Class Overview

This course extended the understanding and development of the World Wide Web as a medium. During the course, students focused on the production of dynamic content and the development of conceptual projects that take advantage of features of the web such as “Harnessing Collective Intelligence”, Rich customizable user experiences, many-to-many communications, folksonomy and database thinking.

This course helped to develop the necessary vocabulary to plan, execute and discuss Web projects, speak to developers, and to pursue individual research. Through the quarter, students had the opportunity to complete a series of explorations, analyze work, and develop and execute a final project.

Students also paid close attention to how the internet has impacted/is impacted by mobile technologies. The growing prevalence of mobile access to the web, including wifi hotspots, Blackberrys, Android, iPhone etc, have had a large impact on how the web is built, and opened up huge new possible types of projects and applications. With this in mind we discussed techniques and strategies for creating effective mobile sites and applications.