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Preparation Before Class |
What We Will Do in Class |
T Aug 25 |
Bring your
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Introduction and overview
of class and
goals
Review
Technology Autobiography assignment and
Syllabus Response
assignment.
Establish
birdnest
account and make sure e-mail is working; subscribe to the
listserv
from the e-mail address of your choice. Design, set up, and
subscribe to
the Ning class social network.
Wish The
Wizard of Oz
a happy 70th birthday.
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T Sept 1 |
Christine
Rosen, "
People
of the Screen," The New Atlantis
Fall
2008) Nicholas
Carr,
"Is
Google
Making Us Stupid,"
The Atlantic (July/August
2008) James
Bowman, "Is
Stupid Making Us Google?"
The New Atlantis
(Summer
2008) Pew Educational Trust,
"Writing,
Technology, and Teens" (2008) Bronwyn Williams, "Tomorrow
will not be like today: Literacy and identity in a world of multiliteracies,"
J. Adolescent & Adult Literacy 51.8 (2008) (Academic
Search
Premier) Kouider Mokhtari et al., "Assessing the New Literacies
of
Online Reading Comprehension...," The Reading Teacher
62.4
(2008): 354-57. (Academic Search Premier) Anne Mangen,
"Hypertext
fiction reading: haptics and immersion,"
J. Research in
Reading 31.4 (2008): 404-419.
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Discuss the evolving rhetorical
principles of new
media.
Discuss
syllabus
response
assignment. Preview
rhetorical
analysis
assignment. Ensure that everyone has set
up a
http://www.birdnest.org/
account to be
operative by next week. |
T Sept
8 |
Lynch &
Horton, introduction & chs. 1-4 Review and reflect on (but
for
heaven's sakes, don't print out) William Power's essay
"Hamlet's
Blackberry,"
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics
and Public
Policy Discussion Paper #39, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard
University (2007).
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From
print to pixel: Moving from paper to electronic texts Discuss
technology autobiographies
(blog entries should be posted by the evening of
Sept. 7 so that people have time to look at them. Feel free to comment
online). |
T Sept 15
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Finish Lynch and Horton.
Read:
Bring list of potential websites
for the
rhetorical analysis
to class.
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Discuss the affordances of digital vs. print
presentation for different kinds of texts and readers. Focus will be on how
readers read a page, what they are looking for/expect, and what the
creator/designer of the text may want to do to react to the readers'
desires. Think about the rhetorical impact of layout, font, arrangement,
illustration, etc.
Think about the five canons of rhetoric and how web design relates to them.
Choose five of the potential websites that will be the subject of the
rhetorical analysis
assignment.
Discuss creating and evaluating web pages. |
T Sept 22 |
Readings on usability:
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Discuss
rhetorical analyses
and emerging sense of expectations for online
rhetorical presentation.
Continue consideration of rhetorical affordances of new
media vs. traditional media.
Usability: revising for the reader.
Expression web practice time. |
T Sept 29 |
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Work on
afffordances/website
design
experiments. Discuss copyright and new media.
We will visit visit IUPUI's
Copyright Management Center (http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc/fair_use.html),
the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(http://www.eff.org/.
One EFF section to look at closely is the one on
"Teaching Copyright."
Professor Justin Brown (MCOM), an
authority on electronic copyright, will join us in the
Ning chat room about
8 PM. Make sure you have at least three
questions prepared to ask him!
I want to talk about
Google Sidewiki
as a tool for commenting on the web pages you're designing; it would require
that you install the Google toolbar and have a G-mail account, and I don't
know if we can install it in the labs. |
T Oct 6 |
Social Networking:
" Computers
& Composition 25.
1 (Mar 2008): 24-39. Science Direct Social and Behavioral Sciences
Database.
Albert Chan, "Social Media
Personality Types: Slide show,"
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2008/12/social-media-personality-types.html.
December 4, 2008.
Pew Trust,
"Teens and Social Media,"
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Social-Networking-Websites-and-Teens.aspx will take you to the link for the final report.
Wikipedia, "List of Social
Networking Sites,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites.
Knowledge@Wharton,
"MySpace,
Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites: Hot Today, Gone
Tomorrow?"
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1463
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Discuss afffordances/website
design
experiments. Make sure you post your links to the Ning site in time for
people to surf your redesigned pages before class meets!
