WEEK | TOPIC | READINGS, DUE DATES, AND ASSIGNMENTS |
WEEK 1 | ||||
Tuesday Jan 10 |
Course Overview
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Thursday Jan 12 |
Lab: build three divs that have 3 different elevations.
IDC Design Review: CRAP |
LAB 1 |
WEEK 2 | ||||
Tuesday Jan 17 |
Revisit Shadow.html lab assignment Elevation (beautiful example)QUIZ Material Design/Motion overviewBLOG PRESENTATION: https://material.uplabs.com/ Bettina Notes are HERE.NEW TOOL: http://tumult.com/hype/ DEMO – JACK HORAN BEST CSS Animations: http://www.awwwards.com/websites/css3/Go over SELF VISUALSPHONE
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DUE: SELF VISUAL |
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Thursday Jan 19 |
LAB: CSS Animation: Introduction | LAB 2 |
WEEK 3 | ||||
Tuesday, Jan 24 |
BLOG PRESENTATION: Smashing Magazine:ALEXIS HILL NEW TOOL: Affinity Designer (an update on “Freehand” that will be giving Adobe a bit of a challenge–GREAT VIDEO) $49.99 NATHAN PHILIPSCSS: Refresher Exercise (Go to eLearning/Week 3 and download the”Lab 3″ exercise files)
Material Design |
DUE: 2-paragraph reading response–questions in elearning; upload in elearning. Go to Content/Assignments/Reading Responses/Reading Responses #3 to submit the answers to your questions. |
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Thursday, Jan 26 |
Lab: JAVASCRIPT exercise: working with style, color and icons IMPORTANT EVENT TONIGHT (REQUIRED): Thursday, the 26th at 7:00 Kamerick 111 |
LAB 3
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WEEK 4 | ||||
Tuesday, Jan 31 |
BLOG PRESENTATION: Creative Bloq – SPENCER MOSER NEW TOOL: Adobe Spark –DEVON METTLIN Show Layout tools from Material Design.Roboto Download (show how you can change Google Font interface colors)ADDING FONTS LAB WE DID TODAY |
DUE: 10-question take-home quiz based on the reading. It’s waiting for you in elearning/Content/Assignments/Reading Responses/Reading Response #4. |
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Thursday, Feb 2 |
Lab JAVASCRIPT exercise continued : working with imagery, speed, and typography. | LAB 4 |
WEEK 5 | ||||
Tuesday, Feb 7 |
BLOG PRESENTATION: AWWWARDS–RACHEL LARSEN NEW TOOL: PROTOTYPING SOFTWARE
Proud and Torn demo project: with Collin. |
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Thursday, Feb 9 |
NO CLASS: FIELD TRIP ON FRIDAY, FEB. 10 (REQUIRED)
Mechdyne (Marshalltown) (10am) BAD WEATHER date: Feb. 17 |
WEEK 6 | ||||
Tuesday, Feb. 14 |
What is good data? Quantified Self David McCandless/Visual Miscellenium
Data Art Data Entertainment
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DUE: Parallax Assignment
DUE: 2-paragraph reading response–questions in elearning; upload in elearning
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Thursday, Feb. 16 |
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TABLEAU PROJECT ASSIGNED
LAB 5 |
WEEK 7 | ||||
Tuesday, Feb 21 |
BLOG Presentation: Flowing Data – BLAKE STALLMAN NEW TOOL: GAPMINDER Gapminder/Hans Rosling (start at 3:14 and go to 4:53) Edward Tufte William Playfair Alexander von Humbolt Data Ink Ratio Some other tools for visualizing data:
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DUE: 2-paragraph reading response in elearning
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Thursday, Feb 23 |
Lab: Tableau | SUGGESTED TABLEAU TUTORIALS
TABLEAU: (LYNDA): Tableau: Essential Training LAB 6 |
WEEK 8 | ||||
Tuesday, Feb 28 |
VISUALIZATION FROM MELISSA
BLOG Presentation: Upshot– CAMILLE DE LA CRUZ
TABLEAU
