Aug 23

HTML/CSS refresher

Group Project Discussion

Aug 30

Jordan

Forms and Templates

• Forms and Form Processing
• Dreamweaver Templates

Sept. 6

Jason

More Action Scripting

• How to clear a browser's cache
• Flash Loading Screen
• Flash Components - Progress Bar
• Tutorial on Preloaders (.mov)
• Attaching a Movie Clip
• Using Flash to design an interactive quiz

Quiz 1 example (download .fla)

Sept. 13

Dee

Animated Infographics

Read the following articles from Online Journalism Review:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070523ruel/ - About Online Infographics

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060605niles/ - Interview with Adrian Holovaty

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070210ruel/index.cfm – When to Use Multimedia

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070614paul/ - Navigating Through Slideshows (added later, read if you have the chance)

We will look at these in class:

• Sun Sentinel - 10 Years After Hurricane Andrew
• Star Tribune - Iraq War Weapons
• USA Today - B-52
• NY Times Interactive Wealth Calculator
• NY Times VA Tech Shooting
• NY Times Rent vs. Buy
• Ivory Wars - Sights and Sounds ( start at 5:20)
• Ryksopp Video
• Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Flash Variables and Forms

• Flash Variables Handout
• Sample Files - simplevar.fla, text_scene.fla, radio.fla, flashform.fla

More CSS

• Flyout Menu

Sept. 20

Kerri

AJAX and XML concepts

AJAX, Javascript, XML handout

(Use Ctrl-Click to download files)

Load Data Into Table

• xml.html
• ajax2.js
• xml.php

Create a simple calculator

• index.html
• ajax.js
• backend.php

Flash with XML Quiz

• quiz_tutor.fla
• quiz_tutor.swf
• quiz.xml

W3 Schools Tutorials

Sept. 27

Marc

AJAX continued

Oct. 4

Irene

sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

• What is sIFR?
• sIFR Downloads & Documentation
• My sIFR files

Using Streaming Video

Streaming Video Handout

Oct. 11

Google Maps

• Read - Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World by Evan Ratliff, Wired July 07
  Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future by Bruce Sterling,Wired July 07
• Google Maps API - register for a key and go through the documentation for using the API (Application Programming Interface). The Google Maps API gives you a great deal of flexibility in creating your own maps applications. Developers use it for doing mashups with other applications and data. Applications are hosted on your own server.
• MyMaps - click on MyMaps in the Google window. This is a simpler, graphically-oriented method of creating your own Map applications. You can annotate maps, create markers, add photos and video. Maps are hosted on a Google server. Directions can be found here. Photos must be hosted somewhere on the Web. Videos must be hosted by YouTube or Google Video.

You must have a Google or Gmail acct to access these features.

Assignment - Using both techniques, create a map that might support some element of your project. Try both the photo and video techniques for MyMaps.

Search Engine Optimization

No class - Work on Projects

Watch Google Documentary

Oct. 25

PHP/MySQL

PHP Handout
• What is PHP?; easy PHP scripting - Hello World (file: helloworld.php)
• Using Server-side includes vs. iFrames (files: footertest.php, stuff.inc)
• Writing to a database (files: discuss1.php - form, d1.php - form processor, d1-reader.php - reader)

• Cindy Royal's Citation Program - Choose View Reports
• PHP.net
• W3 Schools PHP Tutorial
• Lynda.com PHP Essentials Tutorial - Several of the modules are free to view as a preview.
• MySQL.com
• MySQL install documentation