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September

 

Tuesday, 9/3 (Week 1)
1. Introduction to course
2. Assign Personal Home Page (1)

Thursday, 9/5
1. Nielsen Chapter 1 "Why Web Usability?" 8-14
2. Nielsen Chapter 4 "Site Design" (partial) 162-224 (then skip to and read the "Conclusion" from 259-60)
3. Look over Tower "Basic Web Pages" 47-65, and "Setting Up a Local Site" 25-30
4.
skills and individual work

9/10 (Week 2)
1. Nielsen Chapter 2 "Page Design" 16-97 (skip 78-91!)

9/12
1. Willian Gibson in Trend "Johnny Mnemonic" 57-69
2. Michael Heim "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace" 70-86
3.
Introduce Analytical Paper project (5)
4. Post "Web banner" exercise to Web

9/17 (Week 3)
1. Read Nielsen "Content Design" 98

9/19
1. Read Sherry Turkle in Trend, "Who Am We?" 236
2. Introduce New Media Writing (2)
3. skills and individual work

Tuesday 9/24 (Week 4)
1. Work on Personal Home Page (1), or New Media Writing (2)
2. Introduce the Client Project (4)

9/26
skills and individual work

Sunday, 9/29 (Week 5)
Personal Home Page (1) posted by 6 p.m.