Assignments
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Blog Profile Quick blog profiles, completed in class on 1/14/10. |
20 | Thu, Jan 14 |
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Quiz 1 A short, in-class quiz covering Here Comes Everybody chaper 1, Convergence Culture's Introduction, and the course... |
20 | Thu, Jan 21 |
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Blog Proposal Blogging will be a major component of the work you complete this semester. As part of your Digital Identity... |
50 | Thu, Jan 21 |
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Logo Sketches In class today, we shared logo analyses and sketches. If you were prepared for this assignment, and you participated in it, you get credit. |
20 | Thu, Jan 28 |
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Use Twitter Follow at least 20 twitter accounts. Upload a profile picture. |
20 | Tue, Feb 2 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 1 For this checkpoint, prepare a brief metablog entry in which you reflect on the state of your blog so far, including any major challenges you've... |
25 | Thu, Feb 4 |
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Blog Logo By the beginning of class today (February 4), please complete your blog's logo, and add it to your feed on the class website. You can use whatever... |
20 | Thu, Feb 4 |
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Quiz 2 This short quiz will cover material from the assigned reading (Roland Barthes, and Henry Jenkins, mainly) and recent discussion. ... |
20 | Thu, Feb 11 |
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Meaningful Image Instructions for Meaningful Image assignment. Your goal in this assignment is to construct and analyze a meaningful image. This should be... |
80 | Tue, Feb 16 |
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Ghost Story First, create your own ghost "proof" image by manipulating a photograph. You may use your own photo, or find one through a... |
20 | Tue, Feb 23 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 2 For this metablog, I want to think about your blog in terms of audience. Who is reading your blog? Who isn't? More importantly, how can you move... |
25 | Thu, Feb 25 |
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Quiz 3 This quiz will cover essential typographic terminology, as introduced in Thinking with Type. Here's the link:... |
20 | Thu, Mar 11 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 3 For this checkpoint, reflect on your blog's progress so far. Identify at least one of the measures from your last metablog that you've... |
25 | Thu, Mar 11 |
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In-Class Typography Assignment Working with a group of peers, create a typographic interpretation of a selected quote by Ellen Lupton, following the set of constraints provided... |
20 | Thu, Mar 11 |
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In-Class Typography Assignment (Grid) Use the established grid constraint to design a page image composed of selected quotes from Lupton. |
20 | Tue, Mar 16 |
Expressive TypographyOverviewFor this assignment, your goal is to create an interesting, expressive artifact of typography. This may be a static image like a... |
80 | Thu, Mar 18 |
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Typeface Quiz This quiz will cover material from the Helvetica film. Also, I will ask you to identify typefaces from samples I give you. Those... |
20 | Tue, Mar 23 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 4 In this metablog, I want you to pay attention to the look and feel of your blog. What typefaces does your theme use? What effects do those have?... |
25 | Thu, Mar 25 |
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CSS Quiz |
20 | Tue, Mar 30 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 5 For this metablog, continue to discuss your blog's design and your plans for the current web re-design project. If you have room, include a link... |
25 | Thu, Apr 1 |
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Style Overview: |
80 | Tue, Apr 6 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 6 As we near the end of the semester, reflect on your blog over recent weeks. Have your topics changed? Have you remained consistent in posting? If... |
25 | Thu, Apr 8 |
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Quiz (Final) |
20 | Thu, Apr 22 |
Web EssayGoalsWhereas "Don't make your users think" is a mantra of web design, your approach in this paper is the opposite -- Do make your |
140 | Thu, Apr 22 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 7 How do people find your blog? What search queries are they using? More importantly, what keyphrases and terms do you want them to... |
25 | Thu, Apr 22 |
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Digital Identity This project is the culmination of all your work semester. As I am defining it here, your Digital Identity is the cumulative expression of who you... |
200 | Thu, Apr 29 |
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Metablog Checkpoint 8 In this final metablog entry, look back at your your original proposal and early metablogs. How you have you achieved/failed to achieve your goals... |
25 | Thu, Apr 29 |
