Communicating on the Internet COM465 - SUMMER 2003 MTWTH 6.00 - 8.40 PM Terrell Neuage SS386 4422604

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Journals

1. Journal = 20% These will be assessed online and are due on these dates.
Journal work is done in class
I. 5% due 28 Friday
II. 5% due June 04 Friday
III. 5% June due 11 Friday
IV. 5% June 18 Friday

What electronic journaling will do for you:

  1. The Journal develops your skills in communication
  2. working autonomously and collaboratively, as it records your group discussions,
  3. The exercises you will complete and put in it contribute to your lifelong learning
  4. and your body of knowledge of communication and computing skills
  • THERE ARE TWO THINGS TO DO EACH DAY HERE.
  • 1.You will use an Internet journal (this course is 'communicating on the Internet') Go to http://www.easyjournal.com. 1. Fill out the form to get a easyjournal account - you can make up any details about yourself you want - HOWEVER, you need to use your surname as the username so I know whose journal I am marking. For example, my surname is 'neuage' my online journal is therefore http://neuage.easyjournal.com/
  • 2. You will also need to make a journal in Word - save your daily entry on a disk if you did not bring one with you then email your word entry to yourself as an attachment.
  • As part of your assessment you are required to keep a journal BOTH ONLINE AND TO HANDUP EACH WEEK FOR THIS COURSE.
  • An icon, indicates a journal entry is to be made.
  • You should use the notational system that appears next to the icon when labeling your journal entries. For example: Week 1-1, Week 1-2, Week 2-1 etc.
  • Save your journal to your own disk - if you do not have one with you on the first day then you will need to email your jurnal entry for today to yourself as an attachment.
  • For your first entry, provide the answers to the following questions in your journal: Week 1-1: Name as many members of your class as you can remember. Week 1-2: Write a paragraph on what you see is communicating on the Internet.
  • PLEASE CITE YOUR SOURCE FOR YOUR ANWSERS.

Week 1 Computing Concepts and Issues

Monday 24 May

  1. Week 1-1: Name as many members of your class as you can remember
  2. Week 1-2: Write a paragraph on what you see as communicating on the Internet.

Tuesday 25th

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet what is your 'blogger' address?
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Write a couple of sentences on each of these new tensions that technology brings to society.

    * Centralization vs. Fragmentation
    * A holistic perspective vs. Specialized knowledge
    * Too much information vs. Too little information
    * Leadership vs. Fellowship
    * Worker isoliation/alientation vs. Community connections
    * Sharing vs. Withholding access to information
    * Information "filters" vs. Disintermediation (Removing the middleman. The term is a popular buzzword used to describe many Internet -based businesses that use the World Wide Web to sell products directly to customers rather than going through traditional retail channels. By eliminating the middlemen, companies can sell their products cheaper and faster. Source: http://www.webopedia.com)
    * Public intervention vs. Private decisionmaking.

  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet Which cities are America's Most Wired Cities?
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet Which cities are the world's Most Wired Cities?
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet What are the next three largest users of the Internet after English speaking people? see
  6. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What Arab country uses the Internet the most?
  7. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet video clip to view online for communicating on the Internet course 'Future City' What does the author say will be the affect the future city will have on the individual? What do you think the affect the future city will have on the individual?

Wednesday 26th

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What are some of the global impacts of being able to create a homepage on the Internet?
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet video clip to view online for communicating on the Internet course Where is the technological city state and why is it refereed to as the 21st century fortress city?
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What is right or wrong about machines influence on our lives?
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet E-mail your web address of the page you worked on today to three other people in the class (see group for e-mail addresses). When you have received three other student's websites write a few paragraphs on what the person is telling us with their website. You should get all your information just from their write-up about themselves, the links to their favourite sites and the picture they used.
  5. In the View my complete profile area of your blogger fill in some of your interests. Refresh your page and link to someone with your similar interests, which are linked from your profile. Write a profile on the person you looked up based on what you can gleem from their journal or their interests or their homepage if it is listed. For example, in my profile I have under "interests" tofu by clicking tofu I can see who else is blogging with the same interest. If I click on Sarah and read her blogs I find she is having various medical problems and etc.
  6. Read the article about the Baghdad blogger and write a couple of paragraphs on how Salam Pax saw his blog and how others, especially in the Western Media saw his blog. What would you see as the similairty or differences between a blog and an 'embedded reporter' with a United States organisation such as CNN news and which would you believe would be giving a true report of fact or which would be giving a reportage that was politcally or motivated by the writer's worldview? You may want to compare what Salam Pax says with what this reporter who was an "embedded reporter" with NBC has to say.

