Works

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. Analytical Essay I

Write an five-to-seven-page essay in which you do a detailed analysis of one Web site, which discusses three questions from our readings in the Trend collection on digital culture. More...

3. 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...

4. Revision Project

Revise one of your previous projects with what you've learned so far. This revision will be judged by the degree of improvement over the original, rather than on the original scale. Your annotation of the revision should therefore be detailed and persuasive, and refer not only to the criteria of the original assginment, but to what you've learned subsequently. 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...