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ENGL 209
-- FALL 2001

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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
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ession 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
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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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