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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 12pm

Wiki page

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Friday, November 27, 2009

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 26 Nov 2009 around 1pm

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

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Introduction to Digital Media Publishing

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. We will look at eBooks in relation to the assignment as well as an introduction to the blogging system that each student will use throughout the semester.

Edited on 22 Jan 2010 around 2pm

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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 08 Feb 2010 around 12pm

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Re-Styling the Blog with XHTML and CSS

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

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

Edited on 16 Feb 2010 around 10am

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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Building Electronic Books with InDesign

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

We will make use of InDesign and consider the relationship between style, content and final markup and how this will affect the PDF eBook and the ePub format ebook.

Assignment milestone

You will have decided the public domain text that you are using for your ebook by this week and you should post a blog entry about this.

Edited on 22 Feb 2010 around 4pm

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Design for the Screen

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

We look at the basic principles of design as it applies to the web and screen based media and look at some different examples of layout.

During this session we will look at Dreamweaver and ExpressionEngine in combination and then make changes to our CSS. This will enable us to change the appearance of our 'blog' and other pages.

Edited on 26 Feb 2010 around 3pm

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

No session this week

Sorry --- Careers week

Edited on 29 Oct 2009 around 2pm

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 29 Oct 2009 around 2pm

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

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

ePUB and XML

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

From Indesign to XML. From Indesign to ePub.

Exporting to formats other than PDF.

Edited on 22 Oct 2009 around 1pm

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

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Advanced Markup including Validation and RSS

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Looking in detail at markup.

Edited on 22 Oct 2009 around 1pm

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

Friday, April 23, 2010

Structuring the eBook and exporting to PDF, XML and ePUB

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Note: this session changed from the Wednesday starts at 10 am.

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

Edited on 09 Apr 2010 around 10am

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

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Modifying the ePUB ebook

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

ePub format eBooks can be constructed by hand coding,but we don't expect you to do this. InDesign will export to Adobe Digital Editions. This is the same as the ePub format. However, there are some aspects of this process that we may not be satisfied with, so we can find ways to edit the components of the ePub and make some worthwhile modifications.

Edited on 28 Apr 2010 around 12pm

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

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Surgery session to help with the 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 20 Jan 2010 around 2pm

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Monday, September 27, 2010

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 but without styling.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, October 04, 2010

Designing for the WEB and Creating a ‘Look and Feel’ with Photoshop

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

In this session we are going to look at Photoshop as a means to build a web site prototype.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, October 11, 2010

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 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, October 18, 2010

Introducing Dreamweaver

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

From our Photoshop 'comps' we will create a sample page in HTML and use CSS to style according to our prototype.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, October 25, 2010

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 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, November 01, 2010

Multimedia Blog Content

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

How to add more than just text and images to the blog entries.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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Monday, November 08, 2010

Mashups

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Adding content from other sites by using RSS feeds and APIs.

We will look at Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube and RSS feeds.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, November 15, 2010

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 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, November 22, 2010

Banner Image

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Building a banner image using transparency.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 12pm

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Monday, November 29, 2010

More on Podcasting

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

How to publish the podcasts with RSS.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, December 06, 2010

More on Markup including RSS and Validation

Tonge IT Suite, Brookes, Gipsy Lane, Oxford

Looking in detail at markup and how to publish an RSS feed.

Edited on 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

Monday, December 13, 2010

Surgery Session | Blog templates, Photoshop and More

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 31 Aug 2010 around 11am

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

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