Web Design

Spring 2010

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Day / Date

 

Resources/Notes

Fernando

Thursday-Friday, April 22-23

Monday, April 19

  

Thursday - Friday, April 15-16

  

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 13-14

  • You are now going to use Flash to create a basic website. I found this tutorial that is easy to follow and will take you through steps to add actions to a button symbol. Use the Lorem Ipsum generator to add text (for now).
  • It will be important for you to pay attention to detail with the instructions. Specifically where to put labels, (what frame, and layers) naming elements of the document.

 

Monday, April 12

  • My daughter is sick, err rash-y. So I'm taking her to the doctor today... and hope to be back tomorrow.
  • You are now going to use Flash to create a basic website. I found this tutorial that is easy to follow and will take you through steps to add actions to a button symbol. Use the Lorem Ipsum generator to add text (for now).
  • It will be important for you to pay attention to detail with the instructions. Specifically where to put labels, (what frame, and layers) naming elements of the document.

Friday, April 9

  • 3 minute movie (last day in class to work)
  • Extra Credit Blog Post - Comment on the ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals about net neutrality, and offer your thoughts on the topic, implications of the ruling and what may come in the future. [200 words or more, link(s) to article(s) read in forming your opinion.]
  • Monday we will begin a simple website using Flash

Thursday, April 8

  • Mini day - work on 3 minute movie
  

Tuesday - Wednesday, April 6-7

  • Open house preparation
  • Flash Movie work

 

  

Monday, April 5

  • Schedule for the week...
  • Open house preparation
  • Flash Movie check in
  • Tuesday: odd period block
  • Wednesday: Open House
  • Thursday: Mini day
  • Friday: Prom Night

Friday, March 26

  • 3 Minute Movie work
  • Spring Break is next week

 

  

Block Days, March 24-25

 
  • Movie should include:
    • movie clip symbol
    • motion guide
    • motion tween
    • shape tween
    • scenes (3 minimum)
    • sounds / music

Tuesday, March 23

  • 3 Minute Movie work.
  • Spring Break is next week.

 

  

Monday, March 22

  • Please submit your Doodle for Google file into the Art Submission drive (look for the doodle4google period folder).
  • 3 Minute Movie work.
  • Spring Break is next week.
  

Wednesday - Thursday, March 18-19

  • Adding sounds to Flash
  • 3 Minute Movie
  • Extra Credit Blog Post - government use of Social Networking sites to get information on citizens. 200 word miniimum, links, images...posted by Friday.

 

Wednesday, March 17

  • Tomorrow is a Thursday block day
  • 3 Minute Movie
    • start to plan (on paper) a movie that will be 3 minutes in length.
    • save the paper for use throughout the project

Tuesday, March 16

  • Tomorrow is a 7 period day
  • 3 Minute Movie
    • start to plan (on paper) a movie that will be 3 minutes in length.
    • save the paper for use throughout the project
  

Monday, March 15

  • 3 Minute Movie
    • start to plan (on paper) a movie that will be 3 minutes in length.
    • save the paper for use throughout the project

Friday, March 12

  • Publish & post one document for each:
    • shape tween
    • motion tween
    • movie clip symbol
  • 3 Minute Movie
    • start to plan (on paper) a movie that will be 3 minutes in length.
    • save the paper for use throughout the project

Wednesday - Thursday, March 10-11

  • Publish & post
    • shape tween
    • motion tween
    • movie clip symbol
  • Movie Clip Symbol review
  • Adding Motion Guides
  

Tuesaday, March 9

  • Minimum Day (schedule on screen)
  • Publish and post new documents
    • shape tween
    • motion tween
    • movie clip symbol
  

Monday, March 8

  • Flash
    • Easy Animtion (should be finished)
    • Tweens (review)
    • Symbols (Graphic & Movie Clip)
  • Tomorrow is a minimum day
  

Friday, March 5

  • Quest: with Flash
  • Easy Animtion
  • Flash page included in Class site
  

Wednesday - Thursday, March 2-3

  • Flash: Easy Animation (finish it)
  • Publishing your movies
  • Symbols & Tweens
  

Tuesday, March 2

  • Flash: Easy Animation

Monday, March 1

  • Flash: Easy Animation

Friday, February 26

  • Flash: Easy Animation

Wednesday - Thursday, February 24-25

  • Ted Talks: If you could anything... look what this guy did...
  • Flash:
    • Flash is a multimedia graphics program specially for use on the Web
    • Flash enables you to create interactive "movies" on the Web
    • Flash uses vector graphics, which means that the graphics can be scaled to any size without losing clarity/quality
    • Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn

Tuesday, February 23

  • Doodle 4 Google - Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

Monday, February 22

  • Doodle 4 Google - Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

Friday, February 19

  • Assembly Schedule
  • Class site work
  • Doodle 4 Google - Read about the contest, I have registered already and will have the appropriate forms for those interested in submitting their work, I am limited to 6 entries but if there are more we can find a way to submit them...
  

