Projects

The best predictor of success in this course is good study habits. What does that mean? It means that students who come to class prepared, who read the textbook, who attend the lab sections and diligently work on the assignments, and who turn in the projects on time do well. Keeping up with the work is the secret. It doesn't take a genius to do well in this class. Anyone can be successful! Good luck!

Overview

This course has three major projects. Each project is divided into two parts. There are six (6) major, required project parts in this course.

Project Name	WebQ	Due Date
Project 1A: Project 1A: Website of Misinformation	None.	Before 10pm on 10/14
Project 1B: Website of Misinformation	None.	Before 10pm on 10/21
Project 2A: Javascript Storyteller	08au FIT100 Project 2A	Before 10pm on 11/4
Project 2B: JavaScript Storyteller	08au FIT100 Project 2B	Before 10pm on 11/24
Project 3A: Boat Club database	No WebQ	Before 10pm on 12/5
Project 3B: Boat Club database	08au FIT100 Project 3B	Before 10pm on 12/10

Most of your Projects will be turned in via Collect It, a Catalyst tool. Read Collect It instructions.

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Project 1:

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time" -- James Thurber

For this project your challenge is to create a Web site of "misinformation," that appears as authentic as possible to the user. While the content of your Web site will be questionable, everything else about your Web site should convey the opposite. Basically you will be creating a Web site that has false claims, yet contains information that appears authentic.

Objectives

design and implement a web page using Adobe Dreamweaver;

manipulate a photograph in Adobe Photoshop;

experience firsthand the ease with which "misinformation" can be made available online;

become aware of and systematically explore the "cues" viewers may use to assess the content of a Web site;

conduct user testing to evaluate your Web site;

reflect on the challenges of misinformation online; and

become an appropriately cautious user of online information.

Project 1A: Website of Misinformation

In Part 1A, you will create a web page which describes your plan for part 1B. It will include these items: page title, heading, topic, images, manipulation plan, copyright compliance, disclaimer logo and validation logo.

Due Date: Oct 14, before 10pm

Project 1B: Website of Misinformation

In Part 1B, you will produce modified images, write your misinformation web page, and test the effectiveness of your Web site.

Due Date: Oct 21, before 10pm

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Project 2:

For this project, you will write a fun Web page that writes a (really) short story based on information you get from the user. You'll use Javascript to insert the user's words into the story.

For example, your story might start out like this:

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there lived a young man and his trusty robot named C3PO. He had a restless yearning for adventure..."

You created a form where the user enters words, for example: an age, a type of person, and a name.

Then your JavaScript program will merge them together and produce a new version of the story like this:

"A long time ago, in a area near, near away, there lived a middle-aged woman and her trusty robot named Garfield. He had a envious running for pie charts..."

You can see from this example that woman and he don't match up. Several bits of grammar will need to be adjusted using functions you create in JavaScript. For example, when the user supplies words you will have to

capitalize words that begin a sentence.

change he, his, and him to she, her, and her, or they, their, and them. These series of words will be held in arrays.

choose a or an depending on whether the word following it begins with a vowel or noun

So you can see that quite a bit happens when you click the Create a Story button! Don't worry. We'll take it one step at a time.

Project 2A: Javascript Storyteller

Part A of this project will involve creating the story and preparing the form where the user enters words. You'll begin by creating an HTML page...

Due Date: Oct 29, before 10pm

Project 2B: Javascript Storyteller

Part B of this project will involve adding the action to the page using JavaScript.

Due Date: Nov 18, before 10pm

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Project 3:

For project 3, you will build and search a database for a boat club. The database will store information about 3 types of things: sailors, boats, and reservations.

Project 3A: Boat Club database

In part A, you will build the database.

Due Date: Nov 25, before 10pm

Project 3B: Boat Club database

In part B, you will create queries to search it.

Due Date: Dec 9, before 10pm

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