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Electronic Writing & Publishing

Fall 2007

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In class 12/6:

  • Names time: Can you name everyone?
  • Class wrap-up: What did you learn? What worked? What didn't work?
  • Hand in Jail cards
  • Grades and what happens next
  • Questions & discuss portfolio
  • Workshop time

In class 12/4:

  • FOD: Ads & Online Genres
  • General questions & hand in all "Get Out of Jail Free" work
  • Discuss Final Portfolio
  • Portfolio Workshop!

 

In class 11/29:

  • ~5 Minutes tech/testing time (try out tech tech, get your presentations ready to go)
  • Presentations Today:
    • Jennifer & Tiffany: GSU journalism student site
    • Taylor & Matt: Local movie site
  • More on Accessibility (TOD/Resources):
  • Schedule, questions, housekeeping, peer evals
  • Workshop!

 

 

In class 11/27:

Final Project Due!

  • Turn the report in at the start of class on paper
  • Give the presentation today or 11/29 (depending on your assignment time)
  • Email me the website URL by midnight tonight with the whole group CC:ed

 

Class time:

  • 5 Minutes tech/testing time (try out tech tech, get your presentations ready to go)
  • Presentations Today:
    1. Shahnaz Islam, Joanne Bell, Coyotito Kelly, and Brandon Wiggins: GSU student food website
    2. Imran Ahmad, Michael Metcalf, Mary Retchko, Laura Sweat: Project Downtown (Atlanta ) Website
    3. Ryan Ensor & Anna Moshefi GSU "complaint" site
  • Go over Group Work Evaluation & Final Portfolio
  • Workshop time (portfolios, evals, website...)

 

 

 

 

In class 11/15:

 

In class 11/13:

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In class 11/8:

 

In class 11/6:

  • Reading Response (see below or the forum): 10 minutes
  • 2 TOD: Action Verbs & cool new web application Gabbly (try our site)
  • Sites with interesting designs to consider:
  • Go over reading
  • Workshop

 

 

Reading Response 11/6 (last reading response?)

This may be your last reading response! Submit your response as a reply to the “Reading Response 11/6 ” posting on the class forum.

Two parts:

Part 1: Drawing on the readings for 11/1 and 11/6 discuss at least two things you will take from these readings and apply to your own work for this class (either your portfolio project or the final group project).

Part 2: What is one trick or fix in web design that you have either used in the past or plan to use in the future? You can discuss a trick or fix from the readings that you plan to use (or have used) or a trick or fix that was not mentioned in the books that you have found useful.

 

 

In class 11/01:

There is no Reading Response today so make sure you are on time and ready to go! Do put those nametags up, who knows, you might get extra credit for it.

 

 

In class 10/30:

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • TOD: TinyURLs
  • Discuss Usability Testing (PPT & Resources) & do sample tests
  • Discuss proposals & schedule
  • Any remaining time: Workshop

 

Reading Response 10/30:

Submit your response as a reply to the “Reading Response for 10/30 ” posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the reading, present and discuss 2-3 tasks that would be appropriate for users to perform during your usability testing of your final project. Why are these good tasks? What do you hope to learn from these tasks?

 

 

In class 10/23:

 

 

Reading Response 10/25:

Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response for 10/25" posting on the class forum.

How will you develop your web site writing style for your group project? What style(s) will you have? What will you do or not do?

 

 

In class 10/23:

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • Turn in Mini-Media Choice projects
  • FOD: Teen Online Stranger Contact
  • TOD: Colorblind user resources 2 (Vischeck)
  • Discuss the reading & reading responses
  • More Information on Graphic Design & Color PPT
  • Discuss Projects (quick overview & advertising)
  • Class time for final project

 

 

Reading Response 10/23:

Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response for 10/23" posting on the class forum.

Which of the common page types do you think you will include in your group project? How will these fit your audience’s needs? What types of content will you put on these pages?

 

 

In Class 10/18:

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • FOD: leader in online Presidential race (Nielsen//NetRatings Press Release)
  • TOD: Linking to "other" files
  • A Quick Guide to Writing a Proposal: PPT
  • Review Final Project Proposal
  • Discuss Reading
  • Discuss Projects (quick overview & advertising)
  • Class time for final project

 

Reading Response 10/18:

Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response for 10/18" posting on the class forum.

What has your group decided to do for your final project? What genre(s) does this project fit into? What subgenre(s)? What concepts from the Jeney chapters 6-8 will you apply to this project?

(note: this is an individual response, not a group response. If you do not yet have a group choose an idea that sounds interesting to you and come prepared to join a group.)

