Calendar
Week 1 (Introductions) 8/21Wednesday
- Introductions
- Syllabus
- Walk through class website
- Software and materials
- Overview of terms and technologies
- Website examples + show my work
Monday
- Reading discussion
- HTML Basics
- HTML Article Exercise
- Introduce p.1 "Poem"
- p.1 levels 1-2
- Go through the position tutorial
- Go through the flexbox tutorial
- Go through the CSS animation tutorial
Wednesday
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
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
Monday
- p.1 Poem
- Show p.1 projects
- Work on concept/ideas for p.2
Wednesday
- CSS Animation exercise
- Work Day
- 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
Monday
- Guest lecture from Yuxiang Dong on surfing and searching
Wednesday
- Guest lecture from Yuxiang Dong
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
Monday
- Work day
Wednesday
- p.2 Story
- 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
- Frank Chimero - The Web's Grain
- Re-read Laurel's "My Website is a Shifting House..." again
Monday
- Meet first as class and sign up for individual meetings
- Individual meetings (in grad studio)
Wednesday
- Individual meetings (in grad studio)
Monday
- Work from home
Wednesday
- Work from home
Monday
- Work day
Wednesday
- Work day
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
- Domain Name exercise
~ Fall Break ~
Monday
- Final Project check-in
- 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
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