Calendar, ITSC 1413.7001 - Fall 2005
All assignments are due by the next class session unless noted.
- Week One
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IMPORTANT:
If you are receiving Financial Aid grants or loans and are enrolled in a Distance Learning class, you must show participation in this class prior to the certification date (the 12th day after the start date of the class) by e-mailing/contacting the instructor. Students taking open enrollment classes that do not have traditional semester start dates should make note of the start date of their class.
Do not drop or stop attending any class without consulting the Financial Aid Office. Changes in your enrollment level and failing grades may require that you repay financial aid funds.
- Scavenger Hunt
- Syllabus
- Lab Policies
- Open Lab Information
- Student Profile
- Define Your Site
- Project One: Fame and Fortune (due beginning of Week Six)
- HOT Ch. 1 & 2 (basically reading)
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 1 (Complete In Review and any one Exercise found at the end of the chapter)
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- Week Two
- HOT Ch. 3:Site Control & 4: Basics (work through chapters and upload finished chapters to your web space)
- Working with the HOT textbook
- Reading: What Is A Blog?
- Blogger Exercise #1
- Reading: NLC Copyright Guidelines
- Quiz: NLC Copyright Guidelines
- Week Three
- Exploring Ch. 2 (In Review and any one Exercise)
- Cool Link: Mundi Design Primer
- References: Free Photo and Image Resources
- Exercise: Academic Ethics
- Reading: What Is INDEX.HTM?
- Tip: How to Save Images from Web Browsers
- Week Four
- HOT Ch. 5: Hyperlinks
- Blogger Exercise #2
- Week Five
- Exploring Ch. 3
- Exercise: Office: Word and Dreamweaver
- Exercise: Office: Excel and Dreamweaver
- Exercise: Office: PowerPoint and Dreamweaver
- Note: Students often ask "Where is 'Dreamweaver and Access'? We have an entire course focusing on this topic! For more informationon ITSE 2402 contact Sharon Huston.
- Week Six
- HOT Ch. 6 : Typography
- Project 2: Link List (due beginning of Week 9)
- Exercise: Web Design DOs and DONT's
- Blogger Exercise #3
- Week Seven
- Exploring Ch. 4
- XHTML Exercises
- Week Eight
- HOT Ch. 7: Tables
- Blogger Exercise #4
- Week Nine
- Exploring Ch. 5
- Project Three: TBA
- Exercise: Server-Side Includes
- Week Ten
- HOT Ch. 9: CSS
- Blogger Exercise #5
- Week Eleven
- Exploring Ch. 6
- Project Four: eCommerce Website
- Week Twelve
- HOT Ch. 13: Forms
- Blogger Exercise #6
- Week Thirteen
- Exploring Ch. 7
- Exercise: What Is ASP?
- Exercise: ASP Calculator
- Extra Credit: ASP Email (+5 points to your Exercise Average!!)
- Week Fourteen
- HOT Ch. 14: Behaviors
- Blogger Exercise #7
- Week Fifteen
- HOT Ch. 19: Media Objects
- Week Sixteen
- Blogger Exercise #8
- Class Evaluation
- Important Closing Survey and Notes
- ic = in class
- Bookwork = Chapters in text. You should work through each chapter, performing all exercises. Bookwork chapters are required assignments (ungraded and checked off as completed) and are to be uploaded to the NL server.
- Readings = Articles for reading--not graded.
- Topics = Short papers or projects. These assignments may be uploaded to the NL server or sent to your instructor as attachments to e-mail messages. These assignments are graded.
- Quizzes = One online multiple-choice quiz over the copyright guidelines. This quiz will be scored automatically and the score sent to your instructor. Six other short-answer quizzes over the text chapters are to be completed in MS Word and submitted as attachments to e-mail messages. All quizzes are graded based on a 100 point system.
- Exercises = Ungraded assignments that expand on material in the textbook. Some are required and some are optional. See calendar for required or optional.
- Projects = Four graded assignments. Projects take from the equivalent of two class sessions to an entire semester. Uploaded to the NL server. A project evaluation form is used. See calendar for the form.
- References = Documents provided for additional information. You will never be tested on a reference document. If you're falling behind, the reference documents should be ignored.
- Admin = Administrative items needed to make the class run more smoothly.
- Notes = Tips on how to handle particular assignments.