m-8.29.05

• Introduce course
• Biographic surveys
• Introduce students
• Discuss calendar
• Choose article review weeks
• Introduction to Rhetoric
• Cyberculture and the Reality of Digital Writing

m-9.5.05

Labor Day– No Class

 

• Read syllabus, calendar, and assignments. By 5pm today make a contribution to the discussion board about the structure of the course.

m-9.12.05

• Rhetoric and Writing in Electronic Environments
• Discuss memo genre
• Blogs
  • Blogger
  • Live Jounral
  • Xanga

• Buy textbooks
• Read Lebert's "Wiring Human Rights Activism" [BB]
• Read McKee's "YOUR VIEWS SHOWED YOUR TRUE IGNORANCE!!" [Computers and Composition 19.4]

m-9.19.05

• Understanding the Web & Reading Interfaces

• Read Selfe & Selfe's "The Politics of the Interface" [College Composition and Communication 45.4]
• Read R. Williams's Chapter 1 (What is the World Wide Web?) and Chapter 2 (How to Search the Internet), pp. 15-44

m-9.26.05

• Reading Interfaces

• Read Romberger's "Ideology and Interface"[BB]

m-10.3.05

• Reading Visual Arguments
• Introduction to Fireworks

• Submit Interface Report to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class.
• Read R. Williams's Chapter 9 (Color on the Web) and Chapter 10 (Graphic Definitions), pp. 155-188
• Read Lupton and Miller's "White on Black on Grey" [BB]

m-10.10.05

Fall Break–No class

m-10.17.05

• Composing Visual Arguments

• Read Gossett et al.'s "[Continuing to] Mind the Gap" [Kairos 7.3]
• Read R. Williams's Chapter 11 (How to Prepare Image Files for the Web), Chapter 12 (Typography on the Web), and Chapter 13 (Advanced Tips and Tricks)
• Prepare a handwritten sketch of your visual argument

m-10.24.05

• Introduction to web authoring (infrastructure & html)

• Submit the hard copies of the 1) Visual Argument (color printed if color is used), 2) the final rough sketch, and 3) the explanation to the instructor at the beginning of class
• Read R. Williams's Chapter 3 (Just What Are Web Pages, Anyways?) and Chapter 4 (Things to Know Before You Begin a Web Sites)

m-10.31.05

• Web Design
• WYSIWYG (Dreamweaver)

• Read R. Williams's Chapter 5 (Print vs. Web) and Chapter 6 (Basic Design Principles for Non-Designers)
• Read Battle of the Really Pale Gurus: A Discussion with Jakob Nielson and Vincent Flanders
• Submit Genre Analysis to the instructor in the body of an email by the beginning of class

m-11.7.05

• Web Design

• Read R. Williams's Chapter 7 (Designing the Interface and Navigation) and Chapter 8 (How to Recognize Good and Bad Design)
• Read Dunn and Demers's "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation" [Kairos 7.1]
• Submit Audience Analysis to the instructor in the body of an email by the beginning of class

m-11.14.05

• Usability Testing

• Read Spinuzzi's "Light green doesn't mean hydrology" [Computers and Composition 18.1]
• Read...
  • Microsoft's Usability FAQ
  • Microsoft: Lab Studies
  • Microsoft: Usability Lab

m-11.21.05

• Workshop

m-11.28.05

• The Rhetoric of PowerPoint

• Read the following Wired articles about PowerrPoint
  • PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tuftee
  • Learning to Love PowerPoint by David Bryne
  • Absolute PowerPoint by Ian Parker
• Read Read 4 Easy Steps to a Great Presentation (You will be responsible for reading all of the linked pages, except for those under "Final Presentation").
• Submit Usability Test results to the instructor in the body of an email by the beginning of class

m-12.5.04

• Web Page Presentations

• Bring PowerPoint Presentations to class for Poster Session
• Submit the URL for Web Site in the body of an by the beginning of class

f-12.9.04

• Submit the PowerPoint Portfolio to the instructor as an email attachment (lastname-PPP.ppt) by 9pm on December 9, 2005

m-12.12.05

• Final Exam: instructor will be available in classroom to address questions or concerns