The Internet Classroom: Eye Candy

Eye Candy

Posted by kass at 2007/06/29 08:41:20 PDT
Edited at 2007/06/29 11:33:23 PDT

8:30-8:45	1:00-1:15	Photoshop 101
8:45-9:30	1:15-2:00	Photoshop Fun
9:30-9:45	2:00-2:15	Painting in Photoshop (Cindy!)
9:45-10:15	2:15-2:45	Break
10:15-10:35	2:45-3:05	Presentations
10:35-11:30	3:05-4:00	Two-week evaluations / Catchup HTML/CSS Exercise: Resumé.
11:30-12:00	4:00-4:30	Journal Question/Index/Free Time

Photoshop Exercises

Make a webpage and place the following six images on it. The person with the single funniest or most creative image will get to come with the winning Nethunt group for pizza or ice cream on Monday at 12 PM!

Create an image of President Bush superimposed on a tropical beach, and be sure to add other random characters. File must be saved as a 24-bit .png or .jpg and be under 300 kilobytes.
Superimpose a picture of Kass somewhere scary! A cemetery, a haunted mansion, etc... Save as a 24-bit .png and file must be under 600 kilobytes in size.
Place Trevor somewhere Southeast Asia (jungle or urban setting). Image must be between 650 and 750 pixels wide, and under 450 kilobytes.
Make a goofy picture with your TA being the main subject. Width must be at least 650 pixels, but again under 300k in size.
Create a 32 by 32-pixel icon with a custom made logo. Save as an 8-bit .png or .gif file.
Create a transparent png.

Resumé

Create a webpage for your own resumé. We realize that you guys don't have a lot of qualifications to put on a resumé at the moment, but that's okay... you can make that stuff up. The idea is that you can make one for yourself right now or what you think you'll be like in ten years... or you can pick a celebrity and make a resumé for them!

Use whatever HTML/CSS tools that you know so far to make it look nice.

Some example resumés for ideas of what to make it look like / what to put on it:

http://seasons.quadoshock.com/about/resume/
http://www.metaminstrel.net/portfolio/misc/resume.html
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~lui/resume.html
Type in "resume" into Google image search

Journal Question

What is your handle (screen name) for most sites/IMing/E-mail? Does this internet persona differ much from you in real life? In other words, are you overall the same person online as you are in real life? I know lots of people who are a lot more outgoing and crazy online than they are in real life, and sometimes the case can be the opposite. If this is the case for you, why do you think these differences occur for you? I highly doubt anyone in the class is exactly the same online as offline, so don't you use that answer as a cop out from answering more questions. Are you more creative in one world than the other? What is it about the internet or real life that changes the way you express yourself or your ideas?

2007/06/29 15:36:01 PDT by kzhang

Ahhh, so much stuff...

2007/06/29 16:23:50 PDT by Jenniferduan

my head is hurting from so much information. :( Well, not really.....:]

Whoever said "life is not a rose garden" got problems. Life IS a rose garden. There are the roses, then there are the thorns. :D

2007/06/29 23:47:51 PDT by foxyfigureskater

why must we have so much to do?
i mean, sure its the weekend- give us homework cause we have 'more time'
but its the weekend; exactly why you shouldnt give out so much homework!!

just an opinion :]

got my vans on.. but oh no, they look like sneakers :O

im gonna miss everyone!!!!!

2007/06/30 00:25:56 PDT by kass

So like, you guys should go check out AP Bio or some math class and ask the students in that class how much homework they have this weekend, 'kay? :P

2007/06/30 00:36:29 PDT by tiffany

hahahah thats funny, ya, they do have a lot of hw.
sux for them :D

.candy rox. and so does putt putt.

2007/06/30 00:50:16 PDT by ND44

my head is hurting right now.
not from this thoguh >.<
played too much games...
ugh i dont feel like doing th resume..... x'[

2007/06/30 01:53:59 PDT by foxyfigureskater

-_- touché.

got my vans on.. but oh no, they look like sneakers :O

im gonna miss everyone!!!!!

2007/06/30 10:38:51 PDT by Jenniferduan

the photoshop thing is hard. right now, i'm stuck on the one about trev in asia. i can't seem to get it under 450k. i guess i'll work on the other ones instead.

Added at 2007/06/30 12:00:55 PDT

can you TAs ppllleeeeeaaaassssee give less work. T~T

Whoever said "life is not a rose garden" got problems. Life IS a rose garden. There are the roses, then there are the thorns. :D

2007/06/30 13:49:10 PDT by ShiftOpt
Edited at 2007/06/30 13:49:39 PDT

Quote from kass:

So like, you guys should go check out AP Bio or some math class and ask the students in that class how much homework they have this weekend, 'kay? :P

Amen. :P When I was was as old as some of you guys (hehe, except you older people >_>), in math at ATDP, we'd cover a whole chapter in a class session, and there were tests every other session.

No excuses, just results! :O

Jennifer, just make the picture smaller?

Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

Yes, I am female. Which means no, I am not male.

2007/06/30 13:49:27 PDT by davelinces

my head hurts

2007/06/30 13:50:15 PDT by Max Santana

I believe that's how Japanese 3 is this year as well. Cindy doesn't sleep at all anymore I hear.

Who? What does it matter? Or…do you need a name to describe me? A definition by words is merely a means to deceive oneself. It's meaningless before the truth. What matters is how you perceive things. The slightest shift, then life and death no longer have any meaning

2007/06/30 14:37:12 PDT by Myke1576

Why do we get these random assignments that don't have much relevance to the class work we are currently doing? Also why do we have so many journal questions? (it seems kind of pointless to do this)

Added at 2007/07/09 15:58:03 PDT

Sorry about my question. I would like to delete this post.

2007/06/30 15:08:44 PDT by senchent
Edited at 2007/06/30 15:09:46 PDT

What "random assignments" are you referring to?

...And why so many (oh wow... one paragraph a day) journal questions?

Because we say so.

2007/06/30 15:10:51 PDT by senchent
Edited at 2007/06/30 15:11:17 PDT

Quote from foxyfigureskater:

why must we have so much to do?

You're getting two semesters' worth of credit for a 6-week course that meets 3 days a week.

2007/06/30 15:22:33 PDT by kass
Edited at 2007/06/30 15:52:28 PDT

We ask you journal questions to get you to think about things that you don't normally think about. Students are too often in a bad habit of being lazy sponges: all you do is absorb information. Not only that, you specifically absorb information that YOU think is important: namely, only enough information to get you by in the classroom. That means you might pass the class, but you'll forget the information once you don't need it anymore and you never learn the non-technical lessons that might have stayed with you past the course's duration.

This class is not only about making webpages. We are trying to teach you about all aspects of the internet: not just the technical, but the social dilemmas as well.

Are all of you new to ATDP or what? TIC is easily one of the lightest workload classes at ATDP, but all of you are complaining about what we're giving you. Did you not read how much homework you were supposedly going to receive when you were checking out course descriptions? Let me remind you: Homework per class meeting: 4-7 hours.