Unit one: tools and technologies

Week

Date

Readings and Activities

1

Tue, 20 Aug
 

Thu, 22 Aug

Introduction to the class: Texts and technology
Background questionnaire

Dilger, "The Ideology of Ease"
Overview of web protocols: HTTP, FTP, SSH, SFTP
Assignment: Dreamweaver tutorial, Lessons 1 and 6

2

Tue, 27 Aug
 
 
 

Thu, 29 Aug

Stephenson, "In the Beginning was the Command Line" (excerpt)
Review Dreamweaver tutorial lessons 1 and 6
Discuss Project one assignment
Group assignments

Group work one: planning the web portal

3

Tue, 3 Sep
 

Thu,5 Sep

Leonard, "Mozilla's Revenge"
Web standards and multimedia design conventions

Introduction to manipulating graphics
Writing in an Electronic World, pp 60-64
Project one draft due; peer review
Assignment: Dreamweaver tutorial, Lesson 2

4

Tue, 10 Sep
 

Thu, 12 Sep

Review Dreamweaver tutorial lesson 2
Review web standards, design conventions, and graphics

Project one due
Assignment: Dreamweaver tutorial, Lesson 3

Unit two: collaborative web production

Week

Date

Readings and Activities

5

Tue, 17 Sep
 

Thu, 19 Sep

Zeldman, "99% of Websites are Obsolete"
Review Dreamweaver tutorial lesson 3

Introduction to Project two; group assignments

6

Tue, 24 Sep
 

Thu, 26 Sep

Group one presentation: potential site designs
Review of designs; suggestions for revision

Group one presentation: final site designs

7

Tue, 1 Oct

Thu, 3 Oct

Group two presentation: initial implementation plan

FALL BREAK—NO CLASS

8

Tue, 8 Oct

Thu, 10 Oct

Group two presentation: final implementation plan, templates

Group three presentation: initial site implementation
Review of site; sugestions for revision

9

Tue, 15 Oct

Thu, 17 Oct

Group three presentation: final site implementation
Introduction to site testing

Group four presentation: site testing
Site goes live Friday 18 Oct

Unit three: electronic literacy

Week

Date

Readings and Activities

10

Tue, 22 Oct

Thu, 24 Oct

Ong, Orality and Literacy, Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2
Assignment: Dreamweaver tutorial, Lesson 8

Review Dreamweaver tutorial lesson 8
Ong, Orality and Literacy, Chapter 3
Discuss Project three assignment

11

Tue, 29 Oct
 

Thu, 31 Oct

Group work three
Ong, Orality and Literacy, Chapter 4

Ong, Orality and Literacy, Chapters 5 and 6

12

Tue, 5 Nov

Thu, 7 Nov

Project three draft due; peer review

Ong, Orality and Literacy, Chapter 7

13

Tue, 12 Nov

Thu, 14 Nov

McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext"

Project three due

Unit four: coda: emerging technologies

Week

Date

Readings and Activities

14

Tue, 19 Nov

Thu, 21 Nov

Peer-to-peer networks and distributed computing
Reading TBD

Emerging technologies
Reading TBD

Tue, 26 Nov

Thu, 28 Nov

THANKSGIVING BREAK—NO CLASSES

15

Tue, 3 Dec

Thu, 5 Dec

Review for Final Exam

Review for Final Exam

Final Exam date and time TBA