Weekly Class Log

🎉 Week 12 🎉

April 26, 2021

Agenda

• Hand coding round robin activity :)
• Discussion / hangout

Week 11

April 19, 2021

Agenda

• Q & A with our guest, Tiger Dingsun
• Presentations of virtual gathering + series with feedback

Sometime between April 20-April 25, 2021...

To do this week

• Finalize your work — Project 1. Series, Project 2. Gathering, and how they are documented in your process blog. What I'll be looking at is the process blog -- and that it links to your work (your series site and your presentation or whatever you showed for your gathering). Show some images in your process blog of your projects -- both final versions and in-progress. This will be helpful for the future -- if your website changes, goes offline, etc. Your process blog should, in general, document your projects' evolution and your ongoing thinking as part of this class. All final work is due next class, our last class... !
• Optional. If you want to get into JavaScript or Responsive CSS, this is a good last week to try them out. Also, remember to put some Finishing Touches on your series website if you haven't yet.

Week 10

April 12, 2021

Agenda

• Go around and share your virtual gathering reviews + ideas for your gathering
• Watch our guest Tiger Dingsun's video

• https://www.tiger.exposed ← Tiger’s website
• http://tdingsun.github.io/reading-machines ← "Reading Machines" ... ongoing publishing platform for non-teleological reading
• http://tdingsun.github.io/dp/ ← “LP—20x20” … 20 friends share 20 songs from 2020
• http://tdingsun.github.io/dp ← “I Never Want to See the Same Image Twice!” … “Somewhere between a game, a poem, a movie, a painting.”
• RiTa JS ← This isn't Tiger's, but it is the JS library Tiger used for their "Reading Machines" which "supports the creation of new works of computational writing"
• Tone JS ← Another JS library Tiger uses (this one for sound)

Sometime between April 13-April 18, 2021...

To do this week

• Carry out your gathering
• Be ready next week to share your screen and present both your gathering and series together, and how they influenced each other. 5 minutes maximum. Please practice this presentation so that it's smooth and not over 5 minutes. We'll have guests Mindy Seu and Tiger Dingsun in class next week to be in the discussion.

Week 9

April 5, 2021

Agenda

• Discussion of "The Art of the Gathering"
• Figma gathering examples activity
• Outside ideating time (journal / draw / etc.) for your gathering

Sometime between April 6-April 11, 2021...

To do this week

• Watch "The Art of Gathering Online & Offline" lecture by Laurel. Read "On Gathering" by Mindy Seu (one of our guests in a couple weeks). Write responses towards each in your process blog.
• Write your "Virtual gathering review" this week in your process blog. Be ready to present / discuss in class next time.
• Make some finishing touches to your web series. Consider making it responsive (usable on mobile devices).

Week 8

March 29, 2021

Agenda

• Project 1. Series due, guests Nazli Ercan & Bhavani Srinivas in conversation
• (BREAK)
• Introduce Project 2. Gathering. Review project description on our class site and our class calendar

Sometime between March 30-April 4, 2021...

To do this week

• Read chapters 1-4 of Priya Parker's "The Art of the Gathering" (you should have received it in the mail) and post a response on your process blog
• Find an online event in the next week or two to attend and write your "Virtual gathering review" on. We'll talk about them in class in 2 weeks -- on April 12th.
• Start thinking about what your "Gathering" will be for your Project 2.

Week 7

March 22, 2021

Agenda

• Individual meetings (we don't meet as a group) to go over your project1 draft

Publish your site to the WWW with its own custom domain name and hosting.

part 1 — vocab

part 2 — domain

part 3 — hosting

Week 6

March 8, 2021

Agenda

• Share exercise2 and exercise3 in doc
• Meet in small groups to go over CSS questions
• Sign up for individual meetings next week

• Exercise Share
• Sign up for individual meetings next week

Week 5

March 1, 2021

Agenda

• Studio visit with guest Bhavani Srinivas
• Informal shares on project 1. Series
• Together firm up calendar for rest of project 1

• Chaff and Light Trash
• Art Hx

(Still need to add links to the below)

( 1 ) Learn about layout in CSS

To do this, check out our CSS layout tutorials (part 1, part 2). When you're done with the exercise, upload it to the portal in participants / your-name / exercise3.

( 2 ) Experience article / podcast ... Venkatesh Rao's "Planning to Start, Planning to Finish"

You can find it online. It's a short podcast, 12 minutes.

Write a response in your process journal.

