Schedule:

JOMC 188.1 Calendar

August / September / October / November / December

August

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
21 22 - Introduction - What is/are: Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting

Assignments:

  • helpful sites
  • 23 24 - A review of some WWW examples

    Why Frames Suck

    Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

    Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design - Three Years Later

    Nielsen on Audio and Video

    Jakob Nielsen's Website

    Web Pages That Suck

    Assignment: Select "good" and "bad" sites for critique by class.
    Send one URL and a brief note about why one site is "good" and another about why another site is "bad" before class on Tuesday August 29 to the class listserv, jomc188@listserv.oit.unc.edu>.

  • Read Chapter 3 of Neilsen
  • 25 26 27
    28 29 - Critique of pages sent in by class

    Visit Vannevar! Bowties are lookin good! The way to his heart One hand clapping

    Image Map Help Page

    Assignment: Read Chapter 2 of Neilsen

    Readings about Ted Nelson, Xanadu, Doug Engelbart, etc

    30 31 - Dreamweaver workshop with Todd

    September

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 3
    4 - Labor Day 5 - Materials for Projects

    Steve Weiss

    Assignments:
    • Begin thinking of project proposals and teams
    • Read Chapter 3 of Neilsen
    6 7 - Introduction to multimedia on the web with Todd 8 9 10
    11 12 - Project proposal discussion
    Assignment: Form teams and select projects
    Read Chapter 4 of Nielsen
    13 14 - Workshop with Todd Stabley 15 16 17
    18 19 - Nassib Nassar on Searching, Indexing and Retrieval
    Etymon.com

  • Read Chapter 5 of Neilsen
  • 20 21 - Workshop with Todd 22 23 24
    25 26 - Meetings with groups this week.

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    27 28 - Meetings with groups this week.

    29 30

    October

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1
    2 3 - Common Gateway Interface (aka CGI) and Forms

    GFORM on Ra for easy forms handling

    Mindless CGI Sample
    Actual perl code for Mindless CGI Sample

    Assignment: Read Chapters 6 and 7 of Nielsen

    4 5 - FALL BREAK 6 7 8
    9 10 - Todd's Sites Reviews 11 12 - University Day 13 14 15
    16 17 - Web Annimation a series in Wired

    Wired's Lesson 2
    Wired's Lesson 3

    Assignment: Read Chapter 8 of Nielsen

    18 19 - Copyright, Sharing and Free Speech.

    Atlantic Monthly article by Charles Mann
    US Copyright Law
    Senate Testimonies on Music Downloading

    20 21 22
    23 24 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week 25 26 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week 27 28 29
    30 31 - Guest SpeakerDonald Ball of WebslingerZ

    Speaking on XML
    See also: XML.org
    World Wide Web Consortium on XML
    Brief and amusing intro to XML, XML in 10 Points

    November

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 - Workshop with Todd 3 4 5
    6 7 - Mahir is FAMOUS

    Read about his appearance:
    http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/primall/mahir/index.html Then see some of what he has spawned including articles in Salon: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/11/04/mahir/index.html http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/11/08/more_mahir/index.html Shockwave annimations: http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/mahirdance/getdown.html and much much more.

    Assignment: Complete reading of Nielsen

    8 9 - Workshop with Todd 10 11 12
    13 14 Reviewing and criticising Nielsen 15 16 - In class project time 17 18 19
    20 21 Group Project work 22Thanksgiving break begins 23 24 25 26
    27 28 - Project Presentations 29 30 - Project Presentations

    December

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 3
    4 5 - Project Presentations 6 7 Last Day of class 8 9 10

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