ENGLISH 519: WEB AUTHORING
Fall 1999. Professor Doug Smith
Schedule of Meetings and Due Dates

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WEEK 1: 9/21-24

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
Orientation
Familiarize yourself with this syllabus.

Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)
WebMonkey--Web Design Tutorials
CNET: Basic Web Lessons
Web Lessons: Project Cool


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WEEK 2: 9/27-10/1

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
Rhetorical Overview of Web Authoring: http://www.sun.com/styleguide/
Web Writing Styles: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/
Web Sites for Kids: http://www.builder.com/Graphics/Kids/?ibd
Thursday: Structured Computer Lab:
Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)


Basic HTML review.
Basic graphics (http://www.builder.com/Graphics/Spotlight/?st.bl.gr.gr6.feat.1346): GIF and JPEG,
animated GIFS.


Work on your pocket project.


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WEEK 3: 10/4-8

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)

Web Pages that Suck (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/)
Basic layout: tables and frames (http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Htmltips/?st.bl.html..tips).

TASK 2 (POCKET PROJECT) DUE
You should post the URL of each assignment you finish to the class bulletin board. You should also give the instructor your site as computer files, either on disk or through the network.


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WEEK 4: 10/11-15

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
Thursday: Structured Computer Lab:
Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)

Look at Pocket Projects

Talk with instructor about next project TODAY.

STUDENT PRESENTATION: ETHICS AND LEGALITY


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WEEK 5: 10/18-22

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)

STUDENT PRESENTATION: SOUND
Using sound in your document. What are the sound formats? What are the sound plug-ins? What is the HTML? How do you record sound files? How can you use sound in a practical way given download times?
CNET: Audio on Web Pages


Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)
Basic HTML review.

Look at Pocket Projects

Group work on next project: show insructor your plan.


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WEEK 6: 10/25-29

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
About writing web tutorials and quizzes.
STUDENT PRESENTATION: Cascading Style Sheets
Style Sheets. Show us how to create styles that can be applied to all the pages in a site. We should all be able to do it when you are done.

Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)

Group work on next project: show insructor your progress.


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WEEK 7: 11/1-5

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
STUDENT PRESENTATION: Chats and Bulletin Boards


Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)
Basic HTML review.

TASK 3 (TUTORIAL GROUP PROJECT) DUE
You should post the URL of each assignment you finish to the class bulletin board. You should also give the instructor your site as computer files, either on disk or through the network.


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WEEK 8: 11/8-12

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
STUDENT PRESENTATION: E-Commerce

Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)
Look at tutorial projects. Talk with instructor about next project TODAY.


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WEEK 9: 11/15-19

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
STUDENT PRESENTATION: Careers

Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)

Work on next project: show insructor your progress.

 


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WEEK 10: 11/22-26

Tuesday: Work on your own. The final project will be due next week.


Thursday: Happy Thanksgiving.


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WEEK 11: 11/29-12/3

Tuesday: Demos and discussion (Building 2, Room 24)
Look at tutorial projects.


Thursday: Structured Computer Lab: Exercises and tutorials (Building 43, Room 458)

TASK 5 (FINAL PROJECT) DUE
You should post the URL of each assignment you finish to the class bulletin board. You should also give the instructor your site as computer files, either on disk or through the network.


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FINALS: 12/6-10

The meeting during finals week (in Building 2, Room 24) will be at the time listed in the University Registrar's printed schedule. This quarter the time listed appears to be Tuesday from one to four.

This final meeting will not be an exam. Instead, it will be a viewing and critique of final projects by class members.

A student must have turned in all course projects and sent a course summary email to the instructor before this final meeting in order to receive a grade in the course.


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