Schedule Under Revision!
Introduction to the course goals, policies, expectations.
Thursday, January 10
What is Digital Culture? Individual/Peer work; Group discussion; Class discussion. We will re-visit this question.
A trip in the wayback machine (Facebook, iTunes, MIT, hotmail, NCTE, Whitehouse.gov, NYTimes, Oakland University, Lori's first webpages)...who used the web, why, what did they know how to do? How have our expectations for web users/designers changed? How do we use it now? When did things begin to change?
What is Web 2.0? What's the real cost of the virtual world?
Homework: Read the introduction and chapters 1 & 2 in Selfe's book. Read over the Reading Response Schedule so you know when you are responsible for posting a response to our class wiki. There are no reading responses due this week.
Tuesday, January 15
First Online Class in Moodle
Thursday, January 17
Discussion of your first analysis project; logon to the wiki; Lori posts the first annotation/response to the wiki; review the response schedule.(check for errors)
Homework: Read Chapters 3 & 4 in Selfe's book; begin researching your first analysis project--First Reading Responses Due...is it your turn to respond? Email a copy of your project proposal to me before class on Thrusday, January 24th.
Tuesday, January 22
Online Class work must be completed no later than Wednesday, January 23rd at noon.
Thursday, January 24
Webdesign 101 & What do we mean when we say "literacy," "reading," "composing," "technology," and "text"? 10-minute free write followed by discussion & videos of two OU faculty answering these questions.
Homework: Read Chapter 5, 6, & 7 in Selfe's book Reading Responses
Tuesday, January 29
Thursday, January 31
Pick a possible site for your wiki essay and find a partner to collaborate with on their wiki essay. By next Thursday, you'll have to know which site you're going to analyze for this wiki work. You'll have until the last day of the semester to complete the wiki work.
Introduction to digital stories and movies; creating digital stories and movies in Windows Movie Maker.
Homework: Read Chapters 1-3 in Ebo's book; bring a draft of your first analysis project to class next Thursday. I will need a copy of that draft as well. Reading Responses
Tuesday, February 5
Thursday, February 7
Peer Review of first analysis project drafts (& turn in a draft for me to respond to). Analytical coverletter description (this will accompany your project when you turn it in). Let me know which site you plan to examine for your wiki essay.
5 minute essay & The googledoc project (our online course work for next week).
Homework: Read Chapters 4 & 5 in Ebo's book; keep revising your first analysis project; have a copy of this project ready at the beginning of class next Thursday; write analytical coverletter about this project & bring in a draft of that next Thursday as well. Reading Responses
Tuesday, February 12
Thursday, February 14
Final peer review of individual projects & analytical coverletters; a visit to Second Life; A short Audacity Tutorial.
Homework: Read Kairos articles: Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi's Navigating the Image of Woman Online, Lisa Gerrard's Thoughts on Computers, Gender, and the Body Electric, and Lisa Gerrard's "Diets Suck!" and Other Tales of Women's Bodies on the Web. Reading Responses. Also read Benjamin Duranske's roundtable article about Virtual Rape in Second Life
Tuesday, February 19
Thursday, February 21
Turn in First Analysis Project (with all peer-reviewed drafts & analytical coverletter); Choose groups for project 2
Tuesday, February 26
No Class, Winter Break
Thursday, February 28
No Class, Winter Break
Tuesday, March 4
Thursday, March 6
Group assignments, project description, and topic choices. Introduction to Second Life (take notes of your experiences there)...some individual project presentations today.
Homework:Read Chapters 11 & 12 in Ebo. Reading Responses Your Moodle work will probably be related to your trip to Second Life, so I hope you took good notes! Come to class prepared to discuss your group project & gather some preliminary data.
Tuesday, March 11
Thursday, March 13
Work Day for Group Projects (bring in your survey instruments & any recording equipment, cameras, etc you may need for this)...some project presentations today.
Our visit to Second Life (instructions for logging in and for getting access to OU's island are here). Instructions for things to note are here. Save these notes by emailing them to yourself...you will need them to complete the Moodle work next week.
Homework: Read Chapters 7 & 8 in Ebo continue working on your group project; have your research methods (surveys, interviews, etc) ready for class on Thursday. You will also want to bring any recording devices your group needs for this project (camera, camcorder, audio recorder) Reading Responses
Tuesday, March 18
Thursday, March 20
Research Thursday: today you will work on gathering data for your projects in class.
No readings this week. Instead, visit the online community you're analyzing for your Wiki Essay and answer as many of the questions on this worksheet as apply to the political online community you're investigating. Your answers to those questions will inform your Moodle post for Tuesday, and that post will serve (I hope) as the first draft of your Wiki Essay.
Tuesday, March 25
Thursday, March 27
Conferences with me about your group projects.
Read Dunn and DeMers and Salvo; Response Schedule
Tuesday, April 1
Thursday, April 3
Peer review of Group Projects
Tuesday, April 8
Thursday, April 10
Final day to work on Group Projects and Wiki essays.
Tuesday, April 15
No online class today: Meet in Wilson 400 for presentations. Group Projects due.
Thursday, April 17
Last Class, all work/revisions due. Your wiki essay must be posted no later than 3:00 today.