 

In Class 10/16:

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • FOD: How many people are colorblind?
  • TOD: Colorblind user resources (Vischeck & Colour Contrast Chart for Colour Blindness)
  • Genre Discussion PPT
  • [optional now or next Tuesday] More Information on Graphic Design & Color PPT
  • Discuss project ideas
  • Form groups and choose projects

 

Reading Response 10/16:

Idea Posting: due 10/16, counts as a Reading Response.


For this post 2-3 ideas you have for websites to do for your final project. For each idea provide a few sentences discussing and describing your idea. Do discuss the community the website is for and how your idea responds to some need in this community. Also, discuss what genre this site would fall into. Post this to the “Final Project Ideas” forum by the start of class. Feel free to respond to other's ideas and start discussions in the forum about the ideas. Come to class ready to choose a project.

 

In Class 10/11:

No reading response today. We will use the time to go over class material, so make sure you are on time. The rest of class will be workshop.

 

 

Reading Response 10/11:

No reading response today. We will use the time to go over class material, so make sure you are on time. The rest of class will be workshop.

 

In Class 10/9:

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • COD: http://xkcd.com/326/
  • FOD: E-patients
  • TOD: Making a new folder
  • A few comments on the blog project (conversation, grammar, & URLs)
  • Discuss last week
  • Discuss Reading & Reading Responses, look at journals (natural hypertext journal or linear text)
  • Introduce: E-Journals Analysis Project
  • Workshop time for Web Portfolio Project and handback blog projects

 

 

Reading Response 10/9:

Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response 10/8 " posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the various readings, discuss e-journals. How would you define them? What did you find particularly interesting or not interesting about them? Which e-journal did you examine? What is your reaction? How do e-journals compare to traditional journals?

 

 

In Class 10/4:

 

Reading Response 10/4:

Make sure you incorporate the readings. Submit your response as a reply to the “10/4” posting on the class forum.

This reading response has two parts. If you have been a part of an online community (or are now) answer the first part. If not, answer the second part. For whichever part your respond to, make sure you incorporate the readings.

Part one (if you are or have been part of an online community):
What community are/have you been part of? How does this community fit the definitions and discussions of communities from the readings? What good and/or bad have you seen come from this community?

Part Two (if you are not (and never have been) part of an online community):
After the readings, what value do you see in online communities? How do you seen online communities comparing to other methods of online communication we have covered?

 

In class 10/2 :

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 10 minutes
  • FOD: Podcast numbers?
  • Next class and questions
  • Introduce Podcasting choice project
  • Guest Speaker: Stephen Eley!

 

 

Reading Response 10/2:

Make sure you incorporate the readings. Submit your response as a reply to the “Reading Response 10/2” posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the various readings, discuss podcasting as another type of Electronic Writing and Publishing. How do podcasts compare to other methods/genres of electronic writing and publishing? What advantages or disadvantages do you see to podcasts as a form of electronic writing and publishing?

Which podcast did you listen to? What did you think about it? What worked well or didn’t work? How do you think the podcaster considers or responds to the audience?

 

 

Eley 10/2 Podcasting Lecture Announcement:

Here is information on Eley's lecture on 10/2. It should be fascinating and highly relevant to class. I hope you can make it! Do remember, attendance at this lecture can earn you extra credit.

 

[announcement posted to the English department listserv on 9/25 by Lee Anne Richardson]

The Department of English Speakers Series is sponsoring a lecture this coming Tuesday, October 2, at 2:00. Stephen Eley will speak on the topic of "Podcasting in Education and Publishing."

Stephen Eley is the publisher of the short-story science fiction podcast "Escape Pod," which has had short stories by Hugo winners, and he has earned a good reputation locally and nationally for podcasting. NPR’s program “Day to Day” featured Eley in a report on fiction podcasters, which you can access at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5182721

The lecture will be held in the GSU Welcome Center, located in room 134 in Alumni Hall.

Although you may never have entered Alumni Hall, you’ve certainly seen it. It is at the corner of Gilmer and Courtland Streets—across from Hurt Park; next door to M Deck parking; kitty-corner from Sparks Hall. The -easiest- way to get to Alumni Hall from GCB: go out the door of GCB onto Peachtree Center, walk down to Gilmer (the first street) and make a right; when you get to Courtland (the first street), Alumni Hall will be on the far side of the street on your left. Once you go in, the Welcome Center is easy to find. It is, after all, a Welcome Center. The -most direct- route is to walk through the plaza to Courtland street, and then make a left to walk down just past Gilmer. Alumni Hall will be on the right.

