PHIL 361/599
Philosophy of Art and Beauty
Spring 1998 - California State University,
Long Beach
Lecture Notes: Week Ten: Final Project
SPRING BREAK: Once your short paper is submitted March
30, you won't have to do anything for this course until after
spring break. Check here on Monday, April 13 for lecture notes
to start our third and final unit. Let me suggest, though, that
you take a look at the final project assignment between now and
April 13 so you can start thinking about that. It will involve
some Web-searching, so you might want to have fun with that over
break.
FINAL PROJECT: I have just posted detailed information
on your final project for the course:
http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361/361_a5.html
You can also get to it by clicking "assignments" on
the class page and scrolling down to "Final Project."
In a "traditional" course, you would typically take
a final exam and perhaps submit a final term paper. This Final
Project replaces such requirements and should take about the same
amount of time you would spend on those.
SCHEDULING CHANGES: I have moved back a couple of deadlines,
so you will have a bit more breathing space at the end of the
semester. Of course, you can still turn these in early if you
wish! You'll see the new dates on updated pages for "course
requirements and grading" and "course syllabus."
I've pushed these back as far as I can to the end of the semester.
Specifically:
- Short Paper III will be due Wednesday, May 13 (instead
of 5/11). I'll post the assignment no later than April 27. This
will be a very short paper on Unit III.
- Final project-Written paper will be due Friday, May
22 (instead of 5/18).
- Final project-Web page is still due, as announced,
on Monday, May 18.
WEB TRAINING: The final project includes constructing a
Web page. Now don't panic! I realize that almost
none of you know how to do this, so we're going to make sure you
all have ways to learn this between now and May 18. Believe me
- authoring and posting a basic Web page is incredibly easy. The
WWW has caught on like wildfire since 1995, in part because people
like looking at all the multi-media stuff from around the world
- but that's only part of the story. The other part is that people
have discovered how incredibly easy it is to post a Web page for
their family, their school, their club, their business, etc.,
etc. The supply has exploded, not just the demand, and that's
because web-authoring is so simple. So here are a variety of ways
that you too can learn how to author a Web page by the end of
the semester:
- On-line instructions: I have a Web page on-line with
step-by-step instructions for creating a Web page with Netscape
Composer (one of the programs in the Netscape 4.0 package). I
developed these last fall to use in some faculty workshops I've
done for Academic Computing, but they've also been used by many
students, faculty, and staff on our campus and they're reasonably
beginner-friendly. Let me ask you to take a look at them, print
them out so you can follow along, and give them a try in the next
three weeks or so: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/composer.html
If you are using Netscape 3.0, the Netscsape site has something
called "Netscape gold" that includes a web-authoring
program very similar to Composer. Go to the Netscape site and
you can download that for free. But only use Netscape 3.0 if you
have 16 MB RAM or less or if you are using Windows 3.1, not Windows
95.
- Instructions from commercial services: If
you subscribe to a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP),
there's a good chance the service includes a "member help"
section on web-authoring. I've looked at AOL and Prodigy recently
and both have help sections that walk you through the process
of (a) creating a Web page and (b) loading it onto your computer
account ("publishing to the Web"). For example, in AOL,
go to "find" and ask for "Web Create" or "Personal
Publisher."
- Web-authoring in your word-processing program: Many
of the newer word-processing programs (e.g., WordPerfect 7.0 and
8.0) have web-authoring built into the program. Go to the "help"
section for instructions. If you are using Microsoft Word, go
to the Microsoft web site (http://www.microsoft.com/)
and look for something called "Internet Assistant" -
it's a file that you download for free that adds web-authoring
capability to your existing Word program. (I use WordPerfect 8.0
and Word 7.0/Internet Assistant for Web-authoring, so I'm most
familiar with those.) All of these web-authoring programs are
very similar and all look a lot like word-processing programs.
If you learn one (like Composer), you'll be able to use any of
them.
- E-mail questions: This goes without saying: if you
are trying any of these Web-authoring programs and get stuck,
send me an e-mail message and I'll troubleshoot with you individually.
I get e-mail all the time from perfect strangers who are stuck
using my Composer instructions, so this is no problem. Tell me
what program you're using, how far you got, where you got stuck,
etc.
- Individual in-person help: You are always welcome to
come into my office hours (Wednesdays, 12:30-3:30) for extra help.
Bring your diskette and your print-out of the Composer instructions.
I'll open the Composer program on my office computer and we'll
see where you're getting stuck.
- Tutorials in the campus labs: I will schedule "help"
sessions in the campus computer labs with you, as much or as little
as we need to do this. Let me ask that you first look at the Composer
instructions and print them out, and give them a try on a computer
with Netscape 4.0/Communicator. Then let me know what times are
best for you. If only a few of you need some help in the campus
labs, we'll just sign in together and sit in a corner. If I have
a large group (10-15), I'll reserve one of the labs. If nobody
gets in touch with me about needing tutorials, I won't hold these.
Here are some of my options for scheduling these:
- Tuesday, April 21: 10-11 and 1:45-3:00
- Wednesday, April 22: 10-12
- Monday, April 27: 12-2 and 4-5
- Thursday, April 30: 1-3
- Wednesday, May 6: 10-12
- Monday, May 11: 1-2 and 4-5
Have a great spring break everybody! My goal is to have all of
your Short Papers graded before April 13. With luck, I'll have
them done well before that. (I'll also be grading 98 essay mid-terms
from my Introduction to Ethics course between now and April 13,
so I won't have yours finished right away!)
Continue to Lecture Notes for Week Eleven
(posted 4/13/98)
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