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Authors:

 Farra, Ricardo dal.

Title:

 Multimedia Communication.

Keywords:

 education, multimedia.

Abstract:

 A national program on "Multimedia Communication" for high schools have been developed by a small group of multimedia producers, engineers, artists and pedagogues working at the National Institute of Technology Education of Argentina. This program starts on public schools in 1999.

A national program on multimedia needs to solve several problems in our country to function properly, being faculty training on new areas of knowledge and work, and provision of the equipments required, just some of them. It should also be considered the social situation of a very large country where almost half of the population is concentrated on the capital city (Buenos Aires), with a wide range of multimedia companies based there but only small groups working on this field on the rest of the geography. So related areas to multimedia should be taken into account by the project's structure, after analyzing the employment opportunities in different regions.

The modular educational structure is built with 20 modules. These modules are organized in areas: Script, Images, Sound and Music, Multimedia, Management, Technologies, Communication and Language, that groups them.

While other national programs being developed now at the same institution for the tranformation of high school education in Argentina are mainly technically oriented, this program joins art and sciences concepts with direct experiences on new technologies.

A module or groups of modules looks for specific competences related to the professional world. Some of these modules serve as analytical introductions with artistic elements to the visual and the sound/music world (Visual Morphology, Sound Morphology), while others (Science and Technology Elements, Communication) put the basis to understand many processes involved on further steps. Script, Desktop Publishing, Image Synthesis and Animation, AudioVisual Realization, Sound Technology, Production, Equipment Maintenance, Closed Multimedia Systems, Open Multimedia Systems, and Management and Marketing focuses on specific competences related to the working field. An Integration Project as well as Training on Work Centers looks both for coordination and integration of team efforts as well as for complex experiencies useful on the real world.
Farra, Ricardo Dal. dalfarra@clacso.edu.ar dalfarra@inet.edu.ar National Institute of TechnologyEducation(INET) National Ministry of Culture and Education Buenos Aires - Argentina http://music.dartmouth.edu/~ricardo/index.html Director "Musical Production" speciality at ORT Technical School. Coordinator of "Multimedia Communication" national program at INET - National Ministry of Culture and Education. Professor at National Conservatory of Music and Municipal Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires. Professor of "Multimedia" at IMD. Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio. He is active as a live electronic music performer and multimedia artist. His electroacoustic/computer music compositions have been presented in: Hong-Kong (World Music Days 1988; International Computer Music Conference 1996), Estonia (NYYD 92), France (XVII and XX Festival International de Musique Expérimentale), Italy (VII, VIII and IX Colloquio di Informatica Musicale), Brazil (XX Bienal Internacional de Artes de São Paulo), U.S.A. (International Computer Music Conference 1989; Sonidos de las Americas 1998), Poland (Polish Radio and TV), Sweden (Stockholmsfestivalen För ElektroAkustisk Musik 1989), Australia ("Beyond 2000" television series), Spain (Jornadas de Informática y Electrónica Musical 1996), Hungary (Magyar Radio), Cuba (III and IV Encuentro Internacional de Música Electroacústica), Turkey (Radio-TV Turkish Corp.), Rumania (Radio Bucarest), The Netherlands (International Audio Visueel Experimenteel Festival, 1991 and 1995), Greece (Symposium on Music and Computers 1998), among other countries. Ricardo Dal Farra is director of radio series devoted to electronic arts since 1988 on the Municipal Radio of Buenos Aires and National Radio of Argentina. International Co-Editor of Leonardo Music Journal since 1995 and member of the board of Advisory Editors of the Journal of New Music Research since 1988. Argentina's representative at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music of UNESCO.