A behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into the Rich Media Projects sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl and reviewed photographs from Europe. He took 1,500! We developed a plan of action for moving forward with the project. His first step will be to review the content outline and revise as necessary, then he will work on getting text and images to me for the section on the Radical Reformation.
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BibleDudes: Met with Mike Homan and created the requisite maps for the Apocrypha section.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
BibleDudes: Tracked down an elusive error that was preventing a JavaScript popup window from functioning correctly in Internet Explorer.
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Kids to Afrika: Added more information to prototype site.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
BibleDudes: Whew! I can't believe it, but I think I really am finally done with the Apocrypha section, or at least a first version. I finished the imaging and layout and even completed a little on-line poll for the Prayer of Manasseh.
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Monday, July 28, 2003
BibleDudes: I spent all day today exporting GIFs from Flash, processing them in Fireworks, and laying out pages. A am almost finished with the Apocrypha section.
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Friday, July 25, 2003
BibleDudes: Experimented with the idea of using much smaller character images. This would make for faster-loading pages and give us a lot more options for page layout. But, ultimately, we decided the high impact of larger images is worth the trade-off.
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Interactive Taxonomic Zoology: Met with Mark Schlueter to formulate a plan for using the ITZ CD-ROM in his class this fall. This entails a bit more development -- a few rough spots need to be smoothed out, and we want to add sound to the program. But we need the Windows version of Director, which I requisitioned some time ago, so that we can make a cross-platform CD-ROM. We will need to burn 25-40 copies of the program by early September.
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Thursday, July 24, 2003
BibleDudes: Adopted a new convention for image filenames which will be more efficient and less confusing. I had to change a bunch of existing file names, which was a pain, but it's better to deal with this now when there are 200 hundred image files than later when there are 2,000! I also exported a lot of images from Flash, processed them in Fireworks, and fine-tuned the layout for a number of pages in the Apocrypha section.
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BibleDudes: Yesterday I met with Mike Homan; we reviewed the drawings I've recently completed, with particular attention to colors. (I don't always know what colors are historically and culturally appropriate.) Today I'm finishing up the drawings for the Apocrypha section in Flash.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Kids to Afrika: Met with Debra Harley to discuss implementation of the website.
Thinker: Met with Elliott Hammer to discuss his design document revisions.
BibleDudes: More drawing, of course. I have completed almost all of the characters for the Apocrypha.
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Friday, July 18, 2003
BibleDudes: Yet more drawing. There's a lot to do! I'm doing all of the drawing in Flash.
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Thursday, July 17, 2003
BibleDudes: More drawing, drawing, drawing.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
BibleDudes: Drawing, drawing, drawing.
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Monday, July 14, 2003
Kids to Afrika: Added more content to site.
BibleDudes: More illustrations.
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Friday, July 11, 2003
Vive: We put the finishing touches on the Vive CD, and officially moved the project on to phase II.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2003
BibleDudes: Continuing to iron some bugs out of the site navigation script. Put all the text for the Apocrypha section into the correct files. Slowly adding illustrations.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
BibleDudes: Today I'm converting the BibleDudes prototype to a file-based system, and building new pages. Right now I'm working on the introductory Apocrypha page. You can check the progress at http://cat.xula.edu/bibledudes/apocrypha/.
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Monday, July 07, 2003
Vive la Louisiane: Dr. Spillman and I added the générique (credits) to the program, and with a few lines of Lingo we were able to get them to scroll smoothly.
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Kids to Afrika: I added some basic informational texts (sent to me by Ms. Harley over the last two weeks) to the prototype site, which can be viewed at http://cat.xula.edu/kta/teachers.html. Also added a PDF application form. There are still a number of broken links on the site, so be careful!
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Wednesday, July 02, 2003
I thought it might be interesting to use a Web log to document and record the work being done on the various Rich Media Projects that are currently in progress.
