March 7 Handouts
Handouts in March 7th Class included:
1. Course schedule
2. March 28 presentation
3. Personal Home Page Development
4. Copyright
5. Academic honesty
6. Extra credit
1. Course Schedule following Spring Break.
WORLD-WIDE WEB STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Together these presentations will count 50% of your course grade.
Thursday, March 28 -- Presentation on a Journalistic WWW site
(except a college newspaper) you think is interesting. (Counts 15% of the
total course grade)
Thursday, April 4 -- Presentation on a college newspaper WWW site
you think is interesting. (Counts 15% of the total course grade)
Thursday, April 25-- Presentation of your own home page (Counts
20% of the total course grade)
You will receive complete instructions on the March 28 assignment today.
These basic instructions also apply to the April 4 and April 25
presentations.
On Thursday, April 11, Merry Cushing will return for more instruction in
HTML.
On Tuesday, April 16, Our classes will be held in the Audio-Visual
Department in Goodell Hall where Betty Wilda, a graphics designer, will
instruct in computer graphic design.
2. March 28 Student Presentation:
A. Find a journalistic site or publication on the World Wide Web
that you think is interesting. Visit this site enough times to get a good
sense of its contents, construction, and design principles. If there is
an e-mail link at the site, you may want to correspond with the owners.
How does this site sustain your interest? How does it ease your access
to information? What is the quality of the information available?
B. Make a 10-minute presentation to class in which you:
1. Introduce your site
2. Explain its intended function and audience
3. Analyze its written content (Is this a page that offers real
substance?)
4. Analyze its visible design (page layout, look-and-feel, etc.)
5. Analyze its invisible design (how relationships among pages are
managed)
6. Point out what's good, interesting, or worth imitating about the site
7. Present at least one feature that you think is not successful
8. Propose an improvement or revision to address the site's limitations
C. When you make your presentation to the class, hand out a 1-2 page
summary of your remarks, making enough copies for the instructor and the
rest of the class (10 copies). Be sure your summary includes the
electronic address (URL) of the site you are studying. The written
handouts will be judged in part on your demonstration of an understanding
of rules studied in Elements of Style.
Note: -- This assignment is adapted from an assignment used by
Thom Lieb at Towson State University. Grateful acknowledgment also to
originator of the idea, Stuart Moulthrop at the University of Baltimore.
3. Personal Home Page Development
Journ 375 and Journ 492M
Integral to this semester's study is the development by each
student of an individual home page. Primary to the grading of this site
will be consideration of its usefulness as a journalistic medium.
Complete the following as soon as possible. If you have any problems,
let me know and I will help you. Once the basics are established,
additional instructions will follow for further development of the site
according to journalistic practice and principles.
To begin with, each individual home page must:
¥ Include your present and permanent address and the name of your
hometown newspaper.
¥ Identify through a brief statement your interest in studying
journalism.
¥ Include a link to the Journalism Home Page
(http://www.umass.edu/journal)
and to the UMass Internet Journalist
¥ Include a link to your resume.
¥ Include the following copyright statement:
Copyright (C) 1995, Your Name
Journalism Department
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
All rights reserved.
¥ Include date of last update
4.
Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
WWW Style Manual: Page Design
Copyright
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All World Wide Web page footers should include a standard copyright
designating the author or host institution as the copyright holder of the
contents of the page. Although a copyright notice is not required to assert
your rights to your material, it is considered prudent to always include a
minimal notice of copyright:
Copyright (C) 1995, Your Name
Your institution (if any).
All rights reserved.
You or your legal advisors may choose to include further restrictive
language or notices, as appropriate. Be sure that in the creation of your
WWW pages you have not included any information that should be marked as the
property of some other copyright holder, such as text from contributors,
photographs, or graphics. You should assume that the same restrictions and
obligations that govern print documents will also apply in the copyright
protection of WWW pages and documents.
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Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
Patrick J. Lynch, MS
Comments to author: lynch@biomed.med.yale.edu
All contents copyright (C) 1995, Patrick J. Lynch. All rights reserved.
Revised: September 2, 1995
URL: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/stylemanual/M_II_15.HTML
5.
World-Wide Web and Academic Honest
Journ 375 and 492M
Students: Note that University regulations on academic honesty
specifically prohibit "improper use of computer file, program, user-name,
or password ..." In regard to the World-Wide Web, students developing
WWW pages must adhere to University regulations as well as to sound
journalistic principles by acknowledging all material (including graphic
images) used from other sources in making those pages. Credit for
others' work should be simple, direct and complete.
