Week 1
Tuesday
9/2

Course Overview
What is Interactive Media?           
Media Blogs

Assignment
Listen to RadioLab episode Emergence

Thursday
9/4

Mindmapping
Social Bookmarking
Discuss RadioLab
Discuss Readings

Readings (due today)
Meme
The Selfish Gene

Week 2 
Tuesday
9/9

Interactive web stories
Storyboards
YouTube annotations
Discuss Readings

Readings (due today)
Making Media, Chapter 1 and 10, Content and Preproduction, pages 1-21, Nonlinear Structure, pages 225-243.

Assignment
Write Interactive Web Story Preproduction Plan - including description, storyboard, script, flowchart, and production schedule. Due 9/16

Thursday
9/11

Discuss Readings
Video Camera Overview
Design and Critique Fundamentals         

Readings (due today)
Making Media, Chapter 2, The Frame, pages 23-63.
Digital Storytelling Cookbook pages 1-30.

Week 3
Tuesday
9/16

Interactive Web Story Preproduction Plan Due
Discuss Readings
Check Out Equipment

Readings (due today)
Making Media, Chapter 3, Depth and Movement in the Frame, pages 65-83.
Semiotics for Beginners – Signs

Thursday
9/18

Fundamentals of Lighting and Sound

Readings (due today)
Making Media, Chapter 4, Light, pages 85-113.
Making Media, Chapter 5, Sound, pages 115-141.

Week 4 
Tuesday
9/23

Vegas Video Intro

 Work on Projects

Thursday
9/25

Editing Overview

 Work on Projects

Week 5 
Tuesday
9/30

Advanced Editing Techniques
Video for the Web

 Work on Projects

Thursday
10/2

Discuss Reading
Report Overview and Schedule

Readings (due today)
A Whole New Mind, Introduction through Chapter 3, pages 1-61.

Week 6
Tuesday
10/7

Narrative Project Due
Email link for Narrative Project to professor by 2 p.m.
Turn in Production Books
Critique

Thursday
10/9

Interactive Theatre - LeAnn Brubaker
Digital Performance - Alex Oliszewski

Readings (due today)
A Whole New Mind, Chapter 4-6, pages 65-157.

Week 7
Tuesday
10/14

Critique Projects
Live Video Mixing - Arkaos, Resolume
Mobile Computing

Readings (due today)
A Whole New Mind, Chapter 7-9, pages 158-244.

Assignment
Boost Your Brain Power

Thursday
10/16

Critique Projects
Image Production - Photoshop, Illustrator
Intro to HTML

Week 8
Tuesday
10/21

Web Design - HTML, Dreamweaver
Discuss Final Project

Readings (due today)
Interaction as an Aesthetic Event

Thursday
10/23

Report on Website

Week 9
Tuesday
10/28

Report on Website

Thursday
10/30

Pitch, discuss, develop, final project ideas

Week 10
Tuesday
11/4

Final Project Proposals Due
including final proposal, team members names and detailed description of roles, storyboards, production schedule, documents and all materials (flowcharts, maps, sketches, script)

 Vote

Thursday
11/6

Team/Professor Meetings -
schedule time to discuss projects

Week 11
Tuesday
11/11

Work on Final Projects

Thursday
11/13

Dreamweaver
Work on Final Projects in Class

Work on Final Projects

Note: Critique Final Projects-in-progress in 1 week 11/20

Week 12
Tuesday
11/18

Work on Final Projects in Class

Work on Final Projects

Thursday
11/20

In class Critique-in-Progress

Work on Final Projects

Week 13
11/25
11/27

Thanksgiving Break

Work on Final Projects

Week 14
Tuesday
12/2

Revise Final Projects in Class

Revise Final Projects

Thursday
12/4

Revise Final Projects in Class

Revise Final Projects

Week 15
Tuesday
12/9

Final Presentations

Thursday
12/11

Final Presentations
Self and Peer Review Emails Due
All Final Materials Due