Schedule:

JOMC 125.1 Calendar

August / September / October / November / December

August

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
16 17 18 19 - Introduction - What is/are: Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting

Assignments:

  • helpful sites
  • 20 21 22
    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 sites for critique by class

    25 26 - Critique of pages by class

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

    Image Map Help Page

    Assignment: Read Chapters 1-3 of Rosenfeld and Morville

    Readings about Ted Nelson, Xanadu, Doug Engelbart, etc

    27 28 29
    30 31 - Materials for Projects

    Steve Weiss

    Assignments:
    • Begin thinking of project proposals and teams
    • Read Chapters 4-6 of Rosenfeld and Morville

    September

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 - Indexing and Searching -

    Guest Speaker
    Nassib Nassar of Etymon Search Engine developer

    SWISH

    Assignment: Send two links from opposing sides on an internet-related issue as assigned in class to the class listserv

    Read:

    Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea? By Charles C. Mann (also in the September 1998 issue of The Atlantic Monthly

    References:
    Digital Millennium Copyright Bill
    Digital Future Coalition
    Union for the Public Domain
    Negativland
    Recording Industry Association of America
    Motion Picture Association of America

    3 4 5
    6 - Labor Day 7 - Audio on the Net 8 9 - Guest Speaker - Steve Champeon
    Author of Building Dynamic HTML GUIs

    JavaScript

    Some free sound resources
    SoundEffects.092 for Mac


    Goldwav e 32bit for Win95

    Java and JavaScript

    10 11 12
    13 14 Cybercasting - 15 16 - Video with Guest Speaker Todd Stabley
    Todd's Video capture tutorial
    Todd's film criticism class resource
    17 18 19
    20 21 - Project proposal discussion
    Assignment: Form teams and select projects
    22 23
    Links from Todd's talk:
    24 25 26
    27 28 - Common Gateway Interface (aka CGI) and Forms

    GFORM on Ra for easy forms handling

    Mindless CGI Sample
    Actual perl code for Mindless CGI Sample

    29 30 - GIF Annimation -

    GIF98a Resource Pages

    WebMonkey on GIF annimation

    October

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 3
    4 5 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week  6 7 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week  8 9 10
    11 12 - University Day 13 - FALL BREAK 14 15 16 17
    18 - Break Ends 19 - Web Annimation a series in Wired

    Wired's Lesson 2
    Wired's Lesson 3

    Electrifier

    "Push" Technologies, Shockwave, and other technology topics we've missed
    Dreamweaver Limited Test Download

    20 21 - Capturing Video for the WWW. How to use the digital camera and how to use it wisely. 22 23 24
    25 26 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week 27 28 - Meetings with Project Groups - this week 29 30 31

    November

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 - 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

    3 4 - In class Project time 5 6 7
    8 9 - 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://216.169.122.124/rayn/turkstud2.swf http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/mahirdance/getdown.html and much much more.

    10 11 - In class Project time 12 13 14
    15 16 Group project work 17 18 - Project Presentations 19 20 21
    22 23 Group Project work 24Thanksgiving break begins 25 26 27 28
    29 30 - Project Presentations

    December

    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
    1 2 - Project Presentations 3 4 5
    6 7 - Last Day of class
    Donnie Barnes of Red Hat Software
    speaking on Open Source
    8 9 10 11 12

    MetaLab