Weaving the Web

When: Tue & Thu, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Where: Park 10 Instructor: Deepak Kumar Office: 248 Park Hall Voice: (610) 526-7485 E-Mail: dkumar@brynmawr.edu

Course Description	The World Wide Web will forever change the shape of modern life: its full impact is yet to be realized. In a short span of five years, the web has already altered the way we do business, entertain and inform ourselves, build communities, and exchange ideas. What used to be a high-tech communications system accessible only to the elite digerati has now turned into a mass medium. In this course we will examine the web as a new way of thinking and communicating. We will read about development of the web as told by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee in his recent book titled Weaving the Web, and in the same spirit, we will engage in the creation (weaving) of a web of our own. The class will be constituted as the editorial staff for an experimental, inaugural electronic magazine that will carry insightful essays directly relevant to all aspects of life on the campus of Bryn Mawr College and its surrounding community. In the process of carrying out the publishing of the magazine, students will get first-hand exposure to writing in hypertext. The course will include invited talks by various faculty on the campus.
Text	Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee (with Mark Fischetti) Harper Collins, 1999
Links	Supplementary Material to the text. Tim Berners-Lee Visit Favorite Sites (Organized Version) Administrivia Scratchbook People Orbit Reactions to Weaving the Web

Calendar

January 18	First Meeting: Welcome! Introduction to the course E-mail Deepak your three favorite WWW sites Think of a name for the magazine Jot down ideas for possible content
January 20	Web Essentials 1: Internet, Servers, Clients, Browsers, Hypertext, Links, Domain Names, IP.

January 25	Class Cancelled due to Winter Storm Billy.
January 27	Web Essentials 2: Creating Hypertext documents using Page Mill. Defining a WWW site. Uploading to a Web Server. Forming Groups: Administrative Groups: Editorial Board, Design, Publicity Content Groups: Articles, Resources, Surveys, Photography Exercise: Create your own home page and upload it on the student server by next thursday, Feb 4, 2000.

February 1	Page Mill: A gentler introduction. Today, each group will create their own home page. For information on posting your web page on the student web server click here.
February 4	Lab Time: Each group should complete putting their web page together. Next meeting: Each group should come prepared for a progress report, and possible items for discussion on their assignment.

February 8	Name your magazine: Orbit Woven Neither View Results Team Reports on current projects.Bring issues and/or questions to discuss.
February 10	We will call urselves orbit (URL will be orbit.brynmawr.edu). Today, we will organize the Web Design Groups, Publicity Groups, and the Editorial Staff. Special session on Imaging for the Web, at 8 p.m. in Park 10 Lab. Presented by Bogdan Butoi.

February 15	Status reports and possible logos. Work on your projects/web pages.
February 17	First drafts of all articles due. Selecting new story ideas and making groups.

February 22	Editing drafts, review layout.
February 24	Today's class time will be used to finish the final drafts of all articles. All content for the first issue should be finsihed. Unfortunately, I still do not have the files needed for doing the publicity materials. So, we may have to go ahead and launch the magazine and perhaps start publicity on the day of the launch.

February 29	Orbit is launched totay! Visit it at orbit.brynmawr.edu. Launch party during our regular meeting time.
March 2	Today, we will reorganize all groups. Discuss some issues regarding our articles. Look at Orbit usage in the past 48 hours. For March 16, we will discuss Chapters 1 through 7 from Weaving the Web. Please send a short written response to these chapters by 5 p.m. tuesday, March 14.

March 7	Spring Break
March 9	Spring Break

March 14	Orbit Meeting. Progress reports on articles. READ: Chapters 1 through 7 from Weaving the Web. Short written response due by 5 p.m. today. Send it to Deepak via e-mail, in plain text.
March 16	Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapters 1 through 7. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions READ: Chapters 8 & 9 for next week's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, March 21 by 5 p.m.

March 21	Orbit Meeting. Progress reports on articles. Discussion on readership data.
March 23	Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapters 8 & 9. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions READ: Chapter 10 for next week's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, March 28 by 5 p.m.

March 28	Orbit Meeting. Today all articles should be handed in in their final versions. We will also watch Part I of Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. READ: Chapter 10 for thurday's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, March 28 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1
March 30	Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapter 10. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions. Today, we will also pick new editors. READ: Chapter 11 for next week's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, April 4 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1

April 4	Orbit Meeting. Today all articles should be handed in in their final versions. We will also watch Part II of Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. READ: Chapter 11 for thurday's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, April 4 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1
April 6	Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapter 11: Privacy. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions. Editors will also assign new stories. READ: Chapter 12 for next week's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, April 11 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1

April 11	Orbit Meeting. We will also watch Part III of Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. READ: Chapter 12 for thurday's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, April 11 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1
April 13	Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapter 12: Mind to Mind. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions. Editors will also assign new stories. READ: Chapters 13&14 for next week's discussion. Send responses by tuesday, April 18 by 5 p.m. Also include responses to Nerds 2.0.1

April 18	Special Session: Promises and Pitfalls of the Internet, a talk by Prof. Eric Roberts or Stanford University.
April 20	Orbit Meeting. Discussion: Weaving the Web, Chapter3 13&14: Machines and the web/Weaving the Web. Before class, please read all comments at: Reactions.

April 25
April 27	Last Meeting
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