ART 214 at Saint Mary's College of Maryland with Fereshteh Toosi

23 March 2007

review times

WED 28 MAR
4:00 Alice
4:15 Winnie
4:30 Anne
4:45 Rachel
5:00 Shinae
5:15 Teresa

THURS 29 MAR
12:00 Marc
12:15 Mike
12:30 Merry
12:45 Carly

22 March 2007

schedule for the end days

W/Th 28/29 March
HW: Complete Lynda.com Dreamweaver TUTORIAL: INTERFACE + SITE CONTROL
(I will check to see that you've done this through Lynda.com by the start your class time, so don't delay!)
WED: critiques that were postponed from last week
THURS: story boards for animation in-class

M/Tu 2/3 April: BRING ALL YOUR MATERIALS FOR THE GROUP VIDEO
assemble the photo-roman in class!

W/Th 4/5 April: STERLING/MANDIBERG READING-POST TO BLOG
WED: intro to net art
THURS: Melissa Dean

M/Tu 9/10 April: TUTORIAL: THE BASICS + LINKING
MON: DW demo with FT
TUES: intro to net art

Tu/Wed 11/12 April: TUTORIAL: TYPOGRAPHY + TABLES
-post a list of 5 website links for project ideas to your blog

M/Tu 16/17 April: TUTORIAL: LAYOUT + CSS
-post a collection of images (collage them in photoshop) & a word association of at least 10 terms about your site's subject to your blog. Click HERE for an example of a collage I made about the subject of "video".
-in class: what is a site map?

W/Th 18/19 April:
-post a hand-drawn site map, in color, to your blog.
These should be legible enough that you could hand them off to someone else and they would be able to make the site template (without content) for you. These sketches should show that you have taken into consideration the visual DESIGN of your site. Bring your sketches to class.
Check out these sites for more info on the principles of design:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_of_design/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_and_elements_of_design/

M/Tu 23/24 April: TUTORIAL: ROLLOVERS
in-class work day

W/Th 25/26 April: TUTORIAL: INSERTING MEDIA OBJECTS
LAST CLASS SESSION!
- ROUGH DRAFT of project due for feedback. This means at least 3 of your pages should be designed and uploaded for viewing on the WWW.

MONDAY MAY 7 by 5 pm: FINAL PROJECT DUE!
-Your complete website must be uploaded and you must send me a link to it by email as well as placing a CD-R with all your files in my mailbox. This deadline is firm: broken links, incomplete sites, or no CD submission will not receive extensions, no matter what the technical catasrophe.

Yogi Bear storyboard

20 March 2007

Chris Ware - TAL animation

preview of a segment from Showtime's upcoming This American Life show, animated by Chris Ware:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid666401814

animation from body scans

See it here.

Accidental hard drive erasure cost Alaska $220,000

Moral of the story: Always back-up your work in at least 2 locations.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories