| Description |
Due Date |
| Week 1 - Jan. 19 | |
| Exercise: FERPA | ic |
| READING: Syllabus, Lab Policies, Open Lab Information | ic |
| If you are not exercsing your FERPA rights, please fill out the Student Profile. You need to fill this out once each semester, even if you're taking multiple NLC web design classes. | ic |
| EXERCISE (Required): Scavenger Hunt | 1/26 |
| Critical Viewing: Flash Animations | ic |
| Hands-on practice: Tweening | ic |
| Week 2 - January 26 | |
| Chapters 1 - 3 | |
| Storyboard Due Next Week | |
| Week 3 - February 2 | |
| Homework: Ch. 4 | 2/9 |
| View Todd Galina, Flash Animator -- pay particular attention to use of symbols. | ic |
| Storyboard Evaluation | ic |
| In Class: Create symbols for Sesame Street movie | 2/9 |
| Week 4 - Feb. 9 | |
| Homework: Ch. 5 | 2/16 |
| Homework: Bring in *any* animation on DVD, VCR tape, or the web. You can bring in a movie, a cartoon, a movie trailer, etc. We will use these to talk about movement and color. | 2/16 |
| Project: Shape Tween Animation | 2/16 |
| Week 5- Feb. 16 | |
| Week 6- Feb. 23 | |
| Week 7- March 2 | |
| Week 8- March 9 | |
| SPRING BREAK March 16 -- Your instructor is not required to answer email or telephone on official school holidays. | |
| Week 9- March 23 | |
| Week 10- March 30 | |
| Week 11 - April 6 | |
| Week 12 - April 13 | |
| Last day to drop -- April 14 | |
| Week 13 - April 20 | |
| Week 14 - April 27 | |
| Week 15 - May 4 | |
| Week 16 - May 11 | |
- Bookwork = Chapters in text. You should work through each chapter, performing all exercises. Bookwork chapters are required assignments (graded and checked off as completed) and are to be uploaded to the NL server.
- Readings = Articles for reading--not graded.
- Topics = Short graded papers or projects. These assignments may be uploaded to the NL server or sent to your instructor as attachments to e-mail messages. These assignments are graded.
- Quizzes = One online multiple-choice quiz over the copyright guidelines. This quiz will be scored automatically and the score sent to your instructor. Six other short answer quizzes over the text chapters are to be completed in MS Word and submitted as attachments to e-mail messages. All quizzes are graded based on a 100 point system.
- Exercises = Ungraded assignments that expand on material in the textbook. Some are required and some are optional. See calendar for required or optional.
- Projects = Graded assignments. Projects take from the equivalent of two class sessions to an entire semester. Uploaded to the NL server. A project evaluation form is used. See calendar for the form.
- References = Documents provided for additional information. You will never be tested on a reference document. If you're falling behind, the reference documents should be ignored.
- Admin = Administrative items needed to make the class run more smoothly.
- Notes = Tips on how to handle particular assignments.
= Content posted after we've covered associated material
in class.
= Gallery of web sites serving as examples of techniques or
concepts discussed in class
= Viewlet (short movie) demonstrating a software technique. Hover over
the icon to see the show's title. Please remember that a Viewlet's content
does not reflect all the material in a chapter.
= Link to a website used in lecture. Hover over the icon to see the site's
name or URL.
= Supplemental reading