LIBR 240-10
Information Technology Tools and Applications
Summer 2008 Greensheet
Steve Perry
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This class does not use Blackboard! The class Web site is found at: http://profperry.com/sjsu
Course Description
This course examines the different ways in which we can structure, store, process, access, and present information on a Web site. It emphasizes the tools of information technology.
We will focus on Web site design and DHTML (Dynamic HTML). Dynamic HTML uses (X)HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript as the building blocks for Web sites. We will also do a little work with XML and its stylesheet language XSLT; RSS; Server Side Includes; and a little PHP. We will also consider blogs and wikis.
Course Prerequisites: LIBR 202
Course Objectives
Student Learning Outcomes
Students should:
- Understand the client server relationship and how to work with a Unix server
- Develop conceptual and practical strategies for presenting information on the Web
- Create content in XHTML format
- Design interfaces using CSS
- Incorporate static frames and iframes, interactive forms in a cgi directory, image maps, and Perl scripts into Web pages
- Understand issues surrounding design, accessibility, and cultural markers
- Understand the difference between client and server side Web programming languages
- Have built some JavaScript programs and some PHP programs
- Have built an XML file; and accessed it via an XSLT stylesheet
- Have worked with RSS.
LIBR 240 supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- design, query and evaluate information retrieval systems;
- demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication technologies, and other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and other types of information providing entities;
- understand the system of standards and methods used to control and create information structures and apply basic principles involved in the organization and representation of knowledge
Textbooks and Readings
Required Text
HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible (Paperback)
by Steven M. Schafer
Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (March 17, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0470128615
Go to SLIS eBookstore.
Course Requirements
Contacting the Instructor
I check my email account at least once per day, Monday-Friday, usually in
the daytime. I generally do not check for emails on Saturday, Sunday,
and Holidays.
Emergency email: sperry@palomar.edu
(Use only if no reply received within 48 hours from my regular email)
Important Dates
Semester: Summer 2008 (2008/06/02 through 2008/08/08)
Class No: 30488
The FINAL DATE of this class is 2008/08/08
No assignments or exams will be accepted after that date!
Course Format
The class is taken entirely online via the Class Web Site.
Assignments
There are 13 assignments that will require you to develop various Web-based solutions.
There is a written Final Exam.
Each assignment has a target due date (details will be posted on the class Web site) and there is a 7-day grace period for each assignment. One penalty point is deducted from your score for each day (past 7 days) that your assignment is turned in late. For example, if an assignment is 10 days late, and is worth 10 points, the highest score you could receive for it would be 7 points.
NO assignments or exams will be accepted after the FINAL DATE of this class (listed at the top of this page) unless I've given you an explicit extension.
You may work through the class faster than the schedule if you wish, however, you may NOT submit more than one assignment on any given day.
Grading Policy and Standards
| 70-90% | Assignments |
| 10-30% | Final Examination |
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
| 97-100 | A |
| 94-96 | A- |
| 91-93 | B+ |
| 88-90 | B |
| 85-87 | B- |
| 82-84 | C+ |
| 79-81 | C |
| 76-78 | C- |
| 73-75 | D+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
In order to provide consistent guidelines for assessment for graduate level work in the School, these terms are applied to letter grades:
- C represents Adequate work; a grade of "C" counts for credit for the course;
- B represents Good work; a grade of "B" clearly meets the standards for graduate level work;
- A represents Exceptional work; a grade of "A" will be assigned for outstanding work only.
Students are advised that it is their responsibility to maintain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0.
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability,
please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires
that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center
(DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
University Policy on Plagiarism
For the official statements of policy on this
matter as passed by the Academic Senate, see:
- The SJSU Academic Integrity Policy
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S07-2.pdf
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