Email Instructor, Nita Sturiale

Fridays, 2:15-5:00 pm, Room 729, Tower Building.

Course Requirements:
€ Be present in body - come to class.
€ Be present in mind - participate in class discussion.
€ Read the readings and be prepared to discuss the readings at length in class.
• Keep a journal of your experience in the course
€ Create a project for yourself in three parts.
€ Completion of Mid-term Self Evaluation AND Final Self Evaluation.
€ Completion of final project and presention of your final work to the class.

Recommended Texts:
Visual Quickstart Guides, Adobe Photoshop 5
Designing Web Graphics, Lynda Weinman

Topical Overview: (topics I hope to cover in an order that fits the progress of the class)

• Reflection on the struggle to balance content with learning new computer skills based on your journals;
• Introduction to digital imaging with Photoshop;
• Image size and resolution;
• Classroom logistics; Establishing student ownership and responsibility for the digital equipment;
• Introduction to Hyperstudio multi-media software program;
• File format issues;
• Case Study of Cyber Arts Faces of Tomorrow Project;
• Output options; Printing possibilities; CDRoms; Online exhibits;
• Managing files;
• Overview of Other digital media education applications - Telementoring, Online exhibits, Distance learning, Discussion groups, Robotics.

Jan 22
Greetings - class logistics. Bits, Bytes and Pixels; Computer lab logistics; Mac Graphic User Interface;

Required: email account and a ZIP disk,
Activity: Define computer terms, Take digital portraits
Reading: The Reconfigured Eye, Mitchel
Assignment: Keep a journal of your experience learning what you are learning... right down frustrations, excitements, discoveries - chronicle YOUR learning experience so that you might better understand that of your students - each week one page of your notes will be collected.

Jan 29
Themebased Exploration... How do we start? It starts with your question; Scanning tutorial; File sharing/lab network; Photoshop Interface; Selection tools; Layers; File size.

Activity: Combine your digi. picture with someone else's in the class - make it look believable - work in pairs, no filters.

Feb 5
Content - what is your idea? Who is your audience? The skills you need to learn will be determined by your idea; What are your questions?

Activity: bring in 3 digital images or objects that interest you, scan them in.
Reading: Computers, Thinking and Schools in " The New Economic Order", Monty Neill

Feb 12
Visit to the MIT Media Lab Jr. Summit website; Your project proposal.....

Activity: sketch out a proposal for your project - a series of images that express an idea or question.

Feb 19
Intro to Hyperstudio

Reading: Drowning by MicroGallery, Riding

Feb 26 Project Part 1 due
More Hyperstudio

Activity: Create 3 pages of images and text with Hyperstudio.
Reading: Reflecting, Writing, Learning, and Teaching, paper by C. Erwin Johnson

Mar 5 Mid Term Self Evaluation
HTML intro;
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Present work in progress;

• Lynsey
• Cynthia

Activity: make a webpage!!!

Mar 12
Present work in progress; Lab time.

• Sara
• Aleesa
• Dominick

Reading: The Having of Wonderful Ideas, Duckworth

Mar 26
Lab time; More HTML?

Present work in progress;

• Karen
• Huong
• Dawn

Reading: Bridge To, Bridge From: The Arts, Technology and Education, Carol Gigliotti

Apr 2 Project Part 2 due
Present work;

Reading: The Digital Atelier, Fifield

Apr 9
Lab time; Present work;

Reading: Interface Culture, Johnson

April 16
Lab time; Present work;

April 23
Lab time; Present work;

Apr 30 Final Project due
Present work;