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updated 1/3/13 8:43 PM Dominican University | Graduate School of Library and Information Science LIS 753-99 Internet Fundamentals and Design | Spring 2013 | Online| January 16 May 1 Don Hamerly, Instructor | dhamerly@dom.edu | 708-524-6598 oPhone | 512-426-0433 iPhone Office Hours: Mondays, 4:30p to 5:30p, Crown 311, or at other times and locales by appointment. Course Description LIS 753 is an introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins, evolution, current state, and future. Critical Internet issues such as privacy, copyright, and other related topics will be examined. Students will have a basic understanding of Web content languages and the Internet as a result of this course. Pre-requisites are 701 and 703. Learning Objectives Understand the uses and limitations of the Internet as an information conduit; (Match to GSLIS Learning Goals and Outcomes: 2a, 2b, 2c) Recognize the importance of the Internet as a means to distribute digital information resources to diverse audiences; (Match to GSLIS Learning Goals and Outcomes: 2b, 2c, 2d; 3c, 3d) Articulate the Web's many complex social and legal issues; (Match to GSLIS Learning Goals and Outcomes: 2b, 2d; 3c, 3d; 4a; 5d, 5e, 5f) Demonstrate knowledge of the special characteristics of the Web as a communications medium, particularly in terms of usability and accessibility; (Match to GSLIS Learning Goals and Outcomes: 3b, 3c, 3d, 5g) Create a multi-page, cohesive website using current coding and design standards. (Match to GSLIS Learning Goals and Outcomes: 2d, 3b, 4b; 5g)

Required Text & Services Duckett, Jon. HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-1-118-00818-8. See also the HTML&CSS Book Web site: http://www.htmlandcssbook.com. Students are required to contract with a Web hosting service for the duration of the course. Consider the cost as roughly equivalent to the cost of a typical textbook. OVERVIEW OF COURSE REQUIREMENTS List of Graded Assignments/Requirements (Explicit instructions for each will be available on the class site.) Community Participation Web Design Exercises (9) Midterm Coding Exam Personal Reflections (4) Usability Exercise (1) Web Site Planning Document, Part 1 Web Site Planning Document, Part 2 Final Web Site Project 20% 18% 10% 12% 5% 5% 5% 25% due by 1/30; 2/20; 3/20; 4/10; 5/1 due 1/23; 1/30; 2/6; 2/13; 2/20; 3/13; 3/20; 3/27; 4/10 due 2/27 due by 1/30; 2/20; 3/20; 4/10 due 4/3 due 4/17 due 4/24 due 4/24

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Last updated 1/3/13 8:43 PM Dominican University | Graduate School of Library and Information Science List of Graded Assignments/Requirements (Explicit instructions for each will be available on the class site.) Community Participation I expect you to use the course Web site [ http://753.donhamerly.info ] multiple times a week to stay up to date with readings, assignments, discussions, and writing. In an online environment you must be a self-directed learner. You must maintain a regular connection with the course, with the exercises, with the readings, and with the writing activities of your course mates. To that end, I expect that you will use the social nature of the Web to build community among your course mates. You may earn points for community participation by interacting with other members of the class, including your instructor, in a number of ways. In order to meet the expectations for community participation, you should strive to do the following: Read all material. You should use the course readings to inform your community participation and your writing. You must integrate what you read with what you write. This is essential to the development of professional expertise and to the development of a collegial professional persona. Educate yourself and your peers. Successful completion of graduate programs and participation in professional life depend upon a willingness to demonstrate initiative and creativity. Participation in the professional and personal growth of colleagues is essential to ones own success as well as theirs. Such collegiality is at the heart of scholarship, so I encourage regular commentary among the students in the course via the course site. Spend at least 4-5 hours on work for each credit hour in the course. A 3-credit graduate course requires a minimum of 12-15 hours per week of work. Participate in community activities. Sharing openly and freely is much easier and more acceptable to some than to others. I do not want you to feel pressured to contribute every time someone posts something, but I do expect that you will be attentive to the activities of your peers and contribute when you feel comfortable to do so. Mix and match activities to compile your points, but participate at least once in each activity type. Complete all assignments on time. Late assignments are unacceptable unless you and I make an agreement at least 24 hours in advance of the due date. I will consider emergency situations if and when they arise. Ask for help from me during office hours, on the telephone, through email, or in any other appropriate way, whenever you have the slightest question, issue, or concern.

HTML Coding Exercises Students will each complete nine (9) coding exercises to be posted to the Web. In order to post to the Web, each student shall contract with a Web hosting company for a domain name and server space. Midterm Coding Exam At the halfway point in the coding exercises, students will complete an exam to test their coding and design skills to that point. Personal Reflections Students will each post at least four (4) reflections of approximately 300 words each responding to any of the readings, class discussions, or topics of interest to the student. Usability Exercise Students will each conduct a usability exercise on a website of choice. Web Site Planning Document Students will each write a two-part Web site planning document of approximately 500 words: Part 1 will detail pre-planning for the final Web site project; Part 2 will reflect upon the completed final Web site project and the sum of knowledge gained from class. Final Web Site Project Students will each complete a final Web site project that demonstrates the cumulative XHTML/CSS coding and design skills learned throughout the semester. 2

Last updated 1/3/13 8:43 PM Dominican University | Graduate School of Library and Information Science Format for Written Assignments Writing shall be appropriate to the task and grammatically correct. If writing is difficult for you (and for whom is it not, really), find someone whose skills you trust to proofread your written work, or go to the Academic Resource Center (Lower Level, Parmer Hall, 708/524-6682) for assistance. Use but do not trust your spell checker. Academic Honesty and Integrity

"All students of the GSLIS are expected to observe high standards of academic honesty and integrity. Any student whose c onduct violates such standards may be subject to disciplinary action as determined by due process." (GSLIS Bulletin, p. 18) The greatest threat to academic integrity is plagiarism. If you are not sure what constitutes plagiarism, see either or both of the following resources or any of a number of others like them on the Web: Purdues "Avoiding Plagiarism, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html Indianas How to Recognize Plagiarism," http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/definition.html.

