final
Working with colors
Using Opacity and Gradient colors
Organizing and layering graphics
Working with Layers
Arranging, locking and hiding layers
Transform menu and Free Transform tool
READING: White Space, Ch. 14, Designing for the Web QUIZ
11 ASSIGNMENT 8 DUE ASSIGNMENT 9(educational visualization) INTRODUCE FINAL PROJECT (multiple deadlines)
This foundation course grounds the study and application of integrated multimedia with aesthetic theory, design history, media computation, digital literacy, and cultural studies. This skills/theory class serves as the basis for all areas of interactive digital studies. Students will become well-versed in Photoshop (image compositing), Dreamweaver (website development), Flash (2-D animation and interactive graphics), After Effects (3-D animation), and Illustrator (digital drawing). __________________________________________________________
In-class challenges are to give you a chance to work at innovation and problemsovling through teamwork. IMMUNITY CHALLENGES are solo challenges; if you win an Immunity Challenge you will be excused from (and get full points for) the next assignment. __________________________________________________________
quizzes
10 Quizzes (out of 11) to test you on the reading material. Why quizzes? __________________________________________________________
30 points (3 points each)
final project
Final Project, 50 points: bring together at least 4 Creative Suite elements into a single layered project. Final project will be a presented on your website.
Bring both the theoretical and the skill aspects of the course together. The exam will be part written and part project-oriented. __________________________________________________________
10 points
Participation
I notice when you don't come to class and fail to adequately participate in class discussions.
No texting and/or facebooking during class, please. This works against you and your peers. __________________________________________________________
10 points
TOTAL POINTS: 180
Policies
LATE ASSIGNMENTS Please save work and be responsible for all saved work. Assignments handed in past the due date will not be counted.
ATTENDANCE
The responsibility for attending classes rests with the student. As the citizens of Iowa have every right to assume, students at UNI are expected to attend class. This idea is neither novel nor unreasonable. Students should realize that an hour missed cannot be relived, that work can seldom be made up 100%, and that made-up work seldom equals the original experience in class. Please don't ask any UNI instructor: "did I miss anything important?" Please don't expect a professor to "re-teach" a missed class during office hours. You are responsible from finding out--from your peers--what you missed.
ATTENDANCE POLICY As noted in the UNI Catalog, “Students are expected to attend class, and the responsibility for attending class rests with the student. Students are expected to learn and observe the attendance rules established by each instructor for each course. Instructors will help students to make up work whenever the student has to be absent for good cause; this matter lies between the instructor and student. Whenever possible, a student should notify the instructor in advance of circumstances which prevent class attendance.” (http://www.uni.edu/catalog/acadreg.shtml#attendance)
Attendance will be recorded for this course, and all unexcused absences will figure into the final grade. Attendance will also factor in the Participation part of the students’ grade.
A note on missing classes: If students miss class for a reason other than severe illness or other extenuating circumstances, it is NOT the instructor’s responsibility to re-teach material to students during office hours. Students missing class are responsible for making up all class instruction and activities and for finding out from peers what they missed.
ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
Plagiarism, cheating, improperly sourced work, and other academic misconduct will not be tolerated. The UNI Catalog is clear on this: “Students at the University of Northern Iowa are required to observe the commonly-accepted standards of academic honesty and integrity. Except in those instances in which group work is specifically authorized by the instructor of the class, no work which is not solely the student's is to be submitted to a professor in the form of an examination paper, a term paper, class project, research project, or thesis project. Cheating of any kind on examinations and/or plagiarism of papers or projects is strictly prohibited. Also unacceptable are the purchase of papers from commercial sources, using a single paper to meet the requirement of more than one class (except in instances authorized and considered appropriate by the professors of the two classes), and submission of a term paper or project completed by any individual other than the student submitting the work. Students are cautioned that plagiarism is defined as the process of stealing or passing off as one's own the ideas or words of another, or presenting as one's own an idea or product which is derived from an existing source.” See the UNI Catalog for full details.
WORK EXPECTATIONS The College guideline is that one semester hour of credit is the equivalent of approximately three hours of work (class time + out-of-class preparation) each week over the course of a whole semester. In a typical lecture/discussion course, each hour of class normally entails at least two hours of outside preparation for the average student. That means that for every week students should set aside 6 hours outside of class to work on classwork. This standard is the basis on which the Registrar's Office assigns hours of University credit for courses.
PRODUCTION HOUSE, ITTC SECOND FLOOR
The Production House is a multimedia production facility that is open to faculty, staff, and students. The Production House can create a media project for you or you can use our self-service facility and do it yourself. The Digital Design division of the Production House provides services ranging from digital graphics to complex design of Web pages and digital schemas.
Equipment
5 Apple iMac computers with Adobe CS5 Master Collection
Audio recording studio
DISABILITY SERVICES
The Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) provides protection from illegal
discrimination for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Students
requesting instructional accommodations due to disabilities must
arrange
for such accommodation through the Office of Disability Services.
The ODS is located at 103 Student Health Center, phone number: 273-2676.
Academic Learning Center's Free Assistance with Writing, Math, Reading and Learning Strategies The Writing Center offers one-on-one writing assistence open to all UNI undergraduate and graduate students. Writing Assistants offer strategies for getting started, citing and documenting, and editing your work. Visit the Online Writing Guide and schedule an appointment at 008 ITTC or 319-273-2361.
The Math Center offers individual and small-group tutorials especially helpful for students in Liberal Arts Core math courses. No appointment is necessary, but contact the Math Center at 008 ITTC or 319-273-2361 to make certain a tutor will be available at a time convenient for you.
The Reading and Learning Center provides an Ask-a-Tutor program, consultations with the reading specialist, and free, four-week, non-credit courses in Speed Reading, Effective Study Strategies, PPST-Reading and -Math, and GRE-Quantitative and Verbal. Visit this website and 008 ITTC or call 319-273-2361
