Open Online Short Courses
Students and faculty can enhance their online skills by taking one of the many short courses available in the e-Lab.
Communication Studies
Comic Book Software for Digital Storytelling
Comics are the fastest growing art form, and they are becoming an influential medium in every form, from novels to films to smart phone apps. This short course will show you how to use Comic Life Software to create digital comics with your own photographs or remixed image.
Interested in digital storytelling? You may want to register for MAIS 620: Digital Storytelling.
Editing Digital Images Workshop: From 0 to 60
This short course will give you an introduction into how to edit images using the free online software, Photobucket.
Interested in storytelling through digital images? You may want to register for MAIS 620: Digital Storytelling.
What is Digital Storytelling and How to Get Started
This short course is designed to introduce you to what digital storytelling is, what makes a good digital story, and how to produce your own digital stories. The short course links you to some of the best websites that are dedicated to digital storytelling as well as to websites for the technologies you may want to use.
Interested in digital storytelling? You may want to register for MAIS 620: Digital Storytelling.
Beginning to “DH”: A very introductory workshop on using introductory digital humanities tools
This short course will take you through three tools - Wordle, Voyant, and Zotero - which will allow you to get a taste of some of the fundamental concepts behind digital humanities.
Interested in digital humanities? You may want to register for MAIS 623: Introduction to Trends in New Media.
What is Digital Storytelling and How to Get Started
In this, the first of two short introductory courses, you will learn how to begin to build a webpage using Hypertext Markup Language, specifically HTML5. In the second tutorial, we will be applying the design elements to the page using a Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS3.
Interested in new media? You may want to register for MAIS 623: Introduction to Trends in New Media.
