supplemental reading:

Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
ISBN 0961392118
October 1990
Graphics Press

The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether on the printed page or the computer screen.

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan (Author), Lewis H. Lapham
ISBN 0262631598
MIT Press

Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as Wired, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab.