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. Some of these assignments will deal with SXSW Interactive.
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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 | |
| Troubleshooting Assignment | Fix problems on an existing page to demonstrate code knowledge. | Troubleshooting |
| 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 | |
| JQuery Exercise | JQuery Exercise - use JQuery/Javascript to create a photo slideshow | JQuery |
| 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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