Jan 15 & 17Introductions; X1-39 Course description; Schedule; Examples of Projects; Books on reserve; Discovery learning; Group Participation Guidelines; Guidelines for Listening; Racial Harassment Policy; Sexual Harassment Policy; ACITS short courses; Web Resources and Articles, etc. Questionnaires Due.

Jan 22 & 24 Discussion Readings: CURRENTS article, contribution to CURRENTS Forum, of at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations, required by 3:30 Monday;

HTML Readings: Lemay, pp. 1-49: Get Organized. X 18-19C, 24, 31, 44-70, 138-140 . Review rest of X1-39.

Post OLR part A1 and A2 to your web site;

Begin thinking about what you want to do with HTML, your goals, your main topics, your organization and navigation; how to storyboard your web site

Jan 29 & 31 Post to projects forum: 1 Page Tentative Initial Project Description: Goal? Topic? images? video? sound? animation? Begin thinking about a list of questions you would ask a viewer to find out if your goal is achieved.

Discussion Readings: Lanham Post class notes in advance on web site, , of at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations, by 3:30 on Monday:

HTML Readings: LeMay pp.51-92: Title, Headings, Paragraphs, Lists, Comments; 937 HTML and Web Development, 938 HTML Editors; Tables: 309-358

X 24 Peer Review of Initial Project Description;

review X 18-19, 31, 44-70, 138-140

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Feb 5 & 7 Post to Projects Forum Initial Storyboard of Project

Discussion Readings: Healy, pp.1-8, 13-46, 85-134, 151-160, 177-217, 251-346 Post class notes in advance on web site by 3:30 Monday(at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations):

HTML Readings: Lemay 701-780 Web Page Design: HTML Extensions, Page Layout, Proofreading. Lemay 93-167 Links, Relative and Absolute Pathnames, Anchors, URLs, More Text Formatting: Style tags, Preformatted Text, Rules, Lines, Quotes, Special Characters, Alignment, Fonts; X40-3 review X 18-19, 31, 44-70, 138-140

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Feb 12 & 14 Post Home Page to your web site and put URL in Class Contacts. Home Page to include at least one working URL link and one working file link, demonstrating effective use of line break, paragraph, and HR tags

Post Peer Reviews of other projects

Discussion Readings: Healy, Failure to Connect X238-291; Post class notes in advance on web site, by 3:30 Monday(at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations)

HTML Readings: LeMay 169-259 Images and Text and Links; Color and Backgrounds; Image Formats, Compression, Interlacing, 942-943 Tools and Information for Images

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Feb 19 & 21 Post revised home page/project incorporating at least one table and demonstrating facility with text alignment left, center, and right; different font sizes; background color; at least one different text color

Discussion Readings: X144-237; Post class notes in advance on web site, by 3:30 Monday(at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations)

HTML Readings: Lemay 397-467 Multimedia: Sound, Video, and More: External Media, Inline Multimedia, Animated Marquees, Java Applets, Plug-Ins, Working with Sound and Video files, Movie Formats, Digitizing Video, 940-941 Sound and Video;

Mid-term OLR: post to your web site

Feb 26 & 28 Post Full Project Draft

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday;

HTML Readings: Creating Graphics with Photoshop X72-95 How to Hyperlink to an Image on the Net; How to Get and Manipulate An Image From the Web; Image processing with Photoshop 4.0; Photoshop Tips; Image Processing Check List; Collection of images / Image processing / PhotoShop ; LeMay 493-516 ImageMaps, 938 Imagemaps

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Consider the following questions:

•What is the relationship between file size, image dimensions, color resolution images and why is this important for the web?

•What is the difference between GIF and JPEG file formats?

•What is compression and why is it important for graphics?

•What are the color palette issues for cross platform Web delivery?

•What are techniques for scanning images for the web?

•What are some of the basic image processing steps in preparing a scanned image for the web?

recommended: Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips, Lopuck, DiNucci, Gillispie (http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdgraph.htm).• What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?

• What type of file formats does Photoshop create?

•Where do you set color palettes, image resolution and dimensions in Photohop?

• How do you use layers in Photoshop?

Recommended: Photoshop manual, Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips.

Mar 5 Post revised home page/project incorporating at least one working image

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday;

HTML Readings: LeMay, 359-396 Frames and Linked Windows; Sound Capture and Editing, Streaming Technologies. X58-9, 96-118: Weinman, "Sound on the Web"; How to Get Audio Files from the Net and Attach Them to an Image; Using Macromedia SoundEdit16 v2; About SoundEffects; About Digital Audio; CIT Expands Streaming Media Activities; Lemay 261-307: Style Sheets;

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

• What is digital audio?

• What are the file formats for digital audio?

• How do you capture and edit digital audio?

• What capture and output settings do you use?

Recommended: Rose, Manners

Mar 7 Post revised home page/project incorporating at least one working sound file

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30;

HTML Readings: LeMay Forms: 517-558; X44-70 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"; X 119-137 About Adobe Premiere ; Steps for Capturing Video with Premiere; Creating Simple Animations; About Adobe Illustrator

Post class notes in advance on web site, by 3:30

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

CD ROM production & cross platform issues

• How can you put your Web site onto CDROM?

• What are the issues for cross platform graphics?

Recommended: Lynch and Horton, Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips, Lopuck, DiNucci, Gillispie (http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdgraph.htm)]

Introduction to Digital Video,

• What is digital video?

• What are the file formats for digital video?

• How is color and compression important for digital video?

Video Editing

• How do you edit digital video?

• What are the features that Adobe Premiere has for video editing?

• How do you create a Quicktime movie using Premiere?

• What are the output settings for QT movies?

• Why do you have to flatten a QT movie for cross platform delivery?

Video Capture

• How do you set up the equipment to capture video?

• What capture and settings do you use?

Recommended: Johnson, Waggoner, Ozer.

Mar 19 & 21 Post revised home page/project incorporating a working digital video file or a working form

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday;

HTML Readings: LeMay 469- 489 Java, 939 Java Lemay 793-834; X62-64 Uploading to the Server, Index File and Correct filenames, Testing,; Advertising, Site Indexes and Search Engines, Web Rings, Access Counters

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Mar 26 & 28 Post revised home page/project incorporating tables or frames

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday

HTML Readings: Lemay 835-856 Testings, Revising, and Maintaining: Validating the HTML Code, Browser Testing, Verifying Links, Usability Testing, Updating and Revising; 939 HTML Validators; Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Apr 9 & 11 Post Completed Project

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday;

HTML readings: Lemay 559-565 CGI Scripts, 591-598, Rollovers, 629-633 JavaScript, 939 Java, 942 CGI

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Apr 16 & 18 Revise project if necessary to make sure it fits all requirements for a grade of C and post revised project.

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday;

HTML Readings: Lemay 635-700 Dynamic HTML,

Weekly self-observation: post to your web site

Apr 23 & 25 Revise project if necessary to make sure it fits all requirements for a grade of B and post revised project

Post response to class presentations (at least two paragraphs and incorporating at least two citations) by 3:30 Monday; class evaluations;

Apr 30 & May 2 Revise project if necessary to make sure it fits all requirements for a grade of A and post revised project

Final Learning Record due on your web site