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1. The Personal Course Home Page
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...
2. Glocalization Site: a Local Experience for
a Global Audience
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...
3. New Media Writing
This project will ask you to begin a new media project by working in an
old medium--writing. You'll write a three-to-five page essay or account
that describes your individual history with a public experience. A "public
experience" is something that a public experienced and remembers together:
a television series, a local event, the career of a musical group, a forest
fire, a news event, etc. The "public" may be a local (a town or
region), national or global. 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.
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4. Analytical Paper I
Write an five-to-seven-page essay in which you do a detailed analysis
of one Web site, which discusses one of the three questions/options
from our readings in the Trend collection on digital culture. More...
5. Client Project
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...
6. Analytical Paper II
Write an fivet-to-seven 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.
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