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, Penrod should be read for Tuesday, Sept 9.
Module 3, April 7 – Apr 30
Unit 1: Writing Spaces
T 4/7: Assignment to be completed for first class period
Axelrod & Cooper; Penrod; set up blogs using WordPress
assignment for 4/9
H 4/9: Nye, Bolter, writing spaces, introductions, discussion questions, work on blogs
assignment for 4/14
Unit 2: Origins
T 4/14: Selfe, Nardi & O’Day, discussion questions (.pdf), Information Ecologies (.pdf)
assignment for 4/16
H 4/16: Bush, Doug Englebart’s 1968 demostration of the mouse, hypertext and other technologies, Berners-Lee; Student Blogging Scholarship; discussion of servers, internet, code, and linking; blog with links in it
assignment for 4/21
Unit 3: Ownership and Identity
T 4/21: Wesch, Turkle, Kelly, Vogelstein, social bookmarking in plain english; extra: Hoffman, The Battle for Facebook
assignment for 4/23
H 4/23: Dibbell, Garfield, Davis, Bree and LonelyGirl15; Diigo and social bookmarking, set up Diigo account tutorial (diigo-bookmark-tag-tutorial-s09-mod-3.pdf)
assignment for 4/28
Unit 4: The Future of Writing
T 4/28: Howard, Thompson, Vaidhyanathan (panopticon image 1, image 2); RSS in Plain English; set up Netvibes account (netvibes-tutorial.pdf); Dr. Wolff’s Public Netvibes page
assignment for 4/30
H 4/30: Last day of Module 3. McCloud, Gee, portfolio, final project, and Perry’s “Will Video Games Become Better than Real Life?”
Module 2, Feb 24 – Apr 2
Unit 1: Writing Spaces
T 2/24: Assignment to be completed for first class period
Axelrod & Cooper; Penrod; set up blogs using WordPress
assignment for 2/26
H 2/26: Bolter, writing spaces, introductions, discussion questions, work on blogs, Wordle, screen shots
assignment for 3/3
Unit 2: Origins
T 3/3: Bolter, Selfe, Nardi & O’Day, bolter-selfe-nardi-oday-questions (.pdf), Information Ecologies (.pdf); From the Onion: CIA Realizes It’s been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
assignment for 3/5
H 3/5: Bush, Doug Englebart’s 1968 demostration of the mouse, hypertext and other technologies, Berners-Lee; Student Blogging Scholarship; discussion of servers, internet, code, and linking; blog with links in it
assignment for 3/10
Unit 3: Ownership and Identity
T 3/10: Wesch, Turkle, Kelly, Carr, social bookmarking in plain english; Diigo and social bookmarking, set up Diigo account tutorial (diigo-tutorial-s09-mod2.pdf); extras: Vogelstein, “How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web’s Hottest Platform,” Hoffman, The Battle for Facebook
assignment for 3/12
H 3/12: Class Canceled
T 3/24: Dibbell, Garfield, Davis, Bree and LonelyGirl15, RSS in Plain English; set up Netvibes account (netvibes-tutorial.pdf); Dr. Wolff’s Public Netvibes page
assignment for 3/26
Unit 4: The Future of Writing
T 3/30: RSS in Plain English; set up Netvibes account (netvibes-tutorial.pdf); Dr. Wolff’s Public Netvibes page Chat Quotations, Dibbell, Garfield, Davis, Bree and LonelyGirl15, Howard, Thompson, Vaidhyanathan (panopticon image 1, image 2)
assignment for 4/2
H 4/2: Last day of Module 3. McCloud, Gee, Portfolio, and final project
Module 1, Jan 27 – Feb 19
Unit 1: Writing Spaces
T 1/27: Assignment to be completed for first class period
Axelrod & Cooper; Penrod; set up blogs using WordPress
assignment for 1/29
H 1/29: Nye, Bolter, writing spaces, introductions, discussion questions, work on blogs
assignment for 2/3
Unit 2: Origins
T 2/3: : Selfe, Nardi & O’Day, bolter-selfe-nardi-oday-questions (.pdf), Information Ecologies (.pdf)
assignment for 2/5
H 2/5: Bush, Doug Englebart’s 1968 demostration of the mouse, hypertext and other technologies, Berners-Lee; Student Blogging Scholarship; discussion of servers, internet, code, and linking; blog with links in it
assignment for 2/10
Unit 3: Ownership and Identity
T 2/10: Wesch, Turkle, Kelly, Vogelstein, social bookmarking in plain english; Diigo and social bookmarking, set up Diigo account tutorial (diigo-tutorial-s09-mod3.pdf); extra: Hoffman, The Battle for Facebook
assignment for 2/12
H 2/12: Dibbell, Garfield, Davis, Bree and LonelyGirl15, RSS in Plain English; set up Netvibes account (ecosystem-tutorial-s09-public.pdf); Dr. Wolff’s Public Netvibes page
assignment for 2/17
Unit 4: The Future of Writing
T 2/17: Chat Quotations, Dibbell, Garfield, Davis, Bree and LonelyGirl15, Howard, Thompson, Vaidhyanathan (panopticon image 1, image 2)
assignment for 2/19
H 2/19: Last day of Module 3. McCloud, Gee, Portfolio, and final project