Syllabus – ATEC3361.

001 -- Spring 2008

Name of Instructor: Laura Oberholtzer
Day: Tuesdays 2:30 –5:15
Course Title: Internet Studio ATEC3361.001 Spring 2008
Contact Information: 972-754-2133 or llh014300@utdallas.edu
Office Hours: Upon Request

Description of Course
This course will develop your skills as a professional web designer. It will focus on developing a web site using Macromedia
Dreamweaver and Flash animation.

Required Texts
Materials will be made available in class or via the web site.

Course Requirements / Evaluation Criteria

During the course, there will be 5 graded evaluations:
• Midterm – Tests website development proficiency using the DreamWeaver tool (25%).
• Final – Tests web animation proficiency using the Flash tool (20%).
• Individual Home Page – Develop an individual profession website, about yourself with your portfolio (25%).
• Group Home Page – working in small groups, develop a website for a small business (as selected by groups) (20%).
• Effort (10%).

Notes:
Changes to this syllabus can be made at the discretion of the instructor. These changes will be available in writing distributed
during class.

Grading
Grades are assigned as follows:
A- to A+ 90 – 100%
B- to B+ 80 – 89%
C- to C+ 70 – 79%
D- to D+ 60 – 69%
F below 60%

Other Information

Incomplete Grades
Be especially aware that to obtain an incomplete, a student must have completed 70% of the coursework and must have a reasonable
expectation of completing the course in the specified time period. Both the student and the instructor must sign the incomplete form.
Students should be aware that failure to complete the course on time will result in the conversion of an I to an F.

Academic Dishonesty
The university policies regarding academic dishonesty are quite specific. Please be familiar with all aspects of this policy as it relates to
academic honesty, including cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and falsifying academic records.

Students with Disabilities

University policies regarding physically disabled students are outlined in the university catalogue on the website. Disabilities will be
accommodated as per these policies in the classroom or with the help of the Office of Disability Services (ext. 6104).

Drops and Withdrawal

University policy regarding drop and withdrawal has changed, effective Fall 04. Students are responsible for understanding the
drop/withdrawal policy and should review the requirements in the university catalogue on line.

Please see online syllabus for specific information.

 Course Outline
Date Activities Presentations Project Completion
Jan 8 Website basics Sign up for teams
- Layout and design in Photoshop Initial team meetings
- Getting started with DreamWeaver Individual website design – your website
- Building a Template MUST have a Flash Introduction.
- Layout/Tables
- Signing onto UTD server
Jan 15 - Dreamweaver and standard tools Initial team design presentations
- Website development documents Individual website development outline
- Animated gifs with Image Ready
- Standard Flash Animation (DW)
Jan 22 Dreamweaver Team website development document
- Layers
- Inserting Java Scripts
- Rollovers
Getting Started with Flash
Jan 29 Dreamweaver Individual website presentations
- Forms
- Frames (iFrames)
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Feb 5 Dreamweaver Team website prototype
- CSS
- Embedded objects
- Interfacing to databases

Feb 12 Midterm Graded

MIDTERM
Feb 19 PHP and ASP
– what is it and how to do it.
Feb 26 More PHP

Flash
- Simple animation using frames
- Simple animation using a path
March 4 Flash
- Intro animations
March 18 Flash
- Intro to ActionScripting
March 25 Flash - Navigation
- Event driven animation
- Scenes and Jumping
- Webpage navigation
April 1 Flash – Games Team website review
- Action scripting
- Navigation and control
- Scoring (point counters)
April 8 Flash – Review Presentation of Individual Websites Individual Graded
- Sound control
- Movie control
- Review of Flash
April 15 Flash – Review Presentation of Group Projects Team Graded
- More ActionScript
- Review of Flash
April 22 Presentation of Group Projects Team Graded
TBD FINAL Final Graded