Welcome to the grade 12 COMTECH Agenda.

check to here to find out what projects are in progress and how they are expected to be completed and subsequently evaluated



harrismailbox@gmail.com  is where to send me stuff.....like your url

Create a ZYMIC ACCOUNT - use ZXQ subdomain option for school use 

Check this page for instructions on FTP set up for Zymic and DreamWeaver

 Final Evaluation = Portfolio  | Final Evaluation |

..................................Portfolio Directories P1 | P3

Why studying Communication Technology
is putting You ahead of the Curve

Queen Elizabeth 2nd
Diamond Jubilee

June 4 - time to finish up!   if you are ready to do a T- shirt lets do it now avoid the rush

- putting your slides in a Flash Slide Template    
- check out Nicol Bordigon's 

Evaluation for the Flash Slide Show

- install 5 of your best gently rendered DownTown pictures into the Flash Slide Template
and change up the Title(s)
- the template is made to accept 640 p 480 p images (see last week)

May 28 - getting near the end!

Downtown pictures - select 5 of your best pictures adjust them in PhotoShop
and crop/resize them to 640 pix X 480 pix put them in a separate folder and we will put them in a Flash SlideShow.
- your downtown panorama will be presented in a separate page and does not have to be interactive

Portfolio Time

- its time to wrap things up in the course!
- make sure that you understand what is expected in the portfolio it will reflect the skills that you have aquired in the last 2 years as well as presenting an online portfolio of this years projects

Your Bio

- your portfolio will include a bio on the homepage that will contain ...
> who you are
> what makes you unique
> what your future goals are including
where you want to study / travel / or work
---- > your bio will be contained on your homepage and can be presented
in one of the following media
- video - max 45 seconds
- GIF animation - slide frames containing images and text with variable frame rates
- Flash animation - keep the quality high and the duration short
- iFrame - create a scrolling Iframe with pictures and text in a slice

May 21 2012 - time to finish up the Digital Photography Project

- have you posted your quizz marks on the sheets on the board ?

- this Friday we will be attending the Digital Photography Field trip starting at Kensington Market   

and ending at Dundas Square

- if you need a camera please get it before we go

- make sure that your camera's battery is charged the night before

- bring some money for lunch

- watch the weather report in case rain is forecast

- please have your field trip permission form on hand Friday morning

• Toronto Field trip forms
• p1
   

- remember to keep safe and be respectful of persons in your photographic field

May 14 2012

- Panorama - create a panorama around the school in a location that
that is open and where a single narrow angle shot will not suffice

- the front of the school comes to mind

- the panorama will become part of a 2D virtual viewer experience

- be sure to create a separate folder called panorama and save all items such as
the PTviewer.jar / panorama.jpg / panorama.html in that folde

- this level of oraganization will help you successfully integrate all features of this project

Your Panorama will be rendered in Photoshop and will look much more seamless

April 23 2012

- template for photo album

Photographic Composition

rule of thirds

Fibonaci numbers | 2 |

Golden Mean

April 10 2012 - just for interest view Masters of Photography

Digital Photography Phase 1- intro to photography

Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photograph of a scene from nature, circa 1826, "View from the Window at Le Gras,"Saint-Loup-de-Varennes(France).

A - read over 1 | 2

B - read online text book

C - do Quizzes at Quizstar qizzes must be complete before picture taking
1) create a login you will remember
2) - use your name as seen open attendance list
3) - search for  Teacher = Michael S Harris
Digital Photography do quizzes ---- record results

D - in school photography and abum creation

E - create a contact sheet comprised of ALL your pictures taken around the school

Phase 2 starts with a Downtown Field Trip Photoshoot sometime in May

- pictures taken on our trip will be used to create a 2D VR panoramic image and a Flash Slide Show

April 2 2012

- working on Poetic Vision  ---- completing the production phase and entering the Post Production Phase

- remember to Publish as an .swf

- next topic Digital imaging

March 26 2012

- see last week for full instructions and evalution

- be sure to size your canavas to 830 x 480

- preproduction probably starts with a song or voice over

March 19 2012

- Poetic Vision  Evaluation a multimedia

- 20 - 30 seconds of text, sound, and motion

- Poetic Vision

- example in Flash Sean Bulman

Arnold 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

March 5 2012 -  short week March Break

- ..Timeline Animation in CS3

Characters for your animation (transparent GIFs with a matt colour the same as this blue)
Cast of characters in your timeline animation. Feel free to create a more diverse cast.

