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June 16th
• And so it ends...
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June 13th
• Exam day 5
• Exam to be submitted at end of period today.
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June 12th
• Exam day 4
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June 11th
• Exam day 3
• Portfolio website grades returned. Range was failure -> 99%. Most of you should be very pleased
with your efforts. This was a tough assignment for most of you, well, for all of you, but you
pulled it off. Overall I am quite pleased with the results.
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June 10th
• Exam day 2
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June 9th
• Exam day 1
• Website marks delayed due to server issues...again.
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June 6th
• Websites due today.
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June 5th
• Website development continued.
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June 4th
• Website development continued.
• Website due this Friday, end of class. TICK, TOCK. TICK, TOCK. TICK, TOCK.
• Exam starts next Monday and lasts for 5 days. No video is involved. What's left? Hmm.
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June 3rd
• Website development continued.
• Purple handout walking you through the steps to implement the Lightbox javscript effect. Make
sure you try it out and make sure you understand it. It's been added to the Downloads page for
your convenience.
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June 2nd
• Website development continued.
• Mr. Chute dropped a major hint about what may appear on the final exam...rhymes with
"rava-ript".
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May 30th
• Website development continued.
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May 29th
• Website marking scheme distributed to everyone. Make sure you check it versus your own site
to maximize your grade. Theoretically, you should be able to mark your site yourself and get an
accurate grade, assuming you are honest with yourself.
• Mr. Chute caves and extends the website assignment until Friday, June 6th.
• As the sites stand today, many of you would fail the assignment and Mr. Chute does not want
you to do poorly on this assignment.
• Final exam will now occur from Monday, June 9th to Friday, June 13th.
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May 28th
• Website construction continued.
• Chute's head almost exploded.
• Chute will be staying until about 4:30pm on Thursday and Friday this week so you may stay and
work on your sites.
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May 27th
• Website construction continued.
• Amy and Katarina's javascript problem is fixed
• Daphnie's Highslide javascript works great.
• Time is running out very quickly and many of you have nothing uploaded.
• If you are still in Fireworks at this point, other than for corrections, you need to get into
Dreamweaver NOW!
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May 26th
• Website construction continued.
• Time is running out very quickly and many of you have nothing uploaded.
• If you are still in Fireworks at this point, other that for corrections, you need to get into
Dreamweaver NOW!
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May 23rd
• Website work continued
• For those of you using "image_slideshow.js" and "image_slideshow.css", go to the following
http://www.cawthratechnology.com/teacher/css/image_slideshow.css and save the file. I have
made considerably more notations on each line that should help eliminate the problems we
have been encountering.
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May 22nd
• Website deadline extended to Friday, May 30th.
• Final exam will be Monday, June 2nd to Friday, June 13th. Muuhhahahhaha!!!
• Website work continued
• You should be uploading HTML pages to your site as soon as you can. Only a handful have done
this so far.
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May 21st
• Website work continued.
• The "splash" page must be called "index.htm" or "index.html"
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May 20th
• Teacher example site has updated examples of Javascript effects
• Website work continued.
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May 19th
• Victoria Day - no school.
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May 16th
• Website work continued.
• OK. Here's what we're going to do: Today, you must work exclusively on your splash page. Let's
get that out of the way.
• To redirect to your main page place the following code snippet in the -head- section of your
splash page:
• I'm going to have to regiment this project out so that you can all meet the ever moving deadline.
This is a tough assignment and I think many of you a digging a deep hole for yourselves and
don't realize it.
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May 15th
• Website work continued
• At this point, you should have the bulk of your pages laid out. If not, you are seriously behind
and need to be working much harder. I would only characterize a handful of students in the class
who are currently working well enough to accomplish this website.
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May 14th
• Website work continued
• http://web.uvic.ca/akeller/pw406/l_howto.htm for some flash hints
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May 13th
• Website work continued. Project extended until Friday, May 23rd.
• Added a Flash rollover button tutorial on the downloads page.
