Tentative Class Schedule--all times noted are Eastern Standard Time

Conference discussion: (this is you) personal introductions and responses. We will discuss your DTP experience, our class syllabus, and the course guidelines. Return to respond to someone else's introduction (you should have one response to the DTP software conference and at least two responses posted to the introduction conference by midnight on Monday, 1/29) Due by midnight at the end of Week 1

HMWK:

• Read Ch. 1 in Robin Williams' Design Workshop
  (pp.1-14)
• Read the first half of Module One (under Course Content / Course Modules)--read Module One "Commentary" up to "Principles of Good Design."
• Respond to the introductions conference
• Respond to the software conference

Review the PowerPoint lecture: on The PC is not a Typewriter and post an example of an error that slipped through the editing process and ended up getting published.
Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 2

HMWK:

• Finish reading Module One: "Principles of Good Design"
• Read through the Chapter 1 "Exploring the InDesign Workspace" from our Adobe InDesign textbook.
• Respond to any required WebTycho conferences.

TO TURN IN: Go through Chapter 2. Follow the steps beginning on p. 2-1 through 2-19. Run spell check on the document (explained on p. 2-29). Save your document and transfer the document into a PDF.

TO TURN IN: Then make the revisions suggested by your "clients" from page 2-35 (using file 2-8). Run spell check on the document (explained on p. 2-29). Save this document and transfer the document into a PDF.
 

Files needed:

Submit your finished documents in their original software versions and in their PDF versions (4 total) to the Min-Pin assignment in WebTycho. Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 3

HMWK:

• Read Module 2 "Basics of Typography"
• Submit your Vocabulary worksheet.
• DTP presentation topic proposal is due this week.

TO TURN IN:  Now that you have completed an initial project, lets review some of the terms that may have been new to you. Complete the vocabulary worksheet attached under the Week Four conference. Please submit the assignment as a Microsoft Word file. DO NOT FORGET to type your name at the top of the vocabulary worksheet page!) Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 4

HMWK:

• Read Chapter 14: "Flyers" from Design Workshop
• Respond to any required WebTycho conferences.
• Read Chapter 3: "Setting Up a Document" from Adobe InDesign CS2 Revealed
• Take Quiz One -- available online in conference link

TO TURN IN: Complete Chapter 3 lessons from page 3.10 - 3.49. (Files and directions are available in the Week 5 conference area.)
Submit the "setup" document in its completed software format and as a PDF to the WebTycho assignment area.
Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 5

HMWK:

• DTP Presentation posting is due this week
• You are also required to thoughtfully respond to each student presentation posted. This follow-up response posting is not due until the end of Week 15.
• Read Chapters 4 and 5 from Design Workshop
• Respond to any required WebTycho conferences.

Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 6

• Chapters 1-3 from Adobe InDesign CS2
• Chapters 1, 4, 5, 14 from Design Workshop
• Course Modules 1 and 2

TO TURN IN:  Complete the flyer assignment and submit the completed flyer in its original software version and as a PDF.
Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 7

You must be registered for your proctored final exam by 3/16! Remember to send me your exam registration confirmation via e-mail or via copy/paste into WebTycho "FinalRegis" assignment area.

--spring break--

Go over midterm exam answers

• Read Module 3:  Graphics and Scanning Basics

• Read through Chapter 6 in Adobe InDesign CS2 Revealed, "Placing and Linking Graphics," pages 6-1 to 6-39

TO TURN IN: Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Revealed, Chapter 6, Project Builder 1 on page 6-36. The files need to be submitted  in their .indd or .pub version and as a PDF file to the InDesign6-36 assignment.

Files Needed for Project Builder 1, page 6-36:

Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 10

• Read Design Workshop - "Logos," Chapter 6, pages 87-102 and "Fonts in this book," pages 272-273, and "Designers & the design process," pages 233-267.

TO TURN IN: "Designer Exercise" on p.150 of Design Workshop
Follow the directions on p.150 of our Design Workshop text. Collect at least three advertisements. Follow each advertisement with a written explanation of the design principles used noting what "works" and what doesn't based on the principles of design: proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, and white space.

You will need to scan (or copy if from a Web site) each advertisement into your report (explanation) to turn in as a Microsoft Word (or Publisher, if you wish) attachment to the Assignments area of WebTycho "Critique."

Due NEXT WEEK by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 12 

Conference discussion: design concepts

• Read Module 4: Color, Paper, and Printing Basics

"Designer Exercise" on p.150 of Design Workshop is due this week. Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 12

• Complete Quiz 2
• Complete Student Publication - Product Package
  Submit the finished package in its original software format and as a PDF

Due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 13

• Review Quiz 2 answers
• Review for final exam
• Discuss newsletters and autoflow of text

Autoflow assignment from Chapter 4 InDesign CS2 is due at the end of Week 15. You may wish to get started this week. :-)

• Read through Chapter 4 in Adobe InDesign CS2 Revealed, "Working with Frames," pages 4-1 to 4-53.

TO TURN IN:  Complete the Autoflow text assignment on pages 4-41 through 4-45 and submit the completed .indd or .pub file and its PDF to the Autoflow4-45 assignment in WebTycho. 

All responses to each student presentation posting are due this week. Remember that you are required to thoughtfully (with thought) respond to each student presentation posted. This follow-up response posting is due no later than 11:59 p.m. at end of Week 15.

Autoflow is due by 11:59 p.m. at the end of Week 15