Feb. 3
Class 1

• Review syllabus
• Introductions
• First Blog entry

Feb. 5
Class 2

• Names (new students see me after class)
• Discuss homework
  • in pairs, determine chapter's main thesis, subpoints, answer peer questions
  • in what ways are you lives mediated through interfaces?
  • be prepared to share with class
• Intro to Dreamweaver
  • new page; table; font; color
  • make 212 folder; save
• Review Elon web server space
  • transfer 212 folder
• Homework (see link above)
• Blog
  

Feb. 10
Class 3

• Enter Blog for Class 2 if you were here
• Comment about Blogs
• In groups, review reading forms and complete worksheets / worksheet.doc
• In groups, share homework
  1. Each person should pull up one of her websites on liquid screen and walk peers through her analysis
  2. Group should select one person's site analysis to present to class (entire group should contribute to this presentation)
• Review Interface Design Reading
• Homework
• Dreamweaver & Web Space
  • can everyone access web server space now?
• Blog entry

Feb. 12
Class 4

• Check out class homepage - two new quotes from next Tue's reading
• Next Tuesday's class starting 15 minutes late, at 10:45 (Department meeting in C.U.P.I.D. pushing back classes)
• My office hours: T & Th 2- 5
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric /silva.htm
• Visit from Elon's Service Learning Center about client projects
• In same groups, share each of your answers to assigned 5 questions from worksheet for "What is Rhetoric?"
  • How relate to interface design?
  • Review as class
• Discuss Chapter 2: The Desktop (Interface Culture)
• Homework for Tue.
• Blog entry

Feb. 17
Class 5

• Share Interface/Metaphor Assignments
• Homework
• Blog entry

Feb. 19
Class 6

• Visit from Service Learning Center - information about clients
• Discuss Chapter 3: Windows (Interface Culture)
• Discuss articles - how can rhetorical theory be applied to interface design?
• Homework for Tue.
• Blog entry

Feb. 24
Class 7

• Review "Designing for the Real World"
• In Client groups, work on Audience Research Planning
• Interface Design - usability principles?
• sample interfaces online at http://matrix.msu.edu
• Dreamweaver
• Homework for Th. (Read "Ch. 4 Links" in Interface Culture)
• Blog entry: What is the difference b/w knowing about your audience and knowing your audience? How can you achieve - through audience research - knowing your audience? How do you think this will apply to your client project?

Feb. 26
Class 8

• http://www.suck.com/
  
• for a variety of hypertexts http://www.msu.edu/~rosinsk2/hypertext /index.html
  
• In pairs, discuss "Ch. 4: Links"
  • Why does Johnson spend so much time talking about literature and comparing interface elements to literary elements?
  • collaborate to determine thesis & main points; type up
  • 2 questions to ask class
  • compare thesis main points with class
  • ask questions
• In pairs, compare interfaces of Microsoft Word and Macromedia Dreamweaver - similiarities? differences? Use the terminology presented in 1-29 of Interface Design
• Brainstorm for Ongoing Homepage Project
• Client groups - when making first contact? consider doing this after reading homework for Tuesday ("Planning the Project")
• HW for Tue & outline of course
• Return HW; explain evaluation of Assignment 2
• Blog entry: Summarize the "Links" chapter. Which ideas were new to you? What are some of the implications of the chapter for current interface design and for the future of interface design?