Wednesday 28 October 2009

Cross Media project course



Cross Media project course started on Monday. The course is joint effort of  four different educational institutes from Satakunta: Taik, Pori School of Art and Media, University of Turku, Pori Unit, Satakunta Art and Artesan School from Nakkila and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.

Students from these schools work in teams and study the disciplines of making media for museums, game design, interactive design and media management.

The task is to create for the natural science museum, Arkki, an e-Learning exercise or on-
site production for museum visitors using the assets of Arkki nature house.
The course consist of  a seminar week (week 44) 26.-30.10 and 5 week production period. During the seminar week there will be lectures about information visualisation, media design
in museums, cross media management and concept design. On Tuesday 27th October
the course visited  Heureka Science Museum in Vantaa and learned to play with multimodal interfaces.