Digital Media Lectures (Image & Video)

All, here are the digital media lectures I mentioned on Thursday. This content will be included in the Mid-Term!

Digital Image Formats (40 min)
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu:80/ess/echo/presentation/e012a289-4d0e-4f1e-8d87-42082fd5d100

Digital Video (1 hr 11 min)
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/6d07b3aa-fc08-4373-b92d-d5bda2640336


Digital Media Advertisement Project
Due on Thursday, March 5 (pushed back a class)

Mid-Term
Thursday, March 5
* I will review the mid-term content on Tuesday and I will post an echo to help you

Tutorials for Digital Media Project

All here are the links to some short tutorials I created that will help you with your next project. If you need more help, stop in to my office.

Photoshop
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/49638d5d-872d-4678-873b-8bf6f91d3d54

iMovie
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/6e80cc8d-a3ab-4692-923d-e7db917ab6ad

Windows Movie Maker-Vista
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/4cc008d1-76f3-4178-9b81-28602761bc19

PowerPoint 2007
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/a38b5414-0eab-43dc-8123-fb44e5e820b3

Digital Media Hands On (in class)
http://echo.whitman.syr.edu/ess/echo/presentation/85c5b432-8c16-4845-8c93-c92ad5ba6ad4

Analog vs. Digital

Before we learn about digital media, we need to understand analog.

Can you tell me the difference between analog and digital?

Week 6 - Topics and Readings

This week we concluded the Computing section. Can I get an amen? Not my favorite part of the course, but I will never deny the power of the personal computer and their purpose. On Tuesday we looked at hot topics like virtualization, thin computing, and cloud computing. Also, we finished up with some US and International sales info for the industry. Simply said Acer improved, Dell hasn't been impressive, Lenovo is down, HP is respectable and Apple only made the US list. Oh yeah, Virtualization, Mobile Computing and Cloud Computing are hot topics and very relevant. The benefits are pretty obvious depending on the situation.

Thursday we will dive in head first into Digital Media. We will meet in WSOM 009 and "kick the tires." My plan is to attack Photoshop, Flash, iMovie, Windows Movie Maker and Powerpoint, this class will help you as you work on your second project. You are required to create a digital media advertisment (see syllabus). Next week we'll get into the details and power of digital media, drivers, formats, definitions and issues.

Oh yeah, three more things:

1. We'll keep cranking on the individual project presentations. I'm hoping you are seeing the pattern.

2. Twitter is silly, see here. Why are people following my useless comments?

3. Quiz and Project grades should be posted on Blackboard by Tuesday.

Download Reading Assignments Here

1999 vs 2009

Which is the most significant technology development over the past ten years? and Why? Please give examples.

a. Computing (Size, Speed and Power)
b. Broadband Internet (Wired and Wireless)
c. Digital Media Explosion (Audio/Video Formats, Tools and Services)
d. Other... (please explain your custom answer)

Welcome to the Entrepreneurship and Digital Commerce Blog

Welcome to the eee439 blog. We will utilize this blog to share information and thoughts as we progress through Entrepreneurship and Digital Commerce Spring 2009 semester. I encourage you to use this site as a tool as it will be pulling current technology and business news 24/7. Also, I encourage you to participate in this blog, comments will be part of your participation grade. So what is this course about?

Overall, eee439 will focus on the current revolution in technology that is transforming significant segments of our economy and our society. The Internet, the World Wide Web, fiber optics, Internet telephony, MP3 compression, digital interactive television, wireless communications, streaming media and a host of other digital technologies are creating many opportunities to establish viable, sustainable new ventures. But as the rise and fall of the dot.com phenomenon has demonstrated there are some huge potholes in the road to entrepreneurial success. This course will help you gain the knowledge and develop the insights and vision required for successful digital commerce ventures.

Digital commerce comprises a wide range of commercial activities that are based on new digital technologies that overcome barriers of distance, time, and resource. Successful new ventures include innovative new products and services; new businesses that utilize the Internet as a global platform for buying and selling conventional products and services; and technology products that enable significant gains in efficiency and productivity or improvements in business processes.

Successful entrepreneurs wishing to pursue digital commerce ventures must understand the technological underpinnings and the non-technological factors that will continue to shape entrepreneurial opportunities and viable business concepts. This course will ensure that you gain this crucial understanding. The course will also help you understand how new technologies impact the process of entrepreneurship, and it will help you to identify entrepreneurial opportunities and business concepts suitable for further development in the Capstone course (EEE 457).

Here we go...