Test four Communication and the Internet – knowing how to follow instructions and take a test online and make it as a webpage and making me happy.

REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR PAGE often

Preparation for test (5 points)

(10 minutes) Preparation for test

Open a word document and save it as test. htm and when you are finished upload it with your answers in a different font or colour or size preferably all three to your /test4 subdirectory (2.5 points)
make a Sub-directory and title it /test4 and put your name at the top of your test (2.5 points)

You will be doing a small web presentation and that will also go into your web folder

Part one questions – one half hour max = 60 points (20X3)

What is the difference between Synchronous and Asynchronous communication? Give two examples of each.
You found an image that you want to put on your page – you change some of the characteristics of the image to fit your page in Photoshop. Is it now your image or do you still have to give credit to someone else?
What are frames in a webpage?
What makes a hypertextual story different from a printed book?
What is the difference between a text based chatroom and virtual chatroom?
Why do some authors proclaim that chatrooms and hypertext represent the ‘death of the author’?
Give me three examples of Netiquette
Tell what the different sections in this URL represent. http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/pena/index2.html and what each does.
How is chatroom discourse similar to oral discourse?
How many reported cyberstalking last year? http://www.haltabuse.org/ and who are the victims (what percent?)
Why are emoticons considered to be a "symbolic" form of communication?
What does the author in the article on “conversational analysis of chatroom talk” (Case Study three) mean by saying, Just as in person-to-person conversation offline (p2p-off), different dialects and accents develop in different text-based chatrooms in CyberSpace?
How is an e-zine different from a personal homepage?
Discuss the question of the internet's orality.
What are main principles of the "copyleft" movement?
Is a chatroom a community? Give a reason for your anwser.
How does online communication alter our sense of self and identity.
List three ways identity is established in a chatroom - can this identity be verified in a common textual chatroom?
What are cookies in relations to the Internet?
What is a spider? (Redback Spiders are found throughout Australia - Redback bites occur frequently, particularly over the summer months.)

A computer virus
A program that catalogs Web sites
A hacker who breaks into corporate computer systems
An application for viewing Web sites
A kool summer drink

Part two Make a webpage one hour max

A) Put the link to the webpage you will now make here in your test in at least a 16 font so I can find it – be sure it is a hyperlink so I can click on it and it will take me to your page. Also put a link to it from your index.html page in your drop down menu.

B) All this will go into your new folder which is test4 whether it do it on UNIX at Albany or your new geocities or whatever site.

Reading/preparation 20 minutes (remember preparation is crucial in anything you do)

(5 minutes) Make a webpage about the settlement of Australia. Most of the states were settled by convicts sent from England (all but South Australia). You will get your information from a couple of sites. The first – go to http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/res-07.html and http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/AUSTRALI.htm and/or http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/WC1798.htm or find your own information.

(5 minutes) Read the short information provided about convicts.

(5 minutes) At the bottom of the page there are several links ‘Convict Women’ and ‘Convict Ships’ pick one of those two categories and that is what your page will be on (you should also read The History of the Australian Penal Colonies as a general guide)

(10 minutes) When you pick your topic look up some more information on either Convict Women’ or ‘Convict Ships’ http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/AUSTRALI.htm

Make your main page 20 minutes (3 points each = 27 points)

Be sure your name somewhere on your ezine - that helps me know whose I am looking at
Be sure your site is titled – so that it shows in the browser
You must credit the source of anything you use that is not your own - i.e. graphics/stories etc because this is an academic course you will lose points for pinching other's works
Your links - do the bloody things work? You can have linked words or a drop down menu

a) I want a link firstly to your story about yourself as a convict to Australia,

b) I want a link to your guestbook

c) I want your e-mail address on your page

d) Toss in a link to your maruspial page that you did for the test 1 or 2

e) to your homepage or your zine it matters not which

f) your interview you did of a fellow classmate

g) and a link to our homepage http://www.albany.edu/~neuage/com465/

Your heading - whether you use a larger font - colour - or one of the interactive images that we played with
That you give information - in a paragraph or dot points on what your site is about (convict settlers of Australia) on your front page that will link to your story
I will check for overall layout - colour (including background – background - is your page too busy too tired too out to lunch too lazily done and etc? Remember I am old and see poorly I need to see what you wrote.

· Wise use of fonts

· Colours

· Layout

· Followability does the content flow throughout

Spelling - grammar - this is an academic course and these things really do matter and I will check this in your story – I will use a spell check and so should you.
Your images Do you use graphics wisely (I want at least one graphic per page) And the image of the convict is your own photo or if you have permission from another student, their photo.

Did you reference them properly?
Are they viewable from another computer than your own?
Are there too many?
Do you have alt tags for every image?

Make your secondary page 15 minutes (8 points)

Story – original – clear and at least three hundred words about your life as a convict either on the ship or in the colonies.

Your secondary page will be in a story form. Pick one of the convicts who were transported to Australia – see http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/stories.html and and add a few paragraphs to it as if you were that person.

For example, I chose ‘John Miller’

“John MILLER was arrested in the Strand in London on 7 August 1838 for stealing a handkerchief (nominal worth a shilling, the minimum for the sake of judicial proceedings) from the pocket of Daniel Harrison. He was tried at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) on 20 August 1838 and sentenced to transportation to Australia for ten years. John had previously served a 6 months sentence for an earlier offence, the details of which are not yet known. His age was given as 18 years.

John embarked on the "John Barry", a 520 ton sailing ship, in November 1838 on its 4th voyage as a convict transport. It was captained by Mr John Robson. Sugeon was Campbell France. He arrived in Australia on the John Barry on 22 Mar 1839 in Sydney Cove, NSW.”

Then you are to write a few paragraphs about what it was like on the ship… Whilst on the John Barry I was put in the hold for stealing a bloody useless handkerchief – I wanted it for this little tart I met in an alley behind the London Fog Pub and this rich looking fellow, Daniel something was just standing in front of a restaurant with a fancy looking lady hanging on to him. For that I am sent to Australia – The trip was awful, they fed us tofu the whole time and the ship was full of losers - amongst the rats and the vomit from the constantly ill passengers I tried to find a place to sleep and a place to exercise….

LINK BACK TO YOUR FRONT PAGE

REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR PAGE often

REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR PAGE