• All books are now covered and ready for the Art Springfest this Thursday.
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May 12th
• PD day. No school.
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May 9th
• Website work continued.
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May 8th
• All but 4 coffee table books are now completely finished with newly laminated covers. Nice!
• Coffee table books will be on display for Art Springfest next Thursday. They are yours to keep
next Friday.
• Website development continued.
• A quick search by a student for a Flash effect resulted in an easy tutorial which the student then
tweaked into their own style. The student has never used Flash before. See? THIS IS WHAT I'M
TALKING ABOUT!!! A bit of research and whamo! You become a design genius.
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May 7th
• I have extended the website project by at least a week. I was away on the 6th and will be away
on the 9th as well. Also, Monday the 12th is an all day PD day so we lose another day. I know you
are all disappointed in this extension.
• Students were individually assisted with their layouts.
• Planning, planning, planning...I cannot emphasize this enough. You must know what you want
and where you want to place it on your design.
• Javascript --> You have to know exactly what effects you want to add. You should also have an
example site that does the same effect that you want. We can reverse-engineer from there.
• A lot of really "slick" effects are actually Flash movies which can generally be significantly more
complex than any Javascript effect. Look for simple effects. Complexity does not necessarily equal
good design. Again, find a site that does what you like and we'll reverse engineer from there.
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May 6th
• Looks like you more or less worked on your website despite other directions that were to be
given in my absence. Oh well. No harm done.
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May 5th
• Synced remote folders with local folders
• Walked through initial modification of "formmailer.php" file.
• Continued design in Fireworks
• Discussed layouts with individual students
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May 2nd
• Final day for layout. It is due at the end of the period.
• Research some possible javascripts your like to use.
• Research some basic flash elements you might like to use, i.e., menus, buttons
http://www.dyn-web.com/
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
http://www.c6software.com/
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May 1st
• Layout of website continued. Use Fireworks to create the basic look if you want.
• All layout work is due Friday, May 2nd
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April 30th
• Layout of website on paper or computer. Use Fireworks to create the basic look if you want.
• All layout work is due Friday, May 2nd
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April 29th
• Distributed and explained Web Portfolio assignment
• Remaining books were assembled
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April 28th
• Book assembly day. They look really good. I am pleased and you should be proud of your work.
• You can take your book home for a few days but it must be returned for some further review
and marking. Also, they will be tastefully displayed at the Art Springfest on May 15th. You will
get your book to keep on May 16th.
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April 25th
• Slight re-jig of book covers to include a 1 pixel border to create a cutting line when printed
• Dreamweaver site set up again, this time much more smoothly. No issues other than the 8
slot maximum connections mystery. Site host ISP says there is no limit on connections server
side. Chute will check with Gaspar to see if there are client side restrictions on outbound FTP
connections
• Last 30 minutes devoted to "Kids + Money", a documentary featured at this year's Hot Docs
film festival in Toronto. Interesting, wasn't it? Did you see elements of yourself or someone you
know?
• All but 3 covers were finished printing by the end of the day. The 3 remaining are not within
specifications given or were incomplete. Please fix ASAP, Rina, Dustin, and Sarah.
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April 24th
• Dreamweaver site set up...not quite as smooth as anticipated. Louis died on the table.
• Louis sent to Mac hospital for immediate surgery. Likelihood of success = 99.9%.
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April 23rd
• Touchups and final submission of coffee table book cover
• Final construction of the binding boards for book
• Text blocks have been sent for printing...excellent.
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April 22nd
• Cover designs mostly complete with some size adjustments
• Most students completed binding boards
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April 21st
• Continued working on the binding system for the book
• All corrected books have been submitted for printing
• Cover art is currently on hold pending a fitting.
• Cover art canvas size must change to this size: Width=30" and Height=9.1875"
• Cover art should now be finished by end of class Tuesday.
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April 18th
• Began working on the binding system for the book
• Continued work on book cover.
• Cover art is currently on hold pending an actual fitting. Some small adjustments are likely.
