welcome || course disclosure statement
student projects || syllabus || assignments
news and views || software competency || colophon

Welcome!

You're in the right place if you're taking HUM 298 Special Topic in Humanities: Hypertext during the first Spring 1998 evening module. I'd recommend that you bookmark this page and start here to find news, announcements, and updates.

If you're interested in hypertext, but you aren't taking the course, you'll probably find it more useful to click on one of the topics in the top right corner of this page or to bookmark the Hypertext Home Page.

Course Disclosure Statement

The first night of class, I handed out a traditional course disclosure statement on paper. If you need to refer to it while you're at the computer, I've also posted it on this server. The more you know about the course, the more you'll learn what the course is about, in this case, hypertext.

While the paper version is far more portable, it's not as useful as the digital networked version. At least, that's my conclusion. Do you agree? Let's talk.

The Projects
Mod III Spring 1998

The links in this section will take you to pages that HUM 298 students make and maintain. The rest of the pages on this web are mine and are so marked at the bottom.

This section will grow until it looks like the projects listing for the Fall 1997 WRT 250 course.

Syllabus

These links will take you to the page for that class session.
Please try to read it before class.

January
27 || 29

February
3 || 5 || 10 || 12 || 17 || 19 || 24 || 26 ||

March
3 || 5 || 10 || 12 || 24 || 26 || 31

April
2

Assignments

I want you to write and speak often but I want to talk with you the first night of class to figure out the best sequence and timing for these assignments.

First web critique -- February 17

Follow one of the links at Michael Schumate's Hyperizons: Hypertext Fictions. Fill out the form. In class, take us on a ten-minute tour. Ask us some questions to spark a discussion.

Second web critique -- February 24

Follow one of the links at Carol Guyer's Web Hyperfiction Reading List. Fill out the form. In class, take us on a ten-minute tour. Ask us some questions to spark a discussion.

web proposal, design, prototype

oral presentations

objective tests (open) / final exam (closed)

demonstrated competency with software

portfolio of participation in newsgroups and mailing lists

self-assessment before final grade (no points)

News and Views

You should read the Click pages in The Buffalo News every Tuesday. In addition, I will post here links to items I find on the Internet. I'll look especially for material that more fully answers questions of yours that I didn't do justice to in class. Please email items that you see in whatever medium and that you think are appropriate for this section.

Software Competency

software	examples	basic competency
operating system	File Manager	give a tour of your class nest
browser	Navigator	increase the type size on a page save a Web page and re-display it offline
word processing	Word, WordPerfect	embed and resize an image put a box around it caption it
presentation	PowerPoint	cut text from word processor paste it into PowerPoint rearrange slide order in Slide Sorter and in Outline
HTML editor / site manager	Nav. Gold 3.01, AOL Press, FrontPage	create a web page with: links (3 kinds) gif jpeg nested tables different text colors, sizes, and fonts (at least 2 each)
graphics	PaintShop Pro	open a .jpg file saved from the Web change a color at the pixel level reduce the size save as a transparent .gif import into a web page
file transfer	WS_FTP	transfer an .htm file to your account on the school's server take me on a tour of that subdirectory
search engine	Metacrawler, Yahoo	use advanced features
utilities	WinZip, WinCode	unzip a file decode a .mim file

notify instructor after you demonstrate competency

Colophon

I used Microsoft's Front Page on a computer from Gateway (200 mHz Pentium, 32 megs RAM, 17" CrystalScan monitor) to make the pages of this web that look like the page you're reading now. Other pages were created by students using a wide variety of hardware and software.

I created and manipulated the graphics with Paint Shop Pro as well as Microsoft Image Composer, which I used for all the text that's in fonts other than the default fonts on your browser. The next step is to make all the gifs smaller and clean up the ragged edges of code so that the pages look as good with Netscape's Navigator as they do with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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