Thursday 27th

1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Find three sites on the Internet which addresses political issues of Internet usage and in two-three sentences discuss the site's rhetoric saying saying what it's view points are and what issues are being discussed. Provide the link.

2. journal entry for communicating on the InternetUsing an on-line translator (such as altavista's Babel) put in your journal what the English translation for this is and what do you think it is saying?

Dans Les Ruines D'Une Abbaye

Souls tous deux, ravis, chantants!
Comme on s'aime!
Comme on cueille le printemps
que Dieu seme!

Quels rires etincelants
Dansces ombres
Pleines jadis de fronts blancs,
De coeurs sombres!

On est tout frais maries
On s'envoie
Les charmants cris varies
De la joie.

Purs ebats meles au vent
Qui frissone!
Gaite que le noir couvent
Assaisonne!

On effeuille des jasmins
Sur la pierre
Ou l'abbesse joint les mains
En priere.

(Les tombeaux, de croix marques,
Font partie
De ces jeux, un peu piques
Par l'ortie.)

3. journal entry for communicating on the Internet Write a five line poem or a short paragraph on anything. Have it translated into French, German, Korean and Russian then translate it back and put in your journal what you got.

For example

"children never grow old

they just sprout wings

and fly away"

Terrell Neuage 1972

English into French:

En français:

"children ne vieillissent jamais juste poussent des ailes et volent l'away" ; Terrell Neuage 1972

French back to English:

"children never ages just pushes wings and steals l'away" ; Terrell Neuage 1972

English into Korean:

?? ???? ?? ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??? ????away"?"children; TerrellNeuage1972?; TerrellNeuage1972?

(note... the Korean does not show in this web-editor)

Korean into English:

Doe them the bud sprouts long it grows assuredly and only the away" which flies the wing; " children; TerrellNeuage1972 year

Friday 28th

No journal assignment for today.

Week 2 Ezines

Tuesday 1st June

1. journal entry for communicating on the Internet Discuss your "art" of making a homepage today in Dreamweaver

2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet what is the URL for your image once you have saved it to your site?

Wednesday 2nd June

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Open your webpage that you have either on Geocities or Angelfire. Once it is open go to View > Source. Go to a section (about the middle of your page) and copy (ctrl C) about 14 lines of code and paste (ctrl V) in your journal. Highlight with your cursor five different tags and use a different colour to show me you have found them and say what they are are.

For example: <p> shows the paragaph break <b> shows there is going to be a bold font <br> shows a break <font face> shows that the font here used is Georgia. <ol> shows that a list is happening.

<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"> <b>You need <br>
to upload</b> whatever you saved including your picture into your geocities
site. Click browse and the window of what is on your computer will open;

go to where your stuff is saved and click on the item ~ then OK</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia" size="3">.

You should have two items to upload</font></p>
<ol><li>Your index.html file</li>

Go to HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page and answer the following

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What is the difference between HTML and XHTML

Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat are three "flavors" of XHTML 1.0:

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet When I insert an image in Dreamweaver (or any webtext thingy) it looks like this

The code in (code view) looks like this <img src="dog.jpg" width="300" height="335"> but I was not happy with that code so I changed it.

Now the code looks like this img src="http://www.albany.edu/~neuage/com465/dog.jpg" width="300" height="335" and my image is not visable in my Dreamweaver viewpage - why is that?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Why will the conference discussed on this page http://www.unicttaskforce.org/index.asp be of signifance?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Who is the Secretary-General and what does he wish accomplish with information technology?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What is the ICT Policy and Governanc

