1/8 · Overview and Intro to HTML

1/10 · Is Luddism the answer?

Listen: First Person Podcast Episode: The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement

1/13 · Collaborating with the Digital

Read: The Techno Optimist Manifesto

1/15 · HTML Tutorial

Read: Webpage Building Blocks

1/17 · CSS Tutorial

1/20 · MLK Day - No Class

1/22 · Modes of Meaning

1/24 · Rhetorical Analysis and Design Choices

Read: Ch. 2-3 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

1/27 · In class work on HTML/CSS Quiz

1/29 · Photoshop Tutorial /

1/31 · Photoshop Group Challenge and Genre Analysis, HTML Quiz Due

Read: Ch. 4 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

2/3 · In class lab time Blog #1 Due

2/5 · In class lab time

Read:"A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft" by James Somers (pdf on Canvas)

2/7 · In class lab time Introductory Website Due by 5pm

2/10 · Introduction to Video Project and Storyboarding and

2/12 · Video Production

Watch: Basic Camera Shots and Three Point Lighting

2/14 · Multimodal Sources and Copyright

Read: Ch. 5 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

2/17 · Video Editing

2/19 · Storyboard Due - Storyboard Peer Review

2/21 · In class lab time

2/24 · Video Project Presentations

2/26 · Video Project Presentations

2/28 · Video Project Presentations

3/3 · Introduce Group Project, Click this link to fill out form

3/5 · Collaborating on Digital Projects

3/7 · Introduction to InDesign

Read: Ch. 6 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

3/10 · Spring Break - No Class

3/12 · Spring Break - No Class

3/14 · Spring Break - No Class

3/17 · Genre Analysis Discussion

Read: Ch. 10-11 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

3/19 · Ronson Final Discussion Team Contract Due

Read: Ch. 15 So You've Been Publicly Shamed

3/21 · Rhetorical Analysis for Projects Genre Analysis Report Due

3/24 · Lab Workday - Quiz #2 Due and Blog #2 Due

3/26 · Group Conferences

3/28 · Lab Workday

3/31 · Lab Workday - Mockup and Storyboard Due

4/2 · Lab Workday - Blog #3 Due

4/4 · No Class (Dr. Overall @ Conference

4/7 · Metadata and Search Engine Optimization

Read: Google SEO PDF

4/9 · Lab Workday

4/11 · Usability Testing, Rough Draft Due

4/14 · Final preparations for site development and presentations

4/16 · SPARK Symposium - No Class

4/18 · Easter Break - No Class

4/21 · Easter Break - No Class

4/23 · Belmont Humanities Symposium Presentations - Multimedia Project Due

4/29 · Individual Portfolio Due and Final Exam presentations @ 9 am