Schedule

Room 117 - Lab in SILS Library
Review Course Plan || Wikis in Plain English || Course Wiki pages, Content not Containers Intro (Jenkins) || join class wiki || Overview of Productivity Tools (open source and proprietary software) Review //Ignite Presentations// projects || PowerPoint Reform: a first Chapter
 * Date || Topics || Technical || Readings || Tasks/Projects ||
 * Tue. 1/12 || Overview of Current Information & Media Ecology,
 * Thur 1/14 || Learners, Learning Institutions & Technology

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Presentation Zen || //Living and Learning with New Media// Chapters 1 & 2(Jenkins) || lab time to begin Ignite Preso prep || Producing Images (scanning, digital cameras, downloading) Copyright Issues || Tutorials and Concepts Creative Commons Flickr CC || Chapter 6 (Jenkins) "Photoshop for Democracy" || Daily Exercise #1 || Technology Infrastructure (clients, servers, networks, cloud computing) || Concepts ||  || Daily Exercise #2 (1/28) ensure you can log into one of the two server accounts (Duck/AFS) FTP guide for Duck || non-linear editing Hardware, Software, Storyboarding || Windows Movie Maker Tutorial || Chapter 4 (Jenkins) || Daily Exercise #3 - in small groups create a video response to Chapter 4 of Jenkins. Include title slides with member names & transitions highlighting key ideas. || //Web Design in a Nutshell// (chapters 8-12) Index DOT html ||  || Daily Exercise #4 (2/11) || //Web Design in a Nutshell// || Chapter 3 (Jenkins) || Daily Exercise #5 (two part) || Document Formatting & Spreadsheets Lab Time / Essay workshop || strategies for coming up with topic ideas -- guidance and examples for making an outline || Chapter 5 (Jenkins) || Additional assistance and exploration of tools as needed/ bring Essay outline to workshop with peers (2/25) why workshop
 * 1/19 || Presentations ||  ||   || Ignite Presentations ||
 * 1/21 || Digital Imaging and Photoshop
 * 1/26 - 1/28 || Digital Imaging and Photoshop (con't)
 * guide for AFS @http://help.unc.edu/134
 * 2/2 || Digital Video-Camera Basics
 * 2/4 || NO CLASS || NO CLASS || NO CLASS || NO CLASS ||
 * 2/9 - 2/11 || Web Design (HTML, XML,CSS, editors) || beginning 2/11-
 * 2/16 - 2/18 || Web Design (HTML, XML, CSS, editors) || Web Style Guide
 * 2/23 - 2/25 || Productivity Tools

optional practice || Microdocumentary showings (3/18) ||  ||   || Finalize preparation for microdocumentaries/ Additional assistance and exploration of tools as needed/ WordPress Gallery Slideshow plugin
 * 3/2 - 3/4 || Content Management Systems (Wordpress) || TBA || TBA || Daily Exercise #6 ||
 * 3/9 - 3/11 || Spring Break Holiday || || - ||  ||
 * 3/16 - 3/18 || More Content Management System

Microdocumentaries (3/18) || Databases & Programming Languages ||  || Jenkins Conclusion & Afterword || bring rough draft of Essay to workshop with peers Daily Exercise #7 || Daily Exercise #8 || (section 4) || Daily Exercise #9 Assistive Technologies listing(ALA) More resources about Assistive Technologies(ALA) Trace Center || SLATES || Horizon Report 2010 (PDF) Full Report || @Web 2.0 Exercise - Daily Exercise #10 (due 4/20) || Wrap up and Open Lab || ||   || Have essay draft on (4/22) for PDF tutorial Review portfolio for exercises, projects, and postings Post Essay to Wordpress (4/27) || Final - schedule time for individual portfolio review 4-6pm ||  ||   || schedule ||
 * 3/23 -3/25 || Lab Time / Essay Workshop
 * 3/30-4/1 || Data Visualization and Display ||  || Tufte || Photo Essay in Wordpress(by 4/1)
 * 4/6-4/8 || assistive technologies, filtering, analysis of information tools and resources ||  || Core Technology Competencies (PDF)
 * 4/13-4/20 || web 2.0, cloud computing, social media, and forecasting trends || (Some)Characteristics of Web 2.0
 * 4/22-4/27 || PDF Basics (4/22)
 * 4/29 - 5/6 || Reading day (4/29)