Digital Rhetoric

English 8123

Upcoming Assignments:

4/22:

• Final Website
• Website Report
• Website Presentations

4/29: Web Portfolio

In class 4/22: Project Day

• FOD: Internet & Politics
• schedule, finals, questions, and set-up time
• Presentations:
  1. Jennifer and Sydney
  2. Brett & Muriel
  3. Jeannie and Liz
  4. Abra and Jennifer
  5. Nora, Liane, and Crystal
• Class Wrap-up
• Workshop

In class 4/15: Portfolio Info & Workshop

• Go over schedule
• Teaching Philosophies
• Web Resumes
• Professional Biographies
  • A great resource for those in tech comm or rhet comp and related areas
  • Top Ten Tips for Writing a Professional Overview or Biography (industry based)
  • Writing your Biography (industry based)
• Portfolio tips & hints:
  • Intros to work
  • Nav structure: current page
  • Page headings & titles
  • Images choices
  • Consistency
  • "Click here" links
• Workshop time & set up presentation times

In class 4/8: Workshop!

• FOD: Browser Use
• Go over schedule
• Discuss last week
• Workshop time

In class 4/1: Testing & Workshop

In class 3/25:

• Tidbit of the day: Use of alt tags on XKCD
• Accessibility resources:
  • Web Accessibility Checker from ATRC: http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/index.html
  • Microsoft vides of accessibly case studies: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/casestudy/default.aspx
  • Screen reader simulation: http://www.webaim.org/simulations/screenreader.php
  • Blind Date Game (works with speech synthesis or without): http://rnibblinddate.nomensa.com/
  • Vischeck offers two color for web site designers concern with making their sites usable to those who are color blind. The Vischeck tool stimulates how web sites look to people with various types of color blindness and the Daltonize tool is a color blind image correction algorithm. http://www.vischeck.com
  • Other resources: http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/ATRC/tools.htm
• Discuss reading
• Epic 2015 viewing and discussion
• Workshop

In class 3/18:

• FOTD: Top web brands and sites
• Discuss Usability Testing & resources
• Sample Usability Test
• DIscuss Reading responses
• Introduce Mini-Design 6
• Questions & Schedule (away)
• Workshop

In class 3/11:

• FOTD: Hotness, self-confidence, and virtual selves
• Discuss podcasting & readings
• Introduce Website Project
• Questions & schedule (grading)
• Workshop

In class 2/26:

• TOTD: Dreamweaver questions?
• Discuss podcasting & readings
• Questions & schedule (and spring break grading)
• Workshop

In class 2/19:

• Guest Speaker: Stephen F. Eley of Escape Pod
• Introduce Mini-Design 5

In class 2/12:

• FOTD: Search engine use
• TOTD: Another way to make tables in Dreamweaver
• Discuss Reading
• Discuss Portfolios (check out the readings on the forum) & CVs
• Questions & Schedule
• Workshop

In class 2/5:

• FOTD: Homepage use & Calculator Construction Set
• Discuss Reading Responses
• Interface design types & hints PPT
• Discuss reading & review sites
  1. http://www.tiffany.com/
  2. http://www.compositiongallery.com/artists.php
  3. Other?
• Go over Mini-Design 4
• Workshop

In class 1/29:

• Tips & Pointers
1. An introduction to Greeking
2. Relative Vs. Absolute text sizing
3. Creating a tracing image
4. GetColor! a color tool where you can quickly and easily get the color (RGB value) of any color on your desktop. See a great green on a website and want to use it? This tool will tell you what the RGB is. A quick and easy download. http://www.wincatalog.com/getcolor.html?source=GetColor_m
5. Type Online: Cool tool to compare how type really looks online http://typetester.maratz.com/
6. ColorMatch 5k : Use this site to help create color schemes for websites http://www.colormatch.dk/
7. Image resources:
   1. Flickr
   2. Creative Commons
   3. Free clip art & stock sites or paid (use the marked images)
   4. Microsoft
   5. Wikimedia Commons
• Discuss reading & Graphic Design PPT
• Introduce Mini-Design 3 & Draft: Web Portfolio
• Workshop

In class 1/22:

• Web task: http://photo.net/
• Discuss Reading
• Go over Mini-Design 2
• Workshop

In class 1/15:

• Discuss Reading & Copyright 101 PPT
• Go over Mini-Design 1
• Workshop