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Introduction to Fireworks

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  • Fireworks Workspace
  • Creating Shapes
  • Working with Typography
  • Cropping and Resizing

Complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.

You should email this icon to me before class next Thursday. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck!

Semester Wrap Up

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Assignment

Research JavaScript Implementation for Final

Progressive Enhancement and Site Planning

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Assignment

Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email before class on Tuesday.

Begin looking for ways you can implement jQuery into your final project. Identify what is it you’d like to do (image gallery, carousel, lazy load etc.) and begin researching what it takes to get it implemented. Your assignment for the weekend will be to get something working you can submit a week from Tuesday.

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Introduction to jQuery

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Additional Reading and Study – Javascript 101

Read the following Article on Progressive Enhancement. Send me an email (tswallace@ualr.edu) explaining progressive enhancement in your own words. Please discuss why it is important to use progressive enhancement and include a link to another article you found and read relating to the topic. Due before class Tuesday.

Usability Testing

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Assignment

Please write a blog post regarding today’s usability tests. I’d like you talk in detail about your observations from both tests and your thoughts as to why usability testing is a valuable part of the design/development workflow.

Service Learning Project

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  • Service Learning Project Topic – Submit for Approval
  • Team Organization – Who is responsible for what. Everyone should have a role.
  • Project Scheduling – Book your date and time with the DSC for your booth (Week Before Finals)
  • Submit to me as a Google Doc your project proposal (1 Per Team). This document should include all of the information listed above. Due to me by next Monday. Be prepared to give a status report to the class (one per team).
  • You are welcome to meet as a team later this week and begin work on the project. I’ll try and get your topic approved within 24 hours of submitting your proposal. After today, you’ll have two full sessions to work on the project before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Working ahead is in your best interest.

Validation

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Assignment

Due on Tuesday 11.03.15

  • Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page.
  • Upload the file to your web space. The url should be ualr.edu/username/prototype/. Make sure you name the file index.html
  • Read the following article before class on Tuesday – CSS Basics

Image Optimization

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Assignment

Create Banner image for your sample page in Fireworks. The image should be as wide as your container div and between 80px and 200px tall and less than 40kb in size. Emailed tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Tuesday. Have fun with this. You can make an image for anything. It could be a company, an event, a hobby etc. I’d like to see the following elements present in your design. Typographical Element, some sort of photographic element or vector artwork, and a consistent color scheme (Try Kuler).

Next class I’ll show you how to integrate this image into your template page properly. Please bring the file to class.

Working with HTML5

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Introduction to Fireworks

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  • Fireworks Workspace
  • Creating Shapes
  • Working with Typography
  • Cropping and Resizing

Assignment

Complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.

You should email this icon to me before class next Thursday. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck! If you’d like you can download a 30 day trial of Fireworks on your own computer so you can work off campus.

Introduction to Fireworks

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  • Review Positioning Exercises
  • Fireworks Workspace
  • Creating Shapes
  • Working with Typography
  • Cropping and Resizing

Assignment

Complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.

You should email this icon to me before class next Thursday. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck! If you’d like you can download a 30 day trial of Fireworks on your own computer so you can work off campus.

Introduction to HTML5

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Assignment

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

Human Gesture and Action Recognition from Video

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  • Volunteer for the EAC open house by emailing Kendra Boyle <kpboyle@ualr.edu>. For more details please view the flyer.

Assignments

  1. Complete the final two sessions of Power Searching with Google.
  2. Write a blog post about 5 new tips/tricks you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information. Due October 20th.
  3. After your presentation, Write a Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.

Structure, Content, Design & Behavior

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Assignment

Evaluate your favorite web site based on our discussion of Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior. This is a written assignment that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than 10-6-15. Make sure you discuss the following elements: Site URL, An assessment of the Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior of the site, Things you like about the site, Things you would change.

SOCIS Workshop

Game Development and Digital Art using Unity by Jason Zack – October 1 – EIT 203 – 6:00

Introduction to CSS

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Assignment

Read: Getting to Know CSS |  Getting to know the  Box Model – This is quiz material.

SOCIS Workshop

Game Development and Digital Art using Unity by Jason Zack – October 1 – EIT 203 – 6:00

Web Related Terminology

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Evaluate your favorite web site based on our discussion of Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior. This is a written assignment that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than 10-6-15. Make sure you discuss the following elements: Site URL, An assessment of the Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior of the site, Things you like about the site, Things you would change.

Introduction to CSS

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Assignment

Read: Getting to Know CSS |  Getting to know the  Box Model – This is quiz material.

SOCIS Workshop

Game Development and Digital Art using Unity by Jason Zack – October 1 – EIT 203 – 6:00

MBTI Debrief and Individual Presentations

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  • Cheryl Johnston MBTI Debrief
  • Individual Presentations

Assignments

  • On your blog, Discuss what you learned about yourself by completing the MBTI. Do some research regarding the outcome. Do you feel it is an accurate representation of your personality? How is this information useful when working with others?

  • After your presentation, Write a Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.

Understanding Web Related Terminology

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Assignments

  1. This week you should complete the Power Searching with Google course as homework. Be prepared to discuss when we return to class next Tuesday. Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6
  2. Due next Thursday – Write a blog post about 5 new tips/trick you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information.
  3. Read – The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards

Introduction to CSS

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Assignment

Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.

Join us for the 2 Days to Start-up Interest meeting – Tuesday, September 22 at 12:15pm in EIT 322

Web Based Services and Presentation Technologies

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Assignment

  1. Be prepared to to present to the class next Monday. Make sure you follow the requirements listed here.
  2. Complete the third and fourth sessions of Power Searching with Google.
  3. Upcoming Sessions
    • 9/28 – MBTI Debrief and Individual Presentations
    • 10/5 – Individual Presentations
    • 10/12 – Fall Break
    • 10/19 – Robotics w/ Professor Dan Berleant
    • 10/26 – Emerging Analytics Center Visit