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Daily : 10:00-12:00, Marsh Hall 213; 12-1, Strain 220 or MCEL lab.

INTRODUCTION

In this course we will accomplish three major tasks:

1. We will learn to evaluate electronic materials in general. This will involve answering questions such as these:
1. How do we evaluate "good" web pages or other units of electronic content?
2. How do we produce "good" content?
1. Are there special techniques or forms for good electronic content as opposed to paper or hard copy content?
1. We will learn to evaluate material in a particular area of the Social Sciences. If your major is not in the Social Science, then pick the area closest to your own interests.
2. We will learn to produce electronic materials. Each member of the class will produce a project which will itself go on the web and will deal with the question of how to evaluate electronic material which is specific to your discipline. Your project, as well as containing evaluative material, must also contain useful resources in that field, etc. Think of your final project as a possible element in your own department's pages on the Pacific University servers. Find those pages and continually re-evaluate them during our course, according to the principles which you are learning.

 

This, is, of course, a challenging agenda for a three-week course. Although the problems of evaluating and producing content are intertwined, we will try to seperate them for pedagogical purposes:

• In our two hour daily "class room" we will discuss materials which we have read in the assigned texts or which we have seen on the web. We will have access to a media-projector, so our class can have electronic elements, but it is intended to be a rather traditional seminar-style venue in which we discuss ideas.
  
  
• In our one hour daily lab we will work hands-on to produce materials and to learn new applications.
  
  
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Introduction | Top Level | Schedule | Grading | Readings Assessment | Student Work