What Will We Do in Class?

Syllabus - Day

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	lecture / discussion topic
	software demo by instructor
	oral presentation
	tests

hi, folks

Here's the links to the four tests: I - II - III -- IV 

for the final exam, I'll give you the highest grade from these four, okay?

	January 15
	- WELCOME - to course to course web to class computers to school network
	Netscape Navigator
	January 20
	- INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION - information design information management the Web as publishing house metaphors: tailor, miner, architect, broker, navigator
	Navigator's mail and news clients downloading software (WS_FTP, WinZip)
	January 22
	- WELCOME TO THE INTERNET - history: Hobbes' Internet Timeline Internet growth: graphs current demographics: nua, internic, gatech organizing principles: intranets and extranets organized email: newsgroups and mailing lists Web site critique: form
	January 27
	- HARDWARE / SOFTWARE - Moore's Law for design / storage / delivery for productivity for communicating systems administration and Internet service protocols
	File Manager, WS_FTP, WinZip
	January 29
	explore and critique a Web site

	February 3
	review demonstration of software competencies
	February 5
	- SEARCH ENGINES - leading large-scale commercial engines and directories how to structure data for them where they don't work, where they're going what's available on the Internet (ftp and http) how to download files and manage them locally
	Metacrawler, DejaNews, Liszt
	February 10
	- DATA FORMATS - Multimedia File Formats on the Internet A Beginner's Guide for PC Users By Allison Zhang University of Rochester binary - mime-encoded etext - ascii proprietary - dtp and ppt graphics - gif, jpg mark-up - sgml, html future - xml
	Word and PowerPoint
	February 12
	web proposal
	February 17
	explore and critique a search engine
	February 19
	review demonstration of software competencies
	February 24
	- HYPERTEXT - history theories models
	AOLpress
	February 26
	- CONCEPT MAPS - See the Info Viz page on the hypertext web
	charting

	March 3
	- GRAPHICS - scanning creating manipulating see the Interface Design resources on the Hypertext web
	OCR, DeskScan, PaintShop Pro
	March 5
	- DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS - chunking creating new content repurposing old content project management copyright, domain, and site indexing
	March 10
	- NAVIGATION - metaphor information anxiety cognitive overload media immersion, addiction
	March 12
	review demonstration of software competencies third test
	March 24
	web design
	March 26
	- VISUAL LITERACY - interface design and metaphor clarity consistency orientation
	March 31
	- EVALUATING EVIDENCE - credibility, validity, reliability digital libraries citations

	April 2
	progress report on web
	April 7
	- ISSUES - access vs control, copyright, privacy, site indexing - FILE FORMATS - email, attachments, etext, word processing, image processing, desktop publishing, web
	April 14
	review demonstration of software competencies fourth test
	April 16
	- WORK DAY - ascii etext dtp
	April 21
	- WORK DAY - ppt html
	April 23
	- INTERACTIVITY - forms java dynamic html
	April 28
	- ISSUES - the future ... of paper of organizations of information
	April 30
	web prototype

	May 5
	web prototype
	May 7
	demonstration of software competencies final exam

First Class Summary
Thursday, January 15, 1998

what the course is

communications hypertext in professional organizations

what the course is not

entertainment games and events
forum chats, boards, lists, and groups
education knowledge and training
commerce goods and services (especially digital)

last update: May 26, 1998
by Douglas Anderson
http://toLearn.net/infodesign/sylday.htm