Dates (Week #) |
Major Projects |
Exercises |
Homework |
Campus |
Ideas, Terms, Skills |
| T 1/16 (1) |
Introduce Visualized Data Project |
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Introduce class. rhetoric "visual rhetoric," |
| R 1/18 (1) |
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Beginning Banner Techniques
"My Web" icon for moving files to the Web. |
Obtain books, a USB drive (a.k.a "flash" or "thumb" drive). Create the suggested set of folders on your drive.
Read Edward Tufte's Chapter 1, starting page 13, |
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Photoshop, folder management, "data points," sparklines, direct labels/ encodings / self-representing scales, informationally flat graphics, dequantification / quantification, documentation, the art and science of scaling |
| T 1/23 (2) |
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Beginning, Intermediate Banner Techniques |
Read Tufte Chapter 2, starting page 27 |
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Photoshop, displaying causality vs. descriptive narration, aggregation (of data), evidence (vs. numbers), selection of data (defining terms of the decision), chartjunk, order, enforcing comparisons, "multivariate" nature of analytic problems, "precise seeing is precise thinking" |
| R 1/25 (2) |
Decide on a topic for the Visualized Data Project
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Intermediate Banner Technique, optimizing
Moving files to the Web
Logging onto Webx Discussion, |
Read Tufte Chapter 3, starting page 55 |
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Web-ready image file formats, optimizing, "My Web" icon on lab desktops, Webx discussion board, disinformation, target and mask, attention control, call outs, retention of vision, the equivalence of time and space on paper, particular / general / particular, high-resolution talks (vs. low resoluation) |
| T 1/30 (3) |
Bring in all data for the Visualized Data Project |
Charts in Excel, Chart Elements to Maps |
Work on Visualized Data Project |
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creating and formatting Excel charts, coping them to Photoshop |
Dates (Week #) |
Major Projects |
Exercises |
Homework |
Campus |
Ideas, Terms, Skills |
| R 2/1 (3) |
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Perspective Map in Photoshop |
Work on Visualized Data Project |
Ground Hog Day tomorrow |
Photoshop Tools: transforming layers (perspective, distort), more layers, layer sets, paintbucket, pen, pencil, paths to selections, |
| T 2/6 (4) |
review checklist |
Perspective Map (continued) |
Work on Visualized Data Project |
Environmental Internship and Career Fair (St. Paul Student Center) |
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| R 2/8 (4) |
Studio Day for Visualized Data Project |
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Work on Visualized Data Project |
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| M 2/12 (5) |
Visualized Data due |
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Daylight Savings Time began last night! (spring forward)
UM Job & Internship Fair (free bus available from UMD to MSP) |
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| T 2/13 (5) |
Introduce Graphic NarrativeBrainstorming Session: Graphic Narrative |
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Read all of Molly Bang's Picture This. |
Valentine's Day tomorrow |
plotting the tension Freytag's triangle. Kinds of tension: "Traveling Through the Dark" |
| R 2/15 (5) |
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| T 2/20 (6) |
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| R 2/22 (6) |
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Background from Photo, Continue brainstorming, Layer sets,
Almost Famous scenes |
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Graduate & Professional Student Career Fair Coffman Great Hall, U of M Mpls |
camera work, point of view (tension, sympathy), narrative vs. poetry (speech act). |
| T 2/27 (7) |
Studio Session for Graphic Narrative. |
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| W 2/28 (7) |
Graphic Narrative Due by noon |
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Dates (Week #) |
Major Projects |
Exercises |
Homework |
Campus |
Ideas, Terms, Skills |
| R 3/1 (7) |
workshop, |
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Idealist.org Non-Profit Career Fair |
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| T 3/6 (8) |
workshop
Introduce Analytical Essay, |
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cultural work, citation and documentation, framing the analysis, critical binaries and critical narratives; critical paragraphs that mingle ideas and details, |
| R 3/8 (8) |
library / research /travel day for analystical essay |
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| T 3/13 (9) |
SPRING BREAK |
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| R 3/15 (9) |
SPRING BREAK |
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| T 3/20 (10) |
workshop |
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| R 3/22 (10) |
Introduce ReVision Project |
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ReVision, global revision. |
| T 3/27 (11) |
Introduce Confection (Bring Tufte book)
Essay due |
selecting with masks |
Bring Tufte book |
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Confection, analytical concept, |
| R 3/29 (11) |
Confection brainstorming |
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Read Tufte, C7 |
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confection; inventory; mnemonic-emblematic reductions; content vs.administration (administrative bloat); callouts; compartments and imagined scenes; anatomy; instructed viewers; collage vs. confection; subjunctive mood (language and thought); low- and high-resolution communication (see sparklines); television-disease; reading, seeing and thinking. |
Dates (Week #) |
Major Projects |
Exercises |
Homework |
Campus |
Ideas, Terms, Skills |
| T 4/3 (12) |
Work on Confection ideas |
Confection skills in Photoshop |
Bring your Tufte book |
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types of conceptual relationships (confection parts) |
| R 4/5 (12) |
Work on Confection ideas |
Confection skills in Photoshop |
Bring your Tufte book.
Bring in any books, articles, etc. detailing your Concept.
Work on Confection |
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| T 4/10 (13) |
Work on Confection ideas |
"Create Your Own" Photoshop exercises |
bring in Photoshop Book (shared skills)
Download 30-day free trials of Dreamweaver and Photoshop for use during the remainder of the semester
Work on Confection |
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| R 4/12 (13) |
NO CLASS MEETING |
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| T 4/17 (14) |
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"Create Your Own" Photoshop exercises |
bring in Photoshop Book (shared skills)
Work on Confection |
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| R 4/19 (14) |
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Blending Two Images Using Gradient |
Work on Confection
Write a paragraph summarizing the concept on which your Confection is based. Bring the paragraph in on disk. |
coming M 4/23 MN Education Job Fair, Minneapolis Convention Center |
Gradient Tool |
| T 4/24 (15) |
Studio day for Confection project |
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| W 4/25 (15) |
Confection due |
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| R 4/26 (15) |
workshop |
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Dates (Week #) |
Major Projects |
Exercises |
Homework |
Campus |
Ideas, Terms, Skills |
| T 5/1 (16) |
workshop |
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| R 5/3 (16) |
workshop |
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| Finals Week (17) |
Complete and post Revision (and submit the printed commentary) by the scheduled final exam time: 4 p.m. on W 5/9
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