Sample Syllabus
Schedule
Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7
Wk 8 | Wk 9 | Wk 10 | Wk 11 | Wk 12 | Wk 13 | Wk 14
Textbooks
Course Requirements
- Students must establish an email account and server space through
Rutgers.
- All electronic documents must be published online and maintained
for at least one month following the end of the course — and the Final Project must be submitted both online and on a CD-ROM.
- Attendance is required — students missing 4 classes fail the course.
- No plagiarism!
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Assignments
Wk1 in Class
Wk1 Homework
- Review HTML: Castro Ch1 & 3, W3 Schools HTML Tutorial.
- Take Quiz1, the W3 Schools HTML Quiz: hand write your answers.
- Complete Links Prep.
- Sketch on paper a homepage that would go with your Links page — see the Homepage assignment for help conceiving designs.
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Wk2 in Class
Wk2 Homework
- Use Design Baseline to review Rutgers homepage and a site from your Links page: draw wireframes (see Summers p7) and give brief comments.
- Read Castro Ch 8-11.
- Finish Links.
- Read the Feature assignment and complete the Prep.
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Wk3 in Class
- Discuss design and site reviews.
- Do peer review with Links page Checklist (.doc) and make quick revisions.
- Briefly describe your Final Project concept on the back of the Checklist and then turn it in for Instructor's formal comments.
- Do CSS Exercise and start Feature Rough Draft.
Wk3 Homework
- Read: Williams Ch 1-7; Castro Ch 6-7; parts 1 & 3 of Fair Use Guidelines; WP Plagiarism page.
- Use Williams and Design Baseline (pdf) to critique Creative Commons and a site you might want to emulate for your Final Project design (draw wireframes and make brief comments).
- Practice Photoshop (at an RUCS lab):
— Sketch on paper some iconic (e.g., something like an arrow or decorative letters or text) or informational (e.g., something like a statistic table, brief timeline, graph, or illustration) images you could create ifor your Links or Feature. You might also sketch a banner image for your site.
— Start trying to create your images in Photoshop (or your graphics software of choice). For general Photoshop help, try GetIt, InformIT, and About. We'll take time in classfor this during Wk4.
- Build Feature Rough Draft.
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Wk4 in Class
- Discuss readings, Plagiarism, and design critiques.
- Practice with graphics software and perfect images for Feature..
- Critique and revise Feature Rough Draft.
- Preview Homepage assignment.
Wk4 Homework
- Read Summers Ch 4 and Williams Ch 8-10.
- Take the Williams "Little Quiz" #3, 6, 7; on the back draw 2 wireframes of possible designs for your Homepage.
- Finish Feature.
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Wk5 in Class
- Submit Feature page (online and turn in screenshot of first page for Instructor comments).
- Preview Midterm Prototype and Tutorial.
- Draft Midterm's Site Plans Memo.
- Peer-review and begin constructing Homepage designs.
Wk5 Homework
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Wk6 in Class
Wk6 Homework
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Wk7 in Class
Open lab time for Midterm Prototype.
Wk7 Homework
Finish Midterm Prototype.
Wk8 in Class
Wk8 Homework
- Draft Collab Zine Tutorial and Site Review.
- Draw wireframes of Visual page (it will probably consist of several parts/looks).
- Read Castro Ch 19 (esp. p328-30).
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Wk9 in Class
Wk9 Homework
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Wk10 in Class
Build Visual page draft and revise Collab.
Wk10 Homework
Finish Visual page draft.
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Wk11 in Class
Wk11 Homework
Finish Collab.
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Wk12 in Class
Open lab-time for Final Project Draft.
Wk12 Homework
Finish Final Project Draft.
Wk13 in Class
Critique Final Project Draft.
Wk13 Homework
Finish Final Project.
Wk14 in Class
Final Project due.
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