Class Schedule

Week	Topic	Assignment Due	Details
#1 Sept 3	Introductions, course overview Project scoping and guidelines	Presentation of your project. A 5 minute presentation (with whatever media is needed to communicate your ideas i.e. slides, video, demos, physical prototypes, etc) that illustrates what you plan to do over the course of the semester	If you have already submitted, or think you need to submit an IRB, you should already have started that process and/ or discussions with the instructor by this point.
#2 Sept 10	Concept statement Prototyping resources	Project journal, project planning document due Add your site and folder links to the spreadsheet.	Have your project journal site ready. The first week entry should be a narrative description of your project based off your slide deck. The post this week should include a detailed project planning document describing milestones throughout the semester. Identify your needs for materials, resources, people, space, tools, etc. and list out where you expect to obtain these.
#3 Sept 17	Giving and receiving feedback, the art of critique	Preliminary Prototype due	Bring in your first prototype. This will vary based on the kind of project you are making. Is it a web app? Have a click through or wireframe ready. Is it a game? Demo the core functionality. Installation? Have detailed sketches, a scale model, or one component of it working. Document this on your journal site. Have questions for your audience (the others in the class) that get you the information you need to progress with your work.
#4 Sept 24	Placing yourself along the continuum – articulating how your work fits in with a broader topic	One-on-one meetings with the instructor	In your journal write about how your work fits in with other work in a similar vein. How is your contribution unique? How does it build off of other’s work? Come to the one-on-one your instructor with specific questions about your work and how to best proceed.
#5 Oct 1	Implementation – What resources are you still missing, what else do you need? How will it all get finished?	Progress presentation to the class	Write about your plans for the midterm demo day. What will you be ready to show. What challenges will you face in the next 2 weeks to make this work? What state do you expect your project to be in, and how do you anticipate it will be received by the faculty critics? Prepare a short 5 minute presentation for the class that details what you will be showing on March 8.
#6 Oct 8	How to show your work when it’s in an unshowable format?	Prepare for Demo Day presentation	Write about your production process. What does it mean to move from a wireframe to an actual website? From a tech demo to an installation space, from A/B testing to a polished mockup? be explicit about your challenges and how you plan to show your work.
#7 Oct 22	Demo Day – show your work	Demo Day (midterm)	Write about what you built for the demo day. How did you work around limitations? How do you expect to navigate questions about functionality, what sort of questions do you have for your audience?
#8 Oct 29	Individual feedback and ideation	Short full class meeting to discuss papers. + One-on-one meetings with the instructor Annotated paper outline due.	Describe, in detail, the feedback you received from faculty and your peers at the demo day. Simply record this, do not editorialize or interpret it at this point in time, capture it as clearly as you can. For your paper, have the background, contact and description of what you’re doing completed. Start to fill in pages for the process as appropriate. What have you worked ion so far, what have you learned? Expect to have roughly 8-12 pages finished at this point in the semester.
#9 Nov 5	Sharing of feedback to the class	Progress presentation to class	Reflecting on your expectations for the demo day vs the feedback you received, write about how you will move forward for the remainder of the semester with your project. Prepare a 5 minute presentation for the class that shows documentation of the work, and describe how people responded to it. Ask questions of your audience. Show your paper in progress to your instructor.
#10 Nov 12	How to tell a story with your project through your work and documentation	Project Documentation peer review	After showing the documentation to date, tease out the most relevant aspects and begin to structure your process paper. In your journal, detail how you will approach your paper and what challenges you anticipate int he coming weeks
#11 Nov 19	Production work	One-on-one meetings with the instructor	Outline your plan for the documentation paper with your instructor and discuss your project’s production plan for the next month.
#12 Nov 26	Production work	Project Documentation peer review. Share your project document with one another. Have specific questions on what you can do to clarify and expand of the work you have done so far.	Papers due by the end of the day on Wednesday, November 27th.
#13 Dec 3	Thesis Archive workshop – how to preserve what you have done	Complete the archive project	Fill out the form that is distributed to you. This will ask you for the public website for your project, a description, a title, and other forms of media (images / video / data / text /etc).
#14 Dec 10	Wrapping up + Final Deliverables	Final presentations Signed paper submission to ProQuest TBD	Your final presentations are to be 10 minutes long, you may invite whomever you wish to join in class.
#15 Dec 13	Showcase		You must be present for the public showcase if you are in NYC.