| Schedule Fall 2010 |
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| September | Topics | Homework Due | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 1 W 9/8 |
Introduce class Introduce Visualized Data Project |
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| F 9/10 | Troubleshoot Chapter 1 of CIAB. Discuss Tufte's Chapter 1 in relations to Visualized Data Project |
Chapter 1 (Work Area), Classroom in a Book (a.k.a., "CIAB"), pages 11-54. Obtain all books, USB drive Create the suggested set of folders on your drive. Read Edward Tufte's Chapter 1, starting page 13 |
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| WEEK 2 M 9/13 |
Clickable URLs in Moodle forums Optimizing, Resaving, Uploading image files Troubleshoot C2 CIAB Discuss datasets |
CIAB 2 (Photo Corrections) Report on a "data set" |
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| W 9/15 | Help Session CIAB 3 Optimizing and Uploading image files from CIAB 2 and 3 |
CIAB 3 (Retouching and Repairing) | |
| F 9/17 | Help Session for Excel Charts Screen Shots and Photoshop Discuss datasets |
Using the online tutorial Excel 2008 for Mac: Charting, create a chart in a style of your own choosing from data I will provide | |
| WEEK 3 M 9/20 |
Discuss datasets Help Session CIAB 4 |
CIAB 4 (Selections) | |
| W 9/22 | Help Session CIAB 5 Maps (.psd files from US government) Receive Reading Guide for Tufte Chapter Transformative Definitions |
CIAB 5 (Layers) | |
| F 9/24 | Discuss Tufte's Chapter 2 See Gerrymandering (Wikipedia) |
Tufte Chapter 2, "Visual and Statistical Thinking" Complete the Reading Guide and be prepared to copy your answers into an email at the beginning of class. |
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| WEEK 4 M 9/27 |
Help Session 9 (Vector Drawing) Complete discussion of Tufte's C2 See Gerrymandering (Wikipedia) |
CIAB 9 (Vector Drawing) | |
| W 9/29 | Help Session CIAB 6 Complete discussion of Tufte's C2 |
CIAB 6 (Masks and Channels) | |
| October | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| F 10/1 |
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| WEEK 5 M 10/4 |
Studio Session for Visualized Data Tip: quick grid lines in Photoshop |
Bring in all materials for the studio session |
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| W 10/6 | Discuss Visualized Data guidelines, examples, techniques | Work on your Visualized Data Project for Thursday | |
| Thursday 10/7 | Visualized Data due by noon | ||
| F 10/8 | Introduce Confection Project Concepts for Confections |
Visualized Data commentary due | |
| WEEK 6 M 10/11 |
Understanding Tufte's Visual Confection | Read Tufte Chapter C7 (121) Complete Reading Guide |
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| W 10/13 | Visual Analogies as Backgrounds Complete Tufte Periodic Table of Visualization |
Prospectus for Confection |
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| F 10/15 | Discuss "Visual Analogies as Confection Backgrounds" | "Visual Analogies as Confection Backgrounds" exercise using the Periodic Table of Visualization Sketch for your proposed Confection idea |
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| WEEK 7 M 10/18 |
Confection Studio Session | ||
| W 10/20 | Criteria Checklist of Confections | Bring in all materials for the studio session | |
| Thursday, 10/21 | Visual Confection due by noon | ||
| F 10/22 | introduce Narrative Title Sequence Project | Visual Confection commentary due | |
| WEEK 8 M 10/25 |
Title Sequence Screen Shot Activity | McCloud Chapter's 2 and 3 sample title sequence URL and analysis |
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| W 10/27 | Title Sequence Screen Shot Activity (completed) Comics and video (McCloud Chapter 4). Ken Burns' Effect in iPhoto |
McCloud Chapter 4 3 possible sources for Narrative Title Sequence Project |
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| F 10/29 | Exercise: iPhoto Slideshows into Quicktime Movies |
Prospectus for Narrative Title Sepuence Project | |
| November | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| WEEK 9 M 11/1 |
McCloud Chapter 5, Living in Line | ||
| W 11/3 | Camera Work Exercise: Quick Human Figures (sillhouettes) Ants Farms and Camera Work Discuss McCloud's panels from Chapter 5 and shots/edits from sample sequences Discuss tables tracking shots in a sequence |
In a seven-row table in a Word file, chart McCloud's six kinds of montage (editiing) across an entire title sequence. Save the Word file and attach it to reply in the forum, "Shot Tracking." | |
| F 11/5 | Camera Work 2 |
verbal plan for your title sequence | |
| WEEK 10 M 11/8 |
Visual Rhetoric of Title Sequences Discuss specific panels from McCloud's Chapter 5 and sample title sequences. |
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| W 11/10 | Background Music (Audacity) Exercise: "Editing the Length of Audio with Audacity and Adding it to an iPhoto Slideshow." |
Come in with a storyboard of your Title Sequence Come in with a sound file |
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| F 11/12 | Techniques in your Storyboards | Complete Audacity exercise if necessary Work on your storyboard, project |
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| WEEK 11 M 11/15 |
Studio Session Title Sequence Project Studio Session |
Bring in all materials for the studio session | |
| W 11/17 | Criteria Checklist of NTSP Technique Title Sequence Project due by noon |
Bring in all materials | |
| F 11/19 | Title Sequence Project commentary due Introduce the Essay and Visual Project |
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| WEEK 12 M 11/22 |
Come in with three possible images or screen shots for the Essay and Visual Project | ||
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| F 11/26 | R 11/25 THANKSGIVING | ||
| WEEK 13 M 11/29 |
Context | Come in with the image you have selected for your Essay and Visual Project. | |
| December | Topics | Homework | Terms, Ideas |
| W 12/1 | Information Design in Images & Writing Critical Paragraphs | Essay & Visual Project: Topic and Context Form. Bring Tufte book and the handout "Three Paragraphs...." |
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| F 12/3 | Visual Design | Bring your McCloud and Tufte books Write two paragraphs combining details of context with details of information design and/or visual design. |
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| WEEK 14 M 12/7 |
Conferences (MonH 209) | Sign up for a Conference via our Wiki | |
| T 12/7 | Conferences (MonH 209) | ||
| W 12/8 | Thesis Statements, Visualizing Your Argument. Essay due a week from today How would we visualize our youth culture sample? |
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| F 12/10 | Thesis Statements, Trailer Tropes, Beginning an Essay. | ||
| WEEK 15 M 12/13 |
Studio Session | Bring in all materials for the studio session | |
| W 12/15 | Conclusions Essay Due at the Beginning of Class |
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| FINAL Friday, December 17 8 a.m. to 9:55 (4230 Wed 12/22 8 am) |
Visual Paratext to the Essay due online with the URL posted to the Moodle forum "Essay and Visual URLs" by 8 a.m. |