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Read for free!An electronic version of the reading list is now online, with links to Web resources. Some texts are available in full on the Web, so check the list before you shop at Amazon.
The list of groups is now available . I would advice you to contact the others in your group today to begin working. E-mail addresses have been sent to you in e-mail. As you all understand, it is crucial that you let us all know if you decide not to take this course.
The groups have been slightly modified (Karin and Helene have swapped). The list online is updated .
Important Send Anders an e-mail if you would like tomorrow's Flash course to be from 9.15 to 16.00 or 11.15 to 18.00.More info
Assignment text for your group essay as well as some writing tips are online. The essay is due November 29.
It should be time to upload to the Web server soon. I've written a very short how to .
Just a reminder: I can read and comment upon draft versons of your group essays. E-mail me to make an appointment. You need to e-mail me the draft version before the meeting, so I have time to read it. I will not read anything after wednesday 24th.
Three more days! Good news (I hope): to reduce administrative exam stuff, we are postponing the due date of your papers. Group essays: hand in no later than monday 29 November. Personal reflections: hand in no later than monday 6 December.
Group essays are due [friday 26 November] change: monday 29. The one-page personal reflection on your learning experience is due one week later, [3 December] change: monday 6.
There's an acute shortage of rooms due to the Bachelor student's journalism month. Wednesday's presentation will have to be delayed one hour, starting at 12.15, room 205.
HF-IT informs that the central servers, which may include your personal accounts, will go down midnight between thursday and friday. If you plan (or have to) work late, take care late thursday night!
This will not affect any of the local computers in the lab, the IMK Web server or the Frankenstein server.
I am writing at home this morning, trying to finish a paper for next week's conference. If you need me -- for the Frankenstein server, for instance, -- just call me, email me or ping me at AOL Instant Messager or iChat. I'll come in to fix things if necessary, no problem. Check your e-mail for phone numbers etc.
--anders
Lab sessions on Wednesdays: From today on, teaching assistant Katherine Berry is available in the Multimedia Lab from 11am to 2pm. She can assist you with most any technical issue regarding your group projects.
Flash intro Wednesday 9.15-16.00. The majority wished for a session from 9.15 to 16. I apologize to those who find that inconvenient, but I can't see how we could have solved this without conflicts.
The course packet (kompendium) is now available at Akademika, the campus bookstore.
Access to Multimedia Lab. If your key card still doesn't work contact Kristin Sandberg at the department's reception desk. Tell her that you're in this course, need access to the lab, and give her your personnummer ("personal number").
Those who want to borrow my copy of Michael Joyce's Afternoon, a story will find it on the computer closest to the entrance in the multimedia lab. Click its icon in the dock (the strip with icons at the bottom of the screen). If the text looks a bit odd, it's probably because it was made in 1986 (!). Instructions are pinned to the wall to the left of the computer.
You should all have access to the multimedia lab from sometime today.
Lab sessions will be thursday mornings from 9.15 to 12.00
If you don't have a computer account (e-mail and username) on the university, get one today! You need this account to publish your web pages. I encourage you to make a home page and publish it in your home folder today. Instructions are online
First session Friday 27 August 10.15. Room 208. Apparently, the messages have been far from clear. I apologise deeply to those who came in vain today.
The unlucky combination of a study reform, new computer systems for messages and room booking, sickness in the admin staff and my own paternity leave made this possible. I am sorry.
--anders
Group project. This course will center around a group assignment. The students will be sorted into three or four groups, and each group will make a Web site in the first half of the semester, and then write a paper about in in the second half.
Some have asked me if they may skip a few classes. That is OK, but if you don't participate in the groups, you flunk. So if you travel abroad or have a job, you have to negotiate your role with the rest of your group.
--anders
The book "Interactivity by Design" is no longer available in the old version, and the new version isn't out yet. It is thus taken out of the list of required readings. Maybe we'll use a replacement, maybe not.
You can buy Fagerjord's "Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form" from the author on the lectures.