Fall 2009
| September | Projects | Exercises | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 1 W 9/9 |
Introduce class | Technical, Mechanical, Strategic, Critical |
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| F 9/11 | Obtain a USB drive (a.k.a "flash" or "thumb" drive). Create the suggested set of folders on your drive. Read McFarland pages 19-38 |
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| WEEK 2 M 9/14 |
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Complete the Dreamweaver Test Drive tutorial in McFarland, pages 38-63. |
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| F 9/18 | Read Chapters 2, 3 and 5 of McFarland, and complete the tutorial in Chapter 5 "Links" |
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| WEEK 3 M 9/21 |
Liquid vs. Jello Page Design | Read McFarland's Chapter 4, "Introducing Cascading Style Sheets" and complete the Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial at the end. | ||
| W 9/23 | Beginning Banner Techniques | Read McFarland's Chapter 6, "Images," and complete the tutorial. |
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| F 9/25 | Intermediate Banner Techniques | Read McFarland's Chapter 7 "Tables" and Chapter 8 "Advanced CSS" and complete the "Tables Tutorial" starting on page 270 | ||
| WEEK 4 M 9/28 |
Intermediate Banner Techniques continued | Read McFarland, Chapter 9 "Page Layout." and comlete the tutorial "CSS Page Design" | ||
| W 9/30 | Introduce the Projects: Personal Course Home Page, Glocalization Project, and the Client Project. | In Nielsen and Tahir's Homepage Usability, read "Preface:" (1), "Homepage Guidelines" (7-35) |
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| October | Projects | Exercises | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| F 10/2 |
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Begin to collect imformation, take pictures, and make contacts necessary for the projects we'll complete this semester. |
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| WEEK 5 M 10/5 |
Note that the PCHP Project is due a week from tomorrow. |
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In Nielsen and Tahir's Homepage Usability, read Homepage Design Statistics" (37-53) and "Introduction to the Home Pages" (55), and commentarites on the homepages through BBC Online (87) Bring in all materials you've collected for the Personal Course Home Page Project |
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| W 10/7 | Bring your Nielsen/Tahir book and a PCHP "palette" page containing materials for your PCHP project. |
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| F 10/9 | Studio Session for PCHP | Bring in materials to work on your PCHP and your McFarland book |
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| WEEK 6 M 10/12 |
Studio Session for PCHP |
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Bring in materials to work on your PCHP and your McFarland book
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| T 10/13 | Personal Course Home Page Project due by noon |
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| W 10/14 | Glocalization Project |
Tiling Backgrounds | ||
| F 10/16 | Complete Tiling Backgrounds | Complete Glocalization Brainstorming Bring in Glocalization Topic/Angle to turn in Three principles of Web design abstracted from the critiques of homepages on pages 56-86 of Nielsen/Tahir (3 examples each) |
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| WEEK 7 M 10/19 |
McFarland's Chapter 12: Templates and Templates Tutorial Compile material for your Glocalization Projects: take pictures, collect images, find information, writing copy, etc. |
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| W 10/21 | Complete the Poynter.org color tutorial "Color, Contrast, and Dimension "Make a "screen shot" of at least three examples from this tutorial to discuss for what they suggest about using color for Web pages. Revise your topic and angle for the Glocalization Project Bring your Nielsen/Tahir book |
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| F 10/23 | Creating a Model Color Scheme Page. | Create a page for your screen shots from the Poynter Color tutorial. Bring your Nielsen/Tahir book |
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| WEEK 8 M 10/26 |
Creating a Model Color Scheme Page. | Complete the exercise Creating a Model Color Scheme Page. Bring your Nielsen/Tahir book |
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| W 10/28 | Graphic Headings |
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| F 10/30 | Grapnic Headings |
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| November | Projects | Exercises | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 9 M 11/2 |
Studio Day |
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| T 11/3 | Glocalization Project due |
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| W 11/4 | Collect Commentires. Introduce Exam format Reintroduce the Client Project |
Forms |
Commentary on Glocalization due.
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| F 11/6 | Complete forms exercise | The Long Tail and Everything is Miscellaneous
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| WEEK 10 M 11/9 |
Anderson's Long Tail and Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous
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Read Cult of the Amateur |
98% Rule replaces 80/20 rule, atoms vs. bits; hierarchies; first- second- and third-order order; crowdsourcing; Believing and Doubting Games. |
| W 11/11 | Keen |
8 | Free by Chris Anderson, "Prologue," and "Chapter 1: The Birth of Free" | nurturing talent, unintended consequences,
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| F 11/13 | No class meeting |
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| WEEK 11 M 11/16 |
Free, Web 3.0 | 6 | From the Trend book read Sherry Turkle's "Who Am We?" 236-
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relationships of free and pay, free as new economic model rather than just marketing tool. Semantic Web, |
| W 11/18 | Turkle and Haraway | 5 | From the Trend book read Haraway 28-
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identity, postmodern identity, cyborg, cyborg politics, |
| F 11/20 | Haraway, Heim | 4 | From the Trend book read Heim (70)
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dystopia, cultural work, displacement, |
| WEEK 12 M 11/23 |
Thanksgiving Week | |||
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| WEEK 13 M 11/30 |
Heim | 3 | From the Trend book read Pierre Levy (253) | ontology, eros (erotic), idealism, monads, monadology, |
| December | Projects | Exercises | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| W 12/2 | Levy | 2 | Brenda Laurel's Computers as Theatre (Trend 109) and Timothy Allan Jackson's "Towards a New Media Aesthetic" (Trend 347) | anthropological space, earth (space) ,territorial Space, commodity space, knowledge space, subjectivity vs. indentity, collective intelligence |
| F 12/4 | Jackson and Laurel
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1 | aesthetics, representation, digital time, picnolepsia, ruptures in ideology, new media as "ecological" force. | |
| WEEK 14 M 12/7 |
Studio session(Client Project) | |||
| T 12/8 | Client Project BETA due by noon. |
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| W 12/9 | workshop | Prepare for workshop today | ||
| F 12/11 | workshop Receive take-home essay for Friday (90 minutes) |
Prepare for workshop today | ||
| WEEK 15 M 12/14 |
workshop
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Prepare for workshop today | ||
| W 12/16 | Last day of classes, exam preparation | Turn-in take-home essay | ||
| FINAL: Monday, 12/21 | 1. In-class exam, Monday, December 21, 4 p.m. in KPlz 312 2. Post the Final Client Project and send an email (detailing changes since the workshop) by the scheduled final exam time |