Interactive Learning and Design |
Week 1 Make yourself familiar, if you aren't already, the two Web browsers on the computers, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, the search engines in Yahoo and a word processing program like Microsoft Word.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Preface, pp xi-xvii, Ch. 1, HTML and the World Wide Web, Ch 1, pp. 1-15.
Week 2 Introduce yourself to LIAS, a Web editor, imaging programs and scanner.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 2, HTML Quick Start, pp 16-37.
First assignment: 500
word research project.
Find a modest topic that interests you, research it on the Web and in the library.
Write a two page paper concerning it and save as a word processing document.
(Microsoft Word and Word Perfect are the most widely available word processing
programs.)
Week 3 Go through the tutorial for HTML and the material provided by Macromedia about Dreamweaver and Allaire about HomeSite
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 3, Anatomy of an HTML Document, pp 38-53; Text Basics, pp 54-102.
Week 4 Learn to use WS-ftp and Fetch: how to put files up, how to modify them and how to delete them.To do this you have to have your own Web space: Application for a Web Space Account
Second assignment: post first project to the web for review by the class.
Week 5 In class review of the first project. You will present your site to the class and the other students will comment on it and make suggestions about it.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 7, Links and Webs, pp 179-230.
Week 6 Adding images to your site. Introduction to bit-map graphics using Adobe Photoshop.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 5, Rules, Images and Multimedia, pp 38-53.
Week 7 Adding images to your site. Introduction to vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator.
Third assignment: make a graphical heading for first research project and add it to the site.
Week 8An introduction to Cascading Style Sheets, be sure you have looked the O'Reilly updates and corrections after you have done the reading.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 9, Cascading Style Sheets,
pp 251-296.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 13, Executable Content, pp
392-418.
Fourth assignment: Create a Style Sheet file and apply CSS to your first research project. Change the CSS file at least once and apply again.
Week 9 Look up the following people on the Web and be prepared to discuss
the work they do and what they have to say about computers, the Internet and
the future:
Tim Berners-Lee, Esther Dyson, Jakob Neilsen, Donald Norman, Linus Thorwald,
Ellen Ullman and Dave Winer,
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 8, Formatted Lists, pp 231-249; Ch. 11, Tables, pp 341-370.
The project must be international and intercultural in scope.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 12, Frames, pp 371-387
Week 10 An Introduction to animation using either Macromedia Flash or Gif Animation.
Fifth Assignment - An extensive research project, the execution of this will take the next four weeks.
Week 11 Review and discussion of projects.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 14, Dynamic Documents, pp 425-432.
Week 12 Review and discussion of projects.
Reading: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Ch. 15, Tricks, Tips, and Hacks, pp 436-450.
Week 13 Review and discussion of projects.
Week 14 - Responses to the critiques and final revisions to the project will be posted.
