LSU/SLIS LIS 7008 (Fall 2013, Section 01): Syllabus
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Session 1 (Jan 21): Computers
Session 2 (Jan 28): Networking, FTP, Simple HTML
Session 3 (Feb 4): Structured Documents (HTML, XHMTL, CSS, XML)
Session 4 (Feb 11): Quiz, Multimedia
Session 5 (Feb 18): Relational Databases
Session 6 (Feb 25): Programming (Javascript); Midterm Review
Session 7 (Mar 4): Mardi Gras, no class
Session 8 (Mar 11): Midterm Exam; Brief Project Discussion
Session 9 (Mar 18): Web Database Integration (PHP); Human-Computer Interaction, Web Design
Session 10 (Mar 25): Web Characterization; Social Software
Session 11 (Apr 1): Information Retrieval and Search
Session 12 (Apr 8): Policy (Privacy and Security)
Session 13 (Apr 15): No Class; Spring Break
Session 14 (Apr 22): System Life Cycle; Final Review
Session 15 (Apr 29): Project Presentation
Session 16 (May 6): Final Exam
Note: the average life of a link on the Web is about 100 days. If any link to a reading is broken, please email me ASAP. Thanks.
Readings
- Required
- Shelly et al., Chapter 4 (The Components of the System Unit), Chapter 7 (Storage)
- Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
- Important reminder: I will use your LSU email address to contact you.
I cannot use your non-LSU email addresses because they cannot be listed on Moodle. If you do not read emails
from your LSU email account very often, it is your responsibility to forward emails from your LSU account to
your non-LSU account.
Homework
Project Activity
- Read the Project page, and start to look for a project client.
Introduce yourself to the class so that you can find team members whose skills complement yours.
Useful Resources
Readings
- Required
- Shelly et al., Chapter 2 (The Internet and the World Wide Web), Chapter 9 (Communications and Networks)
- Huddleston: Chapter 1 (The Tools of Web Design and Planning Your site), Chapter 2 (Getting Started with HTML), Chapter 14 (Publishing Your Site and Getting Noticed)
[Note: skim Chapter 1 and Chapter 14, but read Chapter 2.]
- Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Project Activity
- Start to form teams based on common interests and complementary skills.
- Start to find a client for your team. See more on
the Project webpage.
- Distribute the faculty-client agreement, students-client agreement, and the project evaluation form on Moodle.
Useful Resources
Readings
- Required
- Huddleston: Chapter 3 (Creating Images), Chapter 4 (Formatting Your Pages), Chapter 5 (Advanced CSS), Chapter 6 (Laying Out Pages),
Chapter 7 (Adding Tables and Lists) [Note: at least scan through these chapters before class; you will refer
to them afterwards for your homework.]
- Dave Raggett, Getting Started with
HTML (read for detail, and then skim "Advanced HTML" and "Adding a Touch of Style" at the top of the page.)
- Erik Ray, Learning XML (Chapter 1, will be posted on Moodle).
- Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Project Activity
- Find a client for your team. Only one client is needed for one project team. If your team does not have any client yet,
find one by talking to people (such as your colleagues, the instructor, CCELL), visiting non-profit organizations in
your community, or soliciting client information from the SLIS mailing list. If your team has more than two clients,
pick the one that best meets the goal of your project, and recommend the other client(s) to the class.
Useful Resources
Readings
- Required
- Shelly et al., Chapter 6 (Output Device)
- Introduction to Streaming Media, Chapter 2 (Media Production) (also available here in PDF)
- Huddleston, Chapter 9 (Adding Interactivity and Multimedia)
- Huddleston's 2005 version has Chapter 13 (Adding Multimedia on Your Page). It will be posted on Moodle.
- Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
- We will have a quiz today.
Homework
Project Activity
- Find a client if your team has not got one. Post and prepare the Collaboration Planning Guide.
Useful Resources
Readings
- Required:
- Shelly et al., Chapter 10 (Database Management)
- Brooks, Frederick P., "The Mythical Man Month", Chapter 2
(online book available from LSU Library Catalog or from here;
may be posted on Moodle)
- Recommended:
Notes
Homework
Project Activity
- Find a client if your team has not got one. Discuss copyright and information ethics issues that can emerge when
working with your client.
Useful Resources
- Tutorials for MS-Office, OpenOffice, PHP/MySQL/Perl: inpics.net
- MS-Access 2000/2003 Tutorial
Readings
- Shelly et al., Chapter 3 (Application Software), Chapter 13 (Programming)
- Huddleston: Chapter 11 (Adding Forms to Your Site), Chapter 9 (Adding Interactivity and Multimedia)
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Homework
Project Activity
- Discuss team collaboration issues and the man-month mythical theory.
