February 11&13
I have updated the Schedule page to reflect what the class will be doing on Feb 11 and 13. There are no readings for this week. Instead, students will learn how to login and start constructing the website that will house the class project on Dublin by Lamplight. You can look at the site now, which is merely a shell of what it will eventually become. Students who have laptops are encouraged to bring them on both Monday and Wednesday
On Wednesday, the class will meet in Room 115. The goal of Wednesday’s class is to determine, as a class and in smaller research groups, the basic layout of the site. Right now you’ll notice that the ‘pages’ are named after the Groups – Group A, Group B, etc. This is not a very attractive or informative way to name pages, so students need to decide how the website will be structured. Having one page for each student is overwhelming, so the class needs to decide how to categorise their research into different areas that promote easy and clear navigation for website readers. Thinking about this in advance will help the class to get further on Wednesday.