Class Agenda: December 3, 2009

December 3, 2009

Flash CS3 Lab

Adobe Flash CS3 Lab

In Class Lab

Due December 3, 2009

Posting

  • Post a link to your Blogger blog on this class blog, categorize the post “My Media Blog” and include a screenshot of your Blogger blog.
  • Post a link to your Web site on this class blog, categorize the post “Website” and include a screenshot of your Web site.

Reading

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 10, 11 and 12 through the end of the book. This is starts on page 191 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book.
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author. Categorize this post “We the Media 4″.

Lynda Assignment, (all topics in these chapters)

Flash CS3 Professional Fundamentals

  • Introduction
  • Flash Isn’t Just for Animation Anymore
  • Getting Started
  • Using the Drawing and Color Tools
  • Animating in Flash
  • Creating Shape Tweens
  • Creating Symbols and Instances

Final Project All Episodes:
This must be done so I can post to the server. See about the final.

Final Day: Thursday, December 10, 2009; 5:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
As well as presenting your final you will be turning in the final version of your Web site.


Class Agenda: November 19, 2009

November 18, 2009

Video on getting a Blogger blog

Lab assignments

We get Blogger Blogs

Step one – get the Blogger blog
These are going to be your video (or audio) blogs, also known as vlogs. Our lab today will be to get a Blogger Blog. This will be the first step in creating our Vlog and then our Podcast! Here is a great video by the fine folks at freevlog.com about getting a Blogger blog. Create a Blogger Blog and create a link to that blog from this blog. You will post the first of your episodes there today. For this assignment to be completed you need to post a link to it on this blog, entitle the link “My Media Blog” and include a screenshot of your Blogger blog (See How To’s below)  [Related Video]

Step two – post your first video (or audio)
After you create your Blogger Blog you post your first episode to it. This is a basic and critical skill for video blogging. You have to do this for your vlog to be a vlog. Here is the info you need! [Related PDF]

Step three – get an RSS feed
After you get your Blogger blog you will create an RSS feed using Feedburner. This evening we will be using Feedburner to create a podcast RSS feed to your vlog. The screen shots shown here are from the Freevlog tutorial “Get an RSS Feed.”

This pdf guide is meant to supplement, not replace, the fine video by Ryanne Hodson and the good folks at Freevlog. [Related PDF | Related Video]

Step four – verify your podcast works!
Now is the time to test your podcast. I use the term “test” quite literally here. iTunes is what you will be presenting your Final Presentation from! You do not want this to fail! [Related PDF]

Other How To’s

Due November 19, 2009

Lynda Assignment, (all topics in these chapters)

Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, with: Garrick Chow

  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • The Interface
  • Site Control
  • Document Basics
  • Linking
  • CSS Essentials

Final Project First Episode:
This must be done to do the class lab! Please bring in your appropriately formatted  media file and an appropriately edited and sized jpeg file. The movie’s file name should be 01.mov and the JPEG should be 01.jpg for posting. See about the final.

Due in two weeks, December 3, 2009

Posting

  • Post a link to your Blogger blog on this class blog, categorize the post “My Media Blog” and include a screenshot of your Blogger blog.
  • Post a link to your Web site on this class blog, categorize the post “Website” and include a screenshot of your Web site.

Reading

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 10, 11 and 12 through the end of the book. This is starts on page 191 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book.
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author. Categorize this post “We the Media 4″.

Lynda Assignment, (all topics in these chapters)

Flash CS3 Professional Fundamentals

  • Introduction
  • Flash Isn’t Just for Animation Anymore
  • Getting Started
  • Using the Drawing and Color Tools
  • Animating in Flash
  • Creating Shape Tweens
  • Creating Symbols and Instances

Final Project All Episodes:
This must be done so I can post to the server. See about the final.

Final Day: Thursday, December 10, 2009; 5:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
As well as presenting your final you will be turning in the final version of your Web site.


Class Agenda: November 12, 2009

November 12, 2009

Dreamweaver Lab

Due Today, November 12, 2009

Reading Assignment:
“We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor. Please read Chapters 7, 8 and 9 through the end of Chapter 9. This is up through page 190 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 3″.

Final Project Plan:
At least one paragraph outlining what your final project will be and how you plan to carry it out. Describe the overall theme and ideas you may have on doing at least three episodes of your project. Be sure to specify the software and equipment you plan to use and how that will be used. Label this post “Final Project Plan”.

