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Student Skills E-mail account on pegasus. This includes obtaining a login name and password. The usernane will also identify the directory where each student has web space on pegasus. The e-mail reader on pegasus is pine. Students will learn to receive, send, and manage mail. Netscape 4.7 and Internet Explorer 5.0 are the standard browsers in the Rutgers-Newark labs. Students will learn to navigate, to capture text, to manage files "save as," to view code, and to print in both. Unix basics include mastering pico (or emacs) as the text editor on pegasus, the management of a personal public_html directory, and file manipulation, including uploads and downloads using ftp. In the networked Windows environment, students will learn basics of file editing/management, using Notepad, a non-formatting editor, and text block transfers using Clipboard. Other text editing software will include Notetab (freeware), and your favorite text editor or word processor in text mode.. Advanced software may include HomeSite, Dreamweaver, FrontPage 2000, Net Objects Fusion, Go Live, Photoshop, and other plugins and helper applications.	Student Projects Here are some typical student projects in the course: Home pages reflecting family, friends, personal interests, travel Resumes which can be submitted to a prospective employer Authoritative informational pages on original research interests Portfolios linking to existing web documents and illustrations Informed critiques of existing prominent web pages Creative hypertext short stories or poems Commerce sites for real (or imaginary ) products or services Training and tutorial pages on web techniques and software Advocacy sites for a cause, charity, or institution Critical studies of printed and online Web sources Informed treatments of legal, economic, and cultural Web issues Internship projects with the college or local employers Experiments in dynamic HTML and special effects Expect reading and research assignments, using both the library and web sources. The course will cover with HTML formatting skills, such as fonts, color, tables, and frames, as well as dynamic HTML devices, including stylesheets and Javascript. Students are encouraged to develop their own sense of style and design. Advanced graphics, special effects, and multimedia will be shown.
Course assignments Weekly Assignments: Reading selections on cyberspace and virtual reality, virtual communities, freedom/censorship, sexual politics, virtual books and libraries, cyberpunk/cyberdogs, and MUDs/MOOs. Reading assignments and encoding exercises in Castro and in Holzschlager Participation in class discussion thread on tecn.rutgers.edu/html. Critique and discussion of student web pages/sites under construction. Library and web research to develop content for web pages. Using templates to compose and format web pages and segments. In class review quizzes (no makeups). Term Assignments Composing, configuring, and supporting a complete Web site. Proposal for term project or paper. Final examination (no mid-term exam)	Computer access at Rutgers Computer Access: Computer classrooms reserved for our class time use are typically equipped with Windows 2000 Pro, Netscape 4.7 and Internet Explorer 5.0 browsers, Pentium PCs and Macs with 3.5" floppy diskette and 100 MB Zip disk drives in Novell networks. Handouts are available in the racks for the most common computer operations and needs. Note: Students who use Netscape browsers and Macintosh operating systems may also need to learn Internet Explorer and Windows. Beyond Rutgers: students who have access to computers off-campus are urged to download Netscape 6.1 and Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0 browsers on their own until this software is available in the Rutgers networked labs. Compatibility: Some new features in IE 5.5/6 and NN 6.1 may not be compatible with the IE 5.0 browser in the Rutgers lab. Many features in IE5+ NN6+ sill cause crashes in NN 4+. Files saved in the latest versions of Word 2000 may not be compatible with earlier versions of Word. Rutgers provides access to its general computer labs equipped with Windows, Macintosh, and Sun machines and high-speed printers in Hill Hall, Englehard, and elsewhere on a first-come basis. Although facilities are growing, computer access cannot be guaranteed at all hours, and some advance planning may be necessary at times. The research, writing, and computer encoding exercises and assignments in this course will require a substantial number of hours of work daily and weekly. Students who have computers at home or elsewhere off campus may use them for class work but must take responsibility for their own connections. Remote computing is possible using Rutgers RUNFREE software (free) or a commercial internet service provider (ISP).
Readings: Bibliograhy: Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations Brand, Stewart. Media Lab Dery, Mark. Flame Wars Forester. E. M. "The Machine Stops" Gibson, William. Neuromancer Heim, Michael. Electric Language Huxley,Aldous. Brave New World Landow, George. Hyper / Text / Theory Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy Orwell, George, 1984. Roszak, Theodore, The Cult of Information Stephenson, Neil. Snow Crash Turkle, Sherry, The Second Self Periodicals and Newspapers: Harper's New Yorker Wired New York Times (nytimes.com) Wall Street Journal Newsweek San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com)	Online search engines: Google Northernlight Alltheweb Altavista Yahoo Hotbot Online sites and addresses: www.w3.org www.rutgers.edu www.libraries.rutgers.edu www.rucs.rutgers.edu The Web is developing so rapidly that printed materials, which may take a year or two to prepare, are often out of date. In Fall 2001, a copyright date of 1999 might be acceptable unless one realized the materials were prepared in 1997-98! Computer prices are now very low, starting under $600 for a computer and monitor, with printers and scanners under $100. Students should be aware that the so-called ISP $400 "rebate" now being offered in stores entails a 3-year commitment of $800. The cheapest printers, not unexpectedly, have the highest per-page ink costs.