Home | Description | Tentative Schedule
This is a tentative schedule, and it will likely change over
the course of the semester--consider it a rough draft that we'll be revising.
I will not print out changes to this syllabus, though I will try to tell you
about them in class. It's your job to visit this page each week to check assignments.
| Date | In class | Reading for next class | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|
| T 1/16 | Woops. Snow day. | ||
| TH 1/18 | Review of syllabus, course overview, explanation of assignments. Discuss talking points | Me++: prologue + Ch 1-2 | Join class discussion forum and email list. For the email list: Send a message to majordomo@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu with the text “subscribe RHE330c-davis@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu” in the body. Then send a note to introduce yourself to the class. No subject line is necessary. Sign into Webspace just to make sure you can; post first set of talking points |
| T 1/23 | Basic intro to dreamweaver (text, font, links, descriptive and file names); create a test webfolio page | Me++: Ch 3-4 | Send your webfolio URL to me. Start looking for a virtual community to investigate; talking points for TH |
| TH 1/25 | Discuss reading; Dreamweaver continued, and webspace: create another webfolio page with links and an image and upload; discuss questions about cyber-subculture assignment | Me++: Ch 5-7 | Talking points; keep searching for a VC |
| T 1/30 | Discuss reading; time to search for VC community; sign up for individual presentations; send me your webfolio URLs | Me++: Ch 8-10 | join your VC and post your choice to the class forum ; talking points |
| TH 2/1 | Discuss reading and first S/R paper; make sure your name is on the student webfolio list; set files to "share" in webspace; share VCs with each other | Me++: Ch 11-end | write S/R paper #1; if you haven't already, post your VC to the class forum |
| T 2/6 | S/R #1 presentations: orally in small groups, hard copy to me begin Neuromancer together (listen to Gibson read Chapter 1) |
Neuromancer, ch 1-5 |
Talking points; work on VC investigation |
| TH 2/8 | Discuss reading; Dreamweaver: inserting images, creating layers; redesign webolio in layers with image and upload | Neuromancer, ch 6-9 | Talking points; work on VC investigation |
| T 2/13 | Discuss reading; VC investigation; presentations by David B., Stuart, and Jake, and David N. |
Neuromancer, ch 10-18 | Talking points; work on VC investigation; bring an electronic copy of S/R #1 |
| TH 2/15 | Discuss reading; using the "print screen" function; using Photoshop to shrink an image; upload S/R paper #1 | Neuromancer, ch 19-24 | Talking points; VC investigations |
| T 2/20 | Discuss reading; discuss S/R #2 | prepare S/R #2 | |
| TH 2/22 | S/R #2: orally in small groups, plus hard copy to me; presentations by Trevor, Arnold, Hallie, and Ryan | upload S/R #2 and link to portfolio; work on VC report | |
| T 2/27 | S/R presentations (very quickly!!!) Begin eXistenZ | wrap up VC report | |
| TH 3/1 | Finsih eXistenZ; presentation by Jason | polish VC report | |
| T 3/6 | Discuss eXistenZ and VC report; presentations by Catherine, Grace, Diana, and Ajai | Prepare VC report for peer review | |
| TH 3/8 |
Instructions for those of you whose webpages are displaying code instead of content. |
Revise VC report | |
| T 3/13 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| TH 3/15 | SPRING BREAK | Prepare VC report | |
| T 3/20 | VC Report due; discuss website project; layout and Navigation discussion; presentations by Will and Brian | Start thinking about a website topic | |
| TH 3/22 | NO CLASS (4Cs conference) | "Stitch Bitch" and "Of Dolls and Monsters" | Complete S/R 1 & 2 rewrites if you are eligible (won't be accepted without the original). |
| T 3/27 | SR rewrites due. Discuss reading; intro to reading hypertexts and PWG; begin PWG together; presenations by Steven K, Mike, and Katie |
Spend at least 3 hours with PWG (begin with Story or Journal) | talking points for TH |
| TH 3/29 | Discuss reading; share possible website topics in small groups; presentations Holly, Linda, and Joel |
Spend at least 2 hours with PWG | talking points; propose website topics to class forum |
| T 4/3 | In class storyboarding; presentations by Mackenzi and Kristian; view youtube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us and Epic 2015 | Spend at least an hour with PWG | talking points, complete storyboarding |
| TH 4/5 | Discuss reading; a little time to finish storyboards and/or work on website project; storyboards due; discuss S/R #3 and PWG Examples | Prepare S/R #3 | |
| T 4/10 | S/R #3 presentations: orally in small groups; hardcopy to me | Upload S/R #3 and link to portfolio; prepare website for preliminary peer review | |
| TH 4/12 | Dreamweaver questions; questions about documentation of sources; website project workshop (for those interested: CSS non-frame sites: this one, and this one) | Work on websites | |
| T 4/17 | Preliminary website peer review and workshop; meet with me. CSS frame-fake examples, one with top/bottom/side nav and one with top/bottom nav (both based on this) Or: a straight forward design option
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Work on websites | |
| TH 4/19 | Dreamweaver questions; website workshop; meet with me | ||
| T 4/24 | Website workshop day | prepare websites for final peer review (must be uploaded and ready to share via URL); check your documentation | |
| TH 4/26 | Peer review websites | revise websites; link website to webfolio | |
| T 5/1 | Conferences with me (Tuesday and Wednesday) | Revise, get all rewrites together, complete webfolios: MAKE SURE YOUR WORK IS VIEWABLE WITHOUT BEING LOGGED INTO WEBSPACE | |
| TH 5/3 | Websites due; check each other's links; all rewrites due--must be accompanied by original; class evals |