| date |
in class |
reading |
writing |
digital literacy applicaton |
| 7/5 |
Introductions
Syllabus and Assignments
Two Concepts
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Some concepts: Wikipedia, Information Literacy (first three sections)
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us (video)
Humanity Lobotomy: Second Draft (video; net neutrality)
Wikis in Plain English
Google Reader in Plain English
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Introductory e-mail and wiki page: what are your goals for the class? How do you best learn? |
Google Account
Gmail
Docs
Reader
Presentations
(LIU)
Sites
Voice
domain search
html manipulation
Wikis
Blogs
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| 7/7 |
Discussion: What is Writing in the Digital Age? |
Daniel Anderson, "Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum"
“Digital Rhetoric”
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Post your response to one or more of tonight's assigned readings on the class blog. Post a comment in response to another student's post.
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Wikis
blog comments
Prezi
delicious
Wordle
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| 7/12 |
Discussion: Writing as Design
Remix
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Jim Porter, “Why Technology Matters to Writing: A Cyberwriter’s Tale”
Constance J. Petersen, “Writing for a Web Audience”
Anne Wysocki, "The Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media"
Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the Remix (video)
English Downfall (video remix, possibly offensive, political)
Rebuttal to English Downfall (video response, strong language)
The Case for Mindful Rhetorical Media Use (video essay/remix theory)
The Tutor (video critique of reading the Bible literally)
Don't Get Caught in a Bad Hotel (video workers' rights activism)
Transformers 3 (video)
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Post your response to tonight's assigned reading to the class blog; comment on other posts
Establish your own blog
3 blogs that you like (technorati)
post links to class blog to three blogs that you like. Briefly describe the appeal of these blogs.
Embed in the class blog 2 remixes that you like and a brief description of why you like them.
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Digital Photostory
or other video editing software
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| 7/14 |
Discussion: Writing as Design |
Craig Stroupe, “Visualizing English: Recognizing the Hybrid Literacy of Visual and Verbal Authorship on the Web”
David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous, chapters 1, 4, 5 and 7.
RSS in Plain English
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Post your response to one or more of tonight's assigned readings to the class blog; comment on other posts. |
Jing
RSS
News Alerts
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| 7/19 |
Social Networking |
Michael Wesch, An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube (video)
Danah Boyd, White Flight in Networked Publics?
Social Networking in Plain English (video)
Super News: Social Networking Wars (video)
Twouble with Twitters (video)
Flutter, the New Twitter (video)
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Interactive Web Authoring or Writing Tool and Presentation (6 minutes maximum)
Written Description (and text, if appropriate) of Major Project
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Wix |
| 7/21 |
Data Visualization and Interactivity
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Lev Manovich, The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life
Lisa Lebduska, The Facebook Mirror
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, prologue and chapters 1-3.
New York Times Cascade
Processing.org Examples
Infosthetics.com
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Post your response to one or more of tonight's assigned readings to the class blog; comment on other posts |
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| 7/26 |
Life in the Digital Age |
Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook
Writing Spaces
Danah Boyd, Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry
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Life in the Digital Age examples posted to the course blog
Post your response to one or more of tonight's assigned readings to Twitter.
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| 7/28 |
Interactivity |
"Don't Click It"
Man in the Dark
Revelazioni
Urban Literacy Center Manifesto
From Gallery to Webtext
The Lo-Fi Manifesto |
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Animaps |
| 8/2 |
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Major Project: Animation embedded in the course blog or on the course wiki
Presentation of Major Project
Final Reflection posted to the course blog
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