Thursday 3th June

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetLook at these sites and tell what the requirements are for using the images offered for "free"
  1. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetAre these animated images free? Animation Arthouse “Animated meerkats that pop up, guard, sit, stand, and smoke.” (Could the animated meerkats be used on your homepage or a commercial Web page or in other projects?)
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetAre these collections of clipart free? Celine's Original GIFs “Clipart collections of linebars, arrows, menu bar icons or menu buttons, bullets, backgrounds, and miscellaneous icons.”
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetAre these backgrounds free? Muted Textures“Backgrounds of lightly textured tiles in a variety of gold and brown colors”
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat about the images on this site http://neuage.indiko.com/wombat.htm could you use them?
  1. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetRead the article 10 Big Myths about copyright explained and list each one and write a sentence or two (do not cut and paste what it says) what it means.
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet What are the main principles of the "copyleft" movement? See http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/copyleft
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat is Lynx? What are its long term advantages for businesses? See http://www.forrester.com/Info/0,1503,354,00.html
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat will your ezine be on? Sports, politics, penguins, hip hop, poetry, astrology, tofu...?
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat will be the name of your ezine?
  6. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetlook at some ezines on line and get an idea of how you would want your layout to look like.
  7. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWhat is the purpose of the e-zine?
  8. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetWho do you want to read your e-zine?
  9. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetHow much do you want to cover in your e-zine?
  10. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetHow do you hope to affect your readers?
  11. Journal entry for communicating on the InternetHow often will you publish to reach your objectives and goals?

Journal for 4 June

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet How might the "performance" of a webpage be optimized?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Using the image below in a few sentences (remember you are uni students and I want academic answers not anything rude)

  • How does this image communicate?
  • How does this text communicate?
  • How do they communicate together?

How does this image communicate (don't be rude) from the adbusters site (copied 30 May, 2003)  

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet What are main principles of the "copyleft" movement?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Reading Garrett's model of the elements of user experience identifies a "basic duality" of the hypertext environment. What is the nature of this duality, and how does it affect web design?

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the InternetRead The Semantic Web
By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (note: Tim Berners-Lee is the inventer of the World Wide Web)
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities

And write a paragraph on what the Semantic Web is.

Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet What is this ezine about? For example is there a theme? Who do you think the author intends to be the audience? http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/cmc290/98journ/98index.htm

Week 3 Online communicating

Monday June 07

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Read the article "GIF vs. JPEG" and describe which would be best for the images on your zine. Also, read Understanding Images Basics to help with your answer.
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Is the using of the gif format legal or not? Read the article "The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective".
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the InternetFor your journal (number 8) find one graphic from this site or this site I borrowed this image and will give it back soon(scroll down to the featured free samples which also has backgrounds: to load a background to your site go to "modify" > "page properties" and after saving the image to your folder either the zine if it is going on that or straight into your public_html folder) and follow the proper legal copyright instructions needed to display your picture or button on your site. You will need to put this gif into the code section of your page.
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet There are three parts to this. Read Universal Web accessibility Policy (1) and where it reads, " Is your web site accessible?(Use these resources to determine if your web pages meet accessibility guidelines.)" on the checklist read all 14 - I am concerned with number 1 and 14 for now for your zine. Write a sentence or two on whether you have addressed these two points in your zine thus far. (2) Submit your site (this will take you to Welcome to the Bobby Online Free Portal) and write out several of the errors that were found on your page. 3. Go to net mechanic and after getting your result for your zine thus far put your results for question 10b.

Tuesday June 11

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet In the article Seven MistakesNewbie Ezine Publishers Make by Sivasubramanian (you will need to pronounce his name for the test - not really) is this article for your type of ezine or for another type - why? Think audience
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet Even though this ezine is in another language - discuss what it is about and don't just say music - if music - what type do you think it is on about? Discuss the overall layout and colour scheme.
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet What is the Importance of Using A Template?
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Find out about e-books and discuss what they are and whether they may replace hardcopy book
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet From 'Tips for Developing Content for Your E-Zine' What is 'the secret' of a good ezine that would make sense to use in respect to yours?

