Let your Blog be a study platform

I really enjoy visiting your Blog these days. Most people have personalized their blogs and added some writing on the first page. I even got a few comments from you. Of course, I added some to a few well-designed Blog pages too. Also, I found most of you wrote English posts, not simply a few Chinese charaters, which won't help improving your English.
As we know, this is a Bilingual instruction course. Using English as much as we could is a requirement. I wish you make your Blogs a study platform for learning Music, Technology and English, not a chatting board or BBS for killing your time.
If you could check this Blog, a page that done by faculty and students at New York University, you will know how rich of it and how well they use the online resource. The link is http://webmusicing.blogspot.com/

A Music Page

This is a test page for background music.
Listen!
Did you hear the music?


Good! Get it.

Important Announcement

Dear IMMT Class:

We are going to learn “Web Music Tech” this Thursday night. In order to hear your online music, please bring your own headphone. Besides, I’m still waiting for few of your Blog address. Please send me the link if you have finished your assignment, so that I can add it to our class page. The due day is Wednesday.

David Lai

Reminder

How do you write an email? It seems a stupid question. However, I did get a few pieces of silly message from you. I could recognize neither the writer nor the subject.
This is only a reminder for you. You have to make your message clear for your reader. Please write YOUR NAME and a topic sentence at the SUBJECT wondow. After finish writing your email, please type YOUR NAME again, better with your contact information, so the reader will know who you are and what you are talking about. Alternatively, you can set a signature for your email. This is a common rule for writing email.

Reference

1、 Mack, Steve. Streaming Media Bible. New York: Hungry Minds Inc., 2002.
2、 Web Monkey http://www.webmonkey.com/
3、 Stauffer, Todd. HTML 3.2. 2nd Ed. Indianapolis: QUE, 1996.
4、 Web Audio Basic http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_web_audio_basics/index.html
5、 Music for New Media http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_music_new_media/index.html
6、 Flash Kit http://www.flashkit.com/index.shtml
7、 Sound Object Tutorial http://kennybellew.cowfly.com/tutorial/
8、 QuickTime7 User’s Guide. Includes instructions for using QuickTime Pro for Mac OS X Version 10.39 and later, Windows XP and windows 2000. Apple Computer, Inc. 2005.

Course Syllabus

SYLLABUS

Course Title: Introducing Multimedia Music Technologies
Course Number:0107012336-1
Meeting Time: Thu. 6:30pm-9:10pm
Classroom: XinJi Computer Lab, Room 217
Semester: Fall, 2006
Instructor: Dafu Lai
Contact Information: 010-8011 6429 (Office)　didalai@yahoo.com.cn
Personal Website: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dl1049
Office Hour: By appointment

Course Objectives: It is the purpose of this course to provide students with an introduction to latest computer music technology, including computer music notation, digital music recording and editing software, Web music setting, Gif Animation and Flash music making. This course will also cover the relative audio, video technology, the basic concept of multimedia technology, a brief introduction to HTML, Web Blog and the current trends of music technology. After learning this course, students should get a big picture of multimedia music technology and be familiar with at least one music software program and post a final project on the Internet (Personal Website or Web Blog).

Course Requirement:
Attendance: 100% attendance is required to all students. One absence causes one level lower than the student’s final grade; Three absence results a fail in final.
Assignment: All students’ assignment should be post on their own Web-Blog 24 hours before class. The teacher will give comments by email or posting them to each student’s Web-Blog. Late assignment results lower grade; Missing three weeks’ assignment results a fail in final.
Students are suggested to backup all required assignment files and reference materials.
Hardware Equipment: Laptop of Desktop computer with the Internet access (Wireless, Broadband or DSL).
Software Program: WinXP or Macintosh operation system, (Choose two or more　from the following) Audacity, WaveCN, Macromedia Flash, Gif Animation, iMovie, QuickTime Pro 7, Overture, Encore, Finale, Sibelius, Master Composer, or other music notation programs.

Evaluation Policy: No exam will be required in this course. Students’ final scores are given according to their attendance (10%), assignment (30%), class performance (20%), final project and final presentation (40%).

Course Introduction

课程名称：《多媒体音乐技术初步》
授课教师：赖达富
单位：人文及社会科学部　艺术教研室
课程代码：0107012336-1
课程性质：选修

It is the purpose of this course to provide students with an introduction to latest computer music technology, including computer music notation, digital music recording and editing software, Web music setting and making Flash music player. This course will also cover the relative audio, video technology, the basic concept of multimedia technology, a brief introduction to HTML, Web-Blog and the current trends of music technology. After learning this course, students should get a big picture of multimedia music technology and be familiar with at least one music software program and post a final project on the Internet (Personal Website or Web-Blog).

本课程目的在于向学生介绍新近的电脑音乐技术，包括电脑音乐记谱法、数字录音编辑软件、音乐网页制作、Flash音乐播放器的制作。本课程还将涉及相关的多媒体技术音像技术多及基础知识、HTML语言简介、博客网页编辑技巧和现代音乐技术趋势。通过该课程学习，学生能对多媒体音乐技术具有初步了解，熟悉至少一种音乐软件并将期末设计作业上传到个人网站或博客主页。