Week |
Date |
Description |
1 |
T 1/5 |
Introduction to the course, course policies, Moodle, etc. For Thursday: make a record of everything you do online for period of 12 hours, and come to class with a hardcopy. |
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R 1/7 |
Discuss your surveys of online use, and discuss your attitudes toward digital culture. Introduction to rhetoric. |
2 |
T 1/12 |
Discuss your attitudes toward digital culture. Introduction to the digital autobiography project. Introduction to digital tools: Oakshare and Dreamweaver. Here are the "boons and banes" notes (PDF) from today's class. |
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R 1/14 |
3 |
T 1/19 |
Discuss strategies for your autobiographies. Introduction to Audacity (and LAME encoder, tutorial here) and Moviemaker (tutorial here). |
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R 1/21 |
Online class #2 and open lab hours. |
4 |
T 1/26 |
Discuss identity and continue the production of your digital autobiographies. |
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R 1/28 |
Online class #3. |
5 |
T 2/2 |
Online class #4 and open lab hours. |
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R 2/4 |
Peer review of digital autobiographies. Discuss reflective cover letters and project submission. |
6 |
T 2/9 |
Present digital autobiographies. |
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R 2/11
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Finish presenting digital autobiographies. |
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F 2/12 |
Final digital autobiographies due by 11:55 p.m. |
7 |
T 2/16 |
Introduction to the Emerging Media project. Discuss research methods and technology. Project planning memo due by the end of class. |
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R 2/18 |
Online class #5 and open lab hours. |
* |
Sa 2/20–2/28 |
Winter recess: no class. |
8 |
T 3/2 |
Discuss presentation strategies, project evaluation, and reports. Continue work on the Emerging Media project. |
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R 3/4
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Online class #6 and open lab hours. |
9 |
M 3/8 |
Emerging media reports due to Moodle at 12 noon. |
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T 3/9 |
Begin the rhetorical analysis project. Discuss genre. |
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R 3/11 |
Emerging media presentations #1 and #2. Discuss rhetorical analysis. Work day. |
10 |
T 3/16 |
CCCC Convention: no face-to-face class. |
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R 3/18 |
CCCC Convention: no face-to-face class. |
11 |
T 3/23 |
Emerging media presentation #3 and #4. Work day. |
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R 3/25 |
Digital autobiography revision workshop and open lab hours. |
12 |
T 3/30 |
Emerging media presentation #5. Begin digital ethnography project. Discuss research methods. Rhetorical analysis project due to Moodle by 5 p.m. |
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R 4/1 |
Online class #7 and open lab hours. Rhetorical analysis project participation reports and digital autobiography project revisions due to Moodle by 11:55 p.m. |
13 |
T 4/6 |
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R 4/8 |
Online class and open lab hours. |
14 |
T 4/13 |
Continue working on digital ethnographies. |
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R 4/15 |
Online class and open lab hours. |
Ω |
T 4/20
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Digital Ethnography project due by 11:55 tonight. |