Spring 2009 Schedule

Creating web pages. Course wiki.

Content and search complement each other. Privacy and location detection.

Discuss initial project ideas.

Spring 2006 Notes01.  Notes on Internet Technologies. Also review How to Write for the Web.

HTML. Data, information, knowledge.

Actionable information and your web sites.

Advertisment income.

Spring 2006 Notes03

Income

 Present questions about Writing for the web.

Reminder: students must self-enroll in Axess to be officially enrolled in your seminar.  (The FSP application system is separate.)  The deadline to add courses is April 19.  If they experience problems with enrollment, students can contact FSP at froshsophprograms@stanford.edu or 723-4338.

Some notes on writing for the Internet.

Education and the Internet.

Note Education

Note 3 for this class, with comments on assignment 1.  Earlier information: Spring 2006 Notes02. Also see notes from previous semesters: Past Notes 09, Past Notes 12, Past Notes05

Project research: on-line resources beyond Google and Wikipedia, and tools for organizing research materials.

Notes04

Brief history of the Internet - military, academic, commercial.

Collaborative brainstorming exercise: What is the internet?

Net Neutrality, Patents, Medicine. Trust.

In the break we will tour Stanford and computing history exhibits in the basement of the Gates Building.

Notes 05

Assignment #2 Due
Write a one-page outline of your project presentation, organized so that one central motivating point is clear and well supported.

Notes07

Note on Business Plans

Students will present their project ideas in class on April 30th and May 7th and 8th. (For more detail on assignment, see Notes03.) The presentation of project ideas is considered Assignment #3.

Also note availability of Oral Communications Tutor:  for help preparing for or practicing oral presentations, students can sign up for an appointment here: OCT Support for Undergraduates

The technology of the web.

Note on Internet Technologies;

HTML

By now you should have developed an accessible website for your topic.

Thursday
30 April

Student project presentations, peer feedback. Assessment of criticism, and how to make it constructive. 

Avron on travel today.

Assignment #3 (oral presentations) start today! Each student will make a 10 minute presentation of their project in class, with feedback from the class.

Student Speaking Assignments 2009

Friday
1 May

Making Good Web Pages, a presentation by Chris Madison and Mike Hopkins of WiredMoon.com (designers of many Stanford websites)

 Notes12

Slides and readings - 2009.

Thursday
7 May

Student project presentations, peer feedback.

Student project presentations, peer feedback.

Constructive criticism.

Discussion of market analysis, competitive analysis, and positioning. Demographics for market size. Approaches to income generation on the Internet. Business to business (B2B) on the Internet.

Assignment #5 Due
Write a critique of two students' projects, per the sign up sheet from last week. Each critique should be at least 200 words.

Critiques are to be constructive (see Wikipedia), but honest and frank. Cover all aspects of the project: concept, audience definition, project plan, site organization, clarity of writing, ethics, potential risks/problems, etc. Suggest ideas about website design, clarity, navigability, etc. and about the student's project itself. If the student you are reviewing is not very far along in building the website, then discuss his or her writing assignments and class presentation -- and you can interview them if you have questions. You may include URLs to suggested other reference sites they might find useful.

Feel free, as always, to review previous years' work: Student Critiques 2008; Student Critiques 2007; Student Critiques 2006. (Please note how students linked their critique to this table of assignments.)

Web 2.0  - Interaction versus publishing and search. Social networking.

International relations and the Internet

See Browsers -- effectiveness of search engines. See Note13.

Gio in Washington, D.C.

Writing notes: Assertiveness, collective nouns, parenthesized expressions.

Sharing website tips and tricks.

Reprise: Healthcare and Internet.

Web 3.0: semantics and ontologies to automatically match searches and processes.   Notes16, Past Notes 07

Assignment #6 Due
Examine some other websites in your space. For these competitors or complementary sites, explain why your site is unique or better.

Writing notes: Gerunds.

What if there were no Internet. Maurer: The Paranet? 

The Deep web, databases, image and video management.  Also Past Notes 08,

What is IP? Stock Market Valuations.