HU337 Information Design and Distribution

Mondays, 11:00-1:00, plus one hour by arrangement: Walker 134


Course Description

Weekly Schedule

Assignments

Grading

Student Work

Print Shop Visits

Aubrey & Tanya visit Designotype: Report
Jessamine's visits MTU's Publications and Photo Services: Report
Heather, Jason, & April's visit to The Print Shop: Report
Derek and Yeimi's visit to Greenlee Printing Co.: Report

 


Instructor:

Dickie Selfe <rselfe@mtu.edu>

Consulting Specialists:

Sharon Cogdill <scogdill@STCLOUDSTATE.EDU>
Diane Keranen <dkeranen@mtu.edu>
Terry McNinch <tlmcninc@mtu.edu>
Pauline Moore <phmoore@mtu.edu>
Josh Nowack <janowack@mtu.edu>
Lisa Valdez <llvaldez@mtu.edu>

Text Books:

Bielawski, Larry & Boyle, Jim. (1997). Electronic Document Management
Systems: A user-centered approach for creating, distributing and
managing online publications.
 
Carter, Mary E. (1996). Electronic Highway Robbery: An artist's guide
to copyrights in the digital era.
 

Other Readings:

User Documentation for offset press: Class handout.
 
Beach, Mark (1993). Gettting It Printed. Cincinati, Ohio: North Light Books
(handouts in CCLI cabinet)
 
SGML & XML White Papers, ArborText Corp., Ann Arbor, MI [online]:
<http://www.arbortext.com>.
 
Intellectual Property/Fair Use and the new law [online]:
Summary of Digital Millennium Copyright Act
http://www.??????.?????
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/.
read FL102 (one page summary of Fair Use)
read Circular 40 on Visual Arts (5 pgs)
Circular 55 on Multimedia Works
http://www.fromnowon.org/jun96/legal.html
"Keeping It Legal: Questions Arising out of Web Site Management." by
Jamie McKenzie. Read through Case # 1 as far as Case#2. (5 pgs, PDF)
 

Electronic Discussion Formats

NetForum: http://www.hu.mtu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/pep/a/1
Email List: print-digital-l@mtu.edu, HU337-L@mtu.edu
Synchronous Discussion "Isle of the Net":
http://maryann.hu.mtu.edu:7000 (Web access to MOO)
maryann.hu.mtu.edu 8888 (via MOO clients & Telnet)
 

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