August 24: Multimedia,
Interactive and Web Cartography: Overview of Issues and Skills
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| Topics: |
Introduction to
course. Complete final enrollment.
Overview of laboratory resources, access, and use. 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. |
| Readings and Work: |
- (E-reserve)
The Economist,
Technology Quarterly, The World on Your Desktop, 8 September 2007,
18-20,
- Begin Web Site Assignment. See
Homepage checklist.
- (E-reserve).
Stefanakis, Emmanuel and Michael P. Peterson. 2006.
Geographic Hypermedia. In Geographic
Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems, eds. Emmanuel Stefanakis, Michael
P.
Peterson, Costas Armenakis, and Vasilis Delis, pp. 1-21. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
- (E-reserve)
Cartwright, William. 2009. Delivering geospatial information with Web
2.0. In International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet,
ed. Michael
P. Peterson, pp. 11-30. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Study
questions for readings.
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August 31: Principles and Processes of
Cartographic Design in Hypermedia Environments
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| Topics: |
Overview of the HTML
and the basics
of Web publishing. Consider principles for organizing Web pages and
sites including issues of planning and design. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Continue Web Site
Development. See
Homepage checklist.
- Authoring
Tips and
Designing Pages from
Putting Maps Online: Cartographic Design in Cyberspace workshop by
Kenneth E. Foote.
- (E-reserve)
Jenny, Bernhard, Helen Jenny and Stefan Räber.
2008. Map design for the Internet. In International
Perspectives on Maps and the Internet, ed. Michael
P. Peterson, pp. 11-30. Berlin: Springer-Verlag..
- (E-reserve)
Olson, Judy M. 1997. Multimedia in Geography: Good, Bad,
Ugly, or Cool? Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87:
571-578.
- (optional) Laurie McCanna's Free Art Site: at http://www.mccannas.com/index.html
- (optional) Stefan Mischook's:
http://www.killersites.com/
- (optional) 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 and from sites
such as the W3 Consortium.
- Study
questions for readings
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September 7: Animated Maps;
Java
Applets; JavaScript Applications
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| Topics: |
Temporal and
non-temporal animation will be
discussed
from theoretical and practical perspectives. Lectures will focus
on the
use of animation as a visualization tool while labs will concentrate on
the many
tools that can be used to produce animations in a variety of graphic
formats. Learn how Java Applets and Javascript code can be
incorporated into
webpages. Although we won't be writing original Java or
Javascript code, many useful freeware examples can be found in the
web. You will learn how these examples can be customized to use
in your pages and projects. |
| Readings and Work: |
- No Class on Monday: Labor
Day Holiday
- Both labs meet together for work session with TA on
Wednesday from 9-10:50
- (Optional) Peterson, Michael P., Between Reality and
Abstraction: Non-Temporal
Applications of Cartographic Animation,
http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimArt/article.html
- (E-reserve)
Monmonier, Mark. 2005. POMP and Circumstance: Plain Old Map
Products in a Cybercartographic World. In Cybercartography: Theory and Practice,
ed. D.R. Fraser Taylor, pp. 15-34. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- (E-reserve)
Kraak, Menno-Jan. 1999. Cartography and the Use
of Animation. In Multimedia Cartography, eds. William
Cartwright,
Michael P. Peterson, and Georg Gartner, pp. 173-180. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
- (optional) Vincent Flanders's:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/.
- Adding
Java Applets to Your Web Pages
- Study
questions for readings
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September 14: Lafayette's
Architectural Heritage.
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| Topics: |
Overview
of architectural heritage project, including (if possible) fieldtrip to
Lafayette. Goal to develop a prototype heritage map of Lafayetter.
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| Readings and Work: |
- Lab sections take fieldtrip to Lafayette on Monday
and Wednesday.
- Web site online and complete
Friday by 5 pm.
- Coal mining heritage of Lafayette, Colorado at http://www.cityoflafayette.com/Page.asp?NavID=710
- (E-reserve)
Cartwright, William, Michael Peterson, and Georg
Gartner. 2006. New Media: From Discrete, to Distributed, to Mobile, to
Ubiquitous. In Geographic
Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems, eds. Emmanuel
Stefanakis, Michael P. Peterson, Costas Armenakis, and Vasilis Delis,
pp. 23-36.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Study
questions for readings
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September 21: Developing the
Data and Maps for the Lafayette Architectural Heritage Project
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| Topics: |
Overview the files available for project
and plan approach to
mapping. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Readings TBA
- (E-reserve)
Holmberg, Molly O. and
Kenneth E. Foote.
2008. Journalistic Cartography on the
Web: A Comparison of Print and Online Maps in Seven Major American
Newspapers. In International
Perspectives on
Maps and the Internet, eds. Michael
P. Peterson, 323-340 Berlin: Springer.
- Study
questions for readings
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September 28: Developing the Website for the Lafayette
Architectural Heritage Project
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| Topics: |
Plan web design for
architectural heritage project campus
project.
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| Readings and Work: |
- First Take-home Exam Due on Friday
- (E-reserve)
Pearce, Margaret W. 2008. Framing the
Days: Place and Narrative in Cartography. Cartography
and Geographic Information Science. 35 (1):
17-32.
