Assignments

1. The Personal Home Page

Assigned: Tuesday, September 3
Posted to the Web: Sunday, September 22
Print outs due: Tuesday, September 24

What are the essential, creative challenges of designing a Web page?

For this assignment, you'll create a single Web page--the main ("index") page of a personal Web site-on which you'll attempt to solve several of these challenges. More...

2. New Media Writing

Assigned: Tuesday, September 17
Essay due: Thursday, October 3
Site Posted to the Web: Sunday, October 20
Print outs and commentaries due: Tuesday, October 22

This project will ask you to begin a new media project by working in an old medium--writing. You will write an argument, narrative or explanation about a topic you know and care about in a three-to-five page "paper." Then you'll repurpose and "remediate" that material to create a Web site that fulfills the same purposes except in a digital environment. More...

3. Glocalization Project

assigned: October 22
BETA version due: by Sunday November 17 at 6 p.m.
Final version due: by Sunday, November 24 at 6 p.m.
Printout and Commentary due in class: November 26

In this project, you will create a Web site that focuses on some "glocalizable" aspect of Duluth, Lake Superior, The Northshore or some locale in Minnesota. Far from cluttering the World Wide Web with excessively "local" concerns, each of your projects will develop a set of Web pages covering some specific, local site, product, phenomenon, or historical topic for an audience beyond the immediate area. More...

4. Client Project

assigned: September 24
proposal due: November 12
copies of the proposal for class: December 5
BETA version posted: Sunday, December 8
In-class Workshop: December 10 and 12
Final version due: December 17 at 10 a.m.

You will create a Web-based project for a real-life client on campus or in the local area. The client can be an organization, a faculty member, a business, etc. In consultation with the client, you will first create a "BETA" version of the site, which we will workshop in class. Then you will take the feedback you receive in the workshop to complete the finished project, which should be delivered to the client by the date of our final exam. You will also send the URL of the finished site to me as well. More...

5. Analytical Paper

Assigned: Tuesday, September 12
Due: Tuesday, December 17

Write an eight-to-twelve-page essay in which you do a detailed analysis of one Web site which answers three questions that have been ongoing concerns in the readings we've done from the Trend collection on digital culture. More...