Exercise 1. Web Site critique.
For exercise 1, you will present to the class a website that you think of as interesting, compelling, and well-designed. Use a website that seems both functionally effective and aesthetically challenging.

Project 1. Wiki
Your first project will be on-going. Over the course of the semester, you will create a Wiki, using Wikispaces.com. You are welcome to create your wiki around any idea you wish, but it should be something worthy of the 13 weeks of attention you’ll put into it.
The Wiki project should be a collaborative one. You will be able access your classmates’ Wikis, and you should be taking part in the expansion of all of them.
You should be prepared to email to me the site address of your Wiki by Sept. 3.

Project 2. HTML site.
You will create a simple HTML site, paying attention to the use of layout and content possibilities in the form. How do you use these tools to get your idea across? The only limitation on your site is that you can’t create a site about your ‘favorite things’; it must be ‘about’ something. You should be thinking of form, and how the form and aesthetics of a website communicate meaning. You should be using CSS to create the design and layout of your site.
Your final HTML site will be due on Sept. 10.
As with all days on which projects are due, you are expected to present your work in front of the class, as well as taking part in the class critique.

Project 3. Photoshop self-portrait.
Using Photoshop, you will create a “self-portrait.” You are welcome to create it in any way you wish, with an eye towards the use of the tools in the most unique way. Don’t simply use a picture of your face; but move towards more abstract ways to think about representing yourself.
The Photoshop self-portrait is due on Oct. 15.

Project 4. Found audio and video.
For this project, you will use entirely ‘found’ material, that is, previously created work you wish to re-contextualize and comment on. You are invited, in fact, required, to struggle against copyright rules.
Your will pair up with another student in class, and decide on a concept you wish to explore; you can choose a word, an event, an agenda, some focused idea that you will organized your material around. Between the two of you, you’ll choose a running time, and divide the work. One of you will create the video track, the other, the audio track. You will not discuss the project again until you bring the material together.
You will show the finished project in-class on Oct. 29.

Project 5. Flash.
Using Flash, you will create an interactive animation project. The expectation of the project is that you use both aspects of the software, the animation tools, and the interactivity, to explore what you can do with it. You are welcome to use this project as part of your final Dreamweaver project, or as a stand-alone project.
A close-to-final version of your Flash project is due in-class on Nov. 5.

Project 6.
Dreamweaver. For your final project in this class, you will create a fully functional website using Dreamweaver. At this point, the level of sophistication of your technical, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas should be reflected in the construction of the website.
You will have two due dates for the Dreamweaver project; on Oct. 29, you should a rough version of your site ready to present to the class for critique.
On Dec. 3, your final website is due.

Project 7. Live VJ’ing (tentative).