Thursday, February 18

  • Class site check
  • Link to both blog and frameset (from your Dreamweaver page, set target for both to "_blank")
  • Navigation
  

Wednesday, February 17

  • Quest review
  • Upload Class Sites - review, questions
  • Clean up class site
  

Wednesday, February 10 - Thursday, February 11

  • Quest
  • Upload Class Sites
  

Monday, February 8

  • File Transfer Protocol
  • Files panel
  • File organization

Friday, February 5

  • Work check (framesets, iframes, css "frames"
  • Study sheet / review

Wednesday, February 3 - Thursday, February 4

  • "frames" without frames
  • hmtl reminders
  • css reminders
  • check off of frames
  • blog: what is cloud computing, what do you see as possible issues surrounding the emerging technology? [200+ words, please cite your sources]
  • Norman Rockwells Birthdate

Tuesday, February 2

  • iFrame & html code

Monday, February 1

  • Dreamweaver - Frames

Friday, January 29

  • Rally Schedule (posted on whiteboard)
  • Dreamweaver - Frames

Wednesday, January 27 - Thursday, January 28

  • Finish the color scheme compositions from earlier this week.
  • Create four new html documents, one for each of the color schemes.
    • each html page should have the name and definition of the color scheme and your two compositions.
    • save the documents in your ClassSite folder (root directory)
    • don't forget to include a document title, and you will need to save your compositions for web
  

Tuesday, January 26

  • Dreamweaver - Color Compositions (2 compositions per color scheme)

 
  • Frameset (color schemes listed on Resources tab)

Monday, January 25

  • Dreamweaver - Frames & Color Compositions

Friday, January 22

  • Finish Typography, and/or Google blog post
  • Finish Imagemap(s) and/or rollover
  • Find out details of the frst internet message. (when, what, who, where...) Post your answer on your blog, this answer should be minimum of 200 words, and include a link or links to where you found your information.
  • WHAT: A little internet history...

Wednesday, January 20 / Thursday, January 21

  • Some features of dreamweaver...
    • Rollover Images
    • Imagemaps
  • Abstract Typography
  • Blog Post (Google v China)

 

Tuesday, January 19

  • Abstract Typography (post this on your blog, be sure to include a few sentences on what the assignment was and something you learned and or found interesting during the project).
  • Blog Post (Google). Google's thoughts on doing business in China. To the right you will find a few links to some stories. Please respond in your post (200 + words, images and links when appropriate) what is happening and your thoughts on the situation. FYI: This is more than Google v China; choices made now can and will have lasting effects on the internet and sharing of information as we konw it. There are many companies that are facing (or have dealt with) similar treatment from China.

 

 

Friday, January 15

  • Abstract Typography (post this on your blog, be sure to include a few sentences on what the assignment was and something you learned and or found interesting during the project).
  • Blog Post (Google). Google's thoughts on doing business in China. To the right you will find a few links to some stories. Please respond in your post (200 + words, images and links when appropriate) what is happening and your thoughts on the situation. FYI: This is more than Google v China; choices made now can and will have lasting effects on the internet and sharing of information as we konw it. There are many companies that are facing (or have dealt with) similar treatment from China.

 

Wednesday, January 13 / Thursday, January 14

  • Helvetica (& worksheet)
  • Character Character project

Tuesday, January 12

  • Character Character (finish up)
  • Abstract Typography
  • Submission deadline for the MA Mark is this Friday

 

Monday, January 11

  • Visual Vocabulary (finish up)
  • Character Character (finish up)
  • Abstract Typography (?)

 

character_2

my example (in progress)

Friday, January 9

  • Font Videos
  • Visual Vocabulary (finish up)
  • Character Character

Thursday, January 8

  • Want Extra Credit? Make a submission to the MA Mark, be sure you let the staff know you are in my class.
  • Vocabulary
  • Visual Vocabulary

Wednesday, January 7

  • Welcome back
  • Green Schedules
  • The MA MARK [themamark@gmail.com]
  • Typography vocabulary [on the share drive> 2009-2010>pdf>vocab_typography.pdf | link]
  • Blog Post: Read the article: Privacy advocates file official complaint over Facebook update and respond in a new post. Are you aware of what agreements you have entered into with Facebook or other social networking sites?