Schedule Fall 2010 |
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| September |
Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 1 W 9/8 |
Introduce class Introduce first project, the Autobiographical Index Page Experiment |
index, indexical | |
| F 9/10 | Help Session on Test Drive 38-63 Organizing Folders "Remember Earth Clearly" (handout) |
Read the beginning of McFarland's Chapter 1"Dreamweaver CS3 Guided Tour," pages 19-38. Mark passages and details you don't understand and would like to discuss. | "memories of earth," autobiographical inventory |
| WEEK 2 M 9/13 |
McFarland Help Session Setting up a "www" site (including "remote info") (McFarland pg 609) Exporting your "www" Site Info onto your USB ("www.ste" file) Posting your work to the web and sending the URL to a forum |
Complete McFarland's Chapter 1: Dreamweaver Test Drive tutorial, pages 38-63. | |
| W 9/15 | Importing site information McFarland Help Session Posting the Chapter04 folder to the Web Review criteria for AIPE Project |
Read Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of McFarland, and complete the tutorial in Chapter 4 "Introducing Cascading Style Sheets" |
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| F 9/17 | Help Session McFarland C6 Discuss themes on home pages |
Read McFarland's Chapter 5 and complete the Links Tutorial at the end |
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| WEEK 3 M 9/20 |
Help Session McFarland C6 | Read McFarland's Chapter 6, "Images," and complete the tutorial. | |
| W 9/22 | Exercise: Beginning Banner Techniques (Photoshop) | Read McFarland's Chapter 7 "Tables" and Chapter 8 "Advanced CSS" and complete the "Tables Tutorial" starting on page 270 |
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| F 9/24 | Help Session McFarland C9 Exercise: Intermediate Banner Techniques (Photoshop) Installing Fonts |
Read McFarland, Chapter 9 "Page Layout." and comlete the tutorial "CSS Page Design" | |
| WEEK 4 M 9/27 |
Bring in two or three pieces of content representing two or three themes to use on your AIPE Project: images, news items, an image showing your color scheme, a font, a list, a survey, etc. Web Developer Add-on for Firefox What the font? site |
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| W 9/29 | Sample AIPE characters: from five pieces to a scheme. |
Bring in 1. four or five pieces of content--images, chunks of words, lists, fonts represented in a .gif or .jpg, color swatch .gif (see example at right)--all inserted in a simple, visual list (a verticle stack of items) on a blank HTML page and posted to the web. 2. a formal, correctly written, thoughtful paragraph explaining how these pieces of content will work together to suggest two or three themes that are drawn from your Autobiographical Index. |
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| October |
Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| F 10/1 |
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| WEEK 5 M 10/4 |
Discuss AIPE character design schemes (paste from Wiki) Discuss Prospectuses Discuss Photoshop 1 exercise Using code view (non-functioning .css or images). Visual hierarchy and screen real estate |
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| W 10/6 | Visual hierarchy and screen real estate Tracing Images in DW Cultural Codes (people, places) |
Dream and Nightmare Page Model Personal Pages |
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| F 10/8 | The Consequence of Page Layout Tracing Images completed, More on Visual Hierarchy and Screen Real Estate |
Dummy Layout Page for your AIPE Project. Photoshop 1 trials |
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| WEEK 6 M 10/11 |
Studio Session for AIPE Reading Guide for Mazrich (Part 1) |
Come in with all materials needed to work in class on your AIPE Project | |
| T 10/12 | AIPE due by noon |
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| W 10/13 | Virtuality and Physicality Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 3-84 format of a sample midterm exam |
Read Accidental Billionaires, 3-84 Reading Guide 1 due by noon |
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| F 10/15 | Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 85-159 | Read Accidental Billionaires, 85-159 Reading Guide 2 due by noon |
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| WEEK 7 M 10/18 |
Open Forum: Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 160-252 |
Read Accidental Billionaires, 160-252 A question due to the forum by 9 a.m., an answer by noon |
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| W 10/20 | Discussion: Miscellaneousness vs. Geography. | Read David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous, Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 3 Complete Reading Guide |
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| F 10/22 | Anderson |
Chris Anderson's Long Tail. Intro and Chapter 2 and complete Reading Guide. | Definitions (Class, Diferentiating Terms) (Hierarchy vs. Miscellaneousness), Long Tail, Niches, Long Tail relationships (// Facebook), attention economy Web 2.0 (word cloud) |
| WEEK 8 M 10/25 |
Keen Introduce the Critical Cloud assignment |
Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur: Introduction and Chapter 1 Complete the reading guide questions from the home page and submit them via the form on the home page. |
Believing and Doubting Games, |
| W 10/27 | Web 3.0, Pierre Levy | ||
| F 10/29 | Complete Levy, Web 3.0, and discuss Heim | Michael Heim's "Erotic Onology of Cyberspace" | |
| November |
Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 9 M 11/1 |
Donna Haraway (Complete Heim) | Read Donna Haraway |
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| W 11/3 | "The Future of the Internet" (BBC) (Complete Haraway) |
Listen to the "The Future of the Internet" and complete the listening index as described on the home page. | |
| F 11/5 | Study Session: Keep Away | Bring in all readings. | |
| WEEK 10 M 11/8 |
Midterm Exam |
Bring a blue or black pen that you trust. | |
| W 11/10 | Clients, Critical Clouds, and Color Introduce Client Project |
Poynter Institutie Color Tutorial Color Screen Shots Nonsense sentence as mnemonic device for seven color contrasts |
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| F 11/12 | Color Contrasts and Palettes |
Model Color Scheme Page Complete "Attaching Words..." |
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| WEEK 11 M 11/15 |
Templates, Image Maps, Critical Focus Exercise: Clickable Word-clouds in Photoshop and Dreamweaver (image maps) Critical Focus |
McFarland, Chapter 19 with tutorial: "Templates" Come in with a hand-written word-cloud for your Critical Cloud Project |
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| W 11/17 | Studio Session | Bring in all materials for a Studio Session | |
| F 11/19 | Critical Cloud: Checking Out Critical Cloud Site Due by the end of the day |
Review Checklist Bring in all materials for the Critical Cloud |
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| WEEK 12 M 11/22 |
Thanksgiving Week Client Project as Capstone Project |
Commentary on the Critical Cloud due Printout of the text of the Critical Cloud due |
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| WEEK 13 M 11/29 |
Usability Principles and Personas |
In Nielsen and Tahir's Homepage Usability, read "Preface:" (1), "Homepage Guidelines" (7-35) Complete the cluster exercise explained on the home page. |
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| December |
Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| W 12/1 | Scenarios Critiquing this site |
Read the complete pages introduced today: Getting the most out of personasA Step by step guide to scenario mapping 2. Complete the development of your group's two personas by working online via your group's Wiki |
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| F 12/3 | Usability Touchstones
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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) Complete the group Wiki used for the personas with the results of your scenario sessions. |
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| WEEK 14 M 12/6 |
Studio Session | Bring all materials to work on your Client Project BETA. | |
| T 12/7 | Client Project BETA due | ||
| W 12/8 | workshop | Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book | |
| F 12/10 | workshop |
Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book | |
| WEEK 15 M 12/13 |
workshop
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Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book | |
| W 12/15 | workshop Last Class Meeting |
Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book | |
| FINAL: W 12/22 at 8 a.m. | Final Client Project due |