Read each assignment, as posted on your section's schedule page. As you read, complete the "Try This" exercises within. Exercise files and other resources from the text are available at digitalmediatools.org.
>Chapters 1 & 2 - Introduction and Interface Basics (Optional)
>Chapter 7 - Dreamweaver. 357–402,440–448
>Chapter 4 - Photoshop. 73–123, 146–178
>
>Chapter 6 - Flash. 287–348
>Chapter 8 - Shared Concepts (Optional)
Your instructor may assign one, both, or neither of the below readings, or other additional readings. Check with your instructor.
Reading 1
Rush, Michael, New Media in Late 20th-Century Art,
Chapter 4: Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, New York, NY,
1999.
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This book is also available
from Lockwood
Library.
Reading 2
McLuhan, Marshal, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man, MIT Press, 1964, Eighth Printing 1999. Chapters 8, 9 and 16.
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This book is also available
from Lockwood
Library.
Please do not use the EP/CD lab printers for notes
or readings. Use the public computing sites on campus.
Reading 3 (Optional)
Dunn, Crawford, Alphasignal, Parasignal, Infrasignal: Notes Toward a Theory of Communication.
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here.