PRESENTATION OF PROJECT

• Develop Your Own and GROUP PAGE

  Let's define a home page as an individualized electronic document serving as an entry-point to the Internet usually containing both informational contributions to the Internet as well as selective (purpose-specific) and convenient access sites for Internet information.

  In this class, we have used the Internet not only passively by trying to find pertinent information which other individuals and institutions have made available. We also use it interactively, i.e. for our own contributions. Our class papers in the past were often written for one professor's eyes only and then discarded after a couple of quarters. Should we consider writing less but research the content a bit better, spend a few more minutes on editing and organization and make it available to a larger audience? You can decide as to when you want to share your writing and its ("URL") Web address with your group, your 207 instructor (for a review of an initial draft or as a formal submission of your work) or with others in the class and then place your assignments and products into that directory (normally public_html/207) which is connected to the Group and Membership List

  Talk to me about it! Discuss with your Group to what extent you want to work on such pages/files together (Group Type I) or link your individual pages/files via a "Group Directory" under one overall Coordinated Umbrella, including Joint Outline (Table of Contents) and Introductory, Integrative Statement. (Group Type II).

  Readings:

  Fox, David and Troy Downing. HTML Web Publisher's Construction Kit. 1995.

  Horn, Robert E. Mapping Hypertext: Analysis, Linkage, and Display of Knowledge for the Next Generation of On-line Text and Graphics. 1989 [QA76.76 H94.H675]

  Lemay, Laura. Teach Yourself Web Publishing in a Week. Paperback, latest Edition.

  Rafter, Michelle, "A Home Page of Your Own," Online Access, September 1995, pp.46-53.

  Principles of Good Home Page Design (via Krumme's E-Survival Guide)

  Library-, C&C and other handouts (pick-up and consult!)

  Here are a few Project- or Home Pages created by undergraduate Geography majors.

  
  

• (Oral) PRESENTATIONS TO CLASS

  Suggestions:
  • Make Every Word Count Washington CEO, July 1999. By Geoffrey Lane (NuSpeak) Knowing what you want to say and who you are saying it to are the keys to effective communication. Effective presenting is an active, everyday task that changes with your audience.
  Progress on projects should be communicated to all members of your group throughout the remainder of the quarter.
• when you submit your project-related Web assignments and make them available to the class as a whole through your Web directory (Table of Contents). Comments and suggestions can be offered formal and for credit (!) through our Discussion Page. Of course, there are many other venues: directly by Email, in or after class etc. You can also ask another member for help and comments. You can only be turned down. There is lot of communication going on in the "real world" among experts and consultants for which the individuals are not getting direct "credit", a promotion or a salary increase... This kind of "networking" is essential to keep the "new (services and consulting oriented) economy" going. Enough said.
• at the time of your Final Group Project presentation (which includes your individual components). This presentation will take place during the last week of the quarter either on Tuesday and Thursday in our regular class meetings. Groups are invited to suggest how much time they would need for their presentation (rule of thumb: 5 minutes per group member).The need for electronic facilities will influence the final allocation of time and space, as well as whether all your group members will be able to attend the same time slot on Wednesday. What is clear is that (for the sake of your group, if nothing else) attendance during the last week at all sessions is absolutely necessary for all members who want to finish the quarter in "good standing". Further details remain to be negotiated between groups and me as the facilitator.

  All projects are due on March 2 (no exceptions!) and will be evaluated from then on until March 17 including by peer evaluation. Changes to the final product based on suggestions from the class (including instructor) or from other commentators can be incorporated throughout this time but should be communicated to econgeog@u. The presentation in class will emphasize your actual work, ideas, arguments, organization of your information, your sources, Web-page design (="hypertextual organization") and your post207 "consulting" (internship, Service-Learning, etc.) plans, i.e. NOT your electronic exploits, background colors, animated hupla and glitz.

  
  The "After-Life" of your Geog 207 Web Effort:

  It is assumed that these Web sites will remain connected to the Geog 207 Web Site System for some time after the end of the quarter. When students lose their accounts due to graduation, and the pages have not been transferred to another Internet Service Provider (ISP), the instructor is entitled to download and connect the best examples of good project sites and to make them available to future generations of 207 students under your name as part of the Geog.207 continuing class-web system. Here is a page which discusses the problem of eventual termination of your account as well as transfer possibilities of your UW home page and the portfolio of your academic work.

  Your instructor would also like to discuss your project and your project experiences with you before or after your presentation.

  Please forward your comments, suggestions and questions related to Geography 207.

  

  "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." (Howard Aiken)

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