LIS-S 531 Information Structures for the Web
3 credits
- Prerequisite(s): LIS-S 500, LIS-S 507
- Delivery: Online
- Semesters offered: Spring (Check the schedule to confirm.)
Description
This course covers HTML5, CSS3, and responsive web design to meet the needs of any viewport. This course emphasizes the development of basic skills that will allow you to create webpages and to combine these pages into functional websites. After several weeks of working on your technical skills, you will be making valid, accessible, and usable websites that are viewable on all devices. This course requires that you develop a proficiency in both technical skills as well as conceptual skills. The future of information delivery is through a screen of some sort, whether it be a desktop monitor, a tablet, a smartphone, or any other device. You need to know how the users receive that information and what must be done to accommodate them. You may never enter a career where you actually create websites, but if you plan to be an information professional of any type you will certainly assist in developing, judging, acquiring, accepting, promoting, and rejecting information delivered by a web-enabled device of some sort. Learning and employing this technology will be situated in group work done collaboratively at a distance across time zones and cultures. Outcomes will include both technical skills along with the ability to establish shared goals with collaborators across cultures and produce an artifact that addresses an information need that this distance collaboration team has identified.
This course is part of Study Abroad: Finland but may also be taken as an elective course even if not participating in the study abroad program.
Program Learning Goals Supported
Instructors map their courses to specific LIS Program Goals. Mapped program goals drive the design of each course and what students can expect to generally learn.
- Connect Core Values and Professional Ethics to Practice
- Organize and Represent Information
- Innovate Professional Practice with Information Services and Technology
- Examine Systemic Inequalities to Improve Library and Information Practices through Equitable and Socially Just Interventions
Learning Outcomes
Instructors develop learning outcomes for their courses. Students can expect to be able to achieve the learning outcomes for a given course after successfully completing the course.
- Produce standard HTML5 to create valid markup for a user interface
- Design Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3) to give form and layout to a user interface
- Implement usable and responsive web design to satisfy all user devices
- Compose markup that meets standard web usability requirements
- Recognize and solve common issues in creating a digital service
- Appraise international approaches to digital services
- Examine issues in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for website design
- Employ distance collaboration skills to produce a team-designed site
Course Overview
Instruction is in Canvas. Lessons are organized into Modules whose length may vary.
Module 1: IUI-Haaga-Helia introductions
- record your name with Canvas NameCoach
- embed a video introduction in a Canvas discussion
Module 2: Creating and Validating HTML Markup
- review the basics of HTML5
- create a web page using the editor of your choice
- validate a web page for HTML5
- validate a web page for accessibility
Module 3: Creating Structure and Hierarchy with HTML
- use HTML5 links, images, tables, lists
- examine HTML5 semantics to create page structure
Module 4: Styling HTML Markup with CSS
- manipulate basic CSS for styling a web page
- validate CSS for a web page
Module 5: Page Layout Options
- explore the CSS box model
- use traditional CSS positioning strategies: absolute, relative, fixed, float
Module 6: Responsive Web Design, GRID (named areas)
- examine the basic principles of responsive web design
- familiarize yourself with media queries
- manipulate named area GRID layout
Module 7: Topic collaboration
- Establishing projects and assigning roles for contributing to the group work
- Approaching issues in diversity and inclusion in digital work
Module 8: Finalization of collaboration plans
- Group reports on member roles and progress
Modules 9-13: Website or digital object implementation
- Collaborating on website construction or digital object preparation
- Testing for usability and diverse users on all pages or objects
Policies and Procedures
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