Schedule
This outline is subject to change depending on the time necessary for students to demonstrate proficiency in the tools covered and to complete each successive project
TH, 9/8
Begin Project 1 due 12/08
Introductions: Review syllabus and class website.
Workshop: Set-up WIX site for everyone.
Note: Web 1 students can leave after setting up a WIX site and emailng me – Web 2 students stick around.
Homework:
1, Email me your new website URL - include your name and the name of the class.
2, Watch this 2-minute animation - Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6J9v1C9zE and then read this article – “What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?” by Mark Federman
http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm
T, 9/13
Begin Project 2 - due 9/22
Discussion: Review “The Medium is the Message.”
Extensions or amputations? Is technology changing us? Lets ask the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARooFFot94
A brief and animated history of the GIF
Workshop: Making GIFs Tutorial
Homework: Come to the next class prepared to explore the idea of what an animated GIF self-portrait could be
TH, 9/15
Workshop: GIF self portrait
Homework: Read “If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, It doesn’t exist “by Ken Goldsmith (discussion on 9.27) http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/if_it_doesnt_exist.html
T, 9/20
Workshop: GIF self portrait
TH, 9/22
Project 2 due by end of class - GIF Class portrait
Students MUST have a preliminary web-site up and running by the end of this class so we can have the links working on the class website. Complete and save your GIFs on Neil's flash drive.
T, 9/27
Critique: Project 2 Class portrait GIF gallery and student websites in-process
Discussion: “If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, It doesn’t exist “by Ken Goldsmith
* If It Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist
Kenneth Goldsmith reads poetry at White House Poetry Night - video
Wasting time on the Internet - video
Discussion: An Introduction to Twine and Hypertext Literature
Homework: Think about an interactive Twine story
TH, 9/29
Workshop: Twine Stories
Begin Project 3, Creating Text Based Interactive Stories Using Twine
Workshop: Working with Twine
T, 10/4
Workshop: Finishing and publishing your Twine story
TH, 10/6
Critique: Project 3 , Creating Text Based Interactive Stories Using Twine
Begin: Project 4, Creating Audio Narratives - due 10/18
Workshop: Introduction to sound design.
Tutorial: Recording sound and importing into GarageBand
T, 10/11
Workshop: Mixing audio in GarageBand
Tutorial: Sound design with Garage Band
TH, 10/13
Workshop: Sound design/Mixing techniques
T, 10/18
Project 4 due: Students must complete their Audio Narratives and post to their websites by end of class
TH, 10/20
Critique: Project 4 , Creating Audio Narratives
Begin: Project 5, Creating Video Narratives
Tutorial: Video Capture/appropriation and editing techniques
T, 11/25
Workshop: Project 5 video narrative development
TH, 10/27
Workshop: Project 5 video narrative development
T, 11/1
Workshop: Project 5 video narrative development
TH, 11/3
Workshop: Project 5 video narrative development
T, 11/8
Workshop: Project 5 video narrative development
Project 5 due: Students must complete their Video Narratives and post to youtube or vimeo with links on their websites by end of class
TH, 11/10
Critique: Project 5, Creating Video Narratives
Tutorial: WIX TRIX - adding sound, video and interactive text to WIX pages page
Begin: Final Project Phase 1, Create a project proposal including a story outline and pre-production of story materials
T, 11/15
Workshop: Phase 1 development
TH, 11/17
Discussion: Students will present their project proposals for final projects
Begin: Final Project Phase 2, Creating Multimedia Interactive Stories Using WIX - due 12/08
Workshop: Final Project and Student Websites
T, 11/22 (last class before break)
Workshop: Final Project and Student Websites
T, 11/29
Progress check: Final Project and Student Websites
Workshop: Final Project and Student Websites
TH, 12/1
Workshop: Final Project and Student Websites
T, 12/6
Workshop: Final Project and Student Websites
TH, 12/8
Multimedia Interactive Stories and Student Websites due by end of class
T, 12/13
Final Critiques on Multimedia Interactive Stories and Student Websites