- If anybody still has not joined a team yet, please contact me ASAP. Every team will discuss their project plan right after the mid-term exam.
- If any team still has not got a client, pleast contact me ASAP.
- Distribute the project team member self-evaluation and cross-evaluation form.
Useful Resources
HW6 due today.
Notes
- We will have an open-book mid-term exam today. It takes two hours.
Project Activity
- Each project team will discuss their project plan after the exam.
You must have a client and a project manager now, and you must have started to work on your project now.
- Collaboration Planning Guide, Student-Client Agreement, and Faculty-Client Agreement are due!
Project managers please submit your team's these documents by email, fax, or hard copy.
- Solicit information needs from your client, have your client make the initial requirements for the Website,
collect information content.
Readings (Required)
- Huddleston, Chapter 12 (Creating Dynamic Pages), Chapter 13 (Adding Information from a Database)
- PHP Manual, Section I, Getting Started
- AskTOG, First Principles of Interaction Design
- Shneiderman, Ben, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction, 3rd ed.
(Addison-Wesley, 2005), Chapter 1 (an electronically reserved copy will be posted on Moodle)
- You may want to refer to Huddleston's text for your project. Read the chapters you have not read.
Recommended
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
- Please read Javascript Talk (in Session 6) if you have not read it.
Project Activity
- Reflect how the man-month mythical theory works in your team.
- Design the information architecture of your Website, build a rapid prototype with the information you have already collected.
- Discuss with your client where to host the Website, and try to host a test webpage on the client's server. Do this as early as possible!
Useful Resources
Readings (Required)
- Coffman, Steve, We'll
Take It from Here: Further Developments We'd Like to See in Virtual Reference Software,
Information Technology & Libraries 20(3), 149-153, September 2001.
- Edward T. O'Neill, Brian F. Lavoie and Rick Bennett, Trends in
the Evolution of the Public Web, D-Lib Magazine, vol 9, no. 4, April 2003.
Elise Moreau, The Evolution of the Web in 1000 Words:
A Timeline of How the Web Has Progressed Over the Years, About.com Web Trends, 2013.
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Project Activity
- Solicit information needs from the client, have your client make the initial requirements for the Website,
collect information content.
- Important issue: discuss with your client where to host the Website.
- Start to design the information architecture of your Website.
- Build a rapid prototype Website, solicit feedback from the client, revise your design or collect more information.
- Reflect how copyright and information ethics issues are involved when working with a real organization.
Useful Resources
Readings
- Required:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval: the concepts and technology behind search, Second Edition.
Pearson Education Limited. 2011. Click Contents, read Chapter 1 Introduction up through Section 1.4.
- Recommended:
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Project Activity
- Solicit feedback from your client and their users, revise your design, fix bugs, or collect more information.
- Start to host your prototype Website on the client's server. Make yourself familiar with the technical enviroment. Do this as early as possible!
Useful Resources
Play with the following search engines. Do not be surprised if they change their names or even go out of business.
Readings
- Required:
- Shelly et al., Chapter 11, "Computer Security, Ethics, and Privacy"
- Recommended:
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Project Activity
- Solicit feedback from your client and their users, revise your design, fix bugs.
- Host your Website on your client's server, fix bugs.
- Distribute the Project Survey.
- Start to prepare the Website Maintenance Manual and the Project Reflective Essay.
Project Activity
- Please continue to work on your project.
Readings
- Shelly et al., Chapter 12, "Information System Development"
Notes
- Lecture slides will be posted on Moodle.
Project Activity
- Solicit feedback from the client and the users, revise your design, fix bugs.
- Reflect what software/system design model your team has used.
- Host your Website on your client's server, fix bugs.
- Prepare the Website Maintenance Manual (for your client) and the Project Reflective Essay.
Project Activity
- Every team will present their project today.
- Please submit the Project report, Project Evaluation Form (signed by your client), the self-evaluation and cross-evaluation form, and the
Project Reflective Essay, and the Project Survey.
- Please send the Website Maintenance Manual to your client (and send a copy to me).
Notes
- We will have an in-class final exam today. It takes two hours.
- The earlier final exams are available on the course Website,
see the LSU/SLIS exams webpage.
- All of your project Websites will be posted at
http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~wuyj/Teaching/7008/sp14/proj_sp14.html.
We will archive your Website for some period of time before your SLIS Web account is removed, so
you are advised to transfer your content to your client ASAP (if you have not done so).
- You may remove your Homework 3 from your website if you do not want to publish that page on the Web for any reason.
Yejun Wu
