Week 1: Jan. 8

1. Introduction to Computer-Mediated Communications
2. Email Instructor
3. Create an Account
4. Post welcome message to EZBoard.
5. Begin research for online communities project.

Week 2: Jan 15

1. Post a proposal for your online community project to EZBoard (Proposals)
2. Reading: Communities of Discourse
3. HTML Basics
4. Online HTML Resources
5. Saving Webpages and Images
6. HTML Basics: Castro, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 7; pp 47-82; 117-132

Week 3: Jan 22

1. Online Community Report due
2. Reading: Writing for the Web: a good demonstration by Catherine Fisher, GDNet / Eldis.
3. Images on Webpages. (Castro, Chapters 5 & 6; pp. 83-115)

Week 4: Jan. 29

1. Narrative Begins!
2. Identity and Performance in Cyberspace
3. HTML Page Layout: Tables and Frames (Castro, Chapters 14 & 15; pp. 215-241)

Week 5: Feb. 5

1. Narrative Continues!
2. Reading: The Semantic Web
3. Hypertext: Towards a Definition
4. Hypertext Resources
5. Hypertext Practice
6. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (Castro, Chapters 8, 9, 10, pp. 133-174).
   • CSS Online Tutorial
   • Mulder's Style Sheet Tutorial

Week 6: Feb. 12

1. Online Narrative ends!
2. Feature Writing
3. Newspaper Workshop: Tables and Style Sheets

Week 7: Feb. 19

1. Demo Newspaper
2. Image + Text
3. Transparent GIFs

Week 8: Feb. 24 - 28

Study days. No classes.

Week 9: Mar. 5

Intellectual Property and Copyright.
The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing
HTML Tutorials.

Week 10: Mar. 12

Feature due.

Week 11: Mar. 19

The Elements of User Experience.
Information Architecture.

Week 12: Mar. 26

Online Reading Quiz.

Week 13: Apr. 2

Website Demonstrations in 356-340