Day Student Projects

Soon, these middle boxes will contain graphics and will link to the section of this web written by these students. Please check back soon. Students: please email your graphic for the middle column and your web title for the third column. I'd also like a one-sentence summary of the site and the intended audience.

Example: This unofficial site has weekly updates and links for the Buffalo Sabres stats junkie.

Pat Lemley		mysticism
Dean Rule		Kenmore Police Department
Jay Mazurkiewicz		This site is set up to show Ford Motor Company products and a more in depth look at available information that you may not find with ease anywhere else.
Anthony Flowers		case studies for social services
David Colasanti and Jennifer Hicks		Helping Hands
Tom Mattes		Buffalo Sabres a digital look at the 1997-98 Buffalo Sabres season for the ...
Nicole Passantino		Students Against Destructive Decisions

Assignments -- stuff I've asked you to do as of March 5

1) send me title, graphic, and blurb for your web (course project)

2) demonstrate your software competencies

3) read Lynch and Schneidermann (texts)

4) send me urls on your topic (demonstrate your search skills) (see below)

5) show me a sketch of your web's home page

6) start harvesting graphics and texts (don't forget buttons, bars, etc): file management

7) I'm putting off two tests until I can figure out how to make one of these boxes

reurn your responses in a way I can best deal with them -- my current file management challenge.

Images

The Library of Congress's American Memories Collections

A good primer on Web graphics from Syracuse University (note the syr.edu):

http://istweb.syr.edu/~sinst/ist700/images.html

This one is a little more technical. Go to the Web Reference home page to see if you can learn from it.

http://webreference.com/dev/graphics/intro.html

Apple's Guidelines

http://devworld.apple.com/dev/techsupport/insidemac/HIGOS8Guide/HIGuidelines-2.html

PaintShopPro tutorials and tips & tricks

You'll find a lot of overlap among these sites. If you follow some of the techniques, you'll learn to use Paint Shop Pro even if you don't find a use for that particular technique.

Webweaver: The original PSPro Tips & Tricks

http://www.webweaverxxi.com/psp40/

John Hart's PSP Tips & Tricks -- some tips and good links to other tips pages

http://members.tripod.com/~jkhart/index.html

Web Graphics on a Budget

http://wctravel.com/web/

C C Cookies' Tips & Tricks

http://cccookies.com/gallery_of_cccookies/tips_tricks/paintshopprotips.html

CyberComm's list of links to PSP tutorials

http://www.cybercomm.net/~learn/paint.html

Paint Shop Pro Tips By The Little But Great Guys

http://whdesign.com/photoshop/PSPTIPS.html

MS-pRinT's Tutorials

http://www.ms-print.com/tutorials.htm

Clip Art Warehouse's list of tutorials

http://www.fxmm.co.uk/banners/tuthtml/links.htm

GrafX Design's PSP tutorials

http://www.grafx-design.com/psp_tut.html

GrafoManiac's tutorials

http://hem1.passagen.se/grafoman/nuts/nuts.html

MuseSpace's Tricks & Tips

http://www.musespace.com/drawings/psptricks/

Al Dawson's Digitoils

http://iw1.indyweb.net/~adawson/digitoil.html

List of colleges and universities with new media centers

http://www.csulb.edu/gc/nmc/Academic.html

List of organizations affiliated with New Media Centers

http://www.newmediacenters.org

4) URLs on your topic

Here's an example of what I'm looking for with this assignment. Let's say that Dean decides his audience is Joe Smith, Kenmore citizen who had a not-so-wonderful contact with an officer and who gets on the Web to learn more about the department. One of Dean's objectives might be to give Joe the resources he needs to overcome his TV-induced mirage about police officers and to learn how crimes are really solved.

To tailor that info for Joe, Dean would scour the Web for the best resources, link to them, and then provide some text explaining where the links go and what Dean wants John to get out of them, that is, the reason for going there.

Dean might go to a search engine and use the term "forensic," a technical term he picked up during his training and which John Smith might not know. The results from the search engine won't end Dean's search. They only begin it.

He would soon find his way to Zeno's Forensic Page

http://users.bart.nl/~geradts/forensic.html

Dean would find his way there because many other sites link to it and it claims to be the web's best resource. Then he can continue his search because Zeno has done for Dean what Dean is trying to do for Joe Smith. For this assignment, I'd like Dean to record his travels. For instance, he may  well visit the Forensic Science Society

http://www.demon.co.uk/forensic/

and their Forensic WebLinks Search

http://www.demon.co.uk/forensic/forensic_links_sea.html

which might get him to the Roanoke County, Virginia, Police Department

http://www.4roanoke.com/county/police/

or the American Society of Questioned Document Experts

http://www.asqde.org/

Dean must keep asking himself, What would help Joe Smith understand how police really solve crimes? To complete my assignment, Dean would email me a list such as this -- much longer, of course -- that contains titles, urls, and short comments from him about the content and value of the site to Joe Smith, not its value to me or to Dean himself. I'd also like Dean to include whether he can use any part of it (design, navigational devices, etc.) as a model for his site.

As soon as I can, I'll return an email to Dean with feedback about the quality of his sources and ideas about how he might structure and illustrate them.

I'm trying to take you beyond the search engines to what are often called meta-sites. They have little content themselves other than links to other sites -- which themselves may be lists of links. For example, I'll bet all of you can find something of interest on Yanoff's List.

http://www.spectracom.com/islist/

Yet it probably wouldn't ever show up in the results on a search engine. Part of your professional value as a researcher and info tailor will be your carefully tended, up-to-date list of links to the topics you specialize in. You'll do for your professional topics what Zeno has done for forensic science students, what Dean is doing for Joe Smith, and what you are doing for your project's audience.

last update: May 26, 1998
by Douglas Anderson
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