Independent Learning Exercises.

For this first week restrict yourself to exploring some of the tools available in the labs. For the development exercise and assignment in this module you will need only a basic knowledge of Dreamweaver, a slight acquaintance with Flash, and an ability to manipulate digital images in Photoshop. Both Dreamweaver and Flash come with tutorial files and extensive help, so take a brief look around these tutorials and try to create some sort of working product in them - however small. You will probably find that you can pick up many aspects of Dreamweaver intuitively - just treat it like a word processor. Flash is more difficult, but if you could produce a simple animation of a moving shape, then you would be doing well.

Get used to exploring tools without any formal instruction. Develop the confidence that you could pick up any package, given a reasonable chance. Multimedia tools change very quickly, so it is important to develop a self-teaching mentality to keep up to speed.

The books mentioned in the 'green zone' will certainly help.