(listed below as they are made available)

Cyberspace Working Paper Assignment is available at WebCT assignments page. Due by 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 2 (10% of grade)
Lab Home Page Assignment. Publish a home page that includes the following: at least one image; one screen shot; a table for formatting purposes; hyperlinks; different size fonts; bolded and italicized text, and either a bulleted or a numbered list. The page should be printable, should load reasonably quickly, and reflect design considerations. URL should be posted on the appropriate WebCT bulletin board. Try to complete on Wed., Jan. 5th. (10% of grade)
Digital Knowledge Assignment is available at WebCT assignments page. Due by 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6th. Begin assignment in the lab portion class that day; if you don't finish it in class, finish it later that day. (10% of grade)
Essay Section of Midterm Exam is available on the WebcT assignments page. (12% of grade)
Multiple-Choice Quiz Section of the Midterm Exam will be available between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. on Monday, January 10th at the WebCT Quiz page. (8% of grade; midterm combined is 20%)

Research Project Web Page (30% of grade). By Monday night, Jan. 10th, you should have posted a brief statement of your research topic at the WebCT Research Project Topics bulletin board. Read my posting there to see what I want. I am aware that there is not a whole lot of time to master both the subject and the technical skills required for the project, but keep in mind that a good part of Tuesday and the full class time on Thursday and Friday will be devoted to working you your projects. Since no new course readings will be assigned during this period, I will of course be expecting you to devote several hours of work each of those days outside of class as well. Given that many term papers are written on the fly at the end of full semesters, this amount of time should be sufficient to produce a reasonable submission. The webpage will be graded mostly on substantive grounds but partly on technical grounds, as specified below:

Substantive Criteria:

• Your paper should address a clear research question and have a clear argument or interpretation. In other words, it should have a focus and should not be purely descriptive. It should back up its argument or interpretation with evidence, and end with a conclusion.
• Your paper should be based on research about how some group is using the internet, or on some other topic approved by me.
• Your paper should make use of material available on the "public" internet as well as books and/or journal articles (which may of course be accessed online through the Rutgers library). I would hope that at least a half-dozen "peer-reviewed" articles would be utilized and cited, although their availability may vary with the subject. Do consider the possible relevance of the readings we've done for this course as well. Cited sources (not including hyperlinked material) should be listed in proper APA format in a reference list at the end of the paper, as practiced in the Digital Knowledge Assignment.
• While there is no rigid length requirement, I would expect most webpages to print out as 3-5 pages (try to keep images and screen shots reasonably small).

Technical Criteria: Your paper should be written as a web page that makes use of the capabilities of the internet.

• It should be created in Mozilla Composer or some other HTML editor (not in Word).
• It should use tables to provide an attractive and readable format.
• It should include images and screen shots. Screen shots should be directly hyperlinked to the original webpage.
• It should include hyperlinks to relevant web sites.
• It should be located (with dependent files) in your clam account
• It should be printable
• It should be viewable in Mozilla/Firefox as well as Internet Explorer.

The URL for your Research Project web page should be posted to the Project URLs bulletin board when it is completed, but no later than before the last class on Friday, January 14th.

PowerPoint-Assisted Presentation (10% of grade). On your last day of class, each student will make a brief presentation of their project, starting with a short PowerPoint presentation and then demonstrating the webpage, using the console in front (I will assist you). For reasons discussed in class on 1/11, I will not require particular features other than some sort of graphics. Your PowerPoint may be short (e.g. 5 slides, although the length is up to you), but it should basically be used as an aid to your presentation, not the presentation itself. Each student will have about 15 minutes to make his or her presentation. (If you wish, you may upload your presentation to your web page, as I will demonstrate in class.)