ENAM 991d: American Hypertext Workshop
1999
Syllabus
Alan B. Howard
427 Bryan Hall
924-6644 or abh9h@virginia.edu
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Calendar of Meetings
(Bryan Hall 203;
8:00-9:30)
6/7:Organization and Introduction
- Stephen Ramsay, Descriptive Bibliography: A Tutorial
- John Lance Griffith, Dicken's American Notes: A Hypertext Edition
- Craig Simmons, C. B. Brown's Wieland and Carwin the Biloquist
- Michael Kidd, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History
- Bruce Fort, The WPA Slave Narratives
- Julie Adams, Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl.
- Karen Bacon, Harriet Wilson, Our Nig.
- Stewart Tucker, Epic, Romance and the Love of God: Medieval
France and England.
- John Adams, Lansford W. Hastings, The Imigrants' Guide to
Oregon and California.
- Matthew W. Davis, David Levin, History as Romantic Art.
- Liz Szabo, Mary Anne Sadlier, Bessy
Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America.
- Todd Cabell, James Branch Cabell, Jurgen: A Comedy of
Justice
- Ann Dickinson, Mark Catesby, The Natural History of
Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (Under construction)
- Lee Fennell, Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial
Process
6/9: Getting Started:
6/11: Scanning Text (Electronic Text Center).
Assignment: develop the
home page by adding three subordinate pages, a resume page, a projects page,
and a resources page; link these to your main page. Begin fleshing out the
resources page by adding links in three categories: 1) web-building resources;
2) links to general resources in your field; 3) links to resources specific to
your area of interest within that field.
Assignment: sign up to
tag essays; the sign up list is on my door, Bryan 427. Bring a copy of the essay with you to the electronic text center; scans are to be corrected, marked up in html, at attatched to hour projects page by 6/18.
6/14: Image Manipulation
(Electronic Text Center).
- Sign up for images from the list on my office door (one group from B/W, one from COLOR). Attatch a full screen and thumb-nail version of each of these to your projects page. Due 6/21.
- Add background(s) and images to your site.
6/16: HomePage ver. 1.0
6/18: Visual Literacy (Meet in ASLAB, Bryan 423)
6/21: Advanced HTML
(Image exercise due).
6/23: Using a Web Editor
- Meet in Bryan 423, the ASLab.
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Netscape Composer
- HomeSite 4.0
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Assignment: Project prospectus (a one page description of your project
including the rationale for doing it, a description of the technical problems/opportunities it involves, and a brief annotated bibliography: post this to your projects
page.)
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AS@UVA Hypertexts
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Useful
WWW Sites on Hypertext
6/25: Prospectus Review
6/28 - 7/18: No Class
Note: anyone interested in learning audio and/or video applications should make arrangements with me.
7/19: Workshop I : Status reports on all projects.
7/21: Workshop II
7/23: Workshop III
7/26: Workshop IV
7/28: Workshop V
8/8: Projects due
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