About the Schedule

The schedule is broken down by module. The current module will be placed at the top so as to reduce scrolling. Assignments and readings are due on the day they are listed. For example, Kevin Kelly should be read for Tuesday, 12/4.

Module 3, Nov 15 – Dec 13

Week 1
Assignment for the first Module 1 meeting
H 11/15:  Brief introductions; set up collaborative blogs
Hand out Blogging Assignment
Assignment for 11/20

Week 2
T 11/20: Module not meeting
First blog post due on blog
Assignment for 11/27
H 11/22: Class Canceled for Thanksgiving

Week 3
T 11/27:  Bolter on writing spaces
Hand out Module Assignment
Assignment for 11/29
H 11/29: Johnson, Silver; Atwood on Twitter; more on blogs
Hand out Twitter Assignment
Assignment for 12/4

Week 4
T 12/4: “Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”; Kevin Kelly “We are the Web”; Highland, “As Real as Your Life”
Assignment for 12/6
H 12/6: Work in GoogleDocs; Parise, “Beware of online ‘filter bubbles'”; Roy, “The birth of a word”; Hardt “Identity 2.0”

Week 5
T 12/11: Gaylor, RiP: A Remix Manifesto; Lessig, “Laws that choke creativity”; Kevin Kelly “Becoming Screen Literate”
Faith by Robert Kendall, Language by Stephen Fry, F**K You by Cee Lo Green, Changing Academic Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson, Siftables by David Merrill
questions-on-writing.pdf
H 12/13: Peer response on final assignment draft; prezi-peer-response-f12.docx
Final Project Rough Draft due by class time
Hand out Portfolio Assignment

Module 2, Oct 16 – Nov 13

Week 1
Assignment for the first Module 1 meeting
T 10/16: Bolter, Introduction to Writing Space; audio selection from Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media; from Douglas Engelbart 1969 demonstration; Wesch “The Machine is Us/ing Us”
Hand out Blogging and Tweeting assignments
Assignment for 10/18
H 10/18: Rettberg, “What is a Blog?”; Johnson, Silver; Atwood on Twitter; set up blog; iPhone undercover report

Week 2
T 10/23: more on blogs; introduction to Twitter
Assignment for 10/25
H 10/25: “Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”; Kevin Kelly “We are the Web”; Highland, “As Real as Your Life”
Hand out the Module Project
Assignment for 10/30

Week 3
T 10/30: Class cancelled for Hurricane Sandy
H 11/1: Work in GoogleDocs GoogleDrive; Parise, “Beware of online ‘filter bubbles'”; Roy, “The birth of a word”; Hardt “Identity 2.0”
Assignment for 11/8

Week 4
T 11/6: Election Day, Classes Canceled
H 11/8: Discuss Facebook assignment, identity, and data
Gaylor, RiP: A Remix Manifesto; Lessig, “Laws that choke creativity”; Kevin Kelly “Becoming Screen Literate”
Faith by Robert Kendall, Language by Stephen Fry, F**K You by Cee Lo Green, Changing Academic Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson, Siftables by David Merrill
Hand out Portfolio Assignment

Week 5
T 11/13: Peer response on final assignment draft; prezi-peer-response-f12.docx
Final Project Rough Draft due by class time

Module 1, Sept 11 – Oct 4

Week 1
Assignment for the first Module 1 meeting
T 9/11: Bolter, Introduction to Writing Space; audio selection from Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media; from Douglas Engelbart 1969 demonstration; Wesch “The Machine is Us/ing Us”
Assignment for 9/13
H 9/13: Rettberg, “What is a Blog?”; Johnson, Silver; Atwood on Twitter; set up blog; iPhone undercover report
Discuss Blogging and Tweeting assignments
Assignment for 9/18

Week 2
T 9/25: more on blogs; introduction to Twitter
Assignment for 9/27
H 9/27: “Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”; Kevin Kelly “We are the Web”; Highland, “As Real as Your Life”
Hand out the Module Project
Assignment for 10/2

Week 3
T 10/2: Work in GoogleDocs; Parise, “Beware of online ‘filter bubbles'”; Roy, “The birth of a word”; Hardt “Identity 2.0”
H 10/4: Discuss Facebook assignment, identity, and data.
Assignment for 10/9

Week 4
T 10/9: Gaylor, RiP: A Remix Manifesto; Lessig, “Laws that choke creativity”; Kevin Kelly “Becoming Screen Literate”
Faith by Robert Kendall, Language by Stephen Fry, F**K You by Cee Lo Green, Changing Academic Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson, Siftables by David Merrill
Hand out Portfolio Assignment
H 10/11: Peer response on final assignment draft; prezi-peer-response-f12.docx
Final Project Rough Draft due by class time