Syllabus:

CGS 2820:  Web Authoring-HTML  3 cr.

 

Sections #09411 Multimode ½ inclass-1/2 Online

A.S. Degree Credit only*

SITE:                      BTECH 217

 

DAY/TIME:          Monday 11:00-12:15. plus OnLine Sessions

                                

HCC Course Description:

+ Introduces the students to the fundamentals of Web page authoring.  Students will learn how to use HTML to create web pages, generate HTML links, add graphics, create image maps, tables, frames, and forms.   Advanced techniques include new HTML tags, virtual reality, audio, video, presentation of other non-standard data, and how to use FTP to upload and download files.

Prerequisite:  CGS 1555 or permission of instructor

+ indicates A.S. Degree Credit only

 

Course Objectives (as submitted January 1998 in the Course Outline Model):

 

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

 

  1. understand and use storyboarding.
  2. understand and apply static and dynamic HTML tags.
  3. create client-side image maps.
  4. create forms.
  5. create frames.
  6. understand and apply style sheets.
  7. upload and download files to and from a Web server using FTP.
  8. use plug-ins to access non-standard data.
  9. create PDF files (portable document format) and other non-standard formats.
  10.  configure a browser to incorporate plug-ins.
  11.  add audio to a web page.
  12.  add video to a web page.
  13.  understand and apply VRML tags
  14.  integrate existing applets and basic client-side scripts (JavaScript, Jscript)..
  15.  compare the use of markup languages by different browsers.
  16.  be aware of the accessibility issues for the disabled.

The district objectives were submitted with the Original course outline model. Since 1997-8 the objectives have been modified by various instructors on HCC campuses.

 

Required Textbooks:

 

New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML – Comprehensive

 

Phillip Carey     ISBN: 0-619-01969-7 © 1st Ed.  2001

 Table of contents

·         Tutorial 1 Creating a Web Page (Week 1 & 2)

·         Tutorial 2 Adding Hypertext Links to a Web Page (Week 3 & 4)

·         Tutorial 3 Designing a Web Page (Week 5)

·         Tutorial 4 Designing a Web Page with Tables (Week 6 & 7)

·         Tutorial 5 Using Frames in a Web Page (Week 8)

·         Tutorial 6 Creating Web Page Forms with HTML (Week 9, 10 & 11)

·         Tutorial 7 Working with Cascading Style Sheets (Week 12)

·         Tutorial 8 Programming with JavaScript (Optional)

·         Tutorial 9 Working with JavaScript Objects and Events (Optional)

·         Tutorial 10 Creating a Multimedia Web Page (Week 13 & 14)

·         DHTML

·         Tutorial 1 Creating a Multimedia Web Page

·         Tutorial 2 Using Dynamic Page Content

·         Tutorial 3 Applying Dynamic Page Layout

·         Tutorial 4 Providing User Interactivity

·         Tutorial 5 Designing Cross-Browser Pages

·         Appendices

·         A HTML Extended Color Names

·         B HTML Special Characters

·         C Putting a Document on the World Wide Web

·         HTML Tag Reference

·         D JavaScript Objects, Properties, and Methods

·         E JavaScript Operators

·         F CSS1 Quick Reference

·         G Working with Cookies

 

 

Old Textbook: Creating Web Pages with HTML-Comprehensive;

2nd. ed. 2000; Patrick Carey                         ISBN# 0-619-01968-9

 

Students who have access to 2000-2001 text (Creating Web Pages 2nd edition) may use the text this year as the first 10 chapters are nearly the same.

The required textbook has five additional Optional chapters covering DHTML and two chapters on JavaScript, which will not be required in this course. Students with advanced HTML skills  may substitute assignments with DHTML chapters for the first three chapters of the course.

HTML Text Editor Software: If the student currently uses a WYSIWYG editor to generate web pages, please refrain from using Front Page, Dreamweaver, or similar editor during the course. The instructor’s text editor of choice is the HTML Editor: HomeSite 5.0. Students using HomeSite 4.51 should go to downloads: http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/download/update/

 and upgrade their Homesite 4.51 for free with HomeSite 4.52, which is compatible with Windows 2000. Students may also use notepad to type all code from scratch and not use and HTML editor.

