Click on the above graphic to see an excellent example of a web site at http://www.aclu.com/According to its home page, "Association of Crying Liberal Underachievers" is "Dedicated to the right of lawyers to sue anyone for anything." The graphic has been reproduced from the www.aclu.com's web-site at http://www.aclu.com/ only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.

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Watch the online edition of this schedule, http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/ for new notes or links every week, especially before lab sessions... latest revision, March 31, 1997

Subject to change as the technology
and our thinking about it evolve...

Note: All projects are due at the beginning of class on the assigned day.

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NEW! Online Course Resource Page -- List of all required readings and handouts!

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Week 9

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, March 3	Guest Speaker John Caserta will be visiting the class to speak about the life and times of a web designer for Chicago Tribune Online.	ATN's Web Page Authoring Basics Page READ: The Dead Tree Edition pages 191-198; 181-186--Web Page Authoring Basics/How to Create a WWW Storyboard
Wednesday, March 5	Website of the Day:Vote Smart Web , your one-stop shopping center for political information. Guest Speaker David Straughan will be presenting to us about young people and the Internet Midterm evaluations of course so far!	READ: The updated Glossary and Lingo during Spring Break. HEY!!! We heard those groans ...
Lab sessions:	NO LAB SESSIONS! Use the time to work on your Treasure Hunt assignment.


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March 7 through March 11 is Spring Break Week! (No Classes :->)
Have Fun!/Be Safe!




Week 10

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, March 17	Web Olympics Presentations	Personal Pages Commercial Pages For next two Lab sessions, Please read Internet Authoring handout from ATN and Policies, Creating WWW Pages at UNC-CH . These WWW documents are also available as handouts from ATN, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library. Also READ: The Dead Tree Edition pages 187-190--Creating WWW Pages at UNC
Wednesday, March 19	Website of the Day:Explore Planet Twinkie! TREASURE HUNT ASSIGNMENT IS DUE! Web Olympics Presentations	Government Pages Publication/Information Pages Institutional Pages
Lab session:	Introduction to HTML and web publishing. Making a Web page on your disk the easy way, using templates. Exact ones to be announced, but here are two older samples: Our "Steal this" page and Treasure Hunt Template.	Complete the assignment "So You Always Wanted to Have a WWW Address of Your Own" (DTE p. 281) READ: HTML 2.0 Example (DTE p. 199) and HTML Reference(DTE p. 203)


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Week 11

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, March 24	How to make Web Storyboards Intro to writing HTML How to make a web page from nothing Text-only/ASCII Announce Publishing Yourself Assignment (DTE p. 287).	Copyright Disclaimer Links to the UNC-CH Home Page Photographs and Audio and Video Clips Requirements for Web Pages Linked from the UNC-CH Home Page Rights and Responsibilities Data Storage and Deletion Policy Guidelines for Group Web Pages Guidelines for Personal Home Pages READ: The Dead Tree Edition pages 207-214--Web Page Advanced Design
Wednesday, March 26	Using Photos on the Web by Prof. Rich Beckman	Copyright Issues and Using Pictures Copyright issues on the Internet
Lab session	Fetch-fest with Jay Aikat: Bring your photo & favorite graphic! Understanding just enough UNIX Using Fetch to put your pages online What is "raw data"? JPEG, GIF and graphic formats Scanning pictures Bring your disks!	READ: The Dead Tree Edition pages 215-230--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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Web page creation resources:

• HTML headings, lists,links. and the resources it points to.
  
• ATN Handout: Web Page Advanced Design
• ATN Web Page Guidelines
• Background colors, as indexed by infi.net
• RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart
  This color chart can be used to simplify the selection of hexadecimal color specification when preparing Web pages for browsers that support colored text and backgrounds. It has been reformatted in a more logical manner.
• Netscape's free collection of background texture files
• Dave's free collection of lines, images, buttons, balls and bullets by Jen.
• The Hard Stuff--gifanims, counters, Java, image maps, etc...



Week 12

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, March 31	Review for the Second terrible test. Check out our mirror of the Heaven's Gate web site
Wednesday, April 2	No Joke: Second terrible test! 50 questions, multiple choice, covering material since last test, including last week's labs and readings Check out the case study assignment (Olympia Media)	READ: The Dead Tree Edition pages 239-262--Glossary of Terms/The Lingo (Internet words)
Lab Sessions	Follow-up work on your Web pages.	Work on the Publishing Yourself assignment. (It's due April 16)


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Week 13

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, April 7	Exploring the Web with Deb Special Session: Getting a Job Finding a house or car on the web Polling Sources on the Web	Email/Exam Questions Assignment (See DTE p. 286 for details)
Wednesday, April 9	Eric talks about Internet Addiction
Lab session:	More HTML and Hands-on Usenet Hypertext resume and Linking Web Pages Making a home page to link your resume and bibliography pages Publishing yourself assignment


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Week 14

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, April 14	Guest Speaker: Paul Jones	READ: Java On your Pages
Wednesday, April 16	Uses and Misuse of the Internet Mike's Hackers page Eric talks about Internet Addiction Mark's pornography site	PUBLISHING YOURSELF ASSIGNMENT IS DUE!
Lab sessions:	Polishing your web pages	Debugging Isis-Ra HTML files


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Week 15

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, April 21	EIS Oscars! Hyperspaceout Day "What I am trying to say is...." Who can best imitate Deb's accent? (Or Tom's extremely animated lab performances ...) (or Eric, Mike, Mark, Arati, or anyone else who was a guest speaker, taught a lab, led a tour ... Well, you get the idea.) A Contest
Wednesday, April 23	Final Exam Review
Lab sessions:	No Labs -- Reading Days	Debugging Isis-Ra HTML files


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Week 16

Day	Topic	Assignment
Monday, April 28
Wednesday, April 30
Lab sessions:	None


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Week 17

Day	Topic	Assignment
Saturday, May 3	Final Exam at 9 a.m.. A multiple-choice test (based entirely on questions suggested by students) on all aspects of the course, followed by Summer....


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Prof. Deb Aikat daikat@email.unc.edu	Tom Hughes, teaching assistant tahughes@email.unc.edu
Eric Chernoff, student coordinator echernof@email.unc.edu	Mike Manning manning1@email.unc.edu

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School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Last revision: March 31, 1997.