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EC301 Irish Economy
National University of Ireland, Galway
Semester I 1999/2000
Web Project
As stated in the Course outline this
writing option is intended especially for students who are majoring in
economics, but is open to all taking EC301 Irish Economy. It consists of a draft section of a
proposed web site on the Irish economy. Students who take this option will
receive a grade which will account for 35\% of the marks in this course,
with the semester examination accounting
for the remaining marks.
Deadlines are as follows:
- Friday 15th October: email me with a proposed topic title/outline.
- Friday 5th November: if you have a draft site by this stage, I am
willing to view it and give feedback,
- Friday 26th November: final submission i.e your site must be posted on
a server by this day (I can't accept web sites via email or on
diskette).Remember to email me the correct(!) web address of your
project by this date, and expect an acknowledgement from me.
Programme
Preliminaries
- You will need some access to a reasonable computer (Mac or PC) with a
copy of a web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer installed. There's
is no need to have a particularly up-to-date version of the software
e.g., Netscape Version 2.02 will do just fine.
You also need a word-processor (again, almost any package will do).
- If you have no experience of writing web pages, have a go at
downloading and reading A Beginner's
Guide to HTML This document is in a format called "pdf" (portable
document format).
You should be able to view/save/print it OK if you're
in the PC suites or the Libary's infomedia centre on campus. If you're
surfing from home, you may need to visit Adobe's web site to download free
software called Acrobat Reader in order to handle the pdf format. You
might email me if you have any problems with this and/or if you come
across other material on the web about writing web pages which you found
useful.
Posting your site on a server
A number of sites offer free server space: the following are ones I think
are OK, you may know of others, or use the space provided by your internet
service provider.
Other issues
- The only other guideline is that the final product should consist
of a few web pages, with a very rough guideline of about 1000 words of
text in length, which would be a useful part of a web site about the
Irish economy i.e. it might be of interest to other economics students,
policy makers, investors from abroad, academic researchers,
journalists ...
- In order for you to pin down precisely what you might do here, keep
up with the lecture material and readings in the main course, and look
ahead at the rest of the course outline for ideas.
- You might also get some ideas about what can be done by visiting Resources for
Economists on the Internet
Dr Aidan Kane October 1999
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