Download HTML Text Editor HomeSite 5.0 for 30 days:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/trial/

 

   Homesite 5.0 sells for $99 retail.  Homesite+ is packaged with Dreamweaver Mx,  which sells for $299 retail. Educationally you can purchase Dreamweaver 4.0 (with HomeSite 5) for $99 through an education vendor. CGS 2822 Web Site Creation focuses on Dreamweaver to develop the sites once HTML coding is understood.  The purpose of using HomeSite first in CGS 2820 is for the student to become familiar with HTML code.  The purpose of CGS 2822 is to concentrate on building web sites and to study web design.

 

 Supplies: minimum of five 1.44 meg floppy disks to submit assignments. Disks are not returned. Student who send assignments through email attachments must include all files for the assignment as attachments and the student is not to send the files zipped into one file. E-Learning student will send most of their assignments via email. (Students may reformat free used disks located on instructor’s desk)

Instructor:  John T. Taylor

Office Phone: 253-7824 ; Message 253-7808

Home Phone:   813-361-4379 (cell)  to leave messages at instructor’s home at designated times or extreme emergencies on weekends. (Jacksonville 904-992-2052 most weekends and summer)

 

Office Hours for John Taylor:

10:00-11:00 a.m. W  12:15-1:00 W also see:

For current hours:     http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/office/office.html

 

 

E-MAIL :

 jtaylor@masterlinx.net and jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us

 

Each student is expected to have an E-mail address. Upon request a free email is available from Brandon C.S. department in BTECH 203 with a hccbrandon.net  Free Emails may also be obtained from Hotmail

 [ http://www.hotmail.com ], MailExcite [ http://www.mailexcite.com ],  Yahoo [ http://www.mail.yahoo.com , Bigfoot [ http://www.bigfoot.com ], or all other search engines and many web sites such as http://www.disney.com . Students with a private ISP without form mail access (remote site access) must also get a free email and configure the form mail to secure emails from the private ISP. However, Earthlink, Road Runner, and AOL may be accessed from HCC’s classrooms

 

E-Mail assignments to:

 

 jtaylorcgs2820@yahoo.com   

and

 jtaylor@masterlinx.net and/or cc's to jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us

 

Subjects of emails must describe briefly the assignments being submitted. Please begin each email subject  with   80:  to represent CGS 2820 day class

Sample subject:       80e: first email

 

 

 

 Strongly Suggested Course Materials:

 

 What is the AWP Certification?

 

The WebYoda Associate Webmaster Professional (AWP) certification is for anyone who wants to improve his/her HTML and XHTML skills without making a major commitment. This certification is the prerequisite to the CWP, and provides the skills needed to acquire an entry-level Webmaster position for maintaining existing static Web sites or building simple Web sites from scratch. The HCC approach to obtaining the title of "WebYoda Associate Webmaster Professional (AWP)."

This Approach comprises successfully passing the four Webmaster Certification courses listed below and passing an online exam:

  1. Mastering the Internet                         plus
  2. Beginning XHTML                                  5. HomeSite 5.0 (Developing Tool)
  3. Advanced XHTML
  4. Cascading Styles Sheets

 

         Exam

 

The Associate Webmaster Professional (AWP) package includes registration keys and serial numbers for the four (4) AWP courses, one prepaid AWP exam voucher, plus HomeSite 5.0 Tool Package (Cost $125.00). This AWP package will be for two courses: CGS 1555 and CGS 2820.

 

Four Course diskette materials are needed for CGS 2820, which  may be purchased separately rather than the above AWP package from Web Yoda for  $40.00 each, Beginning XHTML,  Advanced XHTML, C.C.S. and HomeSite 5.0:

 

  

sample diskettes

 

The Web Yoda on-line materials may be accessed:

http://www.webmastercertification.com

 

Student Web Yoda Courseware Access

 

These Web Yoda materials are designed for 12 hours of classroom/online training each, as well as future reference via the Web. (HCC has 45 hours of instruction for the three credit course.) The course content is continuously updated, and registered students can access the courseware via the Internet to keep up to date.

The HCC-Brandon training center has provided your local access to these courses materials in BTECH 217, BTECH 216, and BACA 216-plus selected stations in the open lab: BTECH 203 at no charge. If you purchase the disks for home use and after you have registered these disks you may access the course tutorials via the Internet from anywhere at: http://www.webmastercertification.com.

 

 Once a month these materials are updated (8th or 9th of the month). Web Yoda encourages you to visit the site and reference these course materials.

 

When you purchase the disk above after your orientation to CGS 2820, the student will discover that the disk is a blank disk with the Web Yoda label. The label has two registration keys.

