Grinnell Summer 1998 Web Workshop

Useful Links

This is clearly a work in progress.

These are a variety of links that some folks might find useful.

My materials for this workshop can be found at http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Workshops/Web/Grinnell/Summer1998/ . To get to this list of links (so that you don't have to retype them), click on Links at the top of the page. There's also a link from my front door, which can be found at http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/ .

My favorite pundit on web design is Jakob Nielsen, who is a distinguished something-or-other at Sun Microsystems. Nielsen is a leader in human factors in computing systems and has brought his expertise to web design. He writes Alertbox, a biweekly column on web design, which can be found at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ .

The "Bare Bones Guide" to HTML is the one of best short lists of HTML commands. It can be found at http://werbach.com/barebones/ .

George Landow, Professor of Literary Studies at Brown University, teaches a wide variety of courses using hypermedia (including some on writing hypermedia). I haven't looked at his pages recently, but it's likely that you'll find some interesting examples of using student work.

• Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory Web. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projectrs/hypertext/landow/cspace/cspaceov.html
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/misc/postov.html
• The Victorian Web. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
• Hypertext at Brown. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/HTatBrown/BrownHT.html

For example, student contributions to the Postcolonial Literature web can be found at http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/courses/27.1997.html .

Eastgate Systems are the largest purveyors of "literary hypertext". They can be found at http://www.eastgate.com .

The World Lecture Hall is a huge collection of online course materials submitted by faculty members. They can be found at http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html .

There's a funny article on the "Gullibility Virus" that's spreading around the web (with no citation as to original source). One copy can be found at http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blvirus.htm .

An article on a student who sued a faculty member for posting work can be found at http://www.grinnell.edu/individuals/francisb/chronicle.html (observe that Dr. Francis made a local copy). [Thanks to Bill Francis for this link.]

The Stanford University list of online books can be found at http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~sothy/books.html . [Thanks to Bill Francis for this link.]

Catherine's amazing copyright page can be found at http://www.lib.grin.edu/Classes/copyright.html .

An article on the Carnegie Foundation's new work discussing scholarship can be found at http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/glass1.html . The key books on their perspective are

• Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
• Scholarship Assessed

The International Coalition of Library Consortia Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html .

The Pew Higher Education Roundtable has published a related report entitled "To Publish and Perish" which can be found at http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pp-cat.pl#V7N4 .

The Internet Scout can be found at http://www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/ . [Thanks to David Weaver for this link].

The Garden of Forking Paths, an online guide to Jorge Luis Borges, can be found at http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/ .

I found an interesting article on teaching Victorian literature with hypertext at http://www.dsu.edu/~laflinj/tlwc/smith.html . You can also find a local copy at http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Workshops/Hypermedia/Summer1998/Copies/smith.html .

A validator for HTML can be found at http://validator.w3.org/ . It will report every syntactic mistake it can find in your pages. When your page doesn't load, use this. (And yes, it will report errors even for pages that can load.)