GSLIS GRADING POLICY (GSLIS Bulletin, p. 18)

Grade A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- F Grade Definition Points 4.0 3.67 3.33 3.0 2.67 2.33 2.0 1.67 0.0 Outstanding achievement. Student performance demonstrates full command of the course materials and evinces a high level of originality and/or creativity that far surpasses course expectations; nearly flawless work. Excellent achievement. Student performance demonstrates thorough knowledge of the course materials and exceeds course expectations by completing all requirements in a superior manner. Good solid work. Student demonstrates strong comprehension of the course materials and exceeds course expectations on all tasks as defined in the course syllabus. Satisfactory acceptable work. Student performance meets designated course expectations, demonstrates understanding of the course materials and performs at an acceptable level. Marginal work. Student performance demonstrates incomplete, substandard understanding of course materials, or absence of required work; indicates danger of falling below acceptable grading standard. Unsatisfactory work. Student performance demonstrates unsatisfactory understanding of course materials and inability to meet course requirements. Unacceptable work. Student performance demonstrates incomplete and inadequate understanding of course materials. Poor work. Failing grade.

MY GRADING PRACTICE When I evaluate assignments, I assign points, not letter grades. I base the points I assign on rubrics, which I provide for all assignments. If you ever have a question or concern about why you received a score on a particular assignment, please ask. I welcome questions about grades as opportunities to think critically about the work were doing. If your semester point total 90 (is equal to or greater than 90), then you will have earned an A of some kind. If your semester point total 80, then you will have earned at least a B of some kind. Whether these are A, A-, B+, B, or B- depends upon the comparison of point totals for all students. For example, if a student earns a total of 90 points and the highest point total in the class is 98, the student may earn an A-. If, on the other hand, a student earns 90 points and the highest point total in the class is 91, then the student may earn an A. 3

Last updated 1/3/13 8:43 PM Dominican University | Graduate School of Library and Information Science COURSE SCHEDULE The following schedule is likely stable but may change as we progress through the semester. Readings other than those in the required texts are available on the class site: http://753.donhamerly.info. All assignments are due by 9:00 A.M. Chicago time on the due date.

Due 1/16 1/23 Participation Period 1

Text Intro Chps. 1-3 Structure Text Lists

Assignment(s) Secure web host Ex. 1 - create index.html - download/use FTP client

Elements html/head/title/body; headings; paragraphs; text (bold, italic, superscript, subscript, line break, horizontal rule, strong, emphasis, blockquote, quote, abbreviate, cite, definition, address, insert, delete, strikethrough); lists (ordered, unordered, definition, nested <a>, mailto, target, img (src, alt, title, height, width, align, figure, figcaption)

Readings

History of the Internet & Web

1/30

Chps. 4-5 Links Images

Ex. 2 - add to index.html; - create media.html Personal Reflection 1 Community Participation 1

Intellectual Property & the Remix Culture

2/6 Chps. 6-7 Tables Forms Ex. 3 - create forms.html - add table & form table (tr, td, th, rowspan, colspan, thead, tbody, tfoot); form (action, method, id), text input, password input, text area, radio button, checkbox, drop down list box, multiple select box, file input box, submit button, image button, button, label, fieldset, form validation, date input, email & URL input, search input Doctype, comments, id, class, div, span, iframe, meta, escape characters, flash/html5 video/audio

Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

Participation Period 2

2/13

2/20

Chps. 8-9 Extra markup Video & audio Chps. 10-12 CSS Color Text

Ex. 4 - add doctype, meta, comments to all pages - add iframe, video, audio to media.html Ex. 5 - create styles/style.css - apply CSS to all pages Personal Reflection 2 Community Participation 2

Tech Trends

link, style, color, background-color, font- family, font-size, @font-face, font-weight, font-style, text-transform, text-decoration, line-height, letter-spacing, word-spacing, text-align, vertical-align, text-indent, :first- letter, :first-line, :link, :visited, :hover, :active, :focus

The Future of the Net

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2/27

Midterm

Global Issues & Broadband Development LIS Jobs in the Network Society

3/13 Participation Period 3

3/20

Chps. 13-14 CSS Boxes Lists Tables Forms Chps 15-16 CSS Layout Images

Ex. 6 - add box, list styles to index.html (see p. 431) - add table, input properties to forms.html Ex. 7 - add 960 grid layout, image styles to media.html Personal Reflection 3 Community Participation 3

width, height, min-width, max-width, min- height, max-height, overflow, border, margin, padding, border-width, border- style, border-color, display, visibility, list- style-type, list-style-image, list-style- position, list-style, table properties position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, position:fixed, z-index, float, clear; images: width, height, align, background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment, background- position, background

Accessibility & the W3C

3/27 Chp. 17 HTML5 Ex. 8 header, footer, nav, article, aside, section, - save index.html as hgroup, figure, figcaption, div, index2.html - edit index.html for HTML5 Usability Exercise usability, site maps, wireframes, card sorting, visual design, navigation Extending Your Web Skills Usability & Web Design Search Engines & Optimization

Participation Period 4

4/3

4/10

Chp. 18 Process & Design Chp 19 Ex. 9 content management systems, SEO, Practical - create WordPress site analytics Information Personal Reflection 4 Community Participation 4 Web Site Planning Doc 1 Final Project Web Site Planning Doc 2 Community Participation 5

Participation Period 5

4/17 4/24 5/1