Email:
pat@cpe.uml.edu
©P.D.Krolak, 1995
| Outside Computer Assignment | Weekly Topics
(Links to Class Slides) |
Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | What is the Internet?
It's History, rate of growth, future? How will it change education? Will it make us a true democracy? Will it lead us to a global electronic village? |
HTML Visual pp 1:37 |
| Week 2 | Social, Political, Economic Impact | HTML Visual pp38:67 |
| Week 3 | What is the Nonlinear Document?
What is the WWW? What does this do for us? |
HTML Visual pp 68:83
HTML&CGI Chap 1-2 pp4:69 |
| Week 4 | Designing the nonlinear
document.
Who is the audience? How do we know if effective? Are there any rules? |
HTML Visual pp 84:113
Stein Chap 7 pp251:287 HTML&CGI Chap 7 pp151:181 |
| Week 5 | The WWW as an addictive Phenomena. Implications for the future. Standards, simplifaction, action. | Turkle Seductions of the Interface pp 9-73
HTML&CGI Chap 4-6 pp90:155 |
| Week 6 | Images,audio,video technology
Tools, issues, and directions |
Stein Chap 6 pp207:250 |
| Week 7 | Intellectual Property rights
Free speech verus control of content. Privacy versus Government listening |
Student Net Search
Stein pp286:288 |
| Week 8 | WWW as a market
What is the potential? What is the missing technology? |
HTML&CGI Chap 8-11 pp184:250
HTML&CGI Chap 24 pp567:581 |
| Week 9 | What are the roles of libraries in the WWW?
Content suppliers, communications, info brokers? |
Reread HTML&CGI Chap 1 pp1:39 |
| Week 10
The Final Project |
WWW search technology
Navigation and facilitation |
Stein Chap 8 pp326:354 |
| Week 11 | CGI and Java | Stein Chap 8 pp289:354 |
| Week 12 | Creating Art for the WWW
Editing video and sound. Conversion tools and Compression. |
Multi Media Handouts
HTML&CGI Chap 15-17 pp318:359 |
| Week 13
Final Paper Assigned |
How safe is the Internet?
For business and in our private lives? MUD's, Chat, and Cyberdating Self in the Virtual World |
Turkle Chap. 7-8, pp177-232
Stein Chap 4 pp125:147 |
| Week 14 | Video conferencing a need, a dream, or next major event?
Winners and losers Will the WWW create jobs? |
Student Net Search |
| Week 15 | MUD's, MOO's,and MUSH's
Virtual Reality on the WWW? What is the State of the Art? |
HTML&CGI Chap 26 pp615:637 |
| Week 16 | WWW as a paradox
Do the Benefits overcome the problems? |
Handy Age of Paradox pp1-100 |
| Week 17 | Recap and review.
Has your opinion chaged about information technology |
Review |
Email:
pat@cpe.uml.edu
©P.D.Krolak, 1995