INSTRUCTIONS

Assignment: Media Garden Description: Although hand-coding sites in HTML is not necessary to develop web projects, it provides an understanding of the framework underlying webpages and gives you greater control in how to adapt and edit them. It can also free up the possibility to develop web spaces as an infinite canvas based on your own imagined structure, rather than based on a pre-determined template. Additionally, it’s important to consider dimensions of accessibility and copyright when creating and cultivating online media spaces. In this assignment, we’ll create and/or remix media to cultivate a gallery of online gardens that let us develop, apply, and showcase these web content development skills in creative ways that generate stories and attend to a synthesis of multiple media channels in ways unique to the affordances of an online environment. Submission: Submit your project files to the instructor as an SFTP upload to the course server. We’ll share and view these spaces together in class in our online gallery space. Include a brief reflection on why they created the space they did and what kinds of stories might take place there. Be prepared to write a short media response (story, poem, comic, video, voiceover, etc.) to a classmate’s media garden with a story that might take place in the garden they’ve created.
Components: HTML template and CSS styling; Image, text, audio, video; Accessibility ; Media licensing ; Story response ; Evaluation (for full points) HTML template: Adapted HTML template significantly Image, text, audio, video: Used four media types Accessibility: All channels creatively accessible Media licensing: All media creative commons/public domain/self-created Story response: Detailed response that matches media garden’s aesthetic