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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Digital Publishing

Sichuan Media and Journalism Programme, Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University

Trends in New Media | Summer 07

Edited on 31 Jan 2008 around 1pm

Wiki page

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Invited Speaker

Friday, November 30, 2007

What is XML and How can we use it in Publishing?

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

In this lecture I cover the basics of XML, it's history and how it can be used.

Edited on 22 Nov 2007 around 3pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Design and Production for Publishing

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Introduction to Electronic Books

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

The focus of this session is to introduce the concept of the computer as a medium for the delivery of a reading experience.

Edited on 30 Jan 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Monday, February 04, 2008

Web Issues for Publishers

Helena Kennedy Building, Oxford Brookes University

This session considers trends in web technologies and focusses on online tools for project management.

Edited on 03 Feb 2008 around 11pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: New Product Development

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Text to Screen

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Issues for delivering text to the screen. From computer text to text that it structured for the screen.

Edited on 07 Feb 2008 around 1pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Building Electronic Books with InDesign and Acrobat

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

This is a workshop session builds on the talk given in the previous week. We will make use of InDesign and consider the relationship between style, content and final markup.

Edited on 20 Feb 2008 around 10pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Everything but Text in InDesign and Acrobat

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

We will look at all other types of media that can be included in the eBook, through Indesign.

Edited on 20 Feb 2008 around 1pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, February 28, 2008

XHTML and CSS and Re-Styling the Blog

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Controlling the appearance of a web page with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

Edited on 28 Feb 2008 around 9am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Working in Publishing week

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

No lecture this week

Edited on 29 Jan 2008 around 11am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Adding Interactivity to the eBook

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

The Acrobat PDF format is much more than just a way to distribute content to a printer.

Edited on 13 Mar 2008 around 2pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Surgery session to help with the PDF eBook and the Blog styling

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Chris Jennings and Mark Rogerson available to help with any technical issues

Edited on 16 Dec 2007 around 7pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, April 10, 2008

XML

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Mark Rogerson will present this session

Edited on 24 Apr 2008 around 9am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Structuring the eBook and exporting the XML

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

In this session we will re-visit the concept of document structure, keeping the style separate.

Edited on 12 Apr 2008 around 7am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Advanced Markup

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Looking in detail at markup.

Edited on 24 Apr 2008 around 9am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Delivering a PDF

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

PDFs can be distributed online or on a CD-ROM.

Edited on 12 Apr 2008 around 7am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Presentation of eBook

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Each student will describe their ideas for the eBook and demonstrate the interactivity.

Edited on 12 Apr 2008 around 7am

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Digital Media Publishing

Monday, September 22, 2008

Blogging and other similar web technologies

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

During this session we look at the basics of blogging as a way to deliver content to a web site. Each student will be given a web space and a blog. From this day, students will be able to post items to their blog using a basic template.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, September 29, 2008

Digital Image making

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

The web is full of images - even Google provides a way to search specifically for images. Most images on the web are photographs and with most cameras now purely digital, most people are distributing their photos online.

But what about making an image from more than one source. What about experssing oneself or decorating the screen medium with ‘montages’. This talk discusses the history, techniques and contexts for such digital images.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, October 06, 2008

Creative Tools for Screen Media

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

All of our work ends up on the screen. What is a screen exactly and how can we build something for it?

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Wiki page

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, October 13, 2008

Designing for the WEB

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Graphic design is an important part of our work. There are certain issues to consider even before we get to the screen as medium.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, October 20, 2008

Template Editing using Dreamweaver

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

We may be using ExpressionEngine to manage the content but it is possible to use Dreamweaver to help us define the look of our site. We can take the existing templates and make modifications to the CSS.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, October 27, 2008

Photoshop Surgery

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

No formal lecture. Just bring your images along for help with techniques.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, November 03, 2008

Building an Image Gallery

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

We want to put our images together and add some text.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, November 10, 2008

Separating Style and Content with CSS

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

The basics of delivering web content by styling with CSS.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, November 17, 2008

Introducing Podcasting

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

How to create audio content and publish on the web as a series of episodes.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, November 24, 2008

More on Podcasting

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

How to publish the podcasts with RSS.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, December 01, 2008

Making a Presentation

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

During the early part of this afternoon I will give my advice about preparing an giving a presentation. This is in anticipaton of the following week where students on this course will be expected to give a 7 minute presentation (worth 10% of the marks!).

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, December 08, 2008

Student Presentations

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

During this day, each student will give a short (7minutes) presentation of the images produced for the web site gallery. The presentation should use ‘Powerpoint’ or a similar technology to explain the rationale behind the selection of images and issues encountered when producing them.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

Monday, December 15, 2008

Surgery Session | Blog templates and Photoshop

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

There will be no formal lecture on this day. Just help with any technical issues as needed.

Edited on 01 Aug 2008 around 6pm

Get the full details here | Grouped under: Web Media Module

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