 

 One is described below, then on-line there will be a prompt for the second required registration number, which is for HCC students only. All HCC students must choose in Step 9: John Taylor as the instructor, despite who is actually teaching the HCC course on the Brandon campus. John Taylor is the only instructor for Web Yoda at HCC and the Tampa Bay area. He will review your homework and issue credit at Web Yoda according to their strict standards of webmaster performance. No portion of the Web Yoda homework may be completed by a WYSIWYG editor,  such as Front Page or Dreamweaver. However, HomeSite’s text editor may be used by HCC Brandon students, but only in its edit and view mode. (HomeSite’s design mode (version 4.52 or earlier) may not be used in preparing any Web Yoda homework.)

 

 

Registering Your Student Resource Disk

1. 

Read the following steps before proceeding.

2. 

Go to www.webmastercertification.com.

3. 

New students must first "Become A Member."

4. 

Next, login to your Student Account.

5. 

Choose "Register Training Center Course Materials."

6. 

Find the listing for this course.

7. 

Choose the "Register" button next to this course.

8. 

Enter the registration key listed on the front of your student resource disk and click "Submit."

9. 

Choose your instructor and click "Continue."

10. 

Student and course registration complete.

 

At the Brandon campus, all Web Yoda courseware is installed locally on the machines in: BTECH 217. Each lab has only the courseware for the courses scheduled in that lab. BTECH 217 is the only lab with the Beginning and Advanced HTML coursewares (The Beginning disk covers Tutorials 1-3 in the text and Advanced disk covers Tutorials 4-6 and some DHTML):

 

The Web Yoda Classes at HCC

 

FSU/Web Yoda Course

HCC Course

Cost

Mastering the Internet(AWP)

CGS 1555: Introduction to the Internet

$40.00

Beginning XHTML (AWP)

CGS 2820: HTML Authoring and CGS 1555

$40.00

Advanced XHTML (AWP)

CGS 2820: HTML Authoring

$40.00

C.S.S. (AWP)

CGS 2820: HTML Authoring

$40.00

HomeSite 5.0

CGS 1555, CGS 2820, and/or COP 2822

$40.00

E-Business (CWP)

CGS 2069: E-Commerce

$40.00

E-Marketing (CWP)

CGS 2069 E-Commerce

$40.00

Web Design and Graphics (CWP)

CGS 2822: Web Site Creation or

$40.00

 

COP 2823: Graphic Design
for Multimedia/Internet

 

Paint Shop Pro 7

CGS 2822

$40.00

Java Survival Skills (CWP)

COP 2822: Scripting for the Web: JavaScript

$40.00

Flash

CGS 2876: Audio, Video, and Animation
for the Desktop (Web)

$40.00

Cold Fusion

CGS 2545* Introduction to Web Database or

$40.00

*New course for 2001-2002. Will be offered Fall Term 2002 for the first time.

 Students are not allowed to purchase the disks from the HCC Brandon Bookstore until Drop and Add has been completed and the e-learning course orientation. If you drop or withdraw from the course, you may NOT be refunded the cost of the disk courseware NOR may you sell the disk to another student, once the disk has been registered to you.  The disk is good for life. The on-line courseware changes from month to month, term to term. When you register the disk with Web Yoda, that course will become available to you online under your member number for a lifetime. You do not need to purchase the second disk until Tutorial 4 is assigned. You may sell any of the unused portions of the AWP set.

 

Initialize Class Project/Download Files

 

To download the course files to the blank disk, go to the courseware click on Class Index, then Introduction and then choose Initialize Class Project:

And follow the directions (You have two Options: Locally of Via the Web):

 

Initialize your class project LOCALLY in BTECH 217:

1. Do not choose "Save to Disk" in Netscape or IExplorer.

2. Insert your Student Resource disk in Drive A:.

3. If Netscape asks what to do, choose "Open It."

4. If IExplorer asks what to do, choose "Run this program."

5. Press: Initialize your class project Locally!

6. Done!

or

Initialize your class project via the Web at home:

1. 

You are about to download the program "initdisk.exe" that will put the student resource files onto a disk. These files will be used throughout the course, as well as for creating your homework assignment.

2. 

initdisk.exe will not access any files on your machine or alter your machine in any way. It is only used to generate your student resource disk.

3. 

When you download the file, you will get a dialogue box telling you the location of where the file is being downloaded. It is important to note where the file is downloaded to for the following steps.

4. 

Download the initdisk.exe setup program to your machine.

