HCI 201 Multimedia and
the World Wide Web
Syllabus
L. Edward Allemand, Ph.D.
Instructor: L. Edward Allemand,
Ph.D.
Best, Fastest Way to Raise Questions,
Difficulties: The Discussions Section in the D2L Online Materials for the
course. Either I will answer the
question or sometimes another student has found the solution and will post even
before I do. It is like raising question
in class. Alternatively, there are “online
office hours” in a chat usually twice a week.
See the Left Column in the Course Home Page for this.
Email: Try to reserve email for private
matters. Also, please read the materials
on debugging code through email (quick version: very, very difficult). Please see the final section of this syllabus
regarding private matters such as health and family issues that really affect your finishing the course.
My email: allemand@cdm.depaul.edu
Use only this email, not a
general De Paul email address or any other email return address given you by
the system. If it is not allemand@cdm.depaul.edu I won’t get it.
Office Hours: Because it is an all online course
there are no in-person office hours available.
See the Chat possibility in the
Left Column of the Course Home Page.
Course Description: This is a course for non-majors in
general information on the World Wide Web and more specifically an introduction
to building a web page. This course also
meets the Liberal Studies requirements for Scientific Inquiry. Thus,
learning objectives include those for an SI course. We will do practical exercises in inquiry and
technological reporting of findings to meet this requirement. The web
technology component will also be oriented to practical application for a
student. It will emphasize introductory
techniques for building a practical, personal web page(s), suitable for career
placement. There are NO PREREQUISITES
but it assumed you have fundamental computer skills with knowledge of files and
folders, usual computer experience of email, social network software, word processing. You
will be asked to download and use software on your computer. You need to have experience in doing
this. You will also need to get and use
an account on a web hosting service since eventually all assignments must
mounted on the internet. You are
responsible for accomplishing this but there are detailed instructions in the
Checklists of D2L on how to do it.
Computers and Operating Systems: The course is slanted to Microsoft
but Mac users are given alternatives and supported. So Mac and Microsoft Users should both be
able to use course materials. E.G.
Slides are in Powerpoint and .pdf files. There is a special Discussions Forum in the
D2L Discussions for the course for Mac users to trade information.
Please contribute
to this if you know something or find something of use to your fellow MAC users. You should have a full computer, i.e., laptop
or desktop. You cannot do (at least I
think it would be extremely difficult) the course with a tablet or phone only,
although some functions can be handled “on the go” with these. As tablets and even phones become more
diverse in capability, you will have to see whether this proviso works applies
to you. Again, this is your responsibility.
Course Objectives:
·
To
acquire basic knowledge for building a practical professional website using
various development means including HTML
·
To
acquire basic knowledge of use of multimedia in such website
·
To
become familiar with the scientific enterprise including vaiours
views of its metod, its difference in proceeding
according to the type of science and the general process of scientific
publication
·
To
do as a project an investigation of a scientific topic and to build a web page
publication of the findings using web page development skills learned in the
earlier objectives
Other Things You will Need:
·
The
computers on
campus do not save your work so a flashdrive is
necessary to save work to and from campus.
If you use the labs in the CDM building in the loop you need to have a
CDM activated account. Go to http://cdm.depaul.edu and then click
on the MyCDM capability and follow instructions.
·
Campus
Connection access: userid and password
·
Reliable
email address. Make sure the email
address you have submitted to the university as part of your student profile
and which will be the one on my classlist is what
will reach you for emailings in this class. I send email to the class from time to
time.
·
Generally
fast internet access and video streaming software (standard issue on most
computers. MAC users please note remarks
on QuickTime when you come to it in the Checklists). You need the internet with a fair degree of
speed since you will be streaming videos of lessons. All work is eventually after the first two
assignments mounted on an internet account.
·
All
of these are your responsibility.
Tutoring or assistance with for instance video streaming does not come
as part of the course but tutors are available through the tutoring service of
CDM.
