TABLE OF CONTENTS
Session 1 -- Account activation; set up
public_html; begin creating homepage; MEMO-mail and dial-up policy
Session 2 -- Learn FTP and web evaluation
techniques; continue with home and course pages
Session 3 -- Create a links page using Netscape
Composer
Session 4 -- Image Capture
Session 5 -- Hypertext Assignment
Session 6 -- Begin final project preparation
Session
7 --
Continue final project preparation
Session 8 -- Show draft of final EDiT project
SESSION
1 -- Mason Cluster account activation; set up public_html;
begin creating your homepage; MEMO-mail
In Class
--Expectations and syllabus
--Project examples
--Discuss final project topic
--Set up public_html and permissions
--Begin creating your homepage in Netscape Composer
--Memo-mail and new dial-up policy
--If you finish with your home and course pages and set up your
accounts, look at the project examples at:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~kthomps4/209examp/HomePage.html and
http://mason.gmu.edu/~bspector/
Readings and Resources
--Activate Mason Cluster Account or reset password http://mason.gmu.edu/ISO/SysEng/Mason/account.html
--Set up public_html directory
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/ftp/masonaccount.asp
--Create server directories
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/ftp/createserverdirectories.asp
--File/Folder Management
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/jobaids/multifolders/jobaid.asp
--Alternative to above link: "set up public_html directory":
New Century College's "Create your own home page"
http://classweb.gmu.edu/nclc110/techworkshops/webcreate.htm
--MEMO
mail
http://www.gmu.edu/email/memo/index.htm
--Dial-up
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/findisp.rtf
Assignment--your homepage and 209 pages
--Utilizing the skills learned in class today, work on a first draft
of your homepage for Thursday. The homepage is your public_html index.html
page and will include a link to your 209 page.
If you already have a homepage on Mason, please add a link from that
homepage to the EDiT page you will create.
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SESSION
2 -- Learn FTP and web evaluation techniques; home and course
page creation (continued). You will need to purchase a 1.44 floppy disk
and a 100mb zip disk and bring them to class.
In Class
--Home and course page creation (continued)
--ftp homepage to public_html
--Review search engines and search strategies
--Web page evaluation
Readings and Resources
--What is FTP?
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/ftp/definitionofftp.asp
--WS_FTP basics
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/ftp/ftpbasics.asp
--UCIS
software download for home use
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/ucis/soft_down.html
--UCIS help center
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/ucis/help_center.html
Assignments
1)--Email your homepage address using MEMO mail
Your email addresses will be collected in class. After receiving
your first class email from the instructor, send a reply-all email from
your own account to the ENGL 209 class list. Write whatever you want
as a way of introduction but be sure to include:
**your name
**your GMU log-in ID and homepage address
**why you chose to take this EDiT course
**what computer skills you have and what you hope to learn
2)--Create
your 209 course page
The more you learn this semester, the more you will want to alter your
home and course pages. Feel free, but you must FTP your pages today.
All of your assignments for EDiT will be posted on your course page
so, in designing your 209 page, please include the following links (dead
links now, but they'll be activated over the four weeks):
COMPARISONS/LINKS PAGE
IMAGE CAPTURE
HYPERTEXT
FUN WITH HYPERTEXT
FINAL EDiT PROJECT
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SESSION 3 -- Create
a links page using Netscape Composer
In Class
--Learn how to create external links using Netscape Composer
Readings and Resources
--Evaluative
Criteria
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/criteria.htm
--Web pages that suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Assignment--comparison/links page
--This assignment's purpose is to heighten your awareness of good and
bad web sites. It is also designed to help you begin saving your preliminary
web research. Since you already have an idea of what your final EDiT project
topic is, search the web for three good sites and three
bad sites related to your topic. Save the URL's to a disk as html files,
make the sites active links. Upload your assignment to your webpage.
When you've chosen your sites, write a short paragraph for each site.
Include an account of why you chose it as a good/bad example, including
whether your choice was based on design, content or both. Make sure you
refer to the evaluative criteria discussed in class.
This page will be compiled throughout the four weeks of the course.
