Lecture- and proseminar series at Comenius University Bratislava
Version: 30. 1. 2009
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These lectures take place again in ws 2008/2009, starting at 24. sept. 2008, 13: 10, room B.
These lectures and proseminars use english language. It is an urgent wish of Comenius-University, to use foreign languages to an larger extent. If the students want it, german language can be used instead.
This series will consist of lectures (3 hours) and a proseminar (1
hour).
The lectures will be given by me; the proseminar by Mr. Homola.
In the lectures I will present you theoretical and background
informations. I will show you the cultural background too (beginning
with
the invention of writing up to the Web 2.0). In the proseminar Mr.
Homola will present typical examples and students will present the results
of their project-work.
Especially in the area of hypertext/hypermedia it is not enough to browse
the WWW only as a reader. Hypertext (and the WWW is only one part of this
concept) means integrated use of the information technology as authors
and readers in nonlinear text-structures.
We will discuss other forms of hypertexts too (see below), which use the internet. Some of them are valuable
for cooperative work.
In the proseminar the students will work in groups on projects to get hands-on experience in hypertext-projects.
The lectures will be given in english language. Work in the proseminars
(presentation of student-projects, ...) can use slovak language too.
If there are too much students two prosaminar tracks will be offered.
Dates of examinations: 14. and 28. January 2009, 14:00, room "B".
28. 1. 2008 is the last date for examinations.
I will grade the written exam-works and combine the grades with those of mr. Homola. I will send the grades to prof. Olejar for due publication within a few days. At 28. 1. I will sign the booklets for participants of the first date. For the second date please contact the institute.
Intended participants:
Proposed for students of the third year or later
Location:
Lectures: Room "B"
Proseminars: Room ???
Time:
Lectures: Wednesday, weekly 13:10 - 15:30 (3 units with a break of 10
minutes)
Proseminars: Thursday, biweekly 13:10 - 14:40 (2 units)
The proseminar will be divided into two tracks, which will weekly alternate. The two groups (A, B) will be directed by dr. Hegedus.
Planned dates (winter-term):
Lectures (weekly):
24. 9. (first lecture)
1. 10., 8. 10., 15. 10., 22. 10., 29. 10.
5. 11., 12. 11., 19. 11., 26. 11.
3. 12., 10. 12., 17. 10. (last lecture)
Proseminars (weekly)
Type:
Lecture, proseminar with presentation of examples and presentation of
student-projects.
Evaluation:
Both (lectures and proseminar) will be graded together.
Examination (in written form) 50%
Cooperation and presentation in proseminar 50%
The proseminar-projects can be done alone or as teamwork in groups of two or three students. You can propose projects yourself or select one from a list of projects. There you can find some informations about the structure of typical projects too.
The assignments shall be fixed as soon as possible; a timetable for presentations will afterwards be fixed with the students. This is necessary to give you adequate time for presenting (15 minutes) and discussing the results. Please prepare a paper or web-version of your project.
Grading of proseminar projects:
Students, which only participate in the proseminar but do not work on a own project will get a grading of "C" for the proseminar part. Only those students, which work on and present an own project can get a better grading "A" or "B" for the project part. But remember, that proseminar and examination together will decide the final grade.
To support discussions of the student-projects and questions from you it is obligatory to participate (written/email-excuses are possible) at all proseminars. For the lectures it is not obligatory always to take part, but for the examinations all stuff brought in the lectures is important.
My experience in the last years showed, that nearly all
students came to the first lecture. Afterwards this number
declined substantially. At the examination again nearly all enrolled
students took part.
The results showed a "two-peak distribution". Most actively
participating students got an "A" or "B". The overwhelming
number of students whick used only my logbook
and other
background material got often worse grades "C" or "D" ...
Although I provided a list of possible exam-questions, some
students even did not read this list.
For communication with me, please send me emails directly.
This lecture/proseminar series is obligatory for students of informatics, but students of other branches of study are kindly invited to take part too.
The lectures correspond to 3 semester-hours; the proseminar to 1 semester-hour.
Because only a part of the students have - active - skills in writing
HTML/XML/XHTML I will give an introduction to markup-languages in my lecture.
But it is necessary to use these notations actively, e.g. in
proseminar-projects.
You should be able, to write short xhtml/xml-texts with an editor, understand
the source code of web-pages and be able to update them.
An example: I update my xhtml-files concerning lecture-contents using a
simple text-editor. The result is a simple but syntactically correct xhtml
with high accessibility.
(There are similarities with blogs.)
I will bring these topics quite early in my lectures.
Literature and further information:
You can contact me by email:
My home-page is
(always under construction):
http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~risak
V. Risak