Wednesday 11th

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet video clip to view online for communicating on the Internet course Read the article on How To Use HTML Meta Tags and explain how the proper words for your page will help you get a higher linking in a search engine.
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Go to the META TAGS GENERATOR and fill in the blanks then copy and paste what is provided into the code section of your dreamweaver page (copy over the "title" section)
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet After doing today's lesson and doing the above number one exercise (adding a title and keywords) submit your zine to search engines. Go to http://www.submitexpress.com/ and also sumbit to Yahoo,
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet How should writing be adjusted for the web to increase its usability?
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet What is Fair use. See Copyright on the Internet by Thomas G. Field, Jr. last viewed 4 June, 2003 online at http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm
  6. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Tell what the different sections in this URL represent. http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/pena/index2.html What I want you to see is which part of the URL is the server [the domain name] and etc - you can figure this out by starting with http://www.cyberartsweb.org then adding sections between / and / and tell what each does.
  7. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet video clip to view online for communicating on the Internet course Read What's wrong with academic writing on the web? Inverting the pyramid and write what is wrong with academic writing on the web?

Thursday 12 June

Journal questions for Thursday 10th June there will be none for Friday and I will check your journal Monday before class.

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet From the section '1.2 Evolution of language from early utterances to chatroom utterances' anwser why it is that 'With technological communication the individual’s identity is not clear'. We have not started on chat room "talk" yet but read the whole section including; 1.2.1 E-mail, discussion forums, 1.2.2 Electronic chat, 1.2.3 IRC, 1.2.4 MUDs and 1.2.5 MUDs vs. IRC to answer this in at least three hundred words.
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet From the section 1.2.3 IRC - What is IRC?
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet From the section 1.2.4 MUDs - what are MUDs?
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet From the section 1.3 New paradigm shifts what is the first of the new paradigm shifts discussed?
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet From the section 1.8 Personal interest in researching online conversation What is this autor's 'Purpose of examining online conversation'?
  6. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet Read the section 'CS 1.2 Reader-Response theory' and discuss why the reader is important as part of the chatroom dialogue.
  7. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet Why have I taken an ethnographic approach to researching text-based chatrooms see http://www.geocities.com/picture_poems/thesis/m.htm#_Toc67901739
  8. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet What are the Unique features of chatrooms?
  9. Journal entry for communicating on the Internetreading online for communicating on the Internet What is ODAM?

 

Week 4 Hypertextual story collaboration

Monday 16th

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Chose five e-zines from other students in this class (see left column) and write a few sentences on each one on what their e-zine is about and critque its format and useability. Of the zines you visit would you return to them for updates..
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Discuss the use of icons on the net and list ten commonly used ones - plus write a short message using only emoticons (or mostly at least)
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Read the section on hypertext and answer Why Bolter say hypertextual thinking is unnatural
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet What is important about the PROJECT XANADU - who started it and what is its link to hypertext
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Stuart Moulthrop is one of the leaders in hypertext fiction. You will spend about half an hour exploring his site and answer the questions below
  • What happens when you refresh the page - what do you think Moulthrop did this for?
  • Go to the 'hypertexts' link and click on 'The Color of Television' from the page (not from here) and follow the link-story to the beginning - what was the colour of the sky.....?
  • Follow the story - click on 'color' that you used for the above question - what becomes of the 'levitating TV'?
  • What happens when you click in the TV box and scroll around in the tv?
  • Go back a page and click on 'sky' and follow the links and write a paragraph what the story is about

7.Journal entry for communicating on the Internet Open Word and write a short story about anything - make several links to your own pages. Go to your Angelfire or Geocities site. It can be as simple as you want or as complex as Moutthrop. Highlight at least four words that will take the reader to the next page and back

8. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet From 'Influence of the World Wide Web on literature' view the section "MULTIPLICITY"; what are some of the issues facing online hypertextual fiction writing?

9. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Read the section on Identity and ' Identity and Performance in Cyberspace ' and discuss the construction of identity online.

Tuesday June 15

  1. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet From the reading: Developing Personal And Emotional Relationships Via Computer Mediated Communication by Brittney Chenault: What are some of the challenges of electronic communities?
  2. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Review this discussion of a chat room dialogue saved on September 11 2001 and discuss how the conversation in the chat room changed once this event began to unfold.
  3. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet From the same discussion paper above what is the difference between moderated and unmoderated chat rooms?
  4. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Why are emoticons considered to be a “symbolic” form of communication? (See CS 3.3.1.1 Emoticons at: CS 3.3.1.1 Emoticons
  5. Journal entry for communicating on the Internet reading online for communicating on the Internet Read The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing. Discuss why 'Computers reintroduce many oral characteristics into electronic writing'?