Etudes Online Link to Class

Welcome to the class introduction page for Web Publishing I, CSCI 28A. This page refers to the class being held in the Fall 2009 semester online in the Online Classroom ~ Etudes. Please read the following information and contact the instructor via email David Donica (donica@siskiyous.edu) if you have any questions. You can expect an email response within 48 hours during the semester. Make sure you use a descriptive subject line for your email so it doesn't get accidentally deleted as spam.

Class begins on Monday, August 17th, 2009 and ends on Friday, December 11th, 2009. The final will be given on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009. The class will be entirely online and using the Etudes Course Management System. See the Calendar page for the most current schedule of this course.

Course Objectives ~ Student Learning Outcomes:

Some of the concepts you will learn in this class are:

• How to create a well-designed website
• How to create and manipulate web images
• How to format and align text on web pages
• How to transfer web files and images to a web server
• How to create links to other web pages, files, and images

Course Information

• Course prerequisites & recommendations:
  There is no required prerequisite, but you should have some computer experience in order to succeed in this class.
• Course requirements and grading:
  This will be discussed in more detail in the Syllabus. If you have any questions, please email the instructor David Donica, donica@siskiyous.edu. In general, there are exercises and quick quizzes to be completed each week, a multi-page web project due at the end of the semester, and a final exam to be taken the last week of the semester.
• Time Expectations:
  Expect to spend approximately eight hours per week over the entire semester. This will inculde 3 hours using the online classroom and approximately 5 hours outside the online classroom. You will be required to participate each week, you will not be able to complete the entire course in the last few weeks. This is not an independent-study class. Lecture notes and assignments will be posted each week. You will have to submit your work each week if you want to pass the course. Plan to be online at least 2-3 times per week to get up to date information about the discussions, assignments, and Calendar schedule.
• Required Textbook:
  SAMS Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours by Dick Oliver and Michael Morrison. (Seventh Edition) 2006 Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-32841-0. Textbook support website: www.samspublishing.com

Your participation is welcomed and highly encouraged!

Please send any comments or questions about this site to David Donica.
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