- (Optional) (E-reserve)
Kwan, Mei-Po and Guoxiang Ding. 2008. Geo-Narrative: Extending Geographic
Information Systems for Narrative
Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research. The
Professional Geographer 60 (4): 443-465.
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October 5: Virtual Fieldtrips
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| Topics: |
Overview of virtual fieldtrip
project--create a prototype of a educational/instructional trip or
journey.
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| Readings and Work: |
- (E-reserve)
McCloud,
Scott. 2000. The infinite canvas:
Digital comics. Chapter in Reinventing
Comics: How Imagination and Technology
Are Revolutionizing an Art Form. New
York: Perennial.
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October 12: Developing the Data and Maps
for the Virtual Fieldtrip
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| Topics: |
Overview the files available for project
and plan approach to
mapping.
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| Readings and Work: |
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October 19: Developing the Website for
the Virtual Fieldtrip
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| Topics: |
Plan web design for virtual fieldtrip
project. Meet individually with instructors to plan project. |
| Readings and Work: |
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October 26: Web Site and Map
Accessibility.
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| Topics: |
Topics and tasks: For people
with visual, tactile, and auditory
disabilities,
multimedia, interactive, and web maps present barriers to accessing
information. Much can be done to minimize these barriers through
careful
design. |
| Readings and Work: |
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November 2: Usability Testing and
Project
Evaluation.
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| Topics: |
Topics and tasks: Usability testing
and project evaluation are methods for
checking whether our designs for maps and web sites are reaching their
goals. Multimedia and hypermedia are new media with strengths and
weaknesses different than conventional media. We cannot assume
that our
good design intentions will translate into projects that will be easily
comprehended by users. Instead, we must test and evaluate our
projects as
they are developing and in final form. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Notes are available in section 5 of "Putting Maps Online" at http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/mapdesign/evaluating/evaluating.html
- (Download pdf here) Chapter 1 from Shneiderman, Ben and Catherine
Plaisant. 2005. Designing
the User
Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th ed.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
- (Download pdf here) Chapters 1 & 2 from Rubin, Jeffrey and Dana Chisnell. 2008. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Wiley.
- (Skim) Frechtling, J. 2002. The 2002
User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation. Arlington,
VA: National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02057/nsf02057_1.pdf
(accessed February 15, 2009).
- (Download pdf here) (Optional) Chapter 2 from Shneiderman, Ben and Catherine
Plaisant. 2005. Designing
the User
Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th ed.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
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November
9: Usability (continued); Data Sources of Final Project; Backoffice Issues: File
Organization, Website Maintenance, Planning for Change
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| Topics: |
Topics and tasks:
Online maps also require attention to a number
of "backoffice"
issues that are
not
always apparent on the screen. They require care in
organizing files at the start of a project and continuing attention and
maintenance once online. Several strategies are presented and discussed
for planning and maintaining websites. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Finish Virtual Fieldtrip by Friday at 5 pm
- Data Sources for GIS by Ken Foote and Maggie Lynch at http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/sources/sources_f.html
- (Download pdf here) Chapter 4 from Shneiderman, Ben and Catherine
Plaisant. 2005. Designing
the User
Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th ed.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
- (Optional) 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. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf97153/start.htm
- (Optional) Kuniavsky, Mike. 2003. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's
Guide to User Research. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
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November 16: MapServer
Strategies
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| Topics: |
Consider how mapserver
technology and virtual globes are changing
the
way
maps, visualization tools, and GIS functions are being made available
in the Web. Consider
different approaches to implementing mapserver and WebGIS techniques.
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| Readings and Work: |
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November 23: Thanksgiving break.
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November 30: Trends in Multimedia,
Interactive, and Web Cartography
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| Topics: |
Topics and tasks:
The final lectures will focus on 1) The new
role of the
cartographer in the multimedia and web worlds; 2) Recent experiments in
multimedia and interactive cartography; 3) New directions in virtual
reality,
hand-held, and mobile technologies; 4) Changing trends in education and
training; and 5) Barriers and constraints to change. |
| Readings and Work: |
- (E-reserve).
Scharl, Arno. 2007. Towards the Geospatial Web:
Media Platforms for Managing Geotagged Knowledge Repositories. In
The Geospatial Web: How
Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network
Society, eds. Arno Scharl and Klaus Tochtermann, pp. 3-14.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- (E-reserve).
Swanson, James. 1999. The Cartographic
Possibilities of VRML. In Multimedia
Cartography, eds. William
Cartwright, Michael P. Peterson, and Georg Gartner, pp. 181-194.
Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
- Other readings TBA.
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December 7: Presentation of Final
Projects
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| Topics: |
Presentation of
final projects. We will
also cover how to archive and move
projects
from
server. The schedule
of presentations can be found here. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Last class is 9 December.
- Second Take-home Exam Due on
Friday:
Usability Surveys,
Mapserver Technologies, Interface Design, Project Management
- Class debriefing and FCQs on Wednesday
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Final Projects
On-line
by 7:00 pm (time of the final exam), Saturday, 12 December.
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| Last revised 2009.11.15. KEF. |
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