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April 17th
• Continued work on book cover.
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April 16th
• Text block corrections continued. To be re-submitted ASAP
• Continued work on book cover.
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April 15th
• Text block corrections continued. To be re-submitted ASAP
• Continued work on book cover.
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April 14th
• Returned marked text blocks
• Text blocks were to be corrected for re-packaging and then re-submission for printing
• Work was to begin on the cover for the book in Photoshop and/or Illustrator
• PSD template for cover is available on Downloads page
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April 11th
• Students madly rush to complete their coffee table books for today. There is no extension.
• Preflight, package and submit to Louis in Chute's Drop Box.
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April 10th
• Continued page layout of book
• InDesign "packaged file" is due Friday. There will NO extension
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April 9th
• Continued page layout of book
• InDesign "packaged file" is due Friday. There will NO extension.
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April 8th
• http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/postit/postit.htm
• Continued page layout of book
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April 7th
• Continued page layout of book
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April 4th
• Further demonstration of InDesign setup
• Further demonstration of Master Page
• Demonstration of placing text
• Demonstration of placing images
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April 3rd
• Layouts are now overdue. I recommend you submit. Tomorrow is your last chance.
• Layout continued in InDesign.
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April 2nd
• Chute was away
• Layout continued in InDesign
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April 1st
• Setting up Master Pages continued.
• Layout continued.
• Rough layouts due!
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March 31st
• Demonstration of setting up document in InDesign.
• Setting up Master Pages.
• Setting up margins, gutters, guidelines.
• Those students who actually DID their homework and had layouts ready will receive a bonus.
The rest of you ne'er-do-wells...it's due tomorrow!!
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March 28th
• Lesson on layout styles for the coffee table book.
• Sketching layout using provided templates begins.
• HOMEWORK ** Layout sketches (3 pages) due Monday. Must be submitted for grading. Template
available on downloads page.
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March 27th
• EQAO Literacy Test - No class.
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March 26th
• Short lesson on image resolution vs. print resolution.
• Photoshop works in pixels...and ONLY pixels. Unfortunately, printers work in dots. Dots are NOT
the same as pixels. A printer may use many dots to represent a single pixel. Therefore, we need a
way to translate pixels into dots. Enter Image Resolution.
• Image Resolution: The instructions given to a printing device about how large to draw each pixel
on the paper. It is a printing instruction about pixel size.
• For this book, images will require a resolution of 150ppi minimum. Bigger is better (generally).
• When creating/manipulating images for the book, get the largest images you can find.
• Students collected images for their books, making sure all pictures are meaningfully labeled and
placed in a single folder.
• Grade 12 Drama students performed a short play for their class and ours in our room. Seriously.
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March 25th
• Viewed selected Children's Story projects from each group
• Returned the marks for the Children's Story project
• Polished book outlines in preparation for next step in book making
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March 20th
• Book outline printed and submitted by end of period
• Last formal research day
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March 19th
• Book outline research and development
• Description of page by page content. Create a Word document for this. Does not need to be long
but should be as detailed as possible.
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March 18th
• Research has begun on book topic
• Each student discussed possible topics with Chute
• Book outline
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March 17th
• Began discussing our second major unit "Print Communications".
• Looked at some examples of commercial coffee table books.
• Looked at student examples of coffee table books.
• Discussed the coffee table book project
• Watched Seinfeld, Season 5, Episode 10 "The Cigar Store Indian" wherein Kramer tries to sell his
idea of a "Coffee table book about coffee tables" with a built in coaster to a publishing company.
• HOMEWORK - Begin thinking of topic ideas for your own coffee table book.
/--INSERT MARCH BREAK HERE
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March 7th
• Childrens Story video due today.
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March 6th
• Editing continued
• When finished editing, project must be exported using Quicktime Conversion to DV Stream. Name
the file "YourLastName_something.dv". The ".dv" will be added automatically.
• Submit the .dv file to Mr. Chute's Drop Box on the computer Louis.
