Instructor: Kristin Scott Twitter@kscott65 Office Hours: By Appointment E-Mail: Class Blog: http://nclc249.wordpress.com/ Class Wiki: http://nclc249fall09.pbwiki.com See Course Description Course Schedule: This weekly schedule functions as your day-by-day guide to this learning community. It itemizes your assignments and their due dates and your weekly preparatory work for class meetings. Please, however, check the blog schedule regularly (if there is a change in the schedule, the course blog will reflect the most recent updates)! * (on BB) designates that the reading/s can be found on Blackboard. September 3rd: Introduction to course - literacy survey; experiential learning project. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): - Livingston, Sonia. “Internet Literacy: Young People’s Negotiation of New Online Opportunities” (on BB).
- Thompson, Clive. “On the New Literacy,” Wired Magazine 17.09
September 10th: Internet Literacy & the Information R/evolution Response Assignment # 1 due on course blog. Workshop: TBA Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): - Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July/August, 2008.
- Bowman, James. “Is Stupid Making Us Google?” The New Atlantis, Number 21, Summer 2008.
- Watch: A Vision of Students Today & Information R/evolution
- Yoffe, Emily. “Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And Why that’s dangerous.” Slate, August 12, 2009.
September 17th: Internet Literacy & the Information R/evolution continued . . . Response Assignment # 2 due on course blog. Workshop: ICTs / Seek Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): - O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?”
- Watch: Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 … The Machine is Watching Us
- Mitoko Rich, "Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?" New York Times Book Review, July 27 2008.
- Levy, Steven. “The Future of Reading,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2007. (also on BB)
- Weisberg, Jacob. “Curling Up with A Good Screen,” Newsweek, Mar 21, 2009.
September 24th: Web 2.0 & Digital Literacy Response Assignment # 3 due on course blog . Workshop: Web 2.0 / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): - Mosco, Vincent. “Brand New World? Globalization, Cyberspace, and the Politics of Convergence (Key Note Address) (on BB).
- Langlois, Ganaele and Greg Elmer, “Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format” (on BB).
- Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Medias Collide, Introduction (on BB).
September 28th - October 8th - collaborative assignment with class from Bogota, Colombia: "Intelligent Organizations" Faculty of Psychology, Pontifical Javeriana University, Professor, Cristian Berrío Zapata. See Wiki for details. October 1st: “Collective Intelligence” and “Convergence” Response Assignment # 4 due on course blog. Workshop: Collaborations / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): October 8th: Social Media / Digital Mashing Begin Twitter collaborative assignment with "Communication and Culture" at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Response Assignment # 5 due on course blog. Workshop: New Genres – Web 3.0? / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): October 15th: Social Networking: The Good, the Bad; the Hash and Tag Response Assignment # 6 due on course blog. Workshop: Social Networking / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): October 22nd: Open-Source / P2P File Sharing Response Assignment # 7 due on course blog. Workshop: Open-source & P2P / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): - Morozov, Evgeny, “Think Again Twitter,” Foreign Policy, August 6, 2009.
- Harris, Leslie. “Online Activism Isn’t Dead,” Center For Democracy & Technology, July 2, 2009.
- Nicholson, Judith A. “Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity,” Fibreculture Journal, Issue 6.
- Stöcker, Christian, Carolin Neumann, and Thorsten Dörting, “Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internet,” Spiegel Online International, June 18, 2009.
- Browse through the DigiActive: A World of Digital Activists web site.
October 29th: Digital Revolutions & Smart Mobs Response Assignment # 8 due on course blog. Workshop: Digital Revolutions / See Wiki for assignment. Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): November 5th: MMORPGs / WoW! Response Assignment # 9 due on course blog. Workshop: World of Warcraft – Dr. Douglas Eyman, Department of English Assigned readings/viewings (for next class): November 12th: Online Art & Interactive Literature, Cyber/sub-cultures Response Assignment # 10 due on course blog. Workshop: Art & Interactive Literature / See Wiki for assignment. November 19th: Peer Teaching: 2 groups to teach new concept/skill November 26th: THANKSGIVING BREAK!! December 3rd: Peer Teaching: (3 groups to teach class a new skill/concept) December 10th: Response Assignment # 11 due on course blog. Peer Teaching: (3 groups to teach class a new skill/concept) December 17th: Response Assignment # 12 due on course blog. Peer Teaching: (2 groups to teach class a new skill/concept) December 21st: FINAL REFLECTION PAPERS DUE by midnight email! |
