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Watch the online edition of this schedule for new notes or links every week, especially before lab sessions.
Note: All projects are due at the beginning of class on the assigned day.
This schedule is subject to change as the Web continues
to evolve and change.
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| Mon, Feb 2 | Lexis/Nexis and Beyond
Guest Lecture: Mastering Lexis/Nexis with Gary N. Pattillo and Pam Dutcher, Electronic Services Reference Librarians |
Online database companies:
Knight-Ridder's Dialog Academic resources and abstracts OCLC and FirstSearch Carl and Carl Uncover |
| Wed, Feb 4 | Guest Lecture:
The culture of commerce and business with guest speaker: Rita W. Moss,
Business and Economics Librarian, Davis Library
Business information on paper and online International business resources Identifying flagship companies |
Read the DTE Section
5: Ways to Search Electronic Databases (pp 51-88`).
Get acquainted with these Websites: Where government and business meet: EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) and SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) documents. Business publications online: Information Access Company's database InfoTrac. Additionally: International Business Resources and Business Information Sources. |
| Week Five Labs | Web
Page Olympics Assignment
Finding the best and worst of the web |
Discussion Forum |
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| Mon, Feb 9 | Online Academic Resources
Review for Almost Mid-semester test: What have we learned? |
Review: DTE Sections
1-6 for the First Test (pp 3-150).
Take the online Practice Test. |
| Wed, Feb 11 | Website of the Day:
Government:
Them Biggest Resource of Them All.
Almost mid-semester test: A multiple-choice test on all aspects of the course including discussions in class, lab sessions, and handouts. 50 Questions (Time limit: 45 minutes) |
Read the DTE Section
5: Ways to Search Electronic Databases (pp 51-88`).
DTE pp 33-49: What is GPO access? |
| Week Six Labs | Introduction to HTML
and Web publishing.
Making a Web page on your disk the easy way, using templates and editors. The templates and editors that we will use will be announced, but you might also want to look at Composer, the editor that comes with Netscape Communicator. |
DTE p 151: Complete
the assignment "So You Always Wanted to Have a WWW Address of Your Own."
DTE p 171: HTML 2.0. |
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| Mon, Feb 16 | Web Olympics Presentations | Read the DTE Section
7: So You Always Wanted a Web Page of Your Own? (pp 151-210).
Personal Pages and Commercial Pages DTE pp 163-70 and 153-58: Web Page Authoring Basics and How to Create a WWW Storyboard |
| Wed, Feb 18 | Website of the day:
Planet Twinkie
Web Olympics Presentations |
Read the DTE Section
7: So You Always Wanted a Web Page of Your Own? (pp 151-210).
Government, Publication/Information, and Institutional pages. During Spring Break: Read DTE pp 243-300, The Language of the Internet, and the 20-page Lingo. |
| Week Seven Labs | Fetch-fest: Bring a
favorite photo, graphic, and floppy disk. Learn:
Just enough UNIX to do FTP (File Transfer Protocol) How to use Fetch to put your Web pages online The meaning of "raw data"? The difference between JPEG and GIF formats How to scan pictures |
DTE pp 174-202: How to Scan and Prepare Pictures for Your Web Pages, Frequently Asked Questions About Picture Files and Web-Approved Formats, and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about FTP and Fetch. |
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| Mon, Feb 23 | Website of the day:
Vote Smart
How to make Web Storyboards Introduction to writing HTML: How to Make a Web Page Out of Nothing Publishing Yourself Assignment (DTE pp 287-88) Midterm course evaluations |
Read the DTE Section
7: So You Always Wanted a Web Page of Your Own? (pp 151-210).
Treasure hunt assignment due |
| Wed, Feb 25 | How to Create a WWW Storyboard? Intro to writing HTML. | Read the DTE Section
7: So You Always Wanted a Web Page of Your Own? (pp 151-210).
DTE 175-82: Web Authoring, Part 2. Read the following UNC-CH guidelines on: Copyright, Disclaimers, Links to the UNC Home Page, Photographs and Audio/Video Clips, Rights and Responsibilities, Data Storage and Deletion, Group Web Pages, and Personal Home Pages. |
| Week Eight Labs | Using PhotoShop
Converting Scanned Pictures to Gifs and JPGs |
DTE pp 183-96: How to Scan and Prepare Pictures for Your Web Pages and Wendy's Web Design Lecture. |