Assignments

1. The Personal Home Page Project

Assignment Made: January 23
Due: Monday, February 11

In this project, you will use Dreamweaver and Photoshop to create a personal home page--the front page of your personal home site, whether you have one or not. More...

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2. New Media Writing Project

Assignment Made: February 13
Original Text due: February 27
Web Version due: March 11

This project will ask you to begin a new media project by working in an old medium--writing. You will write an argument, narrative or explanation about a topic you know and care about in a three-to-five page "paper." Then you'll repurpose and "remediate" that material to create a Web site that fulfills the same purposes except in a digital environment. More...

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3. Glocalization Project

Assignment Made: March 13
BETA Version Due: Monday, April 8
Final Version Due: by Friday, April 12

In this project, you will create a Web site that focuses on some "glocalizable" aspect of Duluth, Lake Superior, The Northshore or some locale in Minnesota. Far from cluttering the World Wide Web with excessively "local" concerns, each of your projects will develop a set of Web pages covering some specific, local site, product, phenomenon, or historical topic for an audience beyond the immediate area. More...

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4. Client Project

Assignment Made: April 3
BETA version due April 29
Final version due May 15

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....

5. Analytical Paper

Assignment Made: March 13
Due May 8

Write an eight-to-twelve-page essay in which you do a detailed analysis of one Web site which answers three questions that have been ongoing concerns in the readings we've done from the Trend collection on digital culture. More...