A Greener Approach and Course Home
Base: All materials for the course are
online, of course. These are located in
the course management system D2L: http://d2l.depaul.edu access with your Campus Connect
login. This is your course Home Base
Changes to this Syllabus: No version of
a course goes exactly like previous ones.
Therefore, from time to time, changes may be necessary to this
syllabus. This is frankly very rare and usually would be
minor and more often than not just matters of scheduling. Major content material and certainly any
changes in requirements or grading will not occur.
Keeping Up
The course
builds incrementally, adding skills as we go along. Keeping up is essential. It is my general experience that students who
fall behind, even a little, tend to fail.
Thus, don’t
be fooled because the course is all online.
Time management is of the essence.
Special Note to Graduating Seniors: My sincere congratulations BUT: In the past, especially in
the Spring Quarter, I sometimes find graduating seniors trying to load this
course onto several others and a full work schedule in order to finish. This mistake is thinking an online course can
be sandwiched in at any time during the quarter. I will simply say that the usual result is
the student fails the course. This is
due to overestimating your ability to manage the time involved and
underestimating the demand of regular deadlines, work schedules, and demands of
other courses. Word to the Wise.
Assignments:
·
Must
be submitted electronically as in the instructions provided. This is done through the DropBox
facility in D2L.
·
You
can discuss and help one another understand the assignments BUT you do another student
(and yourself) a great disservice by sharing your hard work with them. The next section contains extracts and some
interpretation of university policies on plagerism. In fact the Course Management System has
built in safeguards against plagerism.
University Policies on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism:
University
guidelines on academic integrity and plagiarism can be found on the Web and in
the Student Handbook and are hereby incorporated in this document. The
following items are not intended to contradict the university guidelines, but
to emphasize or explain areas of particular note for this course.
·
Plagiarism
applies to any sort of material used on the Web, including for example sound,
graphics or images, as well as text.
·
Students are responsible for insuring that they
use material only with permission and that, when such permission is subject to
giving credit, they credit sources appropriately.
·
Students who use images, text, sound, trademarks,
or other materials developed
or owned by others without their permission can be held legally liable. "Academic use" is not
a legal defense.
·
DePaul University and the professor take no
responsibility for any student's use of materials developed or owned by others
without their permission.
·
Please also see the section on Academic Integrity
on the Blackboard Class site
A
Word about Content and Computer Usage Policies:
·
Students
are responsible for following University and the College rules for computer
usage. These include rules about
commercial usage and kinds of content.
·
In
general pages created for the course should have a professional tone and be
suitable to your job-seeking portfolio.
Use as your standard: Would I
show this to a prospective employer?
·
You
are expected to write your own code (html).
Systems which use templates and do all the code development for you are
easily detected. You will receive very
little if any credit for using such a system.
·
Lastly,
I know what I teach in this course and what I do not teach obviously. Web pages with very advanced work such as
external css files and javascript
are obviously probably not developed by you.
Be careful of using others to do your work for you. It is usually immediately detectable. Again no credit will be given for such
work.
Reuse of materials:
Anything developed or submitted for an employer or another course cannot be submitted for an assignment in this course without PRIOR permission of the instructor.
Grading Components
The following components determine the grade:
Component |
Total Point Allotment* |
Website Programming Assignments |
45 |
Quizzes |
40 |
Participation, including Assignment #1 and on-time submission of assignments |
15 |
*actual per item point allotment cf. Dropbox or Grades in D2L
Grade-Point
Standards
A 90.0% C+ 78.0%
A- 89.0% C 73.0%
B+ 87.0% C- 67.0%
B 83.0% D 60.0%
B- 80.0% F Below 60%
Incompletes and
Other Exceptions to these Grades and Grading : Please do not ask me
for a grade of incomplete or for special consideration or changes in deadlines
due to illness or other matters.
If you have special
health or other concerns including work-related travel, that
come up during the quarter, you should consult with the Dean of Students
office. Professors are not competent to
make judgments in these matters. Either
the Dean of Students office or the Administrative office of the CDM (College of
Computing and Digital Media) will communicate with me after you have discussed
the matter with them. I always abide by
the recommendations of these offices.