Assignment #1, CS 115 – 130, Summer 2008

(Professor Arnold Toffler Office: 4250, (973) 618-3459, Atoffler@caldwell.edu)

Assignment: Design a Web Page using MS WORD based upon the following instructions.

From the ancient days when Egyptians were writing on papyrus to modern day holographic technologies, societies have found ways to retain more and more information in permanent ways. Your project will be to design a Web Page using Microsoft WORD for students at Caldwell College to inform them of the fascinating history of storage technology.

1. Research this history and create a timeline that shows the development. Your research should result in some interesting technologies and systems.

2. For each technology, list the media, several significant facts about the technology, and the era in which it was used or popular. Use your own words and reference your sources. Be careful of plagiarism!

3. You can create the timeline using images and words or just words. This is a creative project. Your best research, artistic and communication skills come together to create this timeline. Any pictures that you wish to include (including the seal) are to be saved (menu or right mouse button) as files and inserted into the WORD document containing your timeline.

4. In addition to other milestones in your timeline, include pictures, answers to the specified questions and a brief description of the following in your historical timeline:

1. The Palette of Narmer (the world’s first historical document). When was it produced? What was its purpose?

2. Cuneiform writing. Was cuneiform a language? Who used it and when?

3. Johannes Guttenberg. What book did he publish?

4. Nanotechnology. How is it used to store information?

5. Your web page must contain the Caldwell College Seal in the top left corner of the page. The seal is found on the Publications page in the Caldwell College web site. You can access this page by following the link for Faculty and Staff and the link for Logos under Publications.

6. Create a separate web page containing a list of hyperlinks referencing the websites used for research for this project. Be specific and list the exact URL’s. Do not simply list general websites such as www.google.com or www.wikipedia.org .

7. Save each of your WORD documents as a Web Page (.htm) using your last name as the first part of the filename. (Do not save as “Single File Web Page” or “Web Page, Filtered”.) For example, Peter Smith’s web files should be called “smith.htm” and “smithlinks.htm” respectively. When WORD creates a web page file, it puts the pictures in a separate folder with the same name as the file. (In this example, there would be a folder named “smith_files” with all the pictures included in the web page “smith.htm”.)

8. Be sure to include both your web pages (“.htm”) files and the folder with the pictures when you submit your assignment. You must submit this file and folders as your assignment in one of three ways:

a) on some media (flash drive, floppy disk, CD-ROM, etc.) which you will (postal mail) send to me or deliver it to the college to either the mailroom or my office (Building 4, 2^nd Floor, Room 4250, by sliding it under the door)

b) Use the Digital Drop Box

c) email the file and the contents of the folder with the pictures (“.jpg” or “gif” files)

Sample

Storage Technologies Timeline

(Only a suggested format)

BC
		Palette of Narmer (include your facts here)
	Cuneiform Writing (include your facts here)
AD
Pre-1800’s		Guttenberg press (include your facts here)
Late 1800’s		(include your facts here)
1900’s		(include your facts here)
late 1940s		(include your facts here)