Schedule

Date

Topics

Major Assignments Due

Week 1

August 31

• Course introduction, policies, and tools
• Student introductions
• Needs Assessment
• Publishing and syndication with RSS

Week 2

September 7

• Social bookmarking, del.icio.us
• Authoring tools: PowerPoint
• Review of tutorials

Due Sept 7

• Launch page
• Tutorial Topic

Week 3

September 14

• Chapter A: Understanding the flash environment
• Chapter B: flash drawing tools
• Review of Tutorials
• Podcasting

Week 4

September 21

• Chapter C: Working with symbols and interactivity (symbols, instances, library, buttons)
• Chapter D: creating animations (frame animations, motion tweens)

Week 5

September 28

• Chapter E: Creating special effects (shape tweens, masks, scenes, slide shows)
• Review of tutorials
• Course management systems
• Wikis

Due Sept 28

• Tutorial
• Instructional Unit Topic

Week 6

October 5

• Chapter F: Preparing and Publishing Movies (file sizes, creating HTML)
• Chapter G: importing and modifying graphics (break apart, trace bitmaps)
• Content Management Systems

Week 7

October 12

• Chapter H: Building Complex Animations (animated symbols, movie clip symbols, animated buttons)
• Flowcharts and Storyboards

Due Oct 12

Design Document

Week 8

October 19

No in-class meeting

• Chapter I: Using basic Actionscript (variables, actions, symbols)
• Open Source Software
• Open Content
• Intellectual Property and Copyright

Week 9

October 26

• Chapter J: Adding Sounds (synchronization, commpression, scripting with sounds)
• Web-based Instruction
• Dreamweaver and HTML

Due Oct 26

Flowchart

Week 10

November 2

• Chapter K: Using Advanced Actionscript (external links, load new movies, conditional actions)
• Web Usability and Accessibility
• Browsers and Usability

Due Nov 2

Storyboards

Week 11

November 9

• Authoring tools: Audio
• Authoring Tools: Video
• Screencasting

Week 12

November 16

• Exam preparation
• Students receive exam

Week 13

November 23

No in-class meeting

• Complete exam

Week 14

November 30

• Image editors
• Complete in-class Flash skills test

Due Nov 30

Exam due

Flash skills test in class

Week 15

December 7

• Demonstrate CBI projects
• Emerging tools
• Flickr

CBI due Dec 7

Week 16

December 14

• Conclusion