William M. Pegram
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ITE 170 Schedule - Section 003N - Spring 2007

This text references are to the Flash 8 book by Gonzalez. 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) 
1/18 (wk 1)

Course information, schedule, Getting started on Annandale computers, Web Page Creation and Revision, Text Formatting, Link Creation

XHTML Tutorial (reading)

 

1/25 (2) Inserting Images into Web Pages (all in Notepad), Creating Tables in Notepad, Default Pages and Directory Browsing, FTP using CoreFTP and Browser (FTP Instructions)

 

2/1 (3)

Intro to HTML Editors (in particular Dreamweaver; Composer - available in Netscape 7 and earlier but not 8 and SeaMonkey are free HTML editors) - TAC Dreamweaver tutorial

  • Formatting
  • Create Links
  • Insert Images
  • Tables
  • Site Management capabilities - renaming and moving files, library items
Biography Assignment
2/8 (4) Intro to Graphics Programs (Fireworks and Paint) and Graphics Formats - sample files: breads.png, horizons.png
  • Creating art work (drawing tools)
  • Resizing and cropping images
  • Optimizing and Exporting for use on web
Fireworks Intro, Guide to Paint (reading)
2/15 (5) Graphics Programs (cont.)
  • Rectangle and Oval Vector Tools
  • Creating animated gifs with Fireworks, frame by frame animation, layers, tweening, onion skinning, symbols
  • Introduction to Animation Programs (Flash) - Flash Interface and Drawing Tools
Creating Animated Gifs with Fireworks (reading), Chapters 1-3, summarized in Flash Interface and Drawing Tools (reading)
2/22 (6)
  • Image formats, Gradients, Object Drawing Model, Pen and Subselection tool
  • Quiz
 
3/1 (7)
  • Discuss quiz
  • Frame-by-Frame Animation and Shape Tweeing
Chapter 4-5
3/8 (8) Chapters 6-7, Flash Short Assignment 1
3/22 (9) Chapter 8, Flash Assignment 2
3/29 (10)
  • Working With Bitmaps (Importing and Compressing, importing sequences, converting bitmaps to vectors)- import1.jpgButtons
Chapter 9-10
4/5 (11)
  • Quiz
  • Movie Clips
Ch. 11
4/12 (12)
  • ActionScript
Ch. 12
4/19 (13) Ch. 13
4/26 (14) Ch. 13,14
5/3 (15)
  • Sound (continued)
Project due Monday 5/8 11am
5/10 (16)
  • Final: 4:30-7:20PM
 

Last revised: May 6, 2007