Course Schedule - Fall 2012
The following schedule offers a provisional plan for all work throughout the semester. We may revise it as needed. PDF readings are available for download at EMU Online (see Doc Sharing).
1.Week of September 3-9
We.5 Welcome
Overview and Introductions
Attitudes toward Code
2.Week of September 10-14
Mo.10 Hypertext
Bush, "As We May Think"
Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined for Kids
DUE: Early Encounters with the Web; Attitudes toward Code
We.12 Studio
Setting up people.emich.edu and Google accounts.
Codecademy - Web Fundamentals Project Setup
In class: Begin 1.Build a Webpage
3.Week of September 17-21
Mo.17 Hypertext, Cont.
Borges, "Garden of Forking Paths," PDF
Guyer and Joyce, "Lasting Image"
Stolley, C. 1, "Why Write for the Web," pp. 3-11
We.19 Studio
Creating simple pages
DUE: Codecademy Web Fundamentals - 1.Build A Webpage and Reflection
4.Week of September 24-28
Mo.24 Reading and Creating
Stolley, C. 2, "Reading the Web," and C. 3, "Creating Web Content," pp. 13-31
Explore Boxes and Arrows
Explore A List Apart
We.26 Studio
Planning and Developing Small Pieces Hypertexts
5.Week of October 1-5
Mo.1 Standards and Preparing
Stolley, C. 4-5, pp. 33-53
Shoebridge and Simmons, "Welcome to Pine Point"
We.3 Studio
DUE: Codecademy Web Fundamentals - 2.More HTML and Basic Styling and Reflection
6.Week of October 8-12
Mo.8 Accessibility, Usability, and Sustainability
Stolley, C. 6-8, pp. 55-88
DUE: Draft of Small Pieces Hypertext
In-class: Rating Accessibility and Usability
We.10 Studio
DUE: Small Pieces Hypertext
7.Week of October 15-19
Mo.15 XHTML Structures
Stolley, C. 9-11, pp. 91-132
Contrastive CSS Setup
We.17 Studio
Midterm Course Evaluation
Hart-Davidson, "Code? Not So Much"
Stolley, Hart-Davidson, et al., "To Code, or Not To Code (Not So Much)?"
Rapid Prototyping for Constrastive CSS
8.Week of October 22-26
Mo.22 Text Editors and Metadata
Stolley, C. 12-14, pp. 133-175
DUE: Codecademy Web Fundamentals - 3.Style Webpages with CSS and Reflection
We.24 Studio
CSS Color, Size, and Font Attributes
9.Week of October 29-November 2
Mo.29 Navigation and Content
Stolley, C. 15-16, pp. 177-204
Kissane, "A Checklist for Content Work"
We.31 Studio
DUE: Contrastive CSS Draft
10.Week of November 5-9
Mo.5 Layout and Multimedia
Stolley, C. 17-18, pp. 205-233
Kahn, "Strategic Content Management"
DUE: Contrastive CSS Draft
We.7 Studio
Explore EM-Journal.com
Setup Project Three
DUE: Contrastive CSS
11.Week of November 12-16
Mo.12 Pages and Streams
Dash, "Stop Publishing Web Pages"
Dash, "More on Streams vs. Pages"
Project Three Development
We.14 Studio
Portfolio Checklist Development
DUE: Codecademy Web Fundamentals - 4.Advanced CSS Selectors and Reflection
12.Week of November 19-23
Mo.19
Project Three Development
We.21
No classes
13.Week of November 26-30
Mo.26 SEO
Read The Beginner's Guide to SEO, Intro and C. 1
We.28 Studio
14.Week of December 3-7
Mo.3
Colter, "Testing Content"
We.5 Studio
15.Week of December 10-14
Mo.10 Portfolio Presentation and Review
We.12 Portfolio Presentation and Review
16.Week of December 17-19
Mo.17 Portfolio Presentation and Review
Final Exam, 3-4:30 p.m.
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDAssociate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Director of Composition
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Spring 2020 Office Hours: T, 12-3
Phone: +1-734-985-0485
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/