daily schedule
may be altered to best meet the needs of the class.
What is Web 2.0?
week 1
Tuesday, 1/19
Course introduction
Article: Brad Stone, “The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s” Published in the New York Times January 9, 2010.
Video: Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube, March 2007.
Video: Clay Shirky: “How social media can make history” TED Talk, June 2009
Thursday, 1/21
New technologies for writing, reading, & communicating
Article: Nicolas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Published in The Atlantic July/August 2008.
Video: EPIC 2015
The Politics of the Internet
week 2
Tuesday, 1/26
Authorship, authority, and expertise online
Article: “Is Today’s Internet Killing our Culture?” A debate between Andrew Keen and Emily Bell. Published in The Guardian.
Thursday, 1/28
Copyright: the debate
Article: “I share, you rip off, they pirate.” by Bill Thompson. Published in BBC news. Monday, 29 March, 2004.
Video: Good Copy, Bad Copy, a documentary about the current state of copyright. To watch it in full screen, go to http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/. This is a full length (59 min.), full quality documentary. It takes quite a while to load, so if you are on a dial-up connection at home, you may want to watch this on campus. If you are on a DSL or cable connection, you should be fine.
week 3
Tuesday, 2/2
Copyright and remix culture
Book Chapters: “Part I: Cultures” from Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy by Lawrence Lessig (pages 23-114)
Video: Below is Lawrence Lessig’s speech “iCommons Summit talk on the history of the CCommons.” To view the video full screen, watch it on Lessig’s Blip TV site.
Thursday, 2/4
Copyright and remix culture
Article: “7 things you should know about… Creative Commons.” Educause. March 2007.
Article: “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery” by Danielle Nicole DeVoss and James E. Porter. Computers and Composition. 23 (2006).
Due: Blog design plans (posted in the Writing Studio forum)
Below are the Pepsi commercial and its parody that are referenced in the DeVoss and Porter article.
This is the original Pepsi commercial shown during the 2004 Superbowl.
This is the parody made by James E. Saldana
week 4
Tuesday, 2/9
Copyright and remix culture: Joining the conversation
Due at the end of this class session: Blog Welcome/About page
Thursday, 2/11
Copyright and remix culture: Joining the conversation
Reading: Get Real! A Manifesto from a New Generation of Cultural Critics: TechnoRealism.” by David Shenk, Andrew L. Shapiro, and Steven Johnson. The Nation. April 6, 1998.
Reading: “Changing Copyright” by Negitivland
Reading: ”Negativland’s Tenets of Free Appropriation” by Negitivland
Negativland is a collective of artists. If you like what you read, check out the rest of their website.
Assigned: Technology Manifesto
Principles of visual design
week 5
Tuesday, 2/16
Words as images: A brief look at typography
Reading: Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Type Book
Thursday, 2/18
Manifesto peer response
Due: Manifesto drafts (bring 3 hard copies to class)
week 6
Tuesday, 2/23
Words and images : A brief look at page design
Reading: Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book
Assigned: Poster design
Thursday, 2/25
Introduction to Photoshop
Homework assigned: Phototshop tutorials
week 7
Tuesday, 3/2
Poster work day
Due: Photoshop tutorials (posted in the Writing Studio)
Visual Design and Rhetoric on the Web
Thursday, 3/4
Visual rhetoric
Reading: “Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the WWW” by Patricia Sullivan
Assigned: Personal website project
Due: Poster design
week 8
Tuesday, 3/9
Introduction to HTML
Due: Website design plans and mood boards (hard copy)
Thursday, 3/11
More HTML and CSS
Due: Revised manifestos (posted as a page on your blog)
week 9
SPRING BREAK
week 10
Tuesday, 3/23
Introduction to Dreamweaver
Thursday, 3/25
Website work day
week 11
Tuesday, 3/30
Website work day
Thursday, 4/1
Website work day
week 12
Tuesday, 4/6
Website work day
Due: Website drafts
Thursday, 4/8
I&A Campaign work day
Assigned: Information and Advocacy (I&A) Campaign (group project)
week 13
Tuesday, 4/13
I&A Campaign work day
Thursday, 4/15
A sound vocabulary
Reading: “Sound Matters: Notes Toward the Analysis and Design of Sound in Multimodal Webtexts” by Heidi McKee. Computers and Composition. 23 (2006).
Podcast: Radio Lab episode, “Morality.” Download at the website
Podcast: On the Media segment, “Pornucopia” Listen at the website
Here are links to the multimedia examples in McKee’s article:
Breathing/Secret of Roe
Conversation
Winter Lyric
New York City: After the Fall
Sound Poems
week 14
Tuesday, 4/20
Introduction to Audacity
Thursday, 4/22
I&A Campaign work day
Due: I&A Campaign annotated bibliographies
week 15
Tuesday, 4/27
I&A Campaign work day
Due: I&A Campaign design plans
Thursday, 4/29
I&A Campaign work day
week 16
Tuesday, 5/4
I&A Campaign work day
Thursday, 5/6
I&A Campaign work day
Due: I&A Campaigns
Final exam time: Tuesday, May 11 3:40-5:40 pm
Due: Personal Websites