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DUE: 2-paragraph reading response in elearning: go to Content/Assignments/Reading Responses/Reading Response # 8. THIS IS OUR LAST READING OF THE SEMESTER 🙂 SUGGESTED TABLEAU TUTORIALS |
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Thursday, Mar 2 |
TABLEAU PUBLIC TUTORIALS
Lab: Bird Strikes |
LAB 7 |
WEEK 9 | ||||
Tuesday, Mar 7 |
VIEW TABLEAU PROJECTS
BLOG PRESENTATION: https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/blog BRENDAN BENSON NEW TOOL: TOOL: ROB BREMNER Tableau Student visualization contest: https://public.tableau.com/s/Student-Viz-Assignment-Contest Tableau conferences: http://tclive.tableau.com/SignUp
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DUE: Tableau Project at the beginning of class. Upload twbx file to eLearning. | ||
Thursday, Mar 9 |
NO CLASS (to make up for the Mark Dion visit) AARON DRAPLIN TONIGHT 7pm KAB 111 |
WEEK 10: SPRING BREAK: March 11-March 19
WEEK 11 | ||||
Tuesday, Mar 21 |
BLOG PRESENTATION: http://motionographer.com/– SHAY SAATHOFF NEW TOOL: from CALVIN JOHANSSEN! Ease and wizz: http://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz/Introduction to After Effects: Isaac Campbell, guest speakerVIEW:Vox: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA
Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt |
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Thursday, Mar 23 |
Lab: go through AE basics: fun animations a la CMM | AFTER EFFECTS/INTERACTIVE WEB PROJECT ASSIGNED |
WEEK 12 | ||||
Tuesday, Mar 28 |
BLOG Presentation: https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/ – CONNER THORSON New Tool: http://codepen.io/AE: text animation templates; kinetic typography.SARAH PATE |
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Thursday, Mar 30 |
Lab: Animating Text : everyone write a sentence… Bone tool. |
ASSIGN: Green Screen Footage (prepare props, etc. for Tuesday). Due Apr. 6.
LAB 8 |
WEEK 13 | ||||
Tuesday, Apr 4 |
BLOG Presentation: https://www.lynda.com/ CLINTON OLSASKY New tool: https://www.paintcodeapp.com/ BRENDAN BENSON AE: SHOOT GREEN SCREEN footage capture in Rod library (have students think about and prepare). |
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Thursday, Apr 6 |
AE Keylight tutorial Lab: Integrating Green screen footage into AE. BF: View concept/plan documents (check off) |
WEEK 14 | ||||
Tuesday, Apr 11 |
BLOG PRESENTATION: oneextrapixel.com – ADRIAN MITCHELL NEW TOOL: TinyPng (+ jpg) AUSTIN STONEWork on AE ProjectBF: View concept/plan documents (check off) |
DUE: Proven work towards AE/Interactive Web project | ||
Thursday, Apr 13 |
Lab: How to put in a background View concept/plan documents (check off) |
DUE: Green Screen footage |
WEEK 15 | ||||
Tuesday, Apr 18 |
NEW tool: MIRO ROB BREMNER
BF: View concept/plan documents (check off) |
DUE: Proven work towards AE/Interactive Web project |
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Thursday, Apr 20 |
BF: View concept/plan documents (check off) | DUE: Proven work towards AE/Interactive Web project |
WEEK 16 | ||||
Tuesday, Apr 25 |
Lab:Incorporate video into project. Animated Gifs vs. Looped video vs. Sprites vs looped video: including video into web project Integrating video into website: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/02/29/top-10-ways-to-embed-video-into-a-web- Coding a video for the web (ogg theora, webmd, mp4) BF: View concept/plan documents (check off) |
DUE: Proven work towards AE/Interactive Web project | ||
Thursday, Apr 27 |
Incorporate CSS animation/button into project | DUE: Significant work towards on AE/Interactive Web project |
WEEK 17 | |||
Wed May 3 8-9:50 am |
AE PROJECT PRESENTATION | Final Project |