 

 

In class 9/27:

 

Reading Response 9/27:

Make sure you incorporate the readings. Submit your response as a reply to the “Reading Response 9/27” posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the various readings, discuss your navigation and interface design plan and style for your web portfolio.

 

 

In class 9/25:

Do bring your Dreamweaver book (Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver by Nolan Hester) to class today, you may need it.

 

 

 

Reading Response 9/25:

Make sure you incorporate the readings. Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response 9/25 " posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the reading, discuss how you will revise your resume for one of the electronic versions mentioned in the reading. If you do not have a resume discuss how you will develop your resume for one of the electronic versions mentioned in the reading. You may actually choose to revise a small part of your resume into one of the electronic versions and discuss what you did and why. Also, how you will handle legibility and readability?

 

In class 9/20:

Do bring your Dreamweaver book (Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8 by Nolan Hester) book to class today, you will need it!

Make sure you are on time today as we will be starting at 4:00 (no reading response time)!

 

Reading Response 9/20:

There will be no Reading Response and I will give you the full class time (except for a few minutes on more blog ideas) to work on the Mini-Media Web Project. If needed, I will review publishing files to the web. The Mini-Media Web Project is not due until Midnight (well 11:59:59 pm) 9/21 (a bit more of an extension). Don't be surprised if you see the reading covered in another reading response!

 

In class 9/18:

 

Reading Response 9/18:

Make sure you incorporate the reading from the Williams book. Submit your response as a reply to the “Reading Response 9/18” posting on the class forum. Drawing on the reading, respond choose one of the following websites and critique it:

 

In class 9/13:

Do bring your Dreamweaver book (Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8 by Nolan Hester) book to class today, you will need it!

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 15 minutes
  • FOD: Google Bombs (try awful announcer, miserable failure, failure, great president, liar, French military victories)
  • TOD: Resizing pictures
  • Discuss reading, Search PPT (optional)
  • Blog: Check out the class list and get some pointers
  • Grading for the Mini-Web
  • Workshop

 

 

 

Reading Response 9/13:

Make sure you incorporate appropriate readings from the texts (the Hester book is not intended for reading responses). Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response Prompt 9/13 " posting on the class forum.

Choose a situation and discuss if it would be best to use print or the web and why (make sure you draw on the reading). Also consider various factors including the audience.

•  You were recently hired by a country club to do its monthly newsletter. What medium would you go with and why?

•  You are making a collection of family recipes and want to include color photos. What medium would you go with and why?

•  You are creating a database of information on the new Medicaid prescription plans. What medium would you go with and why?

 

 

In class 9/11:

Do bring your Dreamweaver book (Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8 by Nolan Hester) book to class today, you will need it!

  • Reading Response (see below or on the forum): 12 minutes
  • FOD: Intro pages (not a good idea based on Disney data)
  • TOD: Line spacing and “quotes” or "quotes" in Dreamweaver
  • Info on fixing those pesky ? replacements for quotation marks and apostrophes in Atutor
  • Discuss reading: Why does audience Matter (or even Shakespeare wrote for an audience)
  • Discuss grading and turn in time
  • Discuss reading responses:
    • Clearly draw on the readings
    • Explain and discuss your answer
    • Respond to the prompt
    • Get it in on time
  • Workshop: Work on Mini-Media Web project

 

Reading Response 9/11:

Make sure you incorporate the reading. Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response 9/11" posting on the class forum.

This reading response has two parts and should help you think about and develop your blog. It may even help with the assignment due by midnight and could easily be revised and added to your blog paper.

Part 1: Analyzing your audience for your blog (the one you are doing for your blog project), complete the audience analysis worksheet (13 prompts, page 38 in Jeney). For #8 you could change controversies to issues, depending on your blog type.

Part 2: Which techniques from the reading will you use to keep the attention of your readers? How will you apply them?

 

In class 9/6:

Do bring your Dreamweaver book (Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8 by Nolan Hester) book to class today, you will need it!

 

Reading Response 9/6:

Make sure you incorporate the reading from the Williams book. Submit your response as a reply to the "Reading Response 9/6 " posting on the class forum.

Drawing on the reading, discuss what things should you do before creating web site and why you should do these things.

 

 

 

Class on 9/4 has been cancelled!

Class will meet normally on Thursday (9/6). Do still submit your reading response, but you now have until midnight to do so.  Also, for those of you who have not done this yet, do not forget to submit your intro email to the forum by midnight (11:59:59) tonight. Reading these emails will be easiest for us all if you submit your intro emails as new thread in the intro email forum and your peer responses as replies to the relevant intro.

