Questionnaire for COMP 5250

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Rate the degree of your experience and skills in the following areas both before and at the conclusion of the class.
(1 is no experience or skill, 5 is very experienced for a non-professional):  

Software and Hardware

1. Dreamweaver or other HTML-editing software (or writing HTML code directly)

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2. Photoshop or other image-editing software

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3. General computer functions such as Windows or Mac operating systems; managing folders, disks; saving and moving files 

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4. Posting HTML and image files to the Web, managing files on a server to maintain functioning Web sites

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Community

5. Rate the degree of your experience at working in creative teams, communities, or networks of writers/designers to complete and/or evaluate projects.  (1 is no experience, 5 is very experienced for a non-professional):  

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Writing and Design Principles

Rate your understanding of and confidence in applying the following principles to the creation and analysis of Web sites.  (1 is no experience or confidence, 5 is very experienced or confident):  

6. translating print-style documents, stories, etc. to new-media styles of presentation

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7. combining words and images to suggest meaning and evoke emotion

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8. structuring digital projects as non-linear hypertexts rather than as sequential texts (from page 1 to 2 to 3, etc.)

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9. using the conventions of online genres to perform cultural work (as in the parody project)

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10. writing critically about new media in commentaries and essays

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