At the beginning of the course each student will learn how to put up a basic homepage and to post weekly response papers.
As the semester progresses we will talk more about basic design and you will revise the sites over the course of the semester.
As we move into the last third of the semester, we will focus more specifically on the genre "mystory" as
a form of hypertext and you will begin to transform your homepage into a mystory. We will talk more later in the semester
about mystory when we get to Ulmer's book, but in the meantime you can take a look at my mystory as both an example and an explanation:
Bystory. In short, the mystory uses the material you generate throughout the semester and
links it to your own experience—personal, cultural, academic, and professional—with the goal of finding a research project for the final paper or
for more long-term study.
In the second half of each class I will give a few basic how-to presentations, discuss
conventions of online writing, show some examples of online writing, and you will have the opportunity to work on your projects.
Obviously most of you will not be experts in creating texts and images for the web prior to taking this class. And, this class will not
make you an expert. Consequently, your projects will be graded accordingly. I'm not interested in you producing
corporate quality web sites. After learning the basics, I'm most interested in seeing that you've thought
rhetorically about the production of your site with an eye toward new models of electronic writing and literacy.
