Meeting 6

sloan consortium

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Agenda

  • Announcements
  • Closing discussion on Macromedia / Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Individual consults regarding the Design Documents and Flowcharts
  • Work with a partner in Macromedia/Adobe Flash 8
  • Lecture on the Macromedia / Adobe Flash 8 interface:The class will be introduced to the following topics regarding Macromedia / Adobe Flash 8:
  1. Help Resources
  2. Adobe Live Documents
  3. Extensions and the Flash Exchange Site
  • Review the Storyboards
  • Other Announcements

Announcements

  1. A dissertation seminar will be held on campus Friday, October 5, 2007. If you’re on the IDT listserv please check your email.
  2. The IDT Department is currently speaking with various area corporations regarding possible job openings and internships. Please notify an IDT faculty member if you’re interested in applying for any job or internship openings
  3. What is SLOAN? SLOAN is a consortium for online teaching and learning. http://www.sloan-c.org/
  4. AECT Conference is in 3 weeks in Anaheim, CA.October 23rd - 27th, 2007 Hyatt Regency Orange County Anaheim,California http://www.aect.org/events/

Next year’s AECT conference will be held in Orlando, FL.

Future classes will consist of:

  • Approximately 45 minutes will be focused on the DCC model and other readings
  • The final two hours of class will be devoted to “tool time”- Focusing extensively on the tools / software and/or class projects

Dreamweaver Closure

What do you like about Dreamweaver?

  • Any site you create has the ability to be opened with a flash drive
  • The assets can be managed easily
  • Dreamweaver doesn’t have any competition. Other companies have neglected to develop comparable software.

Areas that need growth in Dreamweaver

  • Would like to learn more about the software, have learned to use it in a rudimentary way.

Macromedia / Adobe Dreamweaver 8

CSS (Style sheets)

  • all comments will show up in gray
  • individual tags will be gray
  • the body tag frames the page

Header Tags

  • Why should a header tag be use instead customizing the size and font in Dreamweaver 8? Answer: Screen readers look for certain HTML tags. Also using a header tag is a time saver.

Tables

  • Tables can take longer to load
  • Tables can be rendered incorrectly by certain browsers

Please check your email and the class Website for future course schedule changes.