On Thursday 9/6 do bring your Hester book—this is vital!

Email me if you have any questions.

 

 

 

Reading Response 9/4:

Make sure you incorporate appropriate readings from the texts (the Hester book is not intended for reading responses). Submit your response as a reply to this posting on the class forum.


This response has two parts (plus a bonus):

-From the list of 12 skills a writer needs if she or he is to create content for the web (according to Jeney, page 13), choose one item that you think is either particularly important or that you do not think should be included on the list. Discuss either why it is important or why it should not be on the list. Support this with info from the readings as applicable.

-Did you learn anything new from the Williams and Tollett chapter (or remember something you perhaps forgot)? What did you learn/remember and how do you think it will help you in this class?

Bonus:
Take any URL that has at least two slashes somewhere in the URL after the "http://" and has not been used by someone before you on the forum and break the URL down as Jeney did on page 9 of the text (can make educated guesses as needed).

 

In class 8/30:

In small groups (2-4 people), find a Blog from each category below. Provide brief commentary (a few sentences) on each Blog found and submit this on the class forum under the Blogs forum. Make sure each group member's name is included.
Categories:
1) News
2) Personal
3) Professional or Educational
4) Political
5) Some other Blog you found interesting.

 

Reading Response 8/30:

Drawing on the various blog readings, answer one of these two groups of questions, depending on whether or not you have a blog. Post your response as a reply to the posting on the forum.

If you have a blog:

What new things did you learn about blogs and blogging?

What type of blog do you have?

How does the reading impact your plans for your blog? Will you make any changes due to what you learned from the reading? Why or why not?

 

If you do not have a blog:

What did you learn about blogs from the reading?

If you were going to write a blog what type of blog would you write and why?

What methods would you use write your blog (from copyright prevention to style and keeping up reader interest)?

 

In Class 8/28:

  • Reading Responses (10 minutes, see below)
  • FOD (Wikipedia users) & TOP (embedded fonts)
  • Slides & Discussion: Newsgroups, Listservs, Newsletters, Chats & Phishing ( http://www.rhetcomp.gsu.edu/~jbowie/Slides/News_list_chat_RV.ppt )
  • Discuss Reading:
  • Introduce Intro Email Assignment
  • Discuss readings for next class
  • Finish Copyright & Plagiarism Slides and Discussion
  • Star Wars Kid
  • If Time: In Class Assignment:
    In groups of 3-4 people find 2-3 "good" stock photo web site or clip art sites. Find sites that allow the free noncommercial use of images at least (okay if they allow commercial free use). In a few sentences note the type of images available, the quality, suggested use (like good for a professional tennis web site), and any restrictions (such as can only be used if linked back to this site). Submit the descriptions and a link to the stock sites to the forum as a response to this posting.

 

 

 

Reading Response for 8/28:

Reading Response (10 minutes in class):

Drawing on the reading, please discuss some of the things you should and should not do to be a Netizen.

Post your response to the class forum posting for this reading response.

 

In Class 8/23:

  • Reading Responses (15 minutes, see below)
  • QOD & hand out readings
  • Walk through website
  • FOD: Updated Demographics of Internet Users
  • Join ATutor (Do use your real name: something like Jennifer_Bowie) & walk through
  • Go over readings
    • How do you compare to the Pew Report?
    • Thoughts on the history?
    • The Memex & us?
    • Can you use the photo?
  • Copyright & Plagiarism Slides and Discussion
  • Star War's Kid
  • In-class Activity (if time):

    In groups of 3-4 people find 2-3 "good" stock photo web site or clip art sites. Find sites that allow the free noncommercial use of images at least (okay if they allow commercial free use). In a few sentences note the type of images available, the quality, suggested use (like good for a professional tennis web site), and any restrictions (such as can only be used if linked back to this site). Post the descriptions and a link to the stock sites to the forum posting (Under in-class activities) or email me.

     

Reading Response for 8/23:

Please email me your answers with "reading response" in the subject line. You will have 15 minutes in class to do this (so it is due by 4:15). Do answer both questions.

    1. How does the Internet compare to Bush's Memex? How are they different?
    2. If you found a photo on the web that you wanted to use in your website for this class could you use it? Why or why not?

 

 

In Class 8/21:

  • Introduction
  • Go over syllabus
  • Discuss how classes will go
  • More about me
  • Group introductions and questions
  • Discuss Grading
  • Discuss next class
  • Questions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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