Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Stephen Collins
Contact via stephen.collins@mq.edu.au
|
---|---|
Credit points |
Credit points
3
|
Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
6cp at 200 level including (MAS241 or COMP249)
|
Corequisites |
Corequisites
|
Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
|
Unit description |
Unit description
This unit explores the opportunities and challenges for interactive storytelling. As well as engaging with theories of interactivity, narrative and design, students will expand their existing knowledge of HTML and CSS and learn JavaScript and jQuery to produce a major interactive project.
|
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
---|---|---|
Progress and Participation | 15% | Ongoing |
Project Proposal | 25% | Friday, 11th April 2014 |
Major Project | 40% | Wednesday, 11th June 2014 |
Critical Reflection | 20% | Friday, 20th June 2014 |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 15%
You are required to attend a minimum of 80% of seminars and taught (project development weeks excluded) workshops for this unit but ideally you should strive to attend all.
Failure to attend a minimum of 80% of classes will result in a mark of zero for this assessment.
You will be assessed on the following criteria:
Due: Friday, 11th April 2014
Weighting: 25%
The main project for this unit in an interactive, non-linear Web-based story. The first step is to produce a project proposal.
Proposals must:
Proposals will be marked according the following criteria:
There are three options for submitting the project proposal:
Late lubmission incurs 10% penalty per day.
Failure to submit this assignment means that your major project submission will not be accepted or marked.
Due: Wednesday, 11th June 2014
Weighting: 40%
You are required to create an online non-linear and interactive Web-based story using HTML, CSS and jQuery skills developed during workshops. Your story should be original or modified from an existing story. The story must be interactive and allow the user to influence the flow of the story.
Your story will be a minimum of 20 pages at one panel per page. If you wish to use a different layout or horizontal scrolling then please negotiate length of story with your convener.
Major projects will be assessed on the following criteria:
Due: Friday, 20th June 2014
Weighting: 20%
You are required to submit a critical reflection of your practice during the unit. The reflection will be 900 words. Anything more than 10% over the word limit will not assessed. Anything less than 850 words will not be assessed at all and receive a mark of zero (FAIL).
Your reflection will address the following items:
These points are not exhaustive, feel free to include any other pertinent considerations.
This unit is comprised of 1 x 1 hour seminar and 1 x 2 hour workshop.
All readings have been scanned for electronic delivery and are available via the library's eReserve system.
There is no workshop manual. Students are expected to use available documentation and take notes during workshops.
Seminar: Unit introductions.
Workshop: No workshop.
Seminar: Initial project ideas.
Workshop: HTML/CSS refresher.
Seminar: Telling stories.
Workshop: jQuery refresher.
Seminar: Icons, symbols and representations.
Workshop: jQuery interactions.
Seminar: Characters and development.
Workshop: jQuery: data, dragging and dropping.
Seminar: Interactive logic.
Workshop: Photoshop.
Seminar: No seminar.
Workshop: Negotiated workshop.
Seminar: No seminar.
Workshop: Project development.
Seminar: No seminar.
Workshop: Finish up and submit projects.
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Assessment Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
Grading Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Grievance Management Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grievance_management/policy.html
Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/student_conduct/
Late submissions will attract a penalty of 10% per day.
All assignments must be completed or the overall grade will be recorded as zero.
Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/
Learning Skills (mq.edu.au/learningskills) provides academic writing resources and study strategies to improve your marks and take control of your study.
Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.
For all student enquiries, visit Student Connect at ask.mq.edu.au
For help with University computer systems and technology, visit http://informatics.mq.edu.au/help/.
When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.
We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
As local citizens our graduates will be aware of indigenous perspectives and of the nation's historical context. They will be engaged with the challenges of contemporary society and with knowledge and ideas. We want our graduates to have respect for diversity, to be open-minded, sensitive to others and inclusive, and to be open to other cultures and perspectives: they should have a level of cultural literacy. Our graduates should be aware of disadvantage and social justice, and be willing to participate to help create a wiser and better society.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to be aware of and have respect for self and others; to be able to work with others as a leader and a team player; to have a sense of connectedness with others and country; and to have a sense of mutual obligation. Our graduates should be informed and active participants in moving society towards sustainability.
This graduate capability is supported by: