Other Media + Quiz

DUE Wednesday, Feb 01 – 3 points
(Thursday NOON deadline)

In addition to the first chapter of Website Owner’s Manual, we will be discussing the following items:

  • The Content Strategist as Digital Curator
    An article from A List Apart comparing the role of some web site owners to that of a museum curator.

  • The Basics of HTML
    An article from the Web Standards Curriculum produced by the web browser manufacturer Opera.

  • RSS in Plain English
    A short video (3:01) using stop-motion photography and paper cut-outs to provide an introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.

Once you have watched or listened to or read these materials, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (These questions will be randomly selected from the questions below. You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you the full 3 points.)

All questions should be prefaced with an understood, “According to the author / speaker / interviewee …”:

  1. T/F? Curators use judgment and a refined sense of style to select and arrange art in galleries and museums.
  2. T/F? Businesses today are becoming ever more comfortable using the web to bring their product and audience closer.
  3. T/F? NYTimes.com Topics, Rhizome, and The Auteurs are all examples of sites that create themed content packages that together offer a unique perspective.
  4. T/F? Bloggers would not be considered curators; rather, they produce content that other web site owners might want to include in their collections.
  5. T/F? Archival content that maintains relevance is called “evergreen”.
  6. T/F? Most sites do a great job balancing the display of timely content (news and headlines) and timeless content (older content with continuing relevance).
  7. T/F? A good metadata structure for your content makes it easier to manage and makes it easier for your visitors to find it.
  8. T/F? The level of involvement and participation from the community in creating content is similar for galleries and for web sites.
  9. T/F? When users want to explore new topics, it is the web site owner’s task to focus them back on writing only about previously-approved topics.
  10. T/F? User-generated content should be treated just like editorial content in the way it is checked, edited, and managed.
  11. T/F? Content planning stops after a new web site is launched.
  12. T/F? HTML is the language used to describe the contents of email messages.
  13. T/F? “HTML” stands for “HyperText Markup Language”.
  14. T/F? All pieces of “web browser software” (like Internet Explorer and Firefox) also fit into the larger category of “user agents”.
  15. T/F? In this exaxmple — <h2>What Is HTML</h2> — the last four characters are known as a “closing tag”.
  16. T/F? In this example — <h2 class=”overview”>Overview</h2> — the fifth through twentieth characters are known as an “element”.
  17. T/F? The article “The Basics of HTML” mentions that Al Gore invented the internet.
  18. T/F? The W3C published HTML 4.0 as a recommendation in 2005.
  19. T/F? An element is considered “deprecated” in a particular specification when it has been removed from that specification because it is obsolete.
  20. T/F? The doctype of an HTML document describes what type of HTML is being used.
  21. T/F? The heading that gets displayed in a web browser’s menu bar is defined by the text in the <overview> element.
  22. T/F? The <h2> element should contain header text that is more important or at a higher level than header text contained in an <h1> element.
  23. T/F? An element inside another element is known as a “descender”.
  24. T/F? Because <, >, and & are special characters in HTML, to include one of these characters in your HTML document you must use character references.
  25. T/F? Lee LeFever of the Common Craft Show describes RSS as a new and efficient way to keep up with all the cool stuff that’s happening on the internet.
  26. T/F? The first step in the “new and fast way” to check web sites is to sign up for a reader.
  27. T/F? Lee LeFever of the Common Craft Show uses Bloglines for checking web sites.
  28. T/F? The second step in the “new and fast way” to check web sites is to establish a connection between your reader and web sites called “subscriptions”.
  29. T/F? The standard icon for setting up subscriptions for the “new and fast way” to check web sites is a big blue buttons with the Google “G”.
  30. T/F? If you click on a subscription button and see a page with code on it, you should go back to the previous page and try again.

DUE Wednesday, Feb 01 – 3 points
(Thursday NOON deadline)