Discuss social media and identity.
We may look at some reports updating what you've read for tonight, including
this one:
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Adults-and-Social-Network-Websites.aspx,
tthis one
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/printer_friendly.cfm?articleid=2262,
and
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Teens-Privacy-and-Online-Social-Networks.aspx.
Discuss social media short assignment. |
T Oct 13 |
Adaptive Design:
Koster et al., "Wrenching
Things Awry: From 'Explication de texte' to Cybertext in the College
Literature Classroom,"
J. Ubiquitous Learning 1.3 (2009): 1-6.
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Adaptive design issues. Guest speaker Gena Smith will join us for the last
45 minutes of class.
Discuss rhetorical principles of non-print texts,
including podcasts,
videos, and
Photostories.
Discuss
scholarship possibilities.
Fill out midterm
self-assessment to be turned in on October 27. |
T Oct
20 |
Fall Break! Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. |
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T Oct
27 |
Post analysis of social media site by Monday October
26 so people can surf it before class. I just found this article by
Christophor Rick that you might want to look at: "Social Media--Sharing,
Theft and the Fine Line," at
http://www.reelseo.com/social-media-sharing-theft/.
Something to think about. |
Midterm self-assessment
due. E-mail the Word document as an attachment to Dr. K before class begins.
Discuss
analysis of persona in
social media.
Continue discussion of
rhetorical principles of nonprint texts. Mostly will be a Geeking day to
play with programs in the lab.
Sign up for conferences. |
T Nov 3 |
No outside reading
assignments for this week. Get caught up on everything you've skipped,
skimped, or missed. Prepare for your conference. |
No class; Dr. K has to be off
campus. Post your audio or video assignment and discuss on the Ning site.
I'll expect to see a substantive discussion in which everyone participates
once you've looked at your classmates' postings. We will have individual conferences this week to discuss your
work so far, your midterm assessments, and your plans for your
portfolios; also, an opportunity to discuss potential abstracts for papers. |
T Nov 10
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Read
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.
Read Eisner, introduction and chs. 1-5; Pauline Uchmanowicz,
"The Graphic Novel
Decoded: Towards a Poetics of Comics."
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Discuss graphic representations of non-fiction
texts. Preview graphic text analysis assignment and
creative/critical essay
assignment. |
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Nov
17 |
Read
Watchmen.
Finish Eisner. Read Jamie Hughes,
"'Who Watches the Watchmen?': Ideology and 'Real-World' Superheroes,"
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Popular Culture 39 (2006):
546-57 and Dubose, "Waiting for a Hero." |
Discuss graphic novels as literary and rhetorical
form. A good resource that was suggested by a friend and comics fan is
The Annotated Watchmen,
http://www.capnwacky.com/rj/watchmen/chapter1.html.
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Nov 24 |
Kai Mikkonen,
"Presenting Minds in Graphic Narratives,"
Partial Answers
6.2 (2008): 301-321. Continue discussing Watchmen and work
more with ExpressionWeb. |
Continue discussion of graphic novels.
Graphic
text analysis assignment due. Preparation for
final exam. |
W Nov
25 |
Enjoy Thanksgiving! |
turkey links |
T Dec 1 |
For future
thought: Janet Murray,
"Interactive Design: A Profession in Search
of Professional Education"
and
"Humanistic Approaches for Digital Media
Studies". Please read Jose Antonio Vargas'
"Anatomy (and Meaning) of the 'Did You Know' Video Series",
Huffington Post 11/24/09, and
watch the "Did
You Know" video (links in the Vargas article) before class.
Good blog material. |
Guess what's coming to class?
Here's a hint....
Bring milk.
Creative/critical assignment posted.
List of comments posted as a
blog entry.
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M Dec
7
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Last Day of Classes |
I will be available on study day and sporadically throughout the
exam period for conferences and consultations.
I will work out a schedule to meet
each of you to review your portfolios and assign the grade for
that portion of your final grade. |
T Dec
8 |
Study Day. Portfolio
must be complete and its publication announced on the Ning site by
5 pm. Absolutely the last date to get me
the list of your blog postings. |
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F Dec 11 6:30 PM KINARD 216
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Final exam: Oral presentations (10 mins for undergraduates, 15
minutes for graduates) on your portfolios. I will be inviting some
visitors to this session, so be prepared to do an excellent job. |
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