Make the most of your summer and the semesters ahead: read, learn, and write!
Beginning of Class Writing
For this week’s beginning of class writing, I would like you to use your campus email to send me a professionally written email that discusses your contributions to your team’s project with a brief overview of your teammates’ contributions to the project, too. Send your email to jason.ellis03@citytech.cuny.edu and use the subject: ENG3790 Team Contribution.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Have one team member email a link to your team’s project deliverable within a brief, professional email to jason.ellis03@citytech.cuny.edu and cc’ing all team members. Use the subject line: ENG3790 Team Project Deliverable.
Each team will have 5-10 minutes for their presentation.
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 14: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss Week 13 and Week 14 readings.
Discuss layout of Team Report and in-class presentation next week.
Continue the Final Team Project.
Primary deliverables are the collaboratively written report and in-class presentation with slidedeck.
Bonus points for creating a mock up of your website using GitHub or OpenLab/Wordpress (create as a Project).
Preparation for next week: Learn about the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. We will have a field trip there to talk about its information architechture–how the items are arranged, how we use a finding aid to locate materials, etc.
Review homework and readings for next week. If you are behind on homework assignments or weekly writing assignments, get them done as soon as possible and let Prof. Ellis know what assignments you’ve caught up on via email.
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 13: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Field Trip to the City Tech Science Fiction Collection.
Continue the Final Team Project.
Primary deliverables are the collaboratively written report and in-class presentation with slidedeck.
Bonus points for creating a mock up of your website using GitHub or OpenLab/Wordpress (create as a Project).
Preparation for next week: Learn about the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. We will have a field trip there to talk about its information architechture–how the items are arranged, how we use a finding aid to locate materials, etc.
Review homework and readings for next week. If you are behind on homework assignments or weekly writing assignments, get them done as soon as possible and let Prof. Ellis know what assignments you’ve caught up on via email.
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 12: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Continue the Final Team Project.
Primary deliverables are the collaboratively written report and in-class presentation with slidedeck.
Bonus points for creating a mock up of your website using GitHub or OpenLab/Wordpress (create as a Project).
Preparation for next week: Learn about the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. We will have a field trip there to talk about its information architechture–how the items are arranged, how we use a finding aid to locate materials, etc.
Review homework and readings for next week. If you are behind on homework assignments or weekly writing assignments, get them done as soon as possible and let Prof. Ellis know what assignments you’ve caught up on via email.
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 11: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Continue the Final Team Project and Form Teams.
Primary deliverables are the collaboratively written report and in-class presentation with slidedeck.
Bonus points for creating a mock up of your website using GitHub or OpenLab/Wordpress (create as a Project).
Review homework and readings for next week. If you are behind on homework assignments or weekly writing assignments, get them done as soon as possible and let Prof. Ellis know what assignments you’ve caught up on via email.
LMC’s old server rack. Think about the IA that goes into intranets–both web-accessible elements and file storage (folders, naming conventions, etc.).
Beginning of Class Writing
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 10: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Introduce the Final Team Project and Form Teams.
Primary deliverables are the collaboratively written report and in-class presentation with slidedeck.
Bonus points for creating a mock up of your website using GitHub or OpenLab/Wordpress (create as a Project).
Review homework and readings for next week. If you are behind on homework assignments or weekly writing assignments, get them done as soon as possible and let Prof. Ellis know what assignments you’ve caught up on via email.
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 9: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Continue with GitHub and HTML.
See here for an example of what we’re aiming for in this exercise.
Create account at github.com–make sure you think hard about your username–it should be professional and reflect positively on you.
Follow these directions to create web space for HTML pages on GitHub Pages.
Try imagining your information architecture problem within your mind’s eye–cyberspace, the consensual hallucination.
Beginning of Class Writing
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 8: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Continue with GitHub and HTML.
See here for an example of what we’re aiming for in this exercise.
Create account at github.com–make sure you think hard about your username–it should be professional and reflect positively on you.
Follow these directions to create web space for HTML pages on GitHub Pages.
Short review of Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message,” which is relevant for our ecology article this week.
Full lecture on McLuhan for those students who are unfamiliar with his concepts or want a refresher.
Beginning of Class Writing
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 7: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Setup Github accounts and create a rudimentary web page.
See here for an example of what we’re aiming for in this exercise.
Create account at github.com–make sure you think hard about your username–it should be professional and reflect positively on you.
Follow these directions to create web space for HTML pages on GitHub Pages.
Planning out how to organize and display information is essential before attempting implementation.A well designed information architecture plan makes implementation faster, efficient, and organized.
Beginning of Class Writing
Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 6: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
Discuss this week’s readings.
Introduce the third interconnected homework assignment on site maps.
Conduct an exercise to show what you’ve established in the first two assignments and gain feedback before writing your third assignment in this sequence.
