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Works
For this assignment, you'll
create a single Web page that will be your personal home page for this
course. It will serve to introduce yourself to me and your classmates--both
verbally and visually--and to provide links to all your class projects
and exercises, as well as to external Web sites that you would like to
collect for yourself and your classmates. We will continue to add to,
improve and revisit these pages during the semester. Rather than just
a page of information, try to think of this page as your virtual livingroom
for entertaining and helping people from the class. More...
With The Glocalization Site,
you'll create a Web site that allows a global audience to experience some
aspect of Duluth, Lake Superior, the Northshore or some similar locale.
Because this global audience is possible only through the Internet, assume
that they will never physically visit your locale. The only relationship
your audience will ever have with your place is the online experience
that you create, and the things you find to show and tell them. Luckily,
you can "narrowcast" to a very particular audience with specific
tastes and interests. More to come...
Analytical Essays (Three Problems)
For a Web site that helps people
understand the social, psychological, and/or communicative problems/complications
described in digital theory, write three essays that each identify such
a problem or complication as presented by a writer from the Trend collection,
and illuminate that problem by pointing to examples of specific Web pages
or sites as illustrations.
Essentially, you'll bring abstract
theory into contact with actual visual practice to show why these "problem
ideas" or complications are key to understanding the ways we construct
meaning on the Web, and the ways the Web constructs our reality.
For this part of the assignment,
write three short essays (250 words each, or about two
pages double-spaced) that each do the following:
- Quote and cite the
writer in Trend to detail and develop the principle or issue
you're highlighting in the essay (use MLA
citation and documentation format).
- Explain and elaborate
your understanding of the quotations, and say what you think
the principle or issue reveals about how we make meaning on the Web,
or how the Web impacts society and culture,
- Illustrate
the principle/issue (and the points you're making about it) with the
example of a specific Web page or Web site, going into
detail about its writing, visual design, function, or organization,
- Include "screen
shots" from the Web page/site, focusing on and illustrating
the key details you're discussing.
Note:
you can capture screen shots on PCs by viewing the page with your Web
browser, hitting the "Prt Scr" button (Print Screen) on your
keyboard, and then pasting the captured image into a new Photoshop document
(control+n, control+v).
Use Photoshop to
crop and scale your images to focus on the key details you're discussing
in your text, and insert the images into the appropriate portions of
your text using Word (Insert > Picture > From File). Also, please
save and keep in your "Web Design" folder (non-www) the Photoshop
files of your screen-shot images to make Web-ready versions later.
You will create a Web-based
project for a real-life client on campus or in the local area. The client
can be an organization, a faculty member, a business, etc. In consultation
with the client, you will first create a "BETA" version of the
site, which we will workshop in class. Then you will take the feedback
you receive in the workshop to complete the finished project, which should
be delivered to the client by the date of our final exam. You will also
send the URL of the finished site to me as well. More...
ReVision Project
ReVision Project
Revise one of your
previous projects with a new vision of what you want to do.
By "ReVision," I don't mean a revision
that fixes up a previous project with lots of local corrections and improvements.
Instead, ReVision entails a global transformation in the idea
or strategy you pursue in the project, which will require changes throughout.
This might be a better, more complete vision of what the original assignment
asked for, or it might be a further goal or intention for the project.
Global transformations for Web-based projects might include the following:
- a better, fuller realization of the intentions of the original assignment
(if you missed it the first time)
- a different, more specific audience for the site
- a new structure and navigation scheme for the site that better realizes
your purpose and vision (see Duluth
Lynchings, for example)
Your annotation
of the ReVision should therefore be specific about the new idea or vision
and how it guided the various changes you made.
Be sure to save the original
version of the project to compare to your ReVision. Post the ReVision
project to the Web in its own folder called "revision." When
you send the URL of the ReVision to the Webx discussion, also include
a link to the original in its own folder on the Web.
If you revise a print project,
please turn in a hardcopy of the revised document as well as the original
copy with my comments and markings.
Your annotation
of the ReVision should therefore be specific about the new idea or vision
and how it guided the various changes you made.
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