Session
Dates |
Topic |
Readings,
Tasks, and Deliverables |
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Session
One
Jan. 27
to
Feb. 07
-Extra long session
allows time to acquire class materials and get acquainted
with WebTycho.
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Introduction
-
Explication
of Syllabus, Lesson Guide, and WebTycho (enhanced and online classes)
-
Philosophy
of the Class
-
Course
Requirements and Deliverables
-
Reading
vs. "perusing"
-
Discussion
of Portfolio Assessment
-
-
Overview
of Software required for this class:
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-
- Read:
Dreamweaver 4
-
Introduction (pp. 11-26)
- Ch.
1. (pp. 27-70)
-
Complete the tutorial by Feb 15.
- Download
WS-FTP.
- Setup
Your Own Polaris Account
- Post
in the "Introduction Biographies" Conference:
a brief introduction to yourself. Tell why you enrolled in this
class and what you hope to get out of it. Tell also a brief story
about a particular interest you have (work, hobby, philosophy),
then give a link to the best multimedia website you can find that
deals with that interest. Do this by midnight
Feb. 4.
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Session
Two
Feb. 08
to
Feb. 14
|
General
Principles of
Website Design
& Aesthetics
-
Siskel
& Ebert Go Surfing: What's to learn from Kool Sites
-
Characteristics
of Truly Bad Sites
-
Rules
of Thumb for Functional Design
-
The
48.7 K rule
-
Mystery
Meat
-
Cutting
Edge vs. Bleeding Edge
-
Web
Usability
-
Page
Design Principles and Aesthetics
-
Best
and Worst Practices in Page Design
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- Read:
- Read
Rapidly: Nielsen:
- Ch.1
(pp.8-15)
- Ch.2
(pp. 16-97)
- Read:
Fireworks 4:
-
Introduction (pp. 11-18)
- Ch.1
(pp. 19-42)
- Complete
the tutorial by Feb. 22.
- Peruse:
Session Two Webliography
- Surf
The Web:
- Find
good websites and bad websites on any topic (or topics)
- Find
good multimedia informational sites and multimedia tutorials.
- Check
the SessionTwo Conference thread(s) and participate
as required. (Details on Session Two Lesson Page.)
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Session
Three
Feb. 15
to
Feb. 21
|
Web
Design 101
&
Dreamweaver Part 1:
An Online Workshop
This session will introduce a few basic strategies and concepts of
Web Design by introducing and using Dreamweaver 4. After a brief program
tour, this session will cover such essentials as:
-
-
designing
a page
-
using
tables for design
-
inserting
images, anchors, and links
We
will also discuss in this session such topics as storyboarding, site
management, and the Web Development Plan.
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- Read:
Dreamweaver 4
- Ch.
6 (pp. 167-182)
- Ch.
7 (pp. 183-202)
- Peruse:
Dreamweaver 4
-
Ch. 2 (pp. 71-94)
- Ch.
3 (pp. 95-106)
- Ch.
5 (pp 149-166)
- Check
the Session Three Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Peruse:
Session Three Webliography
- Form
Groups: Details provided in the Announcement Section of WebTycho.
- Submit
your Web
Development Plan by midnight
Feb. 18. You will find the form posted in the Announcement
section. (Your plan
will be returned to you with comments on or before 1 March.)
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|
Session
Four
Feb. 22
to
Feb. 28
|
Dreamweaver
Part 2:
An Online Workshop
This session will continue developing skills in Dreamweaver, including:
The
F2F class will spend a portion of the class in a non-directed workshop,
giving students an opportunity to work on websites with help from
Kerby, Maertens, and Schroeder. Online sections will have a Dreamweaver
Workshop Conference.
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- Read:
Dreamweaver 4
- Peruse:
Dreamweaver 4
- Ch.
9-11 (pp. 221-280)
- Ch.
15 (pp.353-374)
- Check
the Session Four Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Peruse:
Session Four Webliography
- Workshop
Activity: upload to your polaris account
a draft of your Splash page, and post a link to it in the Session
4 conference. This page should should include: a table, a
title (Page Properties), relative links, absolute links, an image,
an e-mail link, and should be done by 28
February.
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Session
Five
March 1
to
March 7
|
Web
Graphics 101:
& Fireworks Part 1
Presentation:
Workshop
Part 1:
-
Introduction
to Fireworks: a program tour
-
canvas,
rulers, guides, and grid
-
crop,
resize, feather, color pick
-
working
with vectors and bitmaps
-
exporting
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- Read:
Fireworks 4
- Ch.
2 (pp. 43-60).
- Ch.
3 (pp. 63-84)
- Ch.
17 (pp. 307-329)
- Peruse:
Fireworks 4
- Ch.
6 (pp. 125-140)
- Ch.
18 (pp. 329-349)
- Check
the Session Five Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Peruse:
Session Five Webliography
- Revise
(as necessary) your Splash Page, Upload, then
POST the URL in the "Portfolios" Conference by
midnight Mar. 4.
- This time, your folder MUST be named "csmn_639"
and your splash page must be named "opening.htm"
- Revise
(as necessary) your
Web Development Plan, Upload,
and and link it from your Splash page by
Mar. 4.
- Upload
your Development Notes by midnight March 4.
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Session
Six
March 8
to
March 14
|
The
F2F class will spend a portion of the class in a non-directed workshop,
giving students an opportunity to work on images with help from Kerby,
Maertens, and Schroeder. Online sections will have a Fireworks
Workshop Conference.
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- Read:
Fireworks 4
- Ch.
4 (pp. 85-98)
- Ch.
