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Week 1

Monday - Jan. 7th Wednesday - Jan. 9th
First Day Houskeeping Hypertext Manifestoes
Technical Focus: Linking
HW: Read CIC Student Guide
Read: M&K ch. 1,2,3,6-6.4.3
 Due: Response to hypertext manifestoes due Sat. by 5 pm
HW: Read M&K ch. 4, 7

Week 2

Monday - Jan. 14th Wednesday - Jan. 16th
Working with Templates (e.g.,www.openwebdesign.org)
Technical Focus: Text Basics 		More Templates
Technical Focus: Images
HW: Read M&K ch. 5
Due: Personal webpage due Sat. by 5 pm
HW: Read M&K ch. 10

Week 3

Monday - Jan. 21st Wednesday - Jan. 23rd
No Class Creative Hypertexts
Technical Focus: Tables
Read: Born Magazine
Prepare for Wed. Due: Response to Born Magazine due Sat. by 5 pm
HW: Read M&K ch. 11
HW: Take a look at Poems that Go and Jim Andrews' Vispo

Week 4

Monday - Jan. 28th Wednesday - Jan. 30th
Creative Hypertexts pt. 2
Technical Focus: Frames		 Technical Focus: Image Maps
HW: Read M&K ch. 6.4.4-6.5
HW: Take a look at Jackson's My Body		 Due: Text to Hypertext Project due Thurs. Jan 31 by 11 pm
HW: Read M&K ch. 9
HW: Take a look at campaign websites (Hillary Clinton; Obama; McCain; Romney; and don't forget 3rd Party Candidates).

Week 5

Monday - Feb. 4th Wednesday - Feb. 6th
Effective Websites pt. 1
Technical Focus: Forms 		Effective Websites pt. 2
Technical Focus: CSS pt. 1
HW: Read M&K ch. 8-8.3
HW: Take a look at news media websites ( CNN ; Fox News ; The Seattle Times ; The Seattle PI ; The New York Times ; The Wall Street Journal ; The Stranger ; The Daily ) 		HW: Read M&K ch. 8.4-8.6
HW: Take a look at Web Pages that Suck and The World's Worst Website

Week 6

Monday - Feb. 11th Wednesday - Feb. 13th
Technical Focus: CSS pt. 2 Technical Focus: JavaScript
HW: Read M&K ch. 12
 Due: Website analysis due Wed. Feb 13 by 11 pm
HW: Read M&K ch. 15, 16
HW: Read Blood (PDF) and Kline (PDF)

Week 7

Monday - Feb. 18th Wednesday - Feb. 20th
No class Blogs pt. 1
Prepare for Wednesday HW: Read Blogging 101

Week 8

Monday - Feb. 25th Wednesday - Feb. 27th
Blogs pt. 2 (Group Project Assignment) Wikipedia (Group Project Assignment)
HW: Read Rosenzweig (PDF)
 Due: Response #3 due Sunday March 2 by 5pm
HW: Copy and Paste Literacy? (PDF)

Week 9

Monday - Mar. 3rd Wednesday - Mar. 5rd
Myspace Facebook
HW: Read Raskin (PDF); Murray & Waller (PDF); and Hayes (PDF)
 HW: Read YouTube Culture (PDF); Online Video (PDF)

Week 10

Monday - Mar. 10th Wednesday - Mar. 12th
YouTube Gaming
HW: Read Hutchison (PDF)
 Due: Response #4 due Sat. March 15 by 5pm
Due: Final Project due March 21st by 5 pm






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