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Desktop PublishingCAPP-310 |
University of Maryland University College Electronic Distance Education Heidelberg, Germany |
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Term 1, 2000-2001; Dates: 28 Aug. - 8 Dec. 2000
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Weekly
Assignments
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Special
Assignments
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Homework
Projects Due:
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Books:
Microsoft® Publisher 2000 by Design <P2K> (Assignments in this text are subject to revision once I have seen the actual text. Yes, I am flying blind and basing assignments on the Publisher 98 version of this text.)
The Non-Designer's Design Book <NDDB> , The PC is not a Typewriter <NTW>
Individual assignments are to be posted to WebTycho by 2359 GMT of the last day of the period for which they are assigned.
Small group assignments will be allocated to specific groups of students as we go along. Questions are to be discussed among those group members during the assigned weeks. Recorders are to correlate responses, eliminate duplication and post a group response in the Assignment area of WebTycho NLT the last day of the assignment period. I will broadcast each groups comments to the class as a whole for our discussion during the following week. During Week 1, our discussion will focus on course mission, objectives and evaluation criteria as well as coping with technical problems raised by this distance learning method.
Small group composition will typically change every couple weeks. Recorders will normally change with each assignment.
| Week 1 (28 Aug. - 5 Sep. '00) Course Intro & Orientation | |||
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See Week 1 Group Assignments and Week 1 Individual Assignments P2K: Table of Contents (ToC) & IntroductionNDDB: ToC, Is this book for you? NTW: ToC, Read me first. |
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Turn In & Participate:
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** Journal.1 due NLT 15 Sep. 2000 **
| Weeks 2-3 (6 - 18 Sep.'00) Intro to Page Layout & Design | |||
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with the end in mind. So we start with well known principles of page
layout and design, and Robin Williams' books and then the initial projects
we want to implement. After that, we are ready to move on to the tool we
will use this term to implement our creative ideas - Publisher 2000. Topics: Four basic principles of Design |
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| NDDB:
Study Chapters 1-6, Quick Read Chapters 7-9. Focus on seeing with new eyes
(The Joshua Tree awakening). NTW: Quick Read of whole book. Focus on practices and habits, good ones that you want to keep, not so good ones that you want to change. P2K: Chapters 18-20 & 1-3. Study the design principles and projects in Chapters 18-20 first then move on to Chapters 1-3. Yes, there will be a few disconnects, but you want to focus on design and only secondarily on the computer program. |
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Individual
Work:
Find examples of each principle of design |
Small Group Work: Discuss
examples of each principle of design. |
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** Projects 1 and 2 Due 22 Sep. 2000 **
** Journal.2 due NLT 30 Sep. 2000 **
| Weeks 4 & 5 (19 Sep. - 2 Oct. '00) Getting to grips with Text | |||
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Topics:
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| NDDB:
Study Chapters 7-9 NTW: Study Units 1-18 (through page 59). Scan relevant appendices. P2K: Chapters 4-9 & 21-22. You need to get comfortable with your DTP program very quickly. You will be coming back to these early chapters often, but before experimenting with Chapters 21 and 22 this week, work through the early chapters (up through chapter 9). |
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Individual
Work:
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Small
Group Work:
Evaluate
examples of résumés and flyers. Are they successful? How
might you know? |
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| Week 6 (3 - 10 Oct. '00) Adding Graphics | |||
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This week
I want you to explore other graphics, drawing, and paint programs - stand
alone packages as well as the ones incorporated into MS Office. One does
not have to be an artist to be able to work with graphics. Look for freeware,
shareware, demo software (careful, often not worth it if you cannot save
your work) and explore.
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P2K:
Review Chapters 4-9, in particular Chapters 8 & 9. Study also Chapter
24 & Appendix A. |
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Individual
Work:
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Small
Group Work:
TBD |
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| Week 7 (11 - 13 Oct '00) Midterm Exam "Week" | |||
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Review for the Midterm Exam. |
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P2K: Review prior assigned chapters. NDDB: Review book. NTW: Review book. |
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Individual
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Small
Group Work:
None |
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TERM BREAK (14 - 20 Oct. '00)
| Week 8 (21 - 30 Oct. '00) Handling Pictures and Multimedia | |||
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We return
refreshed, I hope, with new ideas to implement in Project 4, our flyer.
While you are working on that, we need to press on with a look at clip
media and "OLE" - which is not quite what you would associate
with flamingo dancers and bull fights. But the images might be useful.
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P2K:
Study Chapters 10-11, 13 & 25-27. |
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Individual
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Small
Group Work:
Share your skill with digital cameras and scanners. (Some of us have little experience with either of them.) |
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| Weeks 9 & 10 (31 Oct. - 13 Nov. '00) Web Document Creation | |||
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If the world
is following electrons around, it is not surprising that DTP is interested
in improving the appearance of Web Pages. This is not a course in Web
Page design as such (but we can help you there in a different course),
but we cannot ignore the need for good design principles to be incorporated
into web pages and sites.
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P2K: Study Chapters 12, 23, 28, & 30-31. NDDB: Use as a reference. NTW: Use as a reference. |
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Individual
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Small
Group Work:
Discuss
the process of moving DTP onto the WWW. |
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| Weeks 11 & 12 (14 - 27 Nov. '00) Wizards at Work | |||
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You need to get the topic for Project 6 approved. Each student is to have a different topic, but the type of document may be similar to that being created by another student. The type of document must, however, be different from the five prior projects and it is not to be a web page or site. We will continue to focus on print media in this course. After you have done the hard work, we let you in on an open secret - Microsoft loves Wizards! And Publisher 2000 has Wizards! Moreover, Publisher has a Design Gallery with building blocks you can integrate into your document. Almost
inevitably, there are complications in DTP and we have saved two of them
for last. One is color and we will discuss that issue this week.
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P2K: Study Chapters 14-15 & 29. Review Chapters 30-31. NDDB: Use as a reference. NTW: Use as a reference. |
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Individual
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Small Group Work: TBD |
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Course Review, Wrap-up & Final comments, Course Critique, etc.
Week 1 Individual Assignment
| Phil Richardson; prichard@faculty.ed.umuc.edu |
Revised
15 August 2000
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