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This course invites students to plug the gaps in their
knowledge of the Internet. Students will learn how to search the Internet efficiently
and avoid viruses. We will look at the hype surrounding ebooks as well as the
realities, and look at ways to make money writing on the Web. We will examine
the best sites on the Internet for writers and find out why the Web is a great
place for a writer. This course includes a FREE induction
week.
The Tutor: Helen Whitehead
Helen Whitehead is a writer and editor who has been working
with online media since 1985. She explores science, family and spirituality and
is particularly interested in writing at the interstices where these themes meet
and intertwine. She has led collaborative webwriting projects and has taught webwriting
and the Internet to a variety of groups from 6-year-olds to attendees at the Arvon
Foundation residential writing courses in Yorkshire, UK. In 2000/2001 she was
the recipient of a UK Year of the Artist Award to create a website Web,
Warp & Weft, based on stories from textile workers and the many correlations
between textiles and computers from the Jacquard loom up to date. She holds an
MA in Writing from The Nottingham Trent University, where she specialised in hypertext
fiction on the Web. She is currently website editor and project developer for
the trAce Online Writing Centre, and Elearning Facilitator for the trAce Online
Writing School.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
http://helenwhitehead.com
This course is 10 weeks including a FREE Induction
Week.
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The aims of this course are:
- to plug gaps in writers' knowledge of the Internet
- to improve awareness of the options for writers on the
internet to work together, find things out and enjoy writing
- to encourage writers to join communities and collaborative
projects
- to introduce concepts of exclusively web-writing
Contents
1. What is the Internet?
What do you need to access it
Choosing ISPs
What do people use the Internet for: case studies
Browsers
2. Surfing & Searching
Sites of interest to readers and writers
Finding information
Searching the Web
Print market information
3. Email & Security
Using email programs
Web-based email
Attachments
Mailing lists
Security/viruses
4. Interactivity & Collaboration
Interactive writers' sites
Web journals
Weblogs
Online Communities
Workshopping
5. Writing for the Web
Ebooks
Writing Content for the Web
Your personal website
Finding webspace
Learning HTML
6. Reading and Writing the Web
What's different about the Web?
Real electronic literature
A new kind of reading, an exciting kind of writing
MOOing and chat
Typical Reading
Email market newsletters such as Writelink and Inscriptions
The trAce website including the Gallery, Noon Quilt and Home Project
253, by Geoff Ryman, and other single-author web-works
Dark Lethe, and other collaborative web projects
Google, Altavista and other search engines
Blogger
The Eliterature Organisation Gallery
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course you should
be able to:
- be able to research market and other information more
effectively on the Web
- have learned how to collaborate with other writers by
email, on mailing lists and via the Web
- be introduced to techniques for reading and writing specifically
Web-based work
Typical assessments
- Find information on the Internet
- Collaborative student writing project
- Review of a piece of web-based writing
Pre-requisites for this course
You will need to be able to:
- use a word processor
- log on to the Internet
- use a browser
- send and receive email
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