Final Project Ideas

In addition to the Manifesto 2.0 post, let me know what you're thinking of doing for the final project.

We'll work on these in class next week.

Manifesto Revisted

For next week, I'd like you to revise or reconsider your Manifesto.

Have you changed your mind about anything? Reconfirmed your deepest suspicions?

Post Manifesto 2.0 to your blog or website by Monday.

Class Cancellation -- April 20th

I've been down all weekend with a cold or something, and I have to cancel tonight's class.

I have set up special office hours to discuss your final projects: Wednesday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. I will also be available during my regular office hours (Tues/Thursday 10:30-noon).

critique on group project/animation

I chose the project on animation; it has so many different things on the page. I feel that the structure was set up appropriately, because it goes in order from when the Egyptians used animation to the latest styles of computer animation today. I took the time to read about anime animation and it's history. I think it’s great that it has expanded to other types of genres and individuals instead of just focusing on an older age group and displaying a lot of violence. I loved the picture that is on the background of the anime history page. For some reason I see it unique how the boy is looking down and then the cat on top of his head is doing the same thing. I feel they put a lot of detail into this project by adding all sorts of different videos and captions that display animation. I’m also a fan of the traditional animation because almost everyone loves old cartoons.

One of things that I would have liked to incorporate in our group project is how they linked the actual pictures and text to the site, for example, animation was linked to Wikipedia. Since I’m not that familiar with computers I don’t have a clue how to do this and on our page we did a reference page, I think it would have been great if we could have set up ours like theirs.

List of Group Projects

Christina, Bridget, Elsa: Zodiac
Ryan S, Amanda, Ryan W: Copyright
Elizabeth, JD, Jabril: Interactive Cartoons
Justin, Shane: Facade
Angela, Natasha: Animation
George, Jonathan, Kate: Interactive Fiction
David, Brandon, Will: Twitter Fiction