Class Info

To-Do Before Class

Logo History Report 1st Draft, Dr. King Drum Major Speech Discussion Board, & bio for profile as well as all readings from Week One Assignments, including the following readings you were to do for homework that we will discuss at the start of class.

The website below explains analog vs. digital technology very clearly and concisely:

https://www.explainthatstuff.com/analog-and-digital.html

Also, in your text Digital Foundations, read Chapter 1 The Metaphor of Graphic Applications and do the exercises

Topic

Digital vs. Analog/A Brief History of Media Communications

Objectives

  • Basics of the OS System
  • Understand the Evolution of the Printed Book and how the format altered society
  • Review Epub and online books for comparative purposes
  • Understand the Evolution of the internet and its basic structure

Activities

Let’s begin class by taking a look at the Book that is recognized as the first printed book in the Western World: The Gutenberg Bible. There are only 20 complete copies of the Gutenberg in the world today. One of them was scanned and it is digitally available at the University of Texas Ramsom Center.

Below are some lecture slides that take us from Gutenberg to Google:

COMD11121historylecture-1Download

http://www.gutenberg.org

This semester we will be using WordPress, the underlying structure for OpenLab. In it, you will encounter the Advanced Gutenberg settings, named for Gutenberg.

• Working with Block Editor–we are going to learn the basics of working with the Block Editor

Here’s some Zoom backgrounds to try out:

https://www.westelm.com/pages/features/zoom-virtual-backgrounds/

To-Do After Class

See Assignments/ Week Two for homework