Through practical lab exercises and through significant project work, students will develop their teamwork skills and their capacity for critical appreciation of hypertextual artefacts. As well, students will acquire an understanding of the HTML standard.
E-mail will be used extensively to coordinate group projects and receive instructor feedback. Students will continue to experience telework through synchronous on-line meetings and participation in discussion lists and news groups.
The theme of the course is "access" and student research projects will address the history of the development of international standards such as HTML and their relation to issues of bandwidth, adaptive technology, metadata, digital decay and preservation.
| Week 1 | Sept. 20 - Sept. 26 |
Browsers (find & book mark) URL <p> <a href> telnet see HTML Hustle for a gentle intro |
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| Week 2 | Sept. 27 - Oct. 3 | Directories in Unix FTP CMOD <a name> HTML Writers' Guild |
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| Week 3 | Oct. 4 - Oct. 10 | <br> Lists Window resizing |
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| Week 4 | 0ct. 11 - Oct. 17 | <img> Clip art locations Bandwidth |
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| Week 5 | Oct. 18 - Oct. 24 | Tables | |
| Week 6 | Oct. 25 - Oct. 31 | Doctype DTD Validation |
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| Week 7 | Nov. 1 - Nov. 7 | Browser Specific Tags Adaptive technology |
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| Week 8 | Nov. 8 - Nov. 14 | Colour & navigation cues | |
| Week 9 | Nov. 15 - Nov. 21 | Search engines; <meta> | |
| Week 10 | Nov. 22 - Nov. 28 | Connection, Community, Content: The Challenge of the Information
Highway, Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory
Council (Canada) Individual Projects Due | |
| Week 11 | Nov. 29 - Dec. 5 | OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) Report
& Telecommunications Regulation Group Projects Due |
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| 30% | Individual project | A set of WWW pages relating to any aspect of the "access" theme |
| 50% | Group project | Linking and enhancing a set of individual pages into a complete site. |
| 10% | Participation in class | |
| 10% | Participation on-line |