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| January |
Topics | Homework |
| WEEK 1 W 1/19 |
Introduce class Introduce first project, the Autobiographical Index Page Experiment |
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| F 1/12 | Files, Folders, Missing CDs, and Getting Started with Dreamweaver 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. |
| WEEK 2 M 1/24 |
AIPE: Concept and Practice 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. Read "Remember Earth Clearly" |
| W 1/26 | Cascading Style Sheets 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" |
| F 1/28 | Links, Themes Help Session McFarland C6 Discuss themes on home pages |
Read McFarland's Chapter 5 and complete the Links Tutorial at the end |
| WEEK 3 M 1/31 |
Images, Themes Help Session McFarland C6 "Images" |
Read McFarland's Chapter 6, "Images," and complete the tutorial. |
| February | Topics | Homework |
| W 2/2 | Photoshop 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 |
| F 2/4 | Photoshop, Constitutive Themes Help Session McFarland C9 Exercise: Intermediate Banner Techniques (Photoshop) |
Read McFarland, Chapter 9 "Page Layout." and comlete the tutorial "CSS Page Design" |
| WEEK 4 M 2/7 |
CSS Layout Pages (DW) Banners on your own CSS Layout Pages HMTL Mark-Up Exercise, HTML/CSS Backstory |
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. |
| W 2/9 | Design Schemes Character Design Scheme Group Work |
Come in with a Design Scheme for the AIPE Project. |
| F 2/11 |
Design Schemes, Visual Hierarchy, Screen Real Estate |
Complete the Character Design Scheme Group Work, and be ready to discuss. |
| WEEK 5 M 2/14 |
Visual Hierarchy and Screen Real Estate |
1. Dream and Nightmare Pages A place to start looking for nightmare pages is the venerable web-design site, "Web Sites that Suck." 2. In the forum, "Model Personal Pages," create a clickable URL to a page from the web that you might use as a visual model for your AIPE page. The page should model the layout style and design you're interested in achieving. In a short paragraph, describe what you like about the page and want to emulate. |
| W 2/16 | The Consequence of Page Layout Cultural Codes (people, places) Discuss Prospectus and Design Scheme Topics |
In a reply to your own message in the forum "Model Personal Pages," write a paragraph explaining some design choices you are making that will give your AIPE page effective visual hierarchy and screen real estate. |
| F 2/18 | Studio Session for AIPE |
Come in with all materials needed to work in class on your AIPE Project |
| WEEK 6 M 2/21 |
AIPE due by noon Save your project in the folder "www/4230/aipe", upload it to the web, and send the URL to the forum "AIPE URLs" under the heading "Projects" Reading Guide for Mazrich (Part 1) |
Come in with all materials related to your AIPE Project. Write and bring in your commentary to turn in |
| W 2/23 | Virtuality and Physicality Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 3-84 format of a sample midterm exam |
Meet in BohH 104
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| F 2/25 | Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 85-159 |
Read Accidental Billionaires, 85-159 Reading Guide 2 due by the beginning of class |
| WEEK 7 M 2/28 |
Open Forum: Mezrich: Accidental Billionaires, 160-252 More mythic scenes to add to our list? How these scenes might work in the next assignment: the Critical Cloud Project. |
Read Accidental Billionaires, 160-252 Post an open-ended question about the book to the forum "Accidental Billioinaires," which asks us to explore the treatment of some theme or issue related to digital culture in Mezrich's work. Your question should point to a particular passage, with a page number, as a starting point for answering it. The question might concern a theme or issue we've discussed previously, or be a new one. Your question should ask us to find additional passages in the book--with page numbers--that support a fuller understanding of the answer. Come in with at least two such passages noted down. |
| March | ||
| W 3/2 | Discussion: Miscellaneousness vs. Geography
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Read David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous, Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 3 |
| F 3/4 | NO CLASS MEETING | |
| WEEK 8 M 3/7 |
The Long Tail | Chris Anderson's Long Tail. Intro and Chapter 2 and complete Reading Guide. |
| W 3/9 | 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. |
| F 3/11 | Web 3.0, Pierre Levy | |
| WEEK 9 M 3/14 |
SPRING BREAK | |
| W 3/16 | SPRING BREAK | |
| F 3/18 | SPRING BREAK | |
| WEEK 10 M 3/21 |
Complete Levy, Web 3.0, and discuss Heim | Michael Heim's "Erotic Onology of Cyberspace" |
| W 3/23 | Donna Haraway (Complete Heim) | Read Donna Haraway |
| F 3/25 | "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. |
| WEEK 11 M 3/28 |
Study Session: "Keep Away" | Bring in all readings. |
| W 3/30 | Midterm Exam |
Bring a blue or black pen that you trust. |
| 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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| Color Contrasts and Palettes |
Model Color Scheme Page Complete "Attaching Words..." |
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| April | Topics | Homework |
| F 4/1 | 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 |
| WEEK 12 M 4/4 |
Studio Session | Bring in all materials for a Studio Session |
| W 4/6 | Critical Cloud: Checking Out Critical Cloud Site Due by the end of the day |
Review Checklist Bring in all materials for the Critical Cloud |
| F 4/8 | Client Project as Capstone Project |
Commentary on the Critical Cloud due Printout of the text of the Critical Cloud due |
| WEEK 13 M 4/11 |
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. |
| W 4/13 | 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 |
| F 4/14 | 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. |
| WEEK 14 M 4/18 |
Studio Session | Bring all materials to work on your Client Project BETA. |
| Client Project BETA due | ||
| W 4/20 | workshop | Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book |
| F 4/22 | workshop |
Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book |
| WEEK 15 M 4/25 |
workshop
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Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book |
| W 4/27 | workshop Last Class Meeting |
Bring your Nielsen and Tahir book |
| F 4/29 | ||
| May | Topics | Homework |
| WEEK 16 M 5/2 |
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| W 5/4 | ||
| F 5/6 | ||
| FINALS starting M 5/9 | ||