1. ET 2004 8 January 2004

2. What is ET? Technology that mitigates a disability. Is that what they call Assistive Technology? Geeks making the world a bit better.

3. What will we do? Lots of guest speakers (I hope) and Videos with “designated listeners” Readings (no textbook) Assignments Book report Class discussion Projects In class presentations

4. Designated Listener Take notes/pictures of our guest speaker Produce a web-based record of what we learned and ensuing discussion Web page due 1 week after lecture Every picture needs an “ALT” tag describing it. Web page must make Cynthia happy http://www.cynthiasays.com/org/cynthiatested.htm http://www.cynthiasays.com/org/cynthiatested.htm

5. Rules for Web Pages Web pages for this class will W3C Markup Validation http://validator.w3.org/http://validator.w3.org/ Web pages will make “Cynthia” happy http://validator.w3.org/ http://validator.w3.org/ http://www.w3schools.com/ is a great place to learnhttp://www.w3schools.com/

6. Grading To get a B or P you need to: –Participate (show up, ask/answer questions, submit links, read papers, add to discussion) –Do the homework –Do a decent project To get an A or H you need to: –Do all that (a lot) plus –A really good project

7. Projects Projects will all have a web-based report Some may be mostly development Some may be entirely research/writing Lots of ideas in the tree on the web page 1, 2, or 3 on a team. One-page pre-proposals due 23 January In class presentation mid term and end

8. Who is gb?

9. Why I like ET

10. Who are you? Name Dept Where is home? Why are you here?