Due Next Week, November 19, 2009

Lynda Assignment, (all topics in these chapters)

Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, with: Garrick Chow

  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • The Interface
  • Site Control
  • Document Basics
  • Linking
  • CSS Essentials

Final Project First Episode:
This must be done to do the class lab! See about the final.

Due in three weeks, December 3, 2009

Reading

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 10, 11 and 12 through the end of the book. This is starts on page 191 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 4″
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author.

Lynda Assignment, (all topics in these chapters)

Flash CS3 Professional Fundamentals

  • Introduction
  • Flash Isn’t Just for Animation Anymore
  • Getting Started
  • Using the Drawing and Color Tools
  • Animating in Flash
  • Creating Shape Tweens
  • Creating Symbols and Instances

Final Project All Episodes:
This must be done so I can post to the server. See about the final.


Making money with journalism skills

November 6, 2009

Shawn Smith, a Web promotion and Internet marketing scientist, wrote this post on How to Make Money with Your J-Skills:

In this post, I’ll give you an 8-step plan for getting started with skills monetization outside of newspapers and a few excellent examples for putting your skills to work. Let’s get started (which is often the hardest part).

There are some good ideas here.


Class Agenda: November 5, 2009

November 5, 2009

Sample movie from previous final

Sample Movie

URL:

http://www.edupodder.com/mcom63/09fa/sample/01.jpg

This is the drop dead deadline for Mid-term redos!

In Class Today

Audacity Lab 1
This lab introduces audio editing using the free open source audio wave form editor, Audacity. In this lab students will download a sample wav formatted file and, using the Audacity software, edit the audio and export it as an MP3.

Due: Today, November 5, 2009

Lynda Assignment on Dreamweaver

  1. Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, with: Garrick Chow
    1. Introduction
    2. Getting Started
    3. The Interface
    4. Site Control
    5. Document Basics
    6. Linking
    7. CSS Essentials
  2. View all the segments in the listed chapters, including the introduction.

Due Next Week, November 12, 2009

Reading Assignment:
“We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor. Please read Chapters 7, 8 and 9 through the end of Chapter 9. This is up through page 190 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 3″.

Final Project Plan:
At least one paragraph outlining what your final project will be and how you plan to carry it out. Describe the overall theme and ideas you may have on doing at least three episodes of your project. Be sure to specify the software and equipment you plan to use and how that will be used. Label this post “Final Project Plan”.


Class Agenda; October 29, 2009

October 29, 2009

Student using wireless network

Changes are coming to the SJSU Wireless Network.

Lab

  • iMovie Lab 2
    This lab introduces the screen capture utility Grab. It also combines the skills learned in previous labs. Primarily iMovie 1 where you created a Quicktime movie. Photoshop 1 where you resized photos. This is the process you will use to create video blog entries for your vlog and for your video podcast. Give your post the category “My Lunch” class time will be allotted for this, but you are not required to do this in class.

     

Assignments

Due: Today

In Class Lab, My Lunch:
What did you have for lunch today, October 29, 2009

  • Save your movie file as mylunch.mov
  • Save your screenshot as mylunch.jpg
  • Give to the instructor in class on a flash drive or burned onto a CD for posting to the Web site.
  • You will lose five points if your name is not on the flash drive or CD.

Due: Next Week, November 5, 2009

Lynda Assignment on Dreamweaver

  1. Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, with: Garrick Chow
    1. Introduction
    2. Getting Started
    3. The Interface
    4. Site Control
    5. Document Basics
    6. Linking
    7. CSS Essentials
  2. View all the segments in the listed chapters, including the introduction.

Class Agenda: Oct 22, 2009

October 22, 2009

Jelly Fish

Let’s talk about video blogging

According to Wikipedia, Videoblogging is:

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog is a blog that comprises video. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Vlogs also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using RSS syndication format, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Though many vlogs are collaborative efforts, the majority of vlogs and vlog entries are authored by individuals.

Some related links:

What is a video blog?

  • A vlog is a blog with posts that contain video and uses the structure of the blog as its content management system.
  • A vlog is not a movie on YouTube or Blip or a video anywhere else, or a Youtube or Blip channel. Typically the vlog contains both video and related text that puts the video in context.
  • A vlog is episodic and personal.
  • A vlog, like all blogs, is a channel in reverse chronological order.
  • A vlog usually allows comments and usually has an associated RSS feed.
  • Each episode on a vlog has a web accessible URL.
  • A vlog can often be converted into a video podcast.

Sample Video Blog (vlog)

List of vlog posts:

Mid-Term

InDesign CS3 Mid-Term Project

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 4, 5 and 6 through the end of Chapter 6. This is up through page 135 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 2″
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author.

