In the beginning…
Introductions:
- Faculty and student introductions
- review class schedule:
- how will class time be structured? Combination of lecture/discussion, hands-on workshop and assisted work time.
- Review covenant, and class website usage
- Weekly student presentations: each week 3 students will each give a 5-10 min. presentation on a topic that relates to the work of this course. Topic areas include PhotoShop techniques, internet technologies/services, html/css, WordPress techniques, Mac OS tips. You are encouraged to choose something you know little about to begin with but have an interest in. The 3 of you should meet and decide upon your topics beforehand. If they are supporting or related this is great but not neccessary.
Campus resources:
- Media Loan
- Photoland (Digital Imaging Studio)
- Sound and Image Library
- Electronic Media
- Computer Center
- Lynda.com accounts
Intro to Macintosh:
- Mac OS basics
- Activity: File Space on Orca
An introduction to the world wide web and the internet
- What is the internet? What is the world wide web? (video)
- What does the www stand for? Anatomy of a URL.
- html and css – the stuff web pages are made of
–Break–
Publishing on the Web
- Why create a personal web presence? Do I exist if I don’t have a web presence?
- What is a blog?
- Looking at blog examples:
Academic blogging at Evergreen with WordPress
- Introduction to Wordpress
- Activity: create your project description page
Intro to digital imaging with Photoshop:
- Scanning, image resolution, cropping, save for web (print, web and moving image)
- Intro to basics of Photoshop (if time allows)
Assignments/Reading Due Week 2:
- Reading: Practices of Looking, accessible via the Readings page.
- Bring in 3 collected images (pre-scanned/web content) that represent yourself to use in Photoshop collage. Select these images considering the Practices of Looking reading.
- Compose a blog page that describes your initial portrait project ideas including:
topic, background information, your interest in this topic, ideas for execution, stylistic approach etc. - If you have one, bring in your digital still camera to class for next week
Assisted work (if there’s time)