5. 

If you are in a classroom training, insert your Student Resource disk in Drive A:. If you are taking this class online, insert a blank, formatted, 3.5" HD high density diskette into your Drive A:.

6. 

Open your Windows or NT Explorer and locate the initdisk.exe file you just downloaded. Or select Run from your Start menu and run the initdisk.exe file from its current location.

7. 

Follow the on screen instructions in the initdisk.exe program to initialize your student resource disk.

8. 

Done!

  

Getting Started (Your ISP and Email):

 

Sometimes the hardest part of the course for some of the students is to gain access to the Internet at home.  Students must have access to the Internet to complete the course. Free access is available at the public libraries and all HCC computer labs.  However, e-Learning’s purpose is to allow the student to complete his/her work from a distance, which the majority of the time is from the student’s home. Most of the class members already have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) at their home.

 

 If you do not have access to the Internet, it is suggested that you do not contract for an ISP that requires longer than a one-year agreement. Purchasing an ISP contract is like buying a cell phone contract. Be careful. There are great deals out there. For example: 695online.com is a new ISP out of Daytona Beach that offers access at $6.95 per month with local dialup in Tampa. Many people are enticed by the free trial AOL deal. AOL is good for the beginners but over priced at $23+ per month. Your instructor’s ISP has a range of services available from their very cheap $5 per month dialup access with no email to their most expensive family plan at $18 per month which allows six logon accounts (family and friends) with two simultaneous users, 12 email accounts, and 25 meg of web space. Your instructor has one of his six dialups reserved for student emergency use at no charge on a short-term basis.

 

When you are shopping for an ISP, you need to find information such as:

  1. The monthly base fee and whether it is unlimited access or a specific number of hours it provides.
  2. The hourly rate for time used over the monthly base amount.
  3. Whether the telephone access number is local or long distance.
  4. Which specific Internet services are included.
  5. What software is included.
  6. What user-support services are available.
  7. Can you access the ISP when traveling.

 

 Directions to set up your modem through My Computer and Dial-Up Networking can be access through HELP.  You need several things to setup the ISP: a local dial-up phone number, your log-on user name, your log-on user pass word, your incoming email server address and your outgoing email server address.

 

After being on the Internet, students may want to have a faster connection. These services start at $34.95 and up. Dialup access via phone is limited to 53 kbs at the very best connection. Cable and DSL are at least twice as fast.  This is the reason the instructor recommends no long term contracts so that faster options are available at a later time.

 

 HCC does not allow dialup access to the Internet. Also HCC does not assign student SMTP regular E-Mail accounts like USF.

 

Therefore, each campus student should obtain an Internet email access either through hccbrandon.net, Hotmail, MailExcite, or Yahoo or (all are free) or a private provider (up to $23/month). By the second week of the course the student must have an ISP and an email  address.  

 

Students receive the 50 points by emailing the instructor at jtaylorcgs2820@yahoo.com and mailto:jtaylor80@hccbrandon.net   with cc’s to jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us and jtaylor@masterlinx.net with a short message with a description of the student's past HTML experience, if any. Subject of the first email (day class) is: 80d: first email.

 

By the end of the second week, the instructor will send a group email to all the students in the class. For 75 additional points the student will add all the class members and the instructor to their address book, setup a group mail in the address book, and send a group email to everyone in the class and Taylor’s four email addresses During the course the students will send biweekly group emails to all class members and the instructor for 25 points each.  These group emails will include the URL’s of the best web sites found during the weekly period (from bookmarks or favorite sites) subdivided into the following categories: Educational, Entertainment, Informational, on-line E-Commerce and links to completed HTML pages on his/her web site.

 

Phone/Email Network:

 

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2820/fall02/80atdF02.html

links to John Taylor’s e-Learning students

 

    Students may use the instructor’s web site: http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2820/elearning/  to initially post their work in a sub directory using their last name in lower case.  Completed work may be submitted to HCC’s Student Server, if available or to the student’s private ISP or to a free web host.

 

FTP Requirement:

 

During the course, the student will have to transfer many files (uploading and downloading).  The student will download an FTP program such as WS_FTP. Your on-line Mastering the Internet Web Yoda first course has the following Problem #6 which is worth 50 points for completion:

Web Yoda Mastering Internet Problem #6 - Download WS_FTP

 

 

1. 

Visit the WebYoda FTP site ftp://ftp.webyoda.com/.

2. 

Click on the directory pub.

