In addition to the three exercises and final paper, all of which should be done in HTML, you should keep a browsing log--either on paper or on your home site--jotting down your responses to the various assigned pages we will look at. This will be useful to you in several ways, including remembering the experiences. Your showing it to me is purely voluntary: to support you expressing (venting?) yourself candidly, I will not require that you turn it in.
| Date |
Topics | Assignment |
| 1 April | Overview of Web in English Studies | Lester Faigley, "Material Literacy and Visual Design; Pick an edition, a place, and a hypertext course that interests you and analyze it for discussion. |
| 3 April |
Discussion of sites chosen |
Work through
Three Parameters and
Design Schema |
| 8 April |
Basic issues of design and structure;
linear, non-sequential. Graphic Principles of Web Design |
Link/annotate a text (due
15 April) |
| 10 April |
Practice using Composer to make
links and include images. |
Bernstein,
Gardens and
Links ; Nichols,
Gardens; Borges (Papaganou), Garden of Forked Paths and handout; |
| 15 April |
Discussion of Bernstein in
re links and of Forked Paths |
Using the Gimp; annotated text due |
| 17 April | Intro to Image processing with GIMP: sizing, correcting, writing on images | Benjamin (Peaker),
Fragments of the Passagenwerk Bobin Michals, e-arcades |
| 22 April |
Discussion of Benjamin's Passages; see Passagen Notes and Table of Links
|
Mitchell, cc. 1-2;
A little typography;
and style; stylesheet tutorial What NYPL says Good page of links and models |
| 24 April |
Discuss Mitchell, 1-2; Use of style sheets |
Mitchell, cc. 3, 7; collateral text: Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word |
| 29 April |
Discuss Mitchell, 3, 7 |
View
emblem book sites and read Elkins, c. 12. Frames tutorial |
| 1 May |
Discuss emblem books' use
of text and image; Working with frames |
Mitchell, c. 9; collateral
text: Jefferson Hunter, Image and Text; View linked Photoessays of place. Comparison of two photoessays for 13 May |
| 6 May |
Discuss Mitchell, c.9; ratios
of text and image; issues of genre |
More photoessays--of issues |
| 8 May |
Photoessay as Web genre |
Squier,
Urban Diary; GashGirl/DollYoko, Zombie Princess |
| 13 May B |
Discuss text-image chains; Making imagemaps with the GIMP |
Comparison of two photoessays
due; Make an image chain for 20 May View Flax & Scholz, Crossing the Divide; |
| 15 May |
Discuss Divide; spatializing
text; |
View Arnold and Derby,
Kokura, others from nuclear group |
| 20 May |
Discuss Kokura and rhetoric
of nuclear sites |
Chain due. View Stringfellow, Welcome to the Salton Sea and related Great Basin Lake sites |
| 22 May |
Discussion of Salton Sea; comparative critique |
Plan for final paper due
on Wednesday the 29th The Great Basin Project E-passagen |
| 29 May |
Discussion of final projects, needed
HTML; hereafter to end (7 June) topics as needed for project. |
Final project due 14 June. |