The following is from the Undergraduate Catalogue available on the
University's WWW Home Page. For more information, read the Undergraduate
Rights and Responsibilities.
"The University requires honesty of all its members in their
academic
work. Honesty is necessary to the learning process, and is integral to
the atmosphere of genuine inquiry and intellectual curiosity which the
University seeks to foster. Academic dishonesty not only contradicts the
expectations of a community whose central purpose is the pursuit of
intellectual endeavor, it violates University rules and regulations, a
fact of which all students must be aware.
"Plagiarism is the failure to acknowledge the source of all
information
gathered in the preparation of class and written work. It includes
direct quotation, paraphrase, and the 'borrowing' of information or
facts which are not common knowledge, without acknowledging the source
through footnote, adequate means of citation, or proper quotation
structure. Students are encouraged to learn the style most accepted in
their disciplines.
"Cheating is the intentional use or attempted use of materials,
information, or study aids other than those specifically authorized, in
an attempt to claim credit for learning not one's own. Under University
policy, this can include unauthorized collaboration with others in
conducting research or preparing work; the unauthorized use of
commercial term paper companies; improper use of computer file, program,
user-name, or password; use of books, notes, calculators, or discussion
with others during an examination unless specifically authorized;
falsification of signatures or initials; and repeated use of all or
substantial portions of the same work without specific prior approval.
"Fabrication includes the 'invention' of information in any
laboratory or
other academic exercise without prior notice to and permission from the
instructor; alteration and resubmission of returned academic work
without prior notice and permission; and misrepresentation of the actual
source from which information is cited.
"Facilitating dishonesty by knowingly helping or attempting to
help
another commit an act of academic dishonesty is also a violation of
University policy ..."
6. Students in Journ 375 and Journ 492M may choose one of the
following assignments for potential extra credit. Papers will be graded
plus, check or minus as explained below. Due date: April 24 Regular
syllabus rules apply.
Plus - Students who make an excellent presentation will be
rewarded with a plus grade. A plus grade will boost your final grade at
least one level higher (AB to A).
Check - Students who do average work will receive a check grade.
A check grade will simply act as a positive note in the usual 10%
reserved by the instructor for general progress, attitude, etc.
Minus - Students who do poor work will receive a minus. A minus
will act as a negative consideration in the usual 10% reserved by the
instructor for general progress, attitude, etc.
I. Electronic Magazines and Newspapers Assignment
Choose two newspapers or magazines that are available in both
print and World-Wide Web forms.
Write a 3 to 5 page double-spaced, typewritten report that compares
the print and electronic versions of these publications. Consider the
the following (make certain your comparison is based on a thorough
review of each of the formats):
* Content: Any substantive difference between the two
formats? For example, did the Web site have more "technology" news?
* Ease of use. Discuss how you found the material. Was it difficult
to navigate or to read? Did graphics help your comprehension? etc.
* Visual appeal and interest of each format.
* Advantages of each form in terms of what kinds of materials can be
included, portability, availability, other factors.
* Does adding graphics, images, audio and/or video to "print" media
add or detract from it?
* Are the hypertext links between pages and/or documents on the
WWW useful?
* Personal reaction: what do you think of these two forms? Which
would you prefer to use?
Here are a few examples of WWW versions of magazines and newspapers Feel
free to use others; include the URL of each source you use in your report.
Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.com/
Time Magazine: http://www.timeinc.com/time/timehomepage.html/
The Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com
The Utne Reader: http://www.utne.com/reader/magazine.html
Mother Jones: http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/mother_jones.html
(Note: The above assignments is adapted from one created by Aviva
Rosenstein, course instructor for Communcation Technology and Society,
University of Texas.)
II. Utne Cafe Gender Policy Research Paper
Write a 3-5 page paper on Utne Reader's gender policy on
admitting people to the Utne Cafe chat area.
* Give arguments both pro and con. Quote from the Utne Reader
comments posted on the subject and interview at least two students with
opposing views from either Journ 375 or 492M.
Search the Web for information relating to the issue through
keywords like gender, censorship, cyberspace, community. Cite sources
(include URLs).
* Read and refer to Susan Herring's study "Gender Differences in
Computer-Mediated Discourse"
URL: http://cpsr.org/cpsr/gender/herring.txt
* State your opinion of the Utne Reader policy.