3. 

Then click on the file ws_ftple.exe to download the software.

4. 

Download it to your c:\temp directory.

5. 

Make a note at Problem #6 in your homepage.htm of where to find WS_FTP on the Internet (the URL).

6. 

Save your file, view your class project in the browser, and hit the reload/refresh button.

7. 

Other instructor led activities may be added.

 

Free Web Hosting

 

The student may acquire either through his/her ISP web space or one of the free sites:

www.brandonfla.com (See Bob Harrell)

www.webcertification.info (John Taylor’s New site) or

www.free.prohosting.com
 www.geocities.com
www.tripod.com
www.fortunecity.com
www.angelfire.com

www.spree.com
www.bravenet.com

The student will make directories at the web site and upload their homepage, Web Yoda course projects, and images used. Obtaining the web site outside of the instructor’s is worth 25 points, making this section worth 150 points total.

   

 File Formats:

 

Windows as well as other Microsoft Programs allow the user to save files in a ridiculous fashion, which causes many problems on the web. What happens when a students opens a word processor or other application and types the first letter, is that Microsoft in their great wisdom creates a temporary name for the file which includes the first words typed or the title at the top of the page. This includes the NO! NO! spaces between words and super long file names. When the student saves the file, the student is to overwrite the program’s attempt to create these long file names with spaces and other non-letter/number symbols.  It is best to keep the file name to eight letters before the period and the extension.

 

When working with unsaved files, many programs such as HomeSite will make a back-up save, which includes a tilde: ~hs_80sylS01.html . The tilde ~ will truncate extra long files. The ~tilde in URL’s have a different meaning such as: http://www.ju.edu/~mbessma/ . Please do not use more than eight letters or numbers in a file name with no other symbols (except the underscore if you just have to have a space in the name). The instructor will forgive pushing it to 10 or 14 characters, but no more.

 

 Next: Do NOT use Uppercase letters, except as noted above to replace a space between two words. For every file the instructor has to view, which violates the rule of the class, 50 points will be deducted.

 

Attendance:

 

The instructor expects each student to attend.  300 points of the final grade is earned through attendance and signing the roster each week. For the first three weeks students will put place cards on their monitors to identify themselves. Students will complete a data card and submit it to the instructor the first class. A sample of the data card is on the last page of the syllabus.

 

 Each day class counts ~20 points. Wednesday classes have 15 classes.  Students may complete extra assignments to makeup for missed points as contracted with the instructor. After one  class absence, a penalty of /20 extra points will be deducted for the second week of absences. Absences a third week or more will result in a 50 point night penalty assessed. Student who have advanced skills or have a serious time schedule change, may independently contract at anytime to finish the course without attendance. These student will complete all Web Yoda online assignments as well as the projects assigned by the instructor.

 

Students not attending the final class meeting (unless prior arrangement is made with the instructor) are subject to “F” final grades.

 

Students absent should consult the weekly group emails or the menus at:

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2820/cgs2820.html

 

 

Access to Student Emails/ Web Site Menu:

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2820/ 80email.html

the file name begins with 80atd followed by the term: S02c for spanned Summer 2002, F02 for Fall 2002, and S03 for Spring 2003.

 

Synchronous Attendance:

 

The instructor may hold biweekly sessions on the Internet via WebCT whiteboard or the Interwise teaching platform. The outline of the session will be sent via group email at least two days prior to the session. These sessions will be in the evening slot on Tuesday nights late or Saturdays during the daytime. There will be three class sessions the instructor will have a substitute (Mr Gary Johns) and he will attempt to broadcast from the conference to the class via a synchronous platform. These sessions are optional (except for regular class time and) , except if Interwise is used then the sessions are recorded and can be played back at a later time for students missing the session or for those that wish to review the session.

 

Special Dates:

 

Drop & Add Adjustments

 Jan 8-Jan 14

Faculty/Counselor Adjustment

 Jan 15-Jan 21

Administrative Adjustment      

 see Dean in BACA 207

Last Day to Withdraw

 March 7

Final Exam

 May 1 and May 6

No classes scheduled

 Jan 20; Feb 17; Mar 10-16; Apr 18-19

Last Day to Remove ‘I’

 October 1, 2003

 

Academic Software Purchases:

 

