This class is front-end loaded. Most of the assignments happen in the first nine weeks, but 40% of the final grade is determined by what you accomplish between Week 9 and week 15, your final portfolio, your HELLO WORLD moment. You need to get started right away and stay focused. You can't do all this in the last week of class. I will start grading each week's work Saturday morning. There are 28 students in this class, so it may take me to Monday to finish.

In what follows, when I offer examples, I use technical writing as the context because I am a rhetoric prof, this class is in the Rhetcomp division of English, and the most practical application of Rhetcomp is technical writing. Regardless of what field you are pursuing, you should create your own AI-assisted information. My examples are just examples no matter how relevant they might be to you.

It is a good idea to read each week's assignment before you do anything else. Just read. Don't click. Just read. Then start doing. You might want to keep a todo list for each week. Weeks 5, 6, 7 and 8 will likely require the greatest discipline and concentration. But week 9 gives you a chance to catch up and then if worse comes to worse, you sill have spring break to fix whatever is broken. DON'T PUT ANYTHING OFF. Seriously, you will hate yourself (and me).

Week 06 - Make it your own DUE 5 pm, 02/16

This week requires you to replace the place-holder text with your own words. Spend some time thinking about what you want to say. Your words matter. Who are you? What are your values? What do you want a new acquaintance to know about you on a professional level?

Go to your spaces.w3schools server
Edit the index.html nav bar so Link Link Link Link (4th one is far right) says Home Portfolio Resume About and each links to a file you will make next week.
For example <a href='index.html'>Home</a>
Put a headshot of yourself in the gray box under Photo of me: [left column under About Me]
Change TITLE HEADING to Your Name
Change the dates to whatever today is.
Put in an image under each date, one that fills the space without stretching or otherwise getting deformed (pick an image that works).
Find great images for free at Unsplash and Pixabay and Pexels. Or use your own.
Getting an image to fit in the space provided requires some trial and error. You can control the dimensions of an image using width= and height =, like this<img src='file.jpg' width='250px' height='100px'> That would give you an image that is 2.5 X wider than high. If the image you chose doesn't look great in the space you have for it, find a more compatible image.
Here is what a B+ looks like on this assignment. An A will have more of your own content. My links work. Yours will currently give you a 404 error, file not found. That's because you haven't made files with those names yet.
Think ahead

How many digital objects do you have for your portfolio and how will you group them? If you are a writer, whether poetry or prose or script, you should have a section with a heading like poetry, for example, and a list of links to your poems under it. So instead of "Recent Work" you might have "Poetry". If you have more than two kinds of digital objects to show off, you will need to add (copy and paste) another section. So you would copy lines 144 to lines 150, make a new line at 150 and paste them there, above line 151 which is the off tag -- </div> -- for the whole section.
If you have lots of poems but want to get a technical writer job, keep your Poetry section, but have a couple of technical writing genre sections as well -- How-Tos, infographics, etc. Ask an AI what kinds of thinks technical writers write. Then make some of those. If tech writing doesn't interest you, ask an AI what people who do what you want to do make for a living, even if you already think you know. There may be others.
Blog about what you learned this week and what you plan to teach yourself next week.
GRADE: 5%

Assignments

Week 06 - Make it your own DUE 5 pm, 02/16

Think ahead