William M. Pegram
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ITE 170 Schedule - Section 003,4N - Spring 2008

This text references are to the Flash CS3 book by Perkins. The schedule will be updated with links to homework exercises and additional material as the course progresses.  The most current copy of this schedule can be found on the course web site at www.billpegram.com

Week Class Topics Reading/Homework Due (more will be added as course progresses) 
1/14, 1/16

Course information, Getting started on Annandale computers, Web Page Creation and Revision, Text Formatting, Absolute and Relative Links, Inserting Images into Web Pages, FTP using CoreFTP (FTP Instructions)

XHTML Tutorial (reading)

 

1/23, 1/28

Biography Assignment (due Thurs. Jan. 31 2pm)

1/30, 2/4
  • Intro to HTML Editors (in particular Dreamweaver) - text formatting, links, images, tables, CSS, site Management capabilities ( renaming and moving files, library items), SeaMonkey (a free HTML editor) - TAC Dreamweaver tutorial,
 
2/6, 2/11
  • Introduction to Animation Programs (Flash) - Flash Interface and Drawing Tools, Image formats, Gradients, Object Drawing Model, Pen and Subselection tool
Chapters 1-3, summarized in Flash Interface and Drawing Tools (reading)
2/13, 2/18
  • Flash Drawing Tools (cont.)
  • Frame-by-Frame Animation
Chapter 3 (cont.), 4
2/20, 2/25
  • Shape Tweening
  • Symbols and Instances
Chapter 5-6, Flash Short Assignment 1 (due Thurs. 2/28)
2/27, 3/3 Chapter 7
3/5, 3/17 Chapter 8
3/18, 3/24
  • Image Formats and Compression
  • Working With Bitmaps (Importing and Compressing, importing sequences, converting bitmaps to vectors)- import1.jpg

Flash Assignment 2 (due Thurs 3/20)
Chapter 9

3/26, 4/1
  • Buttons
  • Movie Clips
Ch. 10, 11
4/2, 4/7
  • ActionScript
Ch. 12
4/9, 4/14 Ch. 13
4/16, 4/21
  • Input Text (cont.)
  • Quiz
Flash Assignment 3 (due April 24)
4/23, 4/28
  • Discussion of Quiz
  • Sound
Ch. 14
4/30, 5/5
  • Components and Forms, Video, Publishing and Exporting
Ch. 15-17
(16)
  • Final: Monday class May 12 4:30-7:20PM, Wed class May 7: 4:30-7:20PM
 

Last revised: April 23, 2008