   As students of HCC you may purchase software, fully licensed, called Academic Versions for your home use at reduced prices, which are generally lower then local stores and online pricing deals. For example, HomeSite cost $99 when purchased from the Vendor: Macromedia. There are often $25 or $30 rebate coupons for Office Depot, Comp USA, etc. However, you can order from an Academic Vendor such as: Software One at 1-800-444-9890. Our HCC rep is Brian Reagle. I must tell him or verify to him you are a student or co-employee of HCC. The price is $68 plus shipping. Other good academic deals: Office XP Profession-full version $189 (not upgrade)($149 Special Student-no Access), Adobe PhotoShop 6.0 $264, and Word Perfect Office Profession (including Paradox) $93. Our Bookstore also sells Academic versions such as Dreamweaver 4.0 $99 (which includes Homesite)—Brian’s price $94 but you have to pay shipping..

 

On-Line Tutorial Quizzes and Exams:

 

After the first two weeks (one week in the summer), students will complete on-line quizzes and exams.  The quizzes are open book/notes, but must be completed individually without assistance from peers at home.  These quizzes (up to 10 total) will be the exercises that should be completed prior to attempting weekly online tests via WebCT.  15-60 points of the total grade (one point for each correct answer) will be earned for the completion of these weekly quizzes.

After completion of the quiz, the student will attempt a timed on-line exam through WebCT. The WebCT exams will be 25 randomly selected questions worth 2 points each. The student will have only 25 minutes to complete the test. The student will be allowed one and only one retest to improve the grade, except the retest will be the score, which counts toward the final grade.

 The instructor will prepare the chapter quizzes from the required textbook: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML – Comprehensive.  The chapter quizzes will be worth up to 55 points each, 50 points short answer and an additional  5 points for an essay question when on the quiz.. (Not every quiz has an essay question) The on-line chapter quizzes allow the student to check the test before submitting it..

CGS 2820 students should access Test Zero from their home to test their ISP:
1. Enter your name and email address,
2. Enter the answer to #1 as choice a,
3. Scroll down to the "All Done Check the Test" button and click to see if your ISP's browser pops up the window and grades the test with a score of 1 out of 50.
4. Finally click the submit button and see if the test submits.

Tutorial 0: CGS 2820 Test Template

 

The student must check the quiz at least once before submitting it. After checking it, the student has an option to change the answer to the correct answer before submitting it. From time to time, especially during Beta Testing a new quiz, a wrong answer will be programmed in the test checker.  If the student strongly disagrees with the computer’s answer, the student should challenge the answer by describing why the computer’s answer is wrong in the “I discovered that…” section of the test.

 

If the test does not submit with an error message of Invalid Characters present: check the text boxes to see if: any of the following characters were used:

 !, # ,$, %, ^, &, *, (, ), {, }, [, ], <, >, ?, ~, +, =, |

 Delete the special character and try to resubmit.

 

Also, sometimes the quiz checker doesn’t work or indicates a JavaScript error. If the test will not grade, print out a hard copy of the pop-up window or electronically capture it, submit the test using the alternate submit button. The instructor charges at least 15 points for quizzes not checked (or alternately submitted with hard copy), making the maximum score 35 out of 50. Also the instructor charges 15 points for a student who fails to place their name on the test or another 15 points if they fail to place their correct email address at the top of the test.

 

 

 

 

 

WEEKLY Evaluations Assignments:

 

             Each week the student may be required to submit a weekly evaluation/task.   The assignment may include problems and activities from the book, activities assigned by the instructor, or Web Yoda Exercises from the on-Line course materials. Each assignment is designed to take no more than three to six hours per week to prepare outside of class. 50-75-100 points of the final grade will be determined for each task completed up to 1200 points.  Student selecting the web Yoda/FSU Option will only have to complete 300 points beyond Web Yoda’s 900 points assignments below.  For example: for Tutorial 10, the student will script using MASH 4.52 a Microsoft Agent into their personal home page and create a button to trigger the agent’s dialog.  Web Yoda does not cover Audio, Video, or Animation in the two HTML courses, but HCC’s course objectives require that students use audio and video on web pages.