5 (pp. 99-124)
- Ch.
11 (pp. 203-222)
- Peruse:
Fireworks 4
- Ch.
7 (pp. 141-156)
- Ch.
8 (pp. 157-178)
- Ch.
9 (pp. 179-192)
- Ch.
13 (pp. 235-246)
- Ch.
19 (pp. 349-362)
- Peruse:
Session Six Webliography
- Check
the Session Six Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Upload:
your Website First Draft and link to it from your Splash page by
midnight March 11. This does not
have to be a fully developed site, but should contain several pages,
along with appropriate navigation, and indicate learning for the
past several weeks (design, navigation, images, etc.)
- Post
in the
Portfolios Conference
(under your own Splash Page Main Topic), a Response entitled "Web
Site First Draft." In that response, let us know that your
Web site first draft is uploaded, and give us a short explanation
of what you have done by midnight Mar.
11.
- Make
additions to your Development Notes by midnight
March 11.
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Session
Seven
March 15
to
March 28
Spring
Break: March 19-25.
No assignments or feedback will occur during those days
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Making
it Interactive:
Behaviors, Forms & DHTML
Dreamweaver Part 3
An Online Workshop
In this session, we will use Dreamweaver 4 to learn:
By
the end of the class/worshop, each student should have:
-
a working form that runs off a cgi script
-
a
DHTML animation
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- Peruse:
Dreamweaver 4
-
Chapter 17 (pp. 407-434)
- Chapter
18 (pp. 435-444)
- Chapter
20 (PP 481-500)
- Peruse:
Session Seven Webliography
- Check
the Session Seven Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Upload:
to your Development notes detailed information about your website
graphics (formats compression ratio, etc) by
midnight March 25.
- Make
additions to your Development Notes by midnight
March 25.
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Session
Eight
March 29
to
April 4
|
Audio
101:
Audio Basics
&
How to Stream Sound
-
basics
of measuring sound
-
analog
vs. digital
-
encoding
-
digital
audio file types
-
sampling,
resolution, and bit-rates
-
compression,
codecs, and ways to reduce sound files
-
quantizatoin
and dithering
-
advantages
of digital audio
-
MP3
and ripping
Workshop:
-
how
to record, edit, optimize, encode, publish a streaming audio file
|
- Read/Peruse:The
GoldWave "manual." Pay special attention to the first
two sections--"Introduction" and "Getting Started"
(these are found under Help in your GoldWave Program)
- Read/Peruse:
The RealProducer Manual (F1 when RealProducer is open). This is
an excellent resource. Pay special attention to Ch. 2. Streaming
Media Basics and Ch 3. Creating Streaming Media.
- Peruse:
Session Eight Webliography
- Check
the Session Eight Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Your
Web site should have at least one DHTML animation by
midnight April 1.
- Make
additions to your Development Notes by midnight
April 1.
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|
Session
Nine
April 5
to
April 11
|
Video
101:
Video Basics
&
How to Stream Movies
|
- Peruse:
Session Nine Webliography
- Check
the Session Nine Conference thread(s) and participate
as required.
- Revise
your web site as needed.
- Your
Web site should have an Interactive Form by
midnight April 8.
- Make
additions to your Development Notes by midnight
April 8.
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Session
Ten
April 12
to
April 18
|
Making
Online Presentations:
Some Practical Advice
-
RealPresenter,
Real Slide Show
-
PowerPoint
animations to SMIL
-
tips
and tricks on making multimedia presentations
|
- Post
(in the Portfolio Critique Conference) the URL to your Splash
Page. Do this by creating a Main Topic. Do this ASAP, but no later
than midnight April 14.
- Critique
(in the Portfolio Critique Conference) three other classmates'
portfolios. Do this by clicking on respond under the Main Topic
heading. If someone already has three critiques, choose another
portfolio. Make your critiques by midnight
April 19.
- Your
Web site should have audio by
midnight April 15
- Make
additions to your Development Notes by
midnight April 15.
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Session
Eleven
April 19
to
April 25
|
Website
Evaluation Methods
Revisited
-
Revisiting
"How to Evaluate"
-
Catch
up as needed
|
- Read:
Alexander
and Tate's Evaluating Web Resources
- Peruse:
Session Eleven Webliography
- Post
in the Evaluation Method's Conference your evaluation of
evaluation methods (details on Lesson page)
- Revise
your Web site as needed.
- Build
your Benchmark Web Critique, critique
two Web sites, and Post the results in your Portfolio
by midnight April 25.
- Make
additions to your Development Notes as needed.
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Session
Twelve
April 26
to
May 2
|
Website
Critiques
|
- In
the Portfolios Critique Conference, select one classmate's
portfolio. Go to the benchmark critique. Evaluate his or her Web
site using his or her own benchmark critique. Post the results of
your evaluation in the Portfolios Critique Conference by clicking
on respond. Please add "(Benchmark Critique) at the end of
the subject heading as you respond. If someone else has already
done a benchmark critique for that Web site, select another. Do
this by midnight May 2.
- Participate
in the So You're The Manager Conference. Details outlined
in Session Twelve Content area. Do this
by midnight May 6.
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Session
Thirteen
May 3
to
May 9
|
Group
Project
Presentations
|
- One
person from each group upload to the "Multimedia
Presentations" Conference the
link to your Group's Online Presentation by
midnight 6 May
- Complete
your Personal Portfolio
by Midnight May 6.
- Make
final additions to your Development
Notes by midnight May
6.
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Session
Fourteen
May 10
to
May 14
|
Wrapping
it all Up
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