JlMC 315
COURSE OUTLINE: Spring 2000
(Instructor reserves right to change dates and assignments)

Week One (Jan 11 & 13): Introductions
Syllabus
Class Intro
JlMC 315 Class Members
The New Media
Audience and Context FCB Grid
Developing content for a multimedia environment
Deciding what you WANT to publish
Deciding what you CAN & SHOULD publish

Week Two (Jan 18 & 20): Evaluating
Assignment: By Monday NOON Jan. 17, e-mail the instructor the complete address of a web site you think is good and a BRIEF description of why (50 to 100 words)

Evaluating Websites and developing an evaluation model
Fundamentals of digital information and interactive design

Some Good Sites Students Recommend

Week Three (Jan 25 & 27) : Foundations
Fundamentals of digital information and interactive design (cont.)

Assignment: By class on Thursday, identify one legal issue facing the web and prepare a 2 page brief about what the problem is and how the courts are resolving the problem. This will be the basis of our discussions in class.


Copyright laws and legal considerations

Week Four: (Feb. 1 & 3): Audience
Audience Analysis and Determination.
Assignment: Begin audience analysis for YOUR website.

Week Five: (Feb. 8 & 10): HTML Markup Language
HTML and formatting fundamentals.
Understanding the processing procedure.
HTML and formatting fundamentals.
Organizing the file structure.
Developing the workflow
Uploading to a server

Week Six : (Feb. 15 & 17): Graphics
QUIZ: Mark-up Language basics.

Working with images. Digital photography
Assignment: By the end of this week, have taken a digital photo and modified it. Turn in the original and the modified version.
Week Seven: (Feb. 22 & 24): Graphics
Working with text.
Special Effects.
Animated images.
Assignment: Turn in a simple animation AND a special effects text piece by the beginningof the next class period (Feb 29).

A few examples of animated Gifs
Animated Gifs


Week Eight :(Feb 29 & March 2) : Class Presentations
Assignment: Website Description Due at beginning of class Feb. 29
Present Final Projects Proposal for comment and input.

Week Nine (March 7 & 9 ): Advanced HTML
HTML Code continued. Forms, Imagemaps, and such

Week Ten (March 14 & 16): Spring Break


Week Eleven (March 21 & 23): Working with Digital Audio
Audio Techniques and Uploading
Work Time

Week Twelve (March 28 & 30): Working with Video
Video Techniques and Uploading

Week Thirteen (April 6): Work Week

Week Fourteen (April 13): Ethics, law and impact.
Assignment: By class on Tuesday, identify one issue facing the web and prepare a 2 page brief about what the problem is and how the prošs and conšs. This will be the basis of our discussions in class.

Netscape practices to avoid
Knowledge gap

Week Fifteen (April 20): Work/troubleshooting.
Final projects should be uploaded for instructor viewing by this date-- even if not quite complete or a few bugs to work out!

Week Sixteen (April 27): Presentation
Show and Tell. Visit all the sites of your colleagues and do critiques.

Week Seventeen : Final Week. Presentation
Show and Tell. Visit all the sites of your colleagues and do critiques.

INSTRUCTOR:
Joel Geske
126 Hamilton
294-0477

geske@iastate.edu