 

Tutorial 1: data card, Resume, etc  (using text-ie Mary Taylor) for About Me Web Site

Tutorial 1: Adding Images to Web Pages-Photo pages or pages for About Me web site

Tutorial 1 (Conversion of Word doc to HTML)-sample essay to be published to About Me

Tutorial 1: Using Lists-List of Links for Favorite’s page for About Me Web Site

Tutorial 1: Using the Pre Tag

Tutorial 1:

 

Tutorial 2: Adding Links to pages (absolute, relative (two kinds), inline (possibly with  lists)

Tutorial 2: Adding email link to web page

Tutorial 2: Adding internal hyperlinks

 

Tutorial 3: Creating an Animated Gif using Animation Shop 3 in Paint Shop Pro 7

Tutorial 3: Creating an Image Map

Tutorial 3: E-photo, scan image,  image links

 

Tutorial 4:  Invisible Table to Position Text and Image on Page

Tutorial 4: Using Table Header tags

Tutorial 4: Using colors in Table (Felix Cat)

Tutorial 4: American Flag (Colors, Col Span, and Row Span, hspace)

Tutorial 4: Time Chart, Store Schedule, Office Hours Table

Tutorial 4: Nested table-Picture Frame

 

Tutorial 5:  Frame Page

 

Tutorial 6: Guest Book, Shopping cart, or survey form  

Tutorial 7:  use style attribute in one tag

Tutorial 7:  use style tag in head of document

Tutorial 7:  use style tag for web site-reference external css page

 

Tutorial 10: use bgsound tag in one document

Tutorial 10: play video on Web Page

 

Tutorial 8/9: Cut and Paste Existing JavaScripts into HTML Document

Tutorial 8/9: Integrate one Java Applet on a web page

 

Tutorial 8/9/10: Integrate one Microsoft Agent file into a Web Page

 

 

 

 

 

Web Yoda Exercises/Homework Completion:

 

Students have the option to complete all Web Yoda Exercises and homework for both Beginning HTML and Advanced HTML by the end of the course and post the results on their web site or post under the instructor’s temporary web site for students. Each posting will be worth 450 total points and will substitute for most of the task assignments above

 

Personal Web Site/Faculty Web Site and Final Course Project :

 

   The student will prepare a personal About Me Web Site demonstrating the use of text, images, links, and lists. During the term, the student will author basic pages for this web site, which may include Biographical sketch, photo albums pages, favorite web sites page and/or Major Interest page. The student may prepare a web site for the student’s employer or a special organization. Another option for the initial web site is for the student to act as a beginner intern for a Brandon Campus faculty member to post the syllabus, assignments, and possibly a series of practice tests.  The student will earn 200 points for the About Me web site and either 200 points for the Employer/Organization web site or 200 points for the Faculty web site.

 

   Each student will author a final course project/web site.   This project may be a game, a tutorial for a course, an on-job training lesson, a web site for a business or organization, an educational web site for HCC’s Computer Science department at Brandon, a multimedia presentation on the Web, a data base management system such as a video archive, or some other courseware project which may be linked to the student’s home page and a valuable asset to the students portfolio.   This project should contain at least one image map and possibly some JavaScript (or VBScript) programs (such as last modified script). The instructor will provide more detail of this project in group emails.  This project will count at least 200 points of the student’s final grade.

 

    The successful installation of these pages on the Internet and their updates is worth 50 points of the final grade as described in the FTP section above.

 

Tables, Frames, and/or Forms Special Projects

 

  The student will prepare an on-Line quiz using the Instructor’s Testing Template for 200 points. The student may be required to prepare an on-Line vocabulary quiz with Image swapping using a template created by the instructor for an additional 200 points.

  The student will prepare a complex table assignment for 200 points, which will be either a Turbo HAL maze or a Crossword puzzle.

  The student may be required to use a template supplied by the instructor to prepare an evaluation, survey, guest book, or shopping cart form for 200 points.

 

Final Exam:

 

 The instructor will administer an on-line Final Exam over the assigned tutorials from the text. The student may complete the exam off campus or in the Brandon Campus testing center. The test will be 60 questions via WebCT. This exam may be open book and open notes, but must be completed individually on-line in 60 minutes or in the testing center with a two hour  (120 minute) time limit. This exam will be worth 120 points with two point(s) earned for each correct answer.

As an alternative the student may complete On-Line Web Yoda Associate Webmaster Certification Exam (60 questions-60 minutes) for $35. Passing the exam (80% or better) will constitute a 100% grade on the Final. 

