TESTING OUT OF WIRED

Testing out of SAIC WIRED, a required SAIC course for freshmen, is accomplished by taking a three part examination using the Mac laptop. The three components of the test are:

(1) Basic digital compositing assignment. Please use the Cezanne sketch as a template. Cut out the bowl of apples, the mug and the lemon and create a new background for the "altered" still life. - Download materials

(2) Simple HTML page construction (tags only, below is the image you will need). Write "HELLO WORLD" five times on a page with this image of the bus below. Each "HELLO WORLD" needs to be a different size, use the various heading tags to accomplish this. Make the CTA bus image a link to saic.edu. - Click URL to preview


(3) Basic web site construction with table usage (Dreamweaver or Fireworks OK to use). Make an index page that is a table of the wildflowers; order does not particularly matter but you can copy what the preview shows. Then each time the user clicks on a flower, have the user go to a page in a slideshow that takes you through the larger pics in a linear fashion. - Click URL to preview - Download individual IMAGE FILES FOR USE.

CURRICULUM CONTACT: SAIC WIRED
Tiffany Holmes, Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Art and Technology Studies
Email: tholme (at) saic (dot) edu

ABOUT SAIC WIRED
This 1.5 credit hour course is intended to enhance the first year program curriculum by providing structured, targeted tutorials that introduce students to basic and advanced imaging and web authoring techniques in an academic context that is both critical and celebratory of the new media tools —both proprietary and open-source—to facilitate art production.  The tutorials are also designed to assist first year core faculty in encouraging students to document and share their research and studio projects online with their peers.  The web is a medium that now must be understood and managed by artists from any field; for this reason, the curriculum is focused on imaging for the web, and authoring (HTML) for the web.   The course also provides a survey of new online collaborative research tools.

OPTIONAL TEXTS
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montforts (eds.)  New Media Reader (NMR), MIT Press, 2003.
Elizabeth Castro, HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide), 2006.