Each time you come across a site you believe will be valuable to your
later research, upload it to your links page.
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SESSION
4 -- Image Capture
In Class
--Show your links page to the class
--Discussion of plagiarism (see links below)
--Image capture
--Hypertext Theory
Readings and Resources
--Digital Photographic Manipulation
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/features/digital_essay1.html
--Fair use guidelines for multi-media
http://mason.gmu.edu/~scampbel/copymed.html
--George Mason Honor Policy--plagiarism
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/plagiarism.htm
Assignment--capture an image
1) Find an electronic image(s) related to your final project topic
2) In your public_html directory on your zip disk, create a subdirectory
called "Images."
3) Capture your images to a zip disk (in the "Images" subdirectory
you just created) as a JPEG or GIF file on a blank page
4) Record the following information if you can find it:
--The URL where you found the image;
--The original image's source (where it came from before its web debut);
--The photographer or illustrator;
--The year the original photo was taken or illustration was finished;
--Discuss in detail the point of view of the image and how it relates
to your topic.
5) Upload the assignment to your webpage.
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SESSION 5 -- Hypertext
Assignment
In Class
--Learn how to create targets or anchors (internal links) using Netscape
Composer, in preparation for the hypertext assignment.
Readings and Resources
--How to insert Targets using Netscape Composer
http://mason.gmu.edu/~scampbel/link.html
--Target exercise
http://mason.gmu.edu/~scampbel/exercise.html
--Hypertext and Hypermedia Bibliography
http://osf1.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/htextbiblio.htm
Assignment--hypertext
--Choose one of the three passages listed below and hypertext it using
the techniques learned in class. Please include at least four internal
targets, four external links and two images. Please remember to construct
thoughtful and relevant links and targets. Upload the finished hypertext
to your course folder and add an active link to it on your 209/index.html
page.
Passage 1: Bush's initial comments on attack
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/bushtext.htm
Passage 2: Bush's later address on the attacks
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/bushtext2.htm
Passage 3: President Merton's Statement
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/merton_statement.htm
Passage 4: Chronology of events on 9-11
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/chronol_9-11.htm
Passage 5: Damage caused by atomic bombs in WWII
http://classweb.gmu.edu/kthomps4/209_f01/bomb-dam.htm
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SESSION 6 -- Begin
final project preparation
In Class
--Show class hypertext assignment and discuss
--Discuss final project
--Begin work on final project, including research
Assignment--fun with hypertext in a personal page
--The assignment you'll start in class today isn't quite like the annotations
you've been doing thus far. We're not asking you to think in terms of an
academic paper. You don't have to do research; this is your opportunity
to get creative and develop a more personal hypertext.
You can use an existing home page or create a new page where you
introduce yourself to the class. The purpose of this assignment is to
encourage you to play with techniques you might not want to use in a
regular academic paper.
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SESSION 7 -- Work
on final project preparation
In Class
--Show class personal page and draft of final EDiT Project
Readings and Resources
--Study the definition and brief history of hypertext at:
http://65.107.211.207/ht/jhup/history.html#1
Assignment--
Work on final project and prepare to show the class your work at the
next meeting
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SESSION 8 -- Show draft
of final EDiT project
In Class
--Show class draft of final EDiT project
Readings and Resources
--Study Landow's account of print annotation at:
http://65.107.211.207/ht/jhup/htanalogue.html
--Study Amaral's account of hypertext and writing at:
http://www.umassd.edu/Public/People/KAmaral/Thesis/hypertext.html
Assignment--final EDiT project
--Digitally enhance something you have written in another course. This
project will demonstrate your understanding of the rhetoric of hypertext
and mastery of basic web authoring tools. The writing you enhance should
come from a course you are taking concurrently with ENGL 209. If you are
taking another English department course, the writing you start with
must come from that class. But if you are not currently taking one of
our courses, you can take writing you have done in another class and
digitally enhance it. All of the links, images, targets and
digital enhancements should
support your thesis. Don’t forget to add a works cited page (or section)
with active links and an account of how you used each of your sources. The
essay will be uploaded to your webpage as your Final Project.
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