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Web Exercise One:
Due: Monday, 9/24

Use the Pico editor to establish a Web page in your WAM account. Your page should conform the the standard HTML document structure, and it should include both an image and at least one link. (The content may be whatever you wish.)

Mail me your URL--and it is your job to check to make sure it is correct--when you are done: mk235@umail.umd.edu.


Web Exercise Two:
Due: Monday, 10/8

Please go here for details.

Mail me your URL--and it is your job to check to make sure it is correct--when you are done: mk235@umail.umd.edu.


Paper One:
Due: Friday, 10/19

Steve Johnson writes: "Where the Victorian novel shaped our understanding of the new towns wrapped around the steel mill and the cotton gin, and fifties television served as an imaginative guide to the new suburban enclaves created by the automobile, the interface makes the teeming, invisible world of zeros and ones sensible to us. There are few creative acts in modern life more significant than this one, and few with such broad social consequences" (17).

Write a three-page essay that discusses some of those consequences, and in particular why Johnson places the "interface" in the aesthetic context of novels and television.


Web Exercise Three:
Due: Monday, 11/12

Build an HTML table to display your weekly class schedule. It should have columns corresponding to the days of the week, and rows corresponding to times of day.

Go here for some examples.

Mail me your URL--and it is your job to check to make sure it is correct--when you are done: mk235@umail.umd.edu.


Paper Two:
Due: Monday, 11/19

Select a single work or poem from the Animated Text section of the Directory at the Electronic Literature Organization. Write a three-page paper that covers all of the following: why you chose that particular work; how it uses its electronic setting; and what you think it may "mean." Be sure to also tell me the author, title, and the URL of the work you select.




ENGL 467
FALL 2001
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
MATTHEW G. KIRSCHENBAUM
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
MK235@UMAIL.UMD.EDU