Advanced Digital Visualization-COMM 3557; T, 5:30-8:20pm

• • • Syllabus
  • • Introduction to Proud & Torn
  • New Inspirations

• ASSIGN: Nameplate
• ASSIGN: Familiarization with P&T; read pdf article in Blackboard/Content
• ASSIGN: Handwritten TTF
• ASSIGN: Project idea + inspirations

Share ideas and inspirations

• ASSIGN: Draft 1
  • • DUE: Nameplate
  • • DUE: Handwritten TTF
  • DUE: Project Idea + Inspirations

• ASSIGN: Draft 2
• ASSIGN: 20+ images referenced and licensed
  • DUE: Draft 1 (word or google doc)

• PEN TOOL. Try Lynda: Pen Tool Basics; Pen Tool Mastery.
• DuoTones: Try Lynda: Duotone.

• ASSIGN: Draft 3 (word file or google doc)
• ASSIGN: Photomontage
  • • Due: Draft 2 (word or google doc)
  • 20+ images referenced and licensed

• Guides (corresponding with Bootstrap)
• Placing images and text
• Layers and artboards

• ASSIGN: Styleguide
  • • DUE: Photomontage
  • DUE: Draft 3 with images (word or google doc): make sure at least 2 other people have read this/proofed this before you hand it in.

• looped video
• gifs (file size compared to looped video)
• AfterEffects animation

• ASSIGN: 1+ Looped video(s) + screenshot.jpg and 1 AE animation + screenshot.jpg
  • DUE: Styleguide.ai

Review AWWWards

• • • DUE:1+ Looped video(s)
  • AE animation
  • ASSIGN: Draft 3.ai (designed in Illustrator) 

• ASSIGN: Bootstrap overview & download (if you have a personal computer)
• ASSIGN: Jen Simmons: Designing Layouts (familiarize yourself with her FlexGrid work)

• DUE: Draft 3.ai

Dissect code in Chapter TBD

Flexgrid

• ASSIGN: index.html (bootstrap)
• ASSIGN: mobile.ai

• ASSIGN: Redraft/redesign according to team suggestions
  • • DUE: fully coded index.html (by end of class)
  • DUE: mobile.ai

• PRESENTATION DAY
  • DUE: Final Project

• Project Idea/Inspirations, with Handwritten TTF  5%
• Draft 2, 5%
• 20+ Images Referenced and Licensed, 5%
• Photomontage, 5%
• Draft 3, 5%
• Styleguide.ai, 5%
• Looped video + AE Animation, 10%
• Draft3.ai, 10%
• index.html (developed webpage via bootstrap), 15%
• Final Project, 25%
• Participation, 10%

Objectives: 

• • Creatively apply interactive digital visualization techniques to either data, narrative, and theoretical frameworks.

• • Employ new digital media skills (e.g., animation, data visualization, compositing, interactive graphic, parallax scrolling).

• • Understand a variety of different visualization design strategies.

• Become an effective collaborator and self-learner.

AMOUNT OF WORK EXPECTED: The College guideline is that one semester hour of credit is the equivalent of approximately three hours of work (class time + out-of-class preparation) each week over the course of a whole semester. In a typical lecture/discussion course, each hour of class normally entails at least two hours of outside preparation for the average student. That means that for every week students should set aside 6 hours/week outside of class to work on classwork. This standard is the basis on which the Registrar’s Office assigns hours of University credit for courses.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
Please save work and be responsible for all saved work. Assignments handed in past the due date will have 1/2 grade deductions for every day late.

ATTENDANCE POLICY 

As noted in the UNI Catalog, “Students are expected to attend class, and the responsibility for attending class rests with the student. Students are expected to learn and observe the attendance rules established by each instructor for each course. Instructors will help students to make up work whenever the student has to be absent for good cause; this matter lies between the instructor and student. Whenever possible, a student should notify the instructor in advance of circumstances which prevent class attendance.” This idea is neither novel nor unreasonable. Students should realize that an hour missed cannot be relived, that work can seldom be made up 100%, and that made-up work seldom equals the original experience in class.

A note on missing classes: It is NOT the instructor’s responsibility to re-teach material to students outside of class.  Office appointments are for questions and clarifications. Students missing class are responsible for making up all class instruction and activities and for finding out from peers what they missed.

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT 

Plagiarism, cheating, improperly sourced work, and other academic misconduct will not be tolerated.  The UNI Catalog is clear on this: “Students at the University of Northern Iowa are required to observe the commonly-accepted standards of academic honesty and integrity. Except in those instances in which group work is specifically authorized by the instructor of the class, no work which is not solely the student’s is to be submitted to a professor in the form of an examination paper, a term paper, class project, research project, or thesis project. Cheating of any kind on examinations and/or plagiarism of papers or projects is strictly prohibited. Also unacceptable are the purchase of papers from commercial sources, using a single paper to meet the requirement of more than one class (except in instances authorized and considered appropriate by the professors of the two classes), and submission of a term paper or project completed by any individual other than the student submitting the work. Students are cautioned that plagiarism is defined as the process of stealing or passing off as one’s own the ideas or words of another, or presenting as one’s own an idea or product which is derived from an existing source.” See the UNI Catalog for full details.

Disability Services
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) provides protection from illegal discrimination for qualified individuals with disabilities.  Students requesting instructional accommodations due to disabilities must arrange for such accommodation through the Office of Disability Services.  The ODS is located at 103 Student Health Center, phone number: 273-2676.

Academic Learning Center’s Free Assistance with Writing, Math, Reading and Learning Strategies
Students are encouraged to use The Learning Center @ Rod Library (formerly The Academic Learning Center) for assistance with writing, math, science, reading and learning strategies. Meet with trained and certified tutors during walk-in hours or by appointment. For more information, visit us in person on the main floor of Rod Library, on the web at tlc.uni.edu or by calling 319-273-6023.