Calendar

Week 1 (Introductions) 8/21

Wednesday

  • Introductions
  • Syllabus
  • Walk through class website
  • Software and materials
  • Overview of terms and technologies
  • Website examples + show my work
  • Make GitHub account
  • Make are.na account and post 1 favorite website and 1 discovered website to class channel
Week 2 (HTML + CSS) (Start p.1) 8/26, 8/28

Monday

Week 3 (CSS Positioning) 9/2, 9/4
No Class Monday!

Wednesday

  • Review CSS position and flexbox
  • Positioning exercise
  • Introduce GitHub Pages
  • Set up Class Websites
  • Finish setting up your class website and email me the link
    make sure to add your reading response, article excercise, and p.1
Week 4 (Start p.2) 9/9, 9/11

Monday

  • No official class meeting because of GDES grad pecha kucha. I will be available from 4-4:45pm in the Grad studio (rm 313) if anyone wants to come in for questions or feedback!
  • Keep working on p.1

Wednesday

  • Create navigation for and finish p.1
  • Start thinking about what you would like to do for p.2
Week 5 (End p.1) 9/16, 9/18

Monday

  • Show p.1 projects
  • Work on concept/ideas for p.2

Wednesday

  • Add everything we've done so far to your class site and publish the changes
  • Get started on p.2, start working on concept, gather/make materials
  • Start surfing the web for examples, references, and inspiration for p.2. Add 5 sites to the class collection
  • Browse the Net Art Anthology and choose one piece to respond to
Week 6 (Guest Lecture Week) 9/23, 9/25

Monday

  • Guest lecture from Yuxiang Dong on surfing and searching

Wednesday

  • Guest lecture from Yuxiang Dong
Week 7 9/30, 10/2

Monday

  • Discuss guest lectures
  • Work day

Wednesday

  • Responsive Tutorial
  • Make a small sketch website implementing responsiveness in some way and add it to your class site
  • Have some clear ideas/sketches/tests for p.2 by Monday
Week 8 10/7, 10/9

Monday

  • Individual meetings for p.2
  • Work day

Wednesday

  • Javascript Intro
Week 9 (End p.2) 10/14, 10/16

Monday

  • Work day

Wednesday

  • Mini-show-and-tell of p.2
  • Introduce Final Project
  • Publish p.2 on your class site
  • Start thinking + sketching your ideas for the final project
  • Add 3 artist websites to class collection
Week 10 (Start Final Project) 10/21, 10/23

Monday

  • Meet first as class and sign up for individual meetings
  • Individual meetings (in grad studio)

Wednesday

  • Individual meetings (in grad studio)
Week 11 10/28, 10/30

Monday

  • Work from home

Wednesday

  • Work from home
Week 12 11/4, 11/6

Monday

  • Work day

Wednesday

  • Work day
Week 13 11/11, 11/13

Monday

  • Work day
  • Come up with a domain name that you want to attach to your final project and purchase it using a DNS registrar (some are listed in the domain name exercise)

Wednesday

Week 14 11/18, 11/20

Monday


Wednesday

Week 15 (Fall Break) 11/25, 11/27
~ Fall Break ~
Week 16 12/2, 12/4

Monday

  • Remember to upload your Thank You workshop sites to the google drive as well as a little icon

Wednesday

  • Work Day
  • Finishing touches!
  • Make and add favicon
Week 17 (End Final Project) 12/9

Monday

  • Final Project
  • Last day of class
  • Presentation of work
  • Final work all due on Friday, December 13. Make sure everything is published on your class site!

    I'll be looking for:
    - p.1 (poem)
    - p.2 (story)
    - final

    exercises:
    - article
    - flexbox
    - animation
    - interaction
    - responsive

    - and at least 5 reading responses
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