I have been asked to clarify the dates for the group presentations and essay assignments.  The essay is due August 12 which is also the last day of class and the day of the final examination.  It should be posted on your WEB page and also printed out and handed in on paper.  Your paper can be on the same topic as your group presentation, or a related one, or on a completely different topic.

The first group presentations will be on July 29, the last on August 5.  I am going to ask the Video group consisting of Mike Orr, Kim Roper, Lillian Pietarinen and Richard Martin to go first on July 29 since they are experienced WEB users.  There are a couple of people interested in Video who are not part of this self-defined group, which may be large enough already.  They can do a separate presentation on aspects of WEB video or join another group.

It would be good to have the people working on publishing also present on July 29, since the topics are related.  The line between video and print is not as sharp on the WEB as it is in older media.

The group working on Security issues can present on August 3, which is a day when Ben is scheduled to be here.  This raises technical issues that he can help with.

On August 5, we will have the other groups which will include:

issues of censorship and pornography -
WEB services for Children
Internet Communities including Dating
Internet Commerce including Spam

Some of these groups are large and should probably subdivide, which should be done on some logical basis with each subgroup treating different aspects of the problem.

Each presentation should last about 30 minutes.  You should prepare an HTML file with an outline of your presentation in bullet points and WEB Links to be shown on class.  You should expect to get five or six points across, spending five minutes to make each.  This file can be prepared in Netscape Composer (Windows 95) or the editor in Netscape Navigator 3.1, or in a Word Processor which saves files in HTML.  You should bring it to class on a floppy disk and also post it on a WEB site so that everyone in class can access it.

Your presentation should include two kinds of WEB sites:

1.  WEB sites which include the best discussions of your topic.  I.e., discussions of the technical, ethical and political issues involved in censorship, discussions of WEB Video as an industry, etc.

2.  WEB sites which illustrate the problem, e.g., WEB sites which might or might not be considered pornographic such as those showing nude art, WEB stores and malls, WEB magazines and Video sources.