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| 30% | Individual assignment. Pair a mode with a genre.
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| 40% | Group assignment. Select elements from each group member's individual
assignment to create a new site.
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| 10% | 5-10 min Tip on software application presented orally to class.
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| 15% | 5-10 min Oral Critique of a site or product.
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| 5% | Written submission for the organizing theme (Class to select one
theme for duration of the course)
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| Week | One |
| Reading | Nielson Chapter 3 "History of Hypertext" |
| Genre | Intro to the notion of genre |
| Mode | image + text |
| Assignment | Icebreakers |
| Skill Demo | HTML
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| Week | Two |
| Reading | Sloane Chapter Two "Computer Communication" |
| Genre | mixed media |
| Mode | sound + image |
| Assignment | Tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | sound recording & edit
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| Week | Three |
| Reading | Nielson Chapter 8 "Information Overload" |
| Genre | installations |
| Mode | sound + image + text |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | image
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| Week | Four |
| Reading | Sloane Chapter Three "Multimedia Information" |
| Genre | games & role playing |
| Mode | sound + text |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
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Skill Demo | animation
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| Week | Five |
| Reading | Nielson Chap 12 "Repurposing Existing Content" anti-shovelware aesthetic; E-text on copyright issues "Derivative Works" |
| Genre | performance |
| Mode | sound alone |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | bandwidth calculation
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| Week | Six |
| Reading | Sloane Chapter Four "Systems, Tools, Applications and Standards" |
| Genre | correspondence |
| Mode | image alone |
| Assignment | Individual Project |
| Skill Demo | scripting
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| Week | Seven |
| Reading | Gloor
"The Seven Design Concepts for Navigation in Cybersapce" (Linking; Searching; Sequentialization; Hierarchy; Similarity; Mapping, Agents |
| Genre | mixed media II |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | project management
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| Week | Eight |
| Reading | Sloane Chapter One "Communication" |
| Genre | installations II |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | open
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| Week | Nine |
| Reading | Marie Laure Ryan "Interactive Drama: Narrativity in a Highly Interactive Environment" |
| Genre | games & role playing II |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | open
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| Week | Ten |
| Reading | Hanssen, Jankowski & Etienne "Interacitivity from the Perspective of Communication Studies"; possible guest lecture on Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope |
| Genre | performance II |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | open
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| Week | Eleven |
| Reading | Conklin "Hypertext Introduction and Survey" |
| Genre | correspondence II |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | tip or critique |
| Skill Demo | open
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| Week | Twelve |
| Reading | Davis "Wheel of Culture" |
| Genre | multimedia |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | Group Project |
| Skill Demo | open
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| Week | Thirteen |
| Reading | Minsky "A Theory of Memory" (K-lines) |
| Genre | interactive |
| Mode | open |
| Assignment | evaluation |
| Skill Demo | planned learning
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