The following projects have been posted to the server:

aguilar, anaya, bifulco, chan, elston, ereso, gill, gonzalez, heller, macdonald, makris, sato, tang, yangj, yangs, young

Due Today

Lynda Assignment
View iMovie HD 6 + iDVD 6 Essential Training, First Four Chapters and all the video segments in them. Here are the titles of those chapters:

  1. Getting Started
  2. Shooting Great Video
  3. iMovie ’06 Interface Essentials
  4. Importing Video

Today’s Lab

[Handout Here]

iMovie Lab 1
If you cannot think of anything to say, read the following:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

If you cannot make it to class for this lab, please see this post.


Class Agenda: Oct. 15, 2009

October 15, 2009

Jelly Fish

Let’s talk about video blogging

According to Wikipedia, Videoblogging is:

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog is a blog that comprises video. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Vlogs also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using RSS syndication format, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Though many vlogs are collaborative efforts, the majority of vlogs and vlog entries are authored by individuals.

Some related links:

What is a video blog?

  • A vlog is a blog with posts that contain video and uses the structure of the blog as its content management system.
  • A vlog is not a movie on YouTube or Blip or a video anywhere else, or a Youtube or Blip channel. Typically the vlog contains both video and related text that puts the video in context.
  • A vlog is episodic and personal.
  • A vlog, like all blogs, is a channel in reverse chronological order.
  • A vlog usually allows comments and usually has an associated RSS feed.
  • Each episode on a vlog has a web accessible URL.
  • A vlog can often be converted into a video podcast.

Sample Video Blog (vlog)

List of vlog posts:

Due Today

InDesign CS3 Mid-Term Project

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 4, 5 and 6 through the end of Chapter 6. This is up through page 135 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 2″
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author.

Due Thursday October 22

Lynda Assignment
View iMovie HD 6 + iDVD 6 Essential Training, First Four Chapters and all the video segments in them. Here are the titles of those chapters:

  1. Getting Started
  2. Shooting Great Video
  3. iMovie ’06 Interface Essentials
  4. Importing Video

Class Agenda; October 8

October 7, 2009

Assignments

Assignment: Due October 8 (Today)

  • Blogging Assignment “Did You You Know 2.0.”
  • Lynda Lynda, InDesign CS3 Essential Training with David Blatner: finish the remaining chapters and all videos inside them.

Assignments: Due October 15 (Next Week) There will be lab time today and next week!

InDesign CS3 Mid-Term Project
Due In Class Next Week

The InDesign CS3 project will be announced in class today!

The theme is, “what I like and what I do not like at SJSU.” Your audience is the university community including the students, faculty and staff at SJSU. It will utilize the skills you have learned in the previous Photoshop and InDesign Labs.

  • You must have at least four stories, which you have written, at least two likes and two dislikes. Yes, you have to write stories and they will be part of the grade. You are training to be professional communicators, so spelling, punctuation all matter. The stories must fit in the space you allot them in the newsletter!
  • This is a two page newsletter with a name, a date, at least two pictures and an issue number. You will lose points for more or less than two pages!
  • If you use art other than what is listed below please be sure to credit the source and be prepared to prove you have the right to use the material.

Bring this newsletter into class next week in PDF form, on either a flash drive or burned onto a CD. DO NOT e-mail me the project.

IN CLASS NEXT WEEK:

  • You will name your PDF newsletter “newsletter.pdf” (all lower case, without the quote marks.)
  • You must bring me the file, you should be sure to keep a copy. You will be handing over to me your flash drive or CD!
  • After I  put the file on a server you will be given the url to your story and a photo to the cover of your newsletter. Then you will post on this blog introducing your newsletter and create a blog link to your newsletter.
  • You will label that post “InDesign Project.”

Related Resources You Can Use:

Due October 15; Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

  • Please read Chapters 4, 5 and 6 through the end of Chapter 6. This is up through page 135 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 2″
  • Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author.

About class labs

October 1, 2009

In class labs are the way I have of making sure you can perform at a certain level and that you are ready to go onto the next step in the class. The labs are the only place where I see you actually doing the work and where I see if you might be having difficulty. Also, in the past, there has been problems with a few students getting other people (like parents and friends) to do their class work for them.

For these reasons labs have to be done in person. They cannot be done outside of class and the results e-mailed in. This is not a distance learning class, it is expected that you will be coming to class.

If for some reason you miss a lab, you have to have a good reason and you have to contact me to make an appointment with me to do the lab as soon as possible after the class under a proctored setting.

Failure to do this will result in an F grade for the lab.


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