First Day of Class

As we try and figure out how to use the blogging feature in Moodle, I thought it best to also keep this blog at blogger.com active.

We had our first meeting today and for the most part I think things went well. The COM 280 and NMS 210 students met as a group and reacted to the "risky" ideas for how the courses would be linked. Although I am sure we will learn some things as we go, there was general agreement that this "experiment" is well worth testing out.

On the technical end of things, we covered a basic introduction to web site organization, site management, Dreamweaver HTML authoring, and using web browsers for testing our sites. In particular, all the students now know how important it is to always test and test often. The Web Developer extensions for Firefox will come in very handy.

That's all for now.
rgr

First Post for NMS 210 Test Blog

I thought it might be interesting and fun to look more closely at blogging as I prepare for the spring term and NMS 210: Introduction to Digital Media. This year, the course is linked with Mike Vickery's class COM 280: Risk and Crisis Communication. I am excited to see some interesting projects develop as the students from both classes work together.

The NMS students will be getting a full dose of web and media design skills including HTML, CSS, JavaScript (mostly cut/paste), graphics, audio, video, and Flash objects, and in general exploring the challenges and methods to create media rich and engaging web content.

Should be fun!