( 3 ) Make some update to the CSS in your process journal ("Bear Blog")

Here is a walkthrough on how to do this. Feel free to style your process journal however you like.

Week 4

February 22, 2021

Agenda

• Sort out uploading to Portal issues
• Watch our guest Nazli Ercan's video
• Watch series lecture by Laurel
• Share our Exercise 1 all together

• http://nazli-ercan.com ← Nazli’s website
• http://nazli-ercan.com/sky ← sky archive
• https://recipesforfood.net ← “Recipes for Food” … recipes from designers
• https://riversinstitute.org ← “Rivers Institute” … online art space
• https://www.are.na/nazli-ercan ← Nazli’s Are.na

Sometime between Feb 23–28, 2021...

To do this week

• Learn or re-familiarize yourself with CSS and complete "Exercise 2."
  
  To do this, check out our CSS tutorials (part 1, part 2). Instructions for the exercise are in part 2. When you're done with the exercise, upload it to the portal in participants / your-name / exercise2.
• Be ready to share progress (content, design, etc.) on your series project
  
  For next week, you'll show progress on your idea... both the content and the design:
  
  Content — Show us some of your content for your series. Maybe you have some things done, some things still in progress, some things still to come. List out what you have and what you'd like to have. Make a list of what each item in your series will have (text? video? image?) etc.
  
  Design — I'd recommend this be in the form of visual sketches. Show us how you're visualizing the website... maybe start in pen & paper and then move to Figma or some other digital sketching tool. You can also start to play around in HTML & CSS if that feels right. Consider what vibe you'd like your project to have and try to make this come across in your sketches.
  
  This informal share is your chance to ask me and the class for any advice based on where you are now. So use this share as a way to push your project forward. Btw, here is the video of me showing examples from last class, if you'd like to revisit anything!
• Consider our class guests
  
  Last week, we saw a video from Nazli Ercan. If you haven't already, could you please write an entry in her guestbook? And at the beginning of class this next week, we'll hear from Bhavani Srinivas, who made this website for her thesis in VIS. Come to class with any questions you might have for her.

Week 3 ... cancelled (February 15, 2021)

Week 2

February 8, 2021

Agenda

• Look at class photo :)
• Review accessing the portal
• Chat about reading & share three ideas for series in Google Doc
• Introduce class guests & their work
• (BREAK)
• Go over Process Journal tutorials
• Review remaining things in the syllabus, questions?

Sometime between Feb 8–14, 2021...

To do this week

• Set up your process journal using Bear Blog and Are.na.
  
  Follow the Process Journal tutorials (part 1, part 2) for how to set them up. When you're done, paste the link to your process journal and your Are.na profile in our Google Doc. Start posting in your process journal and making it your own :)
• Learn or re-familiarize yourself with HTML and complete "Exercise 1."
  
  To do this, check out our HTML tutorials (part 1, part 2). Instructions for the exercise are in part 2. When you're done with the exercise, upload it to the portal in participants / your-name / exercise1.
• Watch & read some things (below) and reply in your process journal
  
  Watch my recorded video lecture "A History of the Internet" and read a related article, Paul Ford's "Reboot the World" (2016). Afterwards, reply in some way inside your process journal.
• Choose one idea for your "Series" and start developing it
  
  You shared three possible ideas for your "Series" in class this week. Now choose or hone-in on one. Start developing the concept in your mind and then through 1) gathering/creating some of your content, and 2) sketches, wireframes, maybe some beginning HTML for your site. Feel free to start making process posts of your thoughts in your process journal. Include images of your sketches. You'll share your progress with the class not next week, but the week after (February 22).

• Recipes for Food
• Sky Archive

• Reading Machines
• I never want to see the same image twice

Week 1

February 1, 2021

Agenda

• Welcome
• Go over syllabus
• Look at some links
• Class picture
• Book & media share + intros

Sometime between Feb 1–7, 2021...

To do this week

• Photoshop yourself into the class picture.
  
  Include the book you shared (you can be holding it, or it's next to you.) Follow the Photoshop tutorial for how to do this.
• Read J.R. Carpenter's A Handmade Web (2015).
  
  Write a reply, reaction, reflection in the form of a paragraph or two. Then, find two websites you think qualify as handmade (according to Carpenter). One should be made a long time ago, and the other should be made in the last year or two. Describe briefly why you chose each and be ready to share them next class.
• Think of three possible ideas for your "Series."
  
  Write them down and have them ready to share next class … and bring any supporting materials to help convey your idea (could be your pencil + paper sketches of them, mockups of any kind, related references or materials, etc.)