 

 

On-Line Security Check:

 

            During the exams or the final exam, on-line security checks may occur. Students will fill out a data form at the orientation session. Students will have to show the instructor photo identification of themselves when submitting these forms at the end of the orientation plus have an electronic photo taken.  When a security check occurs, the student will have 30 seconds to respond with the correct answer or the test will be voided

 

 

 

 

Grade Review:

Sample portfolio grading sheet summaries are available for previous terms on the instructor’s web site.  The current term summary page will be distributed by the instructor via an email attachment about two weeks before the end of a regular term. This form must be completed by the student for the last class and reviewed by the instructor before a passing grade may be issued at the end of the semester.  The grade summary is as follows:

______(300) Attendance

______(200) Email

______(100) FTP

______(200) About Me web Site

______(200) Faculty Internship Web Site (Employer’s web Site)

______(200) Final Course Project

______(400) On-Line Quizzes

______(100) Final Exam

______(200) Preparation of On-Line Quiz (MC, T/F, and FitB)

______(200) Preparation of Vocabulary On-Line Quiz

______(200) Preparation of On-line survey form

______(200) Preparation of On-Line Crossword Puzzle or Turbo HAL Maze

______(100) Integration Microsoft Agent script into a web page(s)

______(450) Weekly Tasks(1,2,3) or Web Yoda Exercises and homework posting-Beg HTML

______(450) Weekly Tasks(4,5,6) or Web Yoda Exercises and homework posting-Adv HTML

______(400) Other Weekly Task Assignments (7,10 +) or Web Yoda CCS homework

______(~3900) Total

 

Grading Scale:

A = 90% or more

B = 80-89 %

C = 70-79 %

Under 70% is not acceptable behavior and may result in a D or F final grade.

 

On-Line Grade Calculator:

 

The student may monitor his/her grade by entering the points on the sample grade review sheet or by putting total in the on-line grade calculator.  If the student has met the minimum criteria of an assignment submitted, then maximum points may be entered (except for quizzes).  You may access the on-line grade calculator at the following URL:

 

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2820/80grdcal.html

 

Instructor’s Right to Change or Modify Grading Procedures:

 

The instructor reserves the right to modify or change the grading progress as the course proceeds.  Additional course assignments may be added.  Some may be modified or deleted.  The instructor will NOT add major examinations as a modification, except the right to add a final exam open or closed book.  The course has to flexible, each student’s circumstance will be different according to their access to the Internet.  The instructor is requesting time commitment of at least two hours per week and up to six to ten may be necessary some week of outside class time.  Please understand, some things just may not work-the activities logs will reflect successes and frustrations and with these submissions the instructor may have to make modifications. 

 

The instructor reserves the right to reassign work to students if the instructor senses the work submitted is not the work of the student. (No questions asked-The instructor will just  tell the student to resubmit the work to earn the weekly grade , quiz or assignment).

Instructor Requested Information:

 

On the first day of class, the student will fill out a 4x6 (or 3x5) file card to give to the instructor at the end of class.

The instructor has provided a sample below with his personal data and his block scheduled time.

 

Data Card (4x6 file card):       Front Side (Personal Data)

     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Name:               John Taylor                           CGS 2820                       

Address:          4417 Port Arthur Road

   Jacksonville, Florida 32224                 

Telephone:   361-4379    (Jax 904-992-2052)

E-MAIL :        jtaylor@masterlinx.net

                        jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us

 Employment:       Hillsborough Community College   (1969)

     253-7824 (yes)   Full time chemistry faculty(first)

 

Major: Instructional Technologies        Minor: Chemical education

Long Term Goal: Educational Software Developer; certified webmaster

       Web hosting company

Prerequisite: CGS 1555 (CGS 1000/1100 also suggested)

Computer Skills: Win95 yes; WP: Word; Languages: JavaScript

 

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Data Card (4x6 file card):  Back Side (Scheduled Time Blocks)  Spring 2003 Data

         

Schedule

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

10:00-11:00

 

Office

Office

Office

11:00-12:15

CGS 1555*

CHM 1025

CGS 2820

CHM 1025

12:15-1:00

 

Office

Office

Office

01:00-01:15

 

 

Office

Office

01:00-3:30

 

CHM 1025L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04:30-05:30

 

Office

Office

Office

05:00-07:00

Office

 

 

 

05:30-06:45

 

CHM 1025

CGS 1871*

CHM 1025

07:00-09:45

COP 2822

CHML 1025

COP 1000

 

 

HCC Program Codes:

A.S. Internet Services Technology                    CCC Internet Services Technology

Option 1- Web Designer                                                                          Option 1: Web Development Specialist-Designer

Option 2: Web Developer                                                                       Option 2: Web Development Specialist-Developer                              

Option 3: E-Commerce Support                                                              Option 3: E-Commerce Support