• Pat yourself on the back.
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March 5th
• Effectively a snow day.
• Video still due Friday.
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March 4th
• Editing continued
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March 3rd
• Reviewed all videos one-on-one to monitor progress
• Editing continued
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February 29th
• Late start day (on a Friday? What?)
• Editing continued
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February 28th
• This project is being extended Friday, March 7th. There are 4 reasons for this:
1. Many of you are realizing how challenging and time-consuming it is to edit a story even when
it has been written for you. That's good...it means you're learning! (It gets easier, don't worry)
2. A handful of class members did not think that when I said everyone has to cut their own video
(see February 15th) that it applied to them. Perhaps not listening the first time? Now is their
chance to make good.
3. I want you to feel comfortable with Final Cut Express and therefore I do not want a rushed job.
4. I am simply too nice.
• Singing and dancing to rejoice the extension of this project.
• Editing continued
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February 27th
• Editing continued...time is getting tight.
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February 26th
• Editing continued
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February 25th
• Editing continued
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February 22nd
• Editing continued
• Project in the can next week with final due date of Feb 29th
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February 21st
• Editing continued
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February 20th
• Demonstrated basic audio level (volume) editing and rubber-banding in FCE
• Explained how raising audio levels too high from original level may introduce too much noise into
the audio track.
• Editing continued
• Audio recording sessions continued.
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February 19th
• Importing video
• Audio recording sessions
• Importing audio
• Editing begins in FCE
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February 18th
• Family Day - no school
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February 15th
• Audio recording sessions continued
• Video recording sessions continued
• Importing begins into iMovie for transfer to Final Cut Express (FCE)
• Slicing and dicing audio in Final Cut Express begins
• All students will edit their own story. (Import footage once, then file transfer it to other group
members' computers)
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February 14th
• Audio recording sessions continued
• Remember that your audio levels during recording should AVERAGE -12dB. Peaking beyond is OK
as long as it is just occasionally.
• Video recording sessions continued
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February 13th
• Audio recording sessions started
• Video recording sessions started
• Some groups still completing their scripts
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February 12th
• Demonstrated the audio workstation in the kitchen. The software is called Audacity and is free
to download and use if you would like to play with it at home. Very easy program to use.
• Quick explanation of the two light kits that we will be using for the Children's story project.
• Scripts were to be completed with all directions as soon as possible.
• Audio recording should start today, one at a time.
• While waiting for an audio recording session, your group should begin taping the stories.
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February 11th
• Some students attempted to print their white balance matrix but the printer is acting strangely. It is
printing duplicates of some print jobs and not printing others at all. For now, all printing is
suspended.
• Children's Story assignment handed out to class and explained.
• Students divided into 6 groups of 3 to create their children's story. Four groups have chosen a book
and have had it approved. Two groups appeared to accomplish very little today.
• Some groups have started entering all book text into a Word document that is formatted as a
standard video script (AUDIO in left column, VIDEO in right column). All book text should be
entered, then go back and format the particular direction details around that text.
• Recording the audio can commence. Two audio workstations will be available starting
Tuesday, Feb 12th.
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February 8th
• Finished the white balance matrix using Photoshop. To be printed next week.
• Bring in a children's book for Monday.
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February 7th
• No buses today...Tsk, tsk, tsk. So walk, for crying out Pete's sake. I did(n't).
• Color temperature handout. Contains important info on light characteristics
• Each student recorded themselves (faces) in four white balance scenarios: 3200K WB shot
indoors, 3200K WB shot outdoors, 5600K WB shot indoors, 5600K WB shot outdoors. Example
on the downloads page.
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February 6th
• School closed for snow day.
• Spend today looking for a good picture book for children under 6. It should have large pictures and
the text should not interfere with them.
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February 5th
• Viewed examples of student made children's stories and discussed strengths/weaknesses.
• Demonstration of white balancing a camera is daylight (5600K) versus incandescent (3200K)
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February 4th
• Distributed and discussed the course outline.
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