In addition to the assignments below, each student is required to lead a 5-minute discussion on a technology news issue. The discussions will occur during the first 5 minutes of each class period. Go to the Course Outline for your assigned dates. In addition, the instructor will assign readings and require insights on the blog gradnewmedia.blogspot.com .
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| Assignment | Description | Skills |
| Student Bio - set up a site with at least four pages with bio info.. links and one image (photo). One page will be an assignment page that will hold links to other projects. | intermediate html, images, | |
| Student Bio Redesign - Use Dreamweaver and Photoshop, to redesign the personal site you made with html. | Dreamweaver - use of tables, rollovers and image maps Photoshop | |
| Select one online journalism Web site and review and analyze for credibility based on Web site evaluation lesson- present to class. | Site credibility issues | |
| Hobby or organization site-set up a Web site for a hobby or organization that you are affiliated (no more than 5 pages total). Must be a new site, not a redesign of an existing site. (examples, On That Note, fan pages, club pages, etc.) | Gif Animation - Basic Flash | |
| Flash Exercise | Flash Exercise - Use Flash to create a photo slideshow. Learn basic tweening and action script. | Flash |
| iMovie Exercise | apply basic video editing concepts like cropping, splitting clips, adding audio, transitions, so you can use them in your final project. | iMovie |
| Final Project & Draft | Multimedia Reporting Project - group project | use all or any of the html, design, multimedia, or animation skills that best fit nature of reporting project addl skills - forms, stylesheets
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