My Class Schedule
Schedule (subject to change). Any changes of assignment and assignment
deadlines will be announced in class and posted here.
This page contains the class schedule by week: January
17 | January 22 | January
29 | February 5 | February
12 | February 19 | February
26 | March 5 | March 12
| March 19 | March 26 | April
2 | April 9 | April 16
| April 23 | April 30 |
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| Lecture and Discussion Notes | Assignments
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January 17: Introduction.
Topics and tasks: Introduction to course. Complete final enrollment. Overview
of laboratory resources, access, and use.
January 22: Cartography and the Internet: Data
and Research Resources.
Topics and tasks: Practice with Internet resources. Overview of file use,
transfer, conversion, compression, and decompression. Discuss problems
involved in navigating the Internet. Demonstrate how to access and use
on-line class materials.
Required Reading:
January 29: Cartography and the Internet: Web
Publishing Skills.
Topics and tasks: Overview of the HTML and the basics of Web publishing.
Create homepage for final Web project.
Required Reading:
Supplemental Reading:
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You may wish to purchase one of the commercially available guides to HTML,
but everything you really need to know is online from a variety of sources
including: CU's main
ITS pages, from its HTML and
CGI Tools page, from other universities like UT-Austin,
and from other providers such as the W3 Consortium
and the NCSA.
February 5: The Resurgence of Cholera in Peru
Topics and tasks: Introduce geography's spatial and ecological contributions
to the study of disease. Consider the history of cholera in the 19th and
20th centuries. Examine the resurgence of cholera in Latin America. Raise
questions of where and why. Begin to devise plan for studying the resurgence
of cholera in Peru. Begin to gather sources.
Required Reading:
February 12: Principles of Cartographic and
Hypertext Design.
Part 4 (Researching)
of the Web
Warmup Activities due online by Friday by 5 pm.
Topics and tasks: Consider principles for organizing Web-based reports
and publications.
Required Reading:
February 19: Additional Principles of Cartographic
Design in Cyberspace.
Topics and tasks: Consider how principles of graphic design apply to Web-based
publishing.
Required Reading: None.
Supplemental Reading:
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Flanders,Vincent. Web Pages That Suck, http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
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McCanna, Laurie. 1996. Creating Great Web Graphics. New York: MIS Press.
A companion Web site is located at: http://www.mccannas.com/
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Siegel, David. 1996. Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation
Site Design. Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Books. A companion Web site
is located at: http://www.killersites.com/
Tufte, Edward R. 1990. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics
Press.
February 26: Designing Web Site for Cholera
Project
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Wednesday, 28 February: Guest lecture by Professor Barbara Buttenfield
on Web site and interface usability testing.
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Friday, 2 March: No class.
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Labs meet at regular times.
Topics and tasks: Apply principles of effective Web to design of site for
Cholera project. Create working mockup of Web site for project.
Readings: None.
March 5: Begin CU Atlas of Access
Topics and tasks: Overview issues of environmental access: general problems
and solutions. Review US legislation and and situation on CU campus.
Assignments:
March 12: Develop Methodology for CU Atlas of Access
Project.
Monday, 12 March: Guest lecture by Professor Barbara Buttenfield on Web
site and interface usability testing.
Tuesday, 13 March: No Tuesday afternoon lab this week only.
Topics and tasks: Field check online data. Develop design criteria
for accessibility maps and Web interface.
Assignment:
Study existing campus map at: http://www.Colorado.EDU/Directories/WebMap/
Visit CU Office of Disability Services online at: http://www.colorado.edu/sacs/disabilityservices/index.html
March 19: Usability Testing and Evaluation Methodologies.
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Wednesday, 21 March: Class will meet, but no Wednesday afternoon lab this
week only.
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Friday, 23 March: No Class.
Topics and tasks: Introduce rationale for usability testing and overview
principle methodologies. Continue work on campus access maps.
Assignment:
March 26: Spring Break.
April 2: Plan Final Independent Projects and
Continue Usability Testing.
Assignment:
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Review projects produced in previous years.
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Skim for reference: Frechtling, J. & Sharp, L. , (Eds) (1997).
User-Friendly
Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations. Arlington, VA: National
Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division
of Research, Evaluation and Communication, NSF Publication NSF 97-153.
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/REC/pubs/NSF97-153/start.htm
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Skim for reference: Stevens, F., Lawrence, F., Sharp, L., & Frechtling,
J. (1993). User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluations.
Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and
Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication, NSF
Publication NSF 93-152. www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
April 9: Usability Testing and Project Evaluation.
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CU Atlas of Access online by Friday, 13 April, at
5 pm.
Topics and tasks: Consider how accuracy and precision effect spatial datasets.
Examine major sources and how they can propagate and cascade in cartographic
databases. Continue work on project evaluation and usability testing.
Further reading:
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Shneiderman, Ben. 1998. Designing the User Interface: Strategies
for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd ed. Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley.
April 16: Project Evaluation, Planning for Change,
and Animation.
Topics and tasks: Consider methods for dealing with error and imprecision
in spatial datasets. Discuss standards for creating GIS databases and methods
of testing for and estimating error. Introduce sensitivity analysis.
Further reading:
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Spool, Jared M., Tara Scanlon, Will Schroeder, Carolyn Snyder, and Terri
DeAngelo. 1999. Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide.
San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman.
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Cartwright, W., M.P. Peterson, and G. Gartner, eds. 1999. Multimedia
Cartography. Berlin: Springer.
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Peterson, M.P. 1995. Interactive and Animated Cartography.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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Peterson, M.P, Between Reality and Abstraction: Non-Temporal Applications
of Cartographic Animation, http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimArt/article.html
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A list of interactive maps, http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html#interact-anim
April 23: Overview of WebGIS.
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Friday, April 27: Guest lecture by Jim Robb on the Web-based Atlas of Colorado.
Topics and tasks: Consider how mapserver technology is changing the way
GIS functions are being made available in the Web. Consider different
approaches to implementing WebGIS.
Required Reading:
April 30: Presentation of Final Projects in Class.
Topics and tasks: Will also cover how to archive and move projects from
server.
May 5 (Saturday): Final Projects On-line and Documented by 5:00 pm.
Last revised 2001.5.24. KEF.