Guest Speaker
Guest speaker Stephanie Quilao of Back in Skinny Jeans

Agenda
30 min. Instructor intros and overview of class
30 min. Student intros
30 min. Guest speaker Stephanie Quilao of Back in Skinny Jeans on blogging
15 min. Break
60 min. Lab: start blogging. Demo on how to post a comment and photo on the class blog, followed by a photo session where we will take students' photos. For the next class, students will be assigned to sign up as a "user" on the class blog and post their photo and a brief bio.

Guest Speaker
Dan Costa of Campus Movie Fest

Agenda
15 min. Check attendance and new students.
20 min. Discussion of Reading: The nature of the Internet and how it has enabled Web 2.0 technologies.
30 min. Presentation on emerging technologies.
15 min. Break.
20 min. Discussion of HTML.
30 min. Discussion of class theme (see below).
35 min. Lab

Lab
Start blogging. Demo on how to post a comment and photo on the class blog, followed by a photo session where we will take students' photos. For the next class, students will be assigned to sign up as a "user" on the class blog and post their photo and a brief bio. Intro to GoLive and/or other HTML editors. Use HTML to make a post to the blog introducing yourself or your Pseudonym. Later we will use FTP to post web pages.

Topics
HTML, Markup Languages, Content Management Systems & Web Design.

Class Discussion: Theme for Course
Discussion of theme for the semester. We will discuss how we will create an Internet channel built around that theme and make that available to a global audience.

Book Discussion
We will discuss the reading the class was assigned.

• Have a working Email Account
• Register on Wordpress.com
• Send E-mail to Steve Sloan with address registered under

Reading: Cluetrain, All front matter including "The 95 Theses" and Chapters One and Two

Guest Speaker
Robert Scoble of Podtech

Topics
Introduction to RSS and how RSS empowers blogging and expands it through the ability to add enclosures to RSS, thus creating podcasts. We will be talking about the concepts of aggregation, syndication, metadata (and attention,) tags (and the real-time web.) This will also be where we introduce the concept of Web 2.0 and touch on how the foundation of all this is XML. We will also very briefly touch on OPML and how feeds can be shared.

Lab
Create an account on Bloglines and subscribe to several feeds of your choice. Share your bloglines feed and Email the URL of your blogroll so they can be added to the class blog. Also you should be adding a link section (or a link page) to your web page(s) and your blogroll will be a part of that.

Book Discussion
We will discuss the reading the class was assigned.

Speaker
We will be discussing the speaker from last week and will be offering clarification on the topic of copyright and ethics. No guest speaker this week, we will be focusing on the lab. There will be a presentation on podcasting.

Topics
We will talk about what a podcast is and the different types of podcasts. We will see how a podcast is made and shared.

Lab
We will create a sample podcast.

Book Discussion
We will discuss the reading the class was assigned.

Guest Speaker
Phil Wolff, Managing Editor of Skype Journal.

Lab
Working with audio equipment, recording and editing audio.

Guest Speaker
David Weinberger, Co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto will be presenting to our class via Skype.

Presentation
Overview of RSS (PowerPoint).

Lab
Creating an RSS feed, moving from having an audio file online to having a Podcast. We will be using the Apple Tech Specs Pages as our starting point.

Guest Speaker
Steve Greene, SJSU Journalism Professor, will be speaking to us about video production.

Discussion
We will be discussing the mid-term project, the topics and the audiences for them.

Lab
We will be having an open lab for the balance of the class.

Guest Speaker
Jeremy Kemp, SJSU