1. Intangibles
1.1. Creativity
1.2. Organization
1.3. Communication
2. Authoring Systems
2.1. Types of authoring tools
2.1.1. Card & page based
2.1.2. Icon & object based
2.1.3. Time based
2.2. Objects
2.3. Choosing an authoring tool
2.3.1. Editing & Organizing features
2.3.2. Programming features
2.3.3. Interactivity features
2.3.4. Performance tuning & playback features
2.3.5. Delivery, cross platform, Internet playability features
3. Multimedia Development Process
3.1. 4 Basic Stages:
3.1.1. Planing & Costing
3.1.1.1. Objective & Scope
3.1.1.2. Target Users
3.1.1.3. Set the Contents
3.1.1.4. Time estimate & Budget
3.1.1.5. Short prototype/ proof-of-concept
3.1.2. Designing & Producing
3.1.3. Testing
3.1.3.1. Alpha Testing - review the concept, format, user interface & layout
3.1.3.2. Beta Testing - find bugs / content errors
3.1.4. Delivering
4. Software
4.1. Text editing & word processing tools
4.2. OCR software
4.3. Painting & Drawing Software
4.4. 3D modeling tools
4.5. Image & Sound editing tools
4.6. Animation,video,digital movie tools
5. Multimedia Skills
5.1. Project Manager
5.2. Multimedia Designer
5.3. Interface Designer
5.4. Writer
5.5. Audio/Video Specialist
5.6. Multimedia Programmer
6. Hardware
6.1. Production Platforms
6.2. Windows vs Macintosh
6.3. Connections
6.3.1. IDE
6.3.1.1. standard interface for connect motherboard
6.3.2. USB (Universal Serial Bus)
6.3.2.1. plug-and-play interface
6.3.3. FireWire
6.3.3.1. single plug-and-socket
6.4. Memory & Storage devices
6.4.1. RAM
6.4.2. ROM
6.4.3. Hard disks
6.4.4. Flash / Thumb drives
6.4.5. CD-ROM
6.4.6. DVD
6.4.7. Blu-ray discs
6.5. Input devices
6.5.1. Microphones
6.5.2. Digital cameras
6.6. Output devices
6.6.1. Stereo
6.6.2. Monitor
6.6.3. Projector