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Weekly Internet assignment

Learning Objective #1. At first, in the Internet Assignment you will focus on learning how to create and publish web pages using free software. No previous web publishing experience of any kind is required! OU provides you with a web account where you will be able to publish the pages of your Web Project. You will be able to learn everything you need to know for the Web Project by completing the weekly Internet assignments -- and by the end of the semester, you will be a whiz at publishing web pages! (Note to advanced web creators: please contact me if you would prefer to create an alternative form of web project such as an enhanced podcast or a videocast.)

Learning Objective #2. Later on, the Internet Assignments will focus on reading and responding to the Web Projects created by other students in the class (links to all student Web Projects). You will get practice offering constructive feedback to other people about their writing and their web design, and you will also be getting lots of feedback in return about your own writing and web design.

Here is an overview of the Internet Assignments for the semester. The first six weeks relate to Learning Objective 1, and weeks 7 through 14 relate to the second learning objective.

In Week 15 you will complete a survey about your web publishing experiences. In a former semester few students had any previous web publishing experience at all (Question 1).

All of these students learned everything that they needed to learn during the first half of the semester, and by the end of the semester they produced wonderful and creative web projects. You will, too!

Second, most students found few difficulties working with Composer (Question 6).

When you do encounter difficulties, there are a variety of resources available to help you, as you will see.

Here are students' comments about what they liked about creating their web projects...

What will you say about your web project at the end of this semester?

Here are some of the things students did not like about web publishing:

Despite the momentary frustrations that everyone encounters at some time or other with web publishing technology, you will be able to resolve them with help from a variety of resources. When you are finished you will have created something significant and meaningful to you. Keep the end result in sight, and before you know it, we'll be at the end of the semester and you will have completed a project that you will be proud of!

Finally, here are some tips and tricks suggested by previous students:

The tutorial links at the top of every page in this course website include up-to-date instructions for creating websites with GoogleSites, iWeb or Composer. Refer to the these tutorial links first thing when you encounter any problem. In addition, iWeb and Composer include extensive instructions and help files built in (just use the Help menu). And you may contact me for help when you run into problems. But above all, don't let minor frustrations prevent you from making headway on the web publishing assignments; you will be amazed how easy it will become for you, once you get the hang of it.

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