Calendar, ITSC 1413.7502 - Fall 2005
Fridays 6 PMAll assignments are due by the next class session unless noted.
- Week One
9/2/2005
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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: Make the World Wide Web a Better Place (basically reading)
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- Week Two
9/9/2005
- 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
9/16/2005
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 2: Successful Website Layout (basically reading)
- Cool Link: Mundi Design Primer
- References: Free Photo and Image Resources - Locating Images on the Net
- Exercise: Academic Ethics (Optional for Extra Credit)
- Reading: What Is INDEX.HTM?
- Tip: How to Save Images from Web Browsers
- Week Four
9/23/2005
- HOT Ch. 5: Hyperlinks
- Blogger Exercise #2
- Be sure to read the technical objectives for Project 1 - Fame and Fortune, so that your grade for the project is excellent. Project 1 is due in two weeks.
- Week Five
9/30/2005
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 3: Web Typography
- Demo: Office: Word and Dreamweaver
- Demo: Office: Excel and Dreamweaver
- Demo: Office: PowerPoint and Dreamweaver
- Note: Students often ask "Where is 'Dreamweaver and Access'? We have an entire course focusing on this topic! For more information on ITSE 2402 contact Sharon Huston.
- Week Six
10/07/2005
- Project 1 - Fame and Fortune Due
- HOT Ch. 6 : Typography
- Project 2: Link List (due beginning of Week 10)
- Exercise: Web Design DOs and DONT's
- Blogger Exercise #3
- Week Seven
10/14/2005
- In Class: CSS Demo
- HOT Ch. 9: CSS
- Ignore>>XHTML Exercises - to be posted
- Week Eight
10/21/2005
- In Class: Begin Project #2
- HOT Ch. 7: Tables
- Blogger Exercise #4
- Week Nine
10/28/2005
- Project 3: Redesign Project 1 using CSS, Tables and Server Side Include (Due beginning of week Eleven)
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 5: Web Accessibility
- Exercise: Server-Side Includes
- Week Ten
11/04/2005
- Project 2 - Link List Due
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 4: Color Theory
- Blogger Exercise #5
- Week Eleven
11/11/2005
- Project 3 - Redesign Due
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 6: Turning Your Creative Potential into a Reality
- Project Four: eCommerce Website
Example 1, Example 2, Demo 1, Demo 2 - Begin Project #4 in class.
- Remember, last day to withdraw with a grade of "W" is 11/17/2005.
- Week Twelve
11/18/2005
- Complete Class Surveys.
- Continue Project #4 in class. Demo 1, Demo 2
- HOT Ch. 13: Forms
- Exploring Web Design Ch. 7: The Technologies of Multimedia and Web Design
- Blogger Exercise #6
- Week Thirteen
11/25/2005 - Thanksgiving Holiday, NO CLASS
- Optional Exercise: What Is ASP?
- Optional Exercise: ASP Calculator
- Optional Extra Credit: ASP Email (+5 points to your Exercise Average!!)
- Week Fourteen 12/02/2005
- HOT Ch. 14: Behaviors
- Blogger Exercise #7
- Continue Project #4 in class. Demo 1, Demo 2
- Week Fifteen
12/09/2005
- Project Four: eCommerce Website due
- Optional: HOT Ch. 19: Media Objects
- Blogger Exercise #8
- Class Evaluation
- All late work is due by 4 PM on 12/12/2005
- Week Sixteen - NO
CLASS. Semester
is over.
- All late work is due by 4 PM on 12/12/2005
- = No class.
- = Project assigned.
- = Project due.
- 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.