Bottom line: don’t panic.
Read Before Class
Read this first:
- Turkel, “Designing Interactive Exhibits” (17 Dec 2011)
Here is some historical context for why we offer a course like this in our public history MA program…
- Turkel, “Coming Soon: History Appliances,” Digital History Hacks (12 Mar 2007)
- Turkel, “History Appliances: The Metronome,” Digital History Hacks (11 Apr 2007)
- Turkel, “Luddism Is a Luxury You Can’t Afford,” Digital History Hacks (17 Apr 2007)
- MacDougall, “History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age,” Old is the New New (25 Apr 2007)
- MacDougall, “History and Appliances: The Case for Luddism,” Old is the New New (27 Apr 2007)
- Turkel, “History Appliances: The Soundscape,” Digital History Hacks (9 Jun 2007)
- Turkel, “History Appliances: Spoka,” Digital History Hacks (19 Jul 2007)
- Turkel, “Hello World,” Digital History Hacks (21 Sep 2008)
- Turkel, “Hemlines and History Appliances,” Digital History Hacks (8 Nov 2008)
- Turkel, “A Few Arguments for Humanistic Fabrication,” Digital History Hacks (21 Nov 2008)
Do Before Class
In this course you are going to need to provide regular documentation of your work in progress. If you don’t already have a blog, create one at Blogger or WordPress and send me the URL. It is also a good idea to sign up for a photo sharing account at Flickr or Picassa, so that you can upload screenshots, drawings, and photographs of your work, and then link to them in your blog. You can also create a YouTube or Vimeo channel if you plan to make videos or screencasts of your work. Consider putting Creative Commons licensing on your stuff (this is not a course requirement, however).
In Class
In class we are going to make sure that everyone is set up with Max 6, do a quick review of Max programming, then use MaKey MaKey and Makedo to build some alternate interfaces.
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