Lab 0f 12/5/97

The goal remains the same: to make substantial progress on building your conference site.
Enter something about your conference project into the NetForum "Conference Projects" topic.

Lab of 11/14/97

All of the remaining labs will be devoted to working on your conference sites. I want to take a step back and go over some of the tools that could be useful for generating your pages.

There are two major tasks that you should accomplish today:

  1. Plan the layout and navigation tools for your site. On the basis of my conference discussions with some of you this week I've prepared some documentation that covers techniques and potential problems.
  2. Prepare a preliminary version of your print and web bibliographies using standard format and make sure you know how to hyperreference them from your text. The SLC library databases will be helpful here.

Lab of 10/31/97

Today you have two separate projects to work on:
  1. Final development of your part of the class web site and integration of your material with other people's parts of the site. Make explicit links in your text to other texts. This process is not as easy as I suggested last week, as Rebecca and I discovered through her work in this area. Links to definitions, such as Jen's fine work on vygotskian terminology, are straightforward, but others need some context. Otherwise you land at a page and don't know what you should look for/read. This is a point where some Javascript can help.
    1. Opening up an extra window
    2. Altering the text on mouse over


  2. Some web reading on visual thinking. You don't have to do this today, but you should look at it before Wednesday's seminar.

Lab of 10/10/97

Memory Experiment: First, enter your Bartlett data. Unless you are the first person to post your data, someone else's stories will come up in the text boxes; simply cut their versions out and paste yours in. When you've entered all of your reproductions of the story, click on the "Add Data to Class HTML File" button. You can view the current class data file by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page. If you do this, and your data set does not come up, click on the Reload button on the Netscape menu. Be careful not to submit your data more than once.

Class Project: Continue working on the class project: find links between the parts written by members of your own group, and think about how to provide navigation tools that make the structure of your site accessible to others.

HTML: To continue with the development of your HTML skills read about and try the following techniques:

  1. Hyperreferencing
  2. Imagemaps

Lab of 10/3/97

Today we will continue working on the group project. The goals are to put up some of the writing as web pages, to find interconnections within your group's work (and use hyperlinks to virtually connect them), and to start working on any images you need for layout and navigation. I've prepared some guidelines and examples for making web images.

Lab of 9/26/97

The major goal I have in mind today is to discuss, divide, and begin work on the class project of creating a web document that encapsulates and illuminates the seminar work we have already done.

I have some ideas about how to shape this, but I want us to work on defining our goals together.

Web-weaving

I'd like you to get comfortable with making simple images to enhance your sites. Two programs are available to do this: Canvas and Photoshop. Try to make a simple background image or navigational button.

Lab of 9/19/97

Writing in HTML

By the end of today's lab session you should be able to:
  1. Create a link to another site (or another file of your own).
  2. Insert an image and make it clickable
  3. Use "invisible" tables for layout.
The Yale C/AIM Web Style Guideis a useful site for HTML style guidelines.

Reading Hypertext

Richard Lanham's stimulating "The Electronic Word" is available of the hard drive of the lab machines. Read at least chapter 7: The "Q" Question.