| January | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 1 T 1/19 |
Syllabus | ||
| R 1/21 | What is "New Media"? What is "writing"? | Obtain all books, materials, bring USB drive Read Janet Murray, C3 |
"New Media" |
| WEEK 2 T 1/26 |
Photoshop and Dreamweaver | Bring the Chow book Read "Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin Chow's Dreamweaver CS3 |
New Media tropes |
| R 1/28 | Photoshop and Dreamweaver | Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 4 (The Basics) and bring the results to class on your USB drive. | |
| February | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 3 T 2/2 |
Photoshop and Dreamweaver | Chow's Chapter 5 (Links) | |
| R 2/4 | Photoshop and Dreamweaver | Chow's Chapter 6 (CSS and Page Properties) | |
| WEEK 4 T 2/9 |
Photoshop and Dreamweaver | Chow Chapter 7 (Typography) | |
| R 2/11 | Discussion of New Media Writing Samples Exercise: From Table-Based to CSS Page Design |
Chow 8 (Tables) | |
| WEEK 5 T 2/16 |
Prospectus due Exercise: CSS-Based Page Design |
A prospectus of the New Media Writing Project | |
| R 2/18 | Discuss Roth Exercise: CSS Layout: New Page, Old Style Sheet |
Phillip Roth's Chapter 1 of Goodbye, Columbus
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| WEEK 6 T 2/23 |
Discuss Didion Exercise: "Banner Techniques" (Photoshop) |
Joan Didion's "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" | |
| R 2/25 | Exercise: "Banner Techniques" (Photoshop) | Work on NMW Project
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| March | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 7 T 3/2 |
Exercise: "Banner Techniques" (Photoshop) | Work on NMW Project
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| R 3/4 | Studio Session for "New Media Writing" Project (-1) | Work on NMW Project | |
| WEEK 8 M 3/8 |
"New Media Writing" Project due by noon | ||
| T 3/9 | Introduce Parody (due 3/31) | Commentary on the NMW Project. Come in with the URL of an example of an online parody |
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| R 3/11 | Discuss parody terms applied to your examples (-4) |
Parody terms applied assignment | |
| WEEK 9 T 3/16 |
SPRING BREAK | ||
| R 3/18 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| WEEK 10 T 3/23 |
Exercise: "Mock-Up Page": Screen shots and tables |
Parody prospectus due | |
| R 3/25 | "My Last Duchess" (sliding on a detail) Exercise: Image Maps (Hot Spots) |
paragraphs on your facade and what you are intending to suggest and observe with that facade. | |
| WEEK 11 T 3/30 |
Discuss paragraphs: your facade, larger purpose, your image/commentary in character. | In the voice/person of a character who is not you, write a commentary on an image that functions as a facade. Use the technique of "sliding" we learned from "My Last Duchess" | |
| R 3/31 | Studio Session for the Parody Project | ||
| April | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 12 T 4/6 |
Introduce Essay (due 5/6) Psycho and Manovich Parody due by noon |
Printed commentary on the Parody Project due at the beginning of class. | |
| R 4/8 | Manovich | "Man with a Movie Camera"(online film) Manovich "Prologue: Vertov's Dataset" (xv-xxxvi) and "How Media Became New" (pages 21-26) |
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| WEEK 13 T 4/13 |
Manovich | Manovich: Principles of New Media 27-48; "What New Media is Not" 49-61 | |
| R 4/15 | Manovich | Manovich: The Operations, pages 117-145 | |
| WEEK 14 T 4/20 |
Manovich | 145-175: The Operations continued | |
| R 4/22 | Manovich | Manovich: "The Forms" 213-243 | |
| WEEK 15 T 4/27 |
Manovich | Manovich: "The Forms" continued 244-285 | |
| R 4/29 | The Essay and Manovich Exercise: Child Windows |
Bring in the old-media work you're using for the Navigable Remake | |
| May | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 16 T 5/4 |
Exercise: Multi-Layer Image | ||
| R 5/6 | Studio Session for "Navigable Remake" Course Evaluations |
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| F 5/7 | Navigable Remake posted to the Web by noon. Commmentary due to my box in 420 Humanities by 4:00 (office closing) |
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| FINALS WEEK | Exam Time: Essay due by Thursday, May 13, noon |