Pratt Manhattan
ASCG 101, Introduction to Interactive Media, Fall 2003
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    "This course introduces the students to the fundamental concepts of interactivity. Students learn the basic concepts of flow-charting, hierarchical organization and visual perception with regards to interactivity. Students use a variety of basic computer tools in order to implement and demonstrate the various concepts taught in class. Readings are assigned to complement the studio/lab assignments."
     

Assignment 1
Me.com
The students were instructed to write 10 nouns, 10 verbs and 10 sentences about themselves. They then exchanged papers as not to do themselves, and were instructed to design the information to further express the character of the writer, using only typography. They also were allowed to make it as a self portrait.

Technically, this was the first foray into Dreamweaver and basic HTML

Karissa Gancayo 1, 2
Michele Lee 1, 2, 3, 4,
Jose Rivera 1, 2
Elizabeth Sam 1
Emeri Tompkins 1
Monica Cho 1, 2

  

Assignment 2
Pratt in Europe
Assignment two continued the use of HTML. Students were given a basic set of data, information concerning Pratt's European instruction. The assignment initially was to design and build an information mini-site, using CSS. Eventually, images were added, but the focus of this assignment was typography.

Jose Rivera
Monica Cho
Michele Lee
Karissa Gancayo
Emeri Tompkins
Elizabeth Sam

Assignment 3
This American Life
This assignment created the skills necessary to make framesets, and within that skill, presented a conceptual idea of American culture.

Michele Lee
Jose Rivera
Monica Cho
Karissa Gancayo

  

Assignment 4
Poetry
This assignment was concerned with images and text. The class was instructed to choose several favorite poems, combine them with images and design a presentation that further enhanced the meaning of the words.

Michele Lee
Karissa Gancayo
Jose Rivera
Emeri Tompkins

   Assignment 4
In this assignment, each student was responsible for the design and execution of a professional portfolio website. All students created digitized versions of their work, and then applied that content into structures and interfaces of their own design. Instruction was given as to file transfer protocols and space was obtained on the college servers for practice in the remote control of files. Sites were designed to be scalable, in order to be further built out in during their entire course of instruction.

Karissa Gancayo
Michele Lee
Jose Rivera