Schedule


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Date

Schedule/Readings

Assignments
Jan 15 Topics: Course Introduction
Readings: NA
Jan 17 Topic: What counts as a book?
Readings:

  • Young, “Notation and the Art of Reading” (readings)
  • Howard, “The Future of Books” (readings)
 Discuss interest maps
Jan 22 Topic: Digital books
Readings:

 Bring interest maps to class
Jan 24 Topic: Email workshop and discussion
Readings: NA
Jan 29 Topic: Fair use and copyright instruction session
Readings: NA		 Exploratory email due
Jan 31 Topics: Rhetoric introduction / remix
Readings:

  • Lanham, Introduction to The Economics of Attention (selection) (readings)
  • The Discourse Situation (pdf)
  • Lessig, Remix, pp. 23-116
Feb 5 Topic: Remix
Readings:

  • Lessig, Remix, pp. 253-288
  • Gaylor, RIP!: A Remix Manifesto
Feb 7 Topic: EPUB
Readings: 

  • Garrish, What is EPUB3?
  • Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point, pp. 7-18
Feb 12 Topic: Design
Readings:

  • Lupton, Thinking with Type, pp. 10-83 (LETTER section)
  • Hagen and Golombisky, White Space is Not Your Enemy, pp. 1-56 (Chs. 1-5)
Feb 14 No class. Work on the HTML5 assignment here.
Feb 19 Topic: Design
Readings:

  • Lupton, Thinking with Type, pp. 84-147 (TEXT section)
  • Hagen and Golombisky, White Space is Not Your Enemy, pp. 85-110 (Ch. 8), 131-152 (Ch. 10)
 HTML5 assignment due in class. Be able to access a digital copy of the assignment in class for testing.
Feb 21 Topic: Design
Readings:

  • Lupton, Thinking with Type, pp. 148-207 (GRID section)
  • Hagen and Golombisky, White Space is Not Your Enemy, pp. 57-84 (Chs. 6-7), 167-182 (Ch. 12)
Feb 26 Topic: Proposal workshop
Readings: NA		 Be able to access current draft of Proposal in class for workshop
Feb 28 Topic: Progress update
Readings: NA		 Proposals due; be prepared to share your proposal with the class
Mar 5 Topic: EPUB
Readings:

  • Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point, Ch. 1, “Using Word to Write EPUB” OR
  • Ch. 2, “Using InDesign to Create EPUB”
Mar 7 Topic: Audio/video editing workshop
Readings:
Mar 12 Topic: EPUB workshop
Readings:

  • Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point, Ch. 3, “Inside an EPUB File,” pp. 91-128
  • Garrish, Accessible EPUB 3, Chs. 1-2
Mar 14 No class. Work on design and layout of your books (particularly metadata and structuring of content) and drafting/revising content.
Mar 19 Topic: EPUB/HTML5 workshop
Readings:

  • MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, Chs. 1-3, pp. 11-106
  • Kleinfeld, HTML5 for Publishers
 Complete all the exercises in chs. 1 & 3 of Castro; be able to access your work-in-progress EPUB in class.
Mar 21 Topic: Progress update
Readings: NA		 Be prepared to update the class on the progress of your project
Apr 2 Topic: HTML5 workshop
Readings:

  • Hagen and Golombisky, White Space is Not Your Enemy, Ch. 13, “Multimedia Components,” pp. 183-194
  • MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, Ch. 5, “Audio and Video,” pp. 143-170.
Apr 4 Topic: HTML5 workshop
Readings:

  • Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point, Ch. 4, “Advanced EPUB Editing,” pp. 129-186
  • Garrish, Accessible EPUB 3, Ch. 3, “It’s Alive: Rich Content Accessibility,” 37-78
 Be prepared to update the class on the progress of your project
Apr 9 Topic: HTML5 workshop
Readings:

  • MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, Ch. 6, “Basic Drawing with the Canvas,” pp. 171-198
Apr 11 Topic: HTML5 workshop
Readings:

  • MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, Ch. 7, “Deeper into the Canvas,” pp. 199-236
Apr 16 Topic: Presentations
Readings:
Apr 18 Topic: Workshopping books
Readings: NA
Apr 23 Topic: Workshopping Public Readings
Readings: NA
Apr 25 Topic: NA
Readings: NA		 Public Readings
Apr 30 Topic: NA
Readings: NA		 Public Readings
May 2 Topic: How to talk about what you learned in this class on your résumé, course evaluations eBook and author statement due

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