Camera
If you anticipate developing a web site having lots of photos, and you do not own a camera nor do you have anyone to borrow one from, I may recommend that you purchase one of the inexpensive digital cameras, available for $40 or less. Try www.ecost.com, www.cdw.com, etc.
Computer labs; software
The course will be taught from the standpoint of the Windows operating system on PCs.
Work space for this course. Computer labs are scattered across UT, with computers at most labs available on a first-come first-serve basis. Consult the UT Office of Information Technology for a listing of all labs; that site also lists labs by equipment and software.
Look for labs that have Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Powerpoint. We will also use Adobe's Acrobat, which is probably installed on most computers in the labs. You will use Wordpad (ships with almost all PC computers) or similar text editor if using a Mac.
Objectives are three-fold:
To hone communication skills,
To learn to create and serve web sites,
To increase knowledge of a particular agricultural expertise.
Each student will create an online agricultural resource of professional interest to them. These may be of two general types:
- An original information resource, text and images developed by the student. .
- An "information exchange": essentially a global table of contents of information related to a particular topic. .
The web resource may be oriented for a business, course, extention or research area, organization, or any combination of these.
In the process of developing the web site, each student will:
- learn to read and write html documents;
- gain experience in organizing and formatting an attractive and useful Web site;
- learn to work with digital images;
- develop skills in using the Internet to access and disseminate information.
Lectures will focus on the skills (and a little philosophy) involved in the various course assignments.
Lecture Topics.
See Assignments for description and due dates for main semester project and other assignments.
Grading
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