- this week you will complete all previous work due as posted in the column to he right (What's Due) and a timeline animation using the some of the cst of characters above

- keep this animation banner size 800 p x 150 p and consider duplicating and then shrinking the animation to button size 120 x 50 to make an animated button to link it

- allows you to animate image layers (.psd) opacity/styles/position/text warp
the trick to remember is the use of key frames

- timeline animation runs frames at 30 fps so keep image sizes smallish
to minimize file sizes
- remember to save as .gif

February 27 2012

- working on an imaginative interactive page due friday

- Interactive Web Design   
- evaluation check before submission

......................................Timeline Animation in CS3

- allows you to animate image layers (.psd) opacity/styles/position/text warp
the trick to remember is the use of key frames

- timeline animation runs frames at 30 fps so keep image sizes smallish
to minimize file sizes
- remember to save as .gif

February 21 2012

- Interactive Web Design   
- evaluation

Preproduction - brainstorm an idea / gather images / visualize a layout / consider interactivity / create folder

Production - create base image for slicing / size render image swaps / seek links for pop up menues
- slice base image / add interactivity /

Post Production - save then export production to project folder
- F12 to prove interactivity
- upload folder
- create separate HTML doc and insert fireworks html / customize page and upload / create button from homepage (index)

February 13 2012

- complete all 5 button types in your index page

- iFrame tutorial - small amount of text and a picture TOPIC = accident in Hampstead Ontario

- World Map interactive tutorial

February 2012 - welcome to the digital arts course - to start is half the work

first things first

Lets get a web address and send me a cut and pasted address to  
harrismailbox@gmail.com ------ please include your name, as written, on a class list as I use the list to search for your emails

Get web space at Zymic please use a ZXQ subdomain as it will not be blocked at school

OR Pay and be a real pro at 1and1.com

When you have created your new web space cut and paste the index page web address (URL) you have created and send it with YOUR NAME as seen on a student list to harrismailbox@gmail.com

I will use your address as a link in the class directory

You can work from home if you have DreamWeaver - simply click on the site file (.ste) that you create and your site can be managed from anywhere (the original cloud)

- make sure your proper name is used in the email as I will use the student list to search for your email with the web address (URL) included

I need peer mentor students like you to help in class this semester p-4

There is a $30 lab fee for this programme and there will be no other costs involved to the student

remember Murphy's Law

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Students are asked to get a USB drive to allow you to store your digital files. Your jump drive will allow you to take your projects home to work on and act as a back up for your digital assets.

Store your files on:
A >>> the H drive (school - use when working in class)
B >>>  your jump drive (use to backup files at end of class time and work elsewhere)
C >>>  your web space ( hopefully we will set up an FTP client to assist in managing folders and perhaps managing your site from DreamWeaver)

Use folders to save your assets in to keep things organized in
Dream Weaver so inside your webready folder create these folders and store assets in the appropriate folders

Create on H drive a Folder called
COMTECH and inside it create a folder called (keep .psd .fla etc in here)
WebReady inside webready create the following folders ....

animations
audio
bgs
banners
buttons
flash
html
images

your index.html file MUST NOT BE IN A FOLDER

All video files must be stored on the D drive (local)since it is impossible to
edit video over a network

Your lost assets are your problem there never has been or will be exceptions for lost files including if the school server goes down!!!

Murphy's Law prevails  who feels it knows it!

First thing to do is start building web presence by signing up with Zymic

What's up Soon?

NEXT we will examine the basics of website creasion and management
Navigation bar options
Various buttons
HTML tables

Intro to FireWorks interactive webpage design software.
An intro to PhotoShop will get us ready to process images for the Interactive Web Project

Give all your assets a descriptive and self sorting file name
examples : techreport.htm ,   piclightwavetechreport, piccolourwheeltechreport, bannertechreportpage1, bannertechreportpage2 aniflashbouncingball.swf and store them in a related folder

> keeping your assets well organized in folders is half the battle

> remember if you are creating rollover buttons that these are .swf files and they must be uploaded along with your html files

> remember every website must have an index page

keep organized work hard and success will follow

have fun good luck ask if you need help...... MSH

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