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MM 3412: The New Publishing
This year's class promises to be as much of a success as our first year & with a contingent of students ranging from their first year to their fourth the dynamism of the course will only improve. Drawing from a collection of 19th century Saint John, NB postcards from the library's archives, students will be diditizing, encoding and indexing the associated texts and images for their class website.
I. Overview
Calendar Abstract: ''Examines approaches to publishing texts and images for the WWW. A project-based course in which students will build their own publishing project. Issues include project analysis and design, imaging for the Web and for archival purposes, text encoding, the use of structured data for search and retrieval, and Web presentation. Uses UNB''s E-Text Centre, where it will be taught.''
Expansion: Primarily a course which fits into the technical component of the Multimedia program, MM 3412 will also engage students on critical and creative levels, placing attention on both the processes and the issues of electronic publishing and data structuring. Organization of projects will be based around issues discussed in class and will be accomplished in a group setting. Emphasis will be placed on projects which can be facilitated by the resources and personnel of the Electronic Text Centre. Classes will be held in the Information Technology Learning Centre and will be a combination of lecture, instruction and lab work. Final grades will be based on regular class attendance and participation, and on the demonstration of working knowledge of the material covered, as exemplified by a series of short assignments, reflection papers, and the result of a final project.
II. Specifics
Intent: Generally speaking, the intention of this course is to impart a working knowledge of the processes and issues of scholarly and academic electronic publishing and data structuring. Specifically, this course will be based in granting to students a detailed introduction to standard practices of textual and image-based document markup and encoding. Using a combination of theory and issue based lectures and practical hands-on experience, students will gain an understanding of the intricacies of ''the new publishing'', and an appreciation of the ways in which their own interests in multimedia may be tied to these practices.
Classes:
Classes will be held on Wednesdays, between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m, in the Information Technology Learning Centre, located on the main floor of the Harriet Irving Library. Each class will be divided into three equal sections, consisting of a lecture component, a tutorial, and a lab. In this time, students will engage in discussions concerning the work and issues at hand, and will have an opportunity to continue hands-on work with the larger group project. For many of our classes, we will have various individuals from the Electronic Text Centre and the Harriet Irving Library who will conduct specific classes that pertain directly to what each specializes in. Their knowledge and areas of expertise will not only be useful in the classroom, but will also help students in their final projects.