Workshop: Digital Humanities and Web Design
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The Digital Humanities and Web Design workshop is the complement to the multimedia publishing course and is particularly recommended for those who want to graduate from the discipline. The training objectives are as follows: to provide the student with an in-depth knowledge of the professional tools useful to operate today in the field of multimedia publishing, with a special attention to web design and the creation of digital multimedia ebooks and magazines (tools all open source and/or usable for free); put into practice, with useful vertical insights, the main theories related to digital publications and the wider sector of Digital Humanities.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the workshop the student will have to have an adequate measure of Knowledge and Skills and will be able to use some working tools:
Knowledge: Digital Storytelling, HTML5 and CSS Encoding Fundamentals; Languages for commercial publishing: Epub3. Web Design Fundamentals: Usability, Information Architecture, Responsive Web Design.
Skills: Designing and building static and dynamic websites, designing eBooks and multimedia magazines.
Tools: Web Design: WordPress; EBook: PubCoder, ViewPorter, or IbooksAuthor2; Digital Storytelling: Shorthand.
Knowledge: Digital Storytelling, HTML5 and CSS Encoding Fundamentals; Languages for commercial publishing: Epub3. Web Design Fundamentals: Usability, Information Architecture, Responsive Web Design.
Skills: Designing and building static and dynamic websites, designing eBooks and multimedia magazines.
Tools: Web Design: WordPress; EBook: PubCoder, ViewPorter, or IbooksAuthor2; Digital Storytelling: Shorthand.
Lesson period: Second semester
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The objective of the Workshop is to provide multimedia publishing skills, with particular reference to the design and implementation of static and dynamic websites, ebook design. Contents: Digital Storytelling, editing and graphics. Markup languages: HTML5 and CSS; Designing interactive enhanced ebooks with EPUB3. Web Design: usability, navigation, Responsive Web Design. The following tools will be used: Web Design: WordPress. EBook: Adobe Indesign, PubCoder, UXPin. Digital Storytelling: Shorthand.
Prerequisites for admission
Digital Humanities and Web Design is complementary to the course 'Editoria Multimediale' and is strongly recommended for those students who want to graduate in the discipline.
Teaching methods
Each lesson consists of a presentation of case studies, best practices and tools, followed by a workshop session with an individual or collective practical activity. Attendance to the lessons is mandatory (it is possible to skip one lesson out of ten).
Teaching Resources
None
Assessment methods and Criteria
The assessement consists in designing and presenting a digital publishing project: an ebook, OR a website OR a multimedia longform. Grades are not to be assigned.
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