Course Outline

School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
Kenley Neufeld, Instructor
kenley@wahoo.sjsu.edu

LIBR 240: Information Technology: Tools and Applications
Summer 1997
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 - 6:30

May 27 Introduction and course overview
A discussion of design issues & A Tour of Bad Web Pages
A discussion of content issues
May 29 How the web works (client/server model/file formats/helper apps/plug-ins)
Web browsers & the HTML "standard" (design issues)
HTML Editors
June 3 Basic HTML tags and formatting
June 5 Basic HTML tags and formatting
June 10 QUIZ #1
Tables
Forms
June 12 Out on Family Emergency
June 17
4:00-8:30
Review Forms
Frames
Non-standard HTML
Graphics (image maps, animated gifs, image manipulation software)
June 19 No class, meet on June 17.
A Home Page DUE
June 24 Incorporating multimedia: audio and video
Plug-ins and helper apps
Adobe Acrobat
Shockwave
Javascript
June 26 NO CLASS - GO TO ALA
July 1 Javascript
July 3 QUIZ #2
Javascript
A discussion about CGI
July 8 No class, meet on July 10.
July 10
4:00-8:30
Cascading Style Sheets and Active-X
Using templates to achieve a uniform look and feel
Web catalogs and other databases on the web.
July 15 Managing and maintaining your World Wide Web Resources
  • finding server space
  • integration with your organization's other publishing efforts
  • statistics and log analysis
  • feedback mechanisms
  • ongoing development and modifications
July 17 The Web Site Presentations
  • Knispel & Cope
  • Minzey & Mikelich
  • Brown & Stebley
  • Sanders & Falcon
  • Turner & Clarke
July 22 The Web Site Presentations
  • Ho & Kobayashi
  • Lieggi
  • Argyres & Jones
  • Chow & Santiago
  • Sammon & Bowen
July 24 The Web Site Presentations
  • Jones & Coletti
  • Brennan & Stemler
  • McCormick
  • Weesner


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