English 604: Teaching with Technology

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Readings & Assignments Schedule
Week One
1/10: Blogging, Getting Started

Week Two (1/17): Technological Literacies
Read: Stuart Selber
In class: Selber Discussion
The Wonderful World of Google
Google Tasks

Week Three (1/24): New Media Literacy
Read: Gunther Kress
In class: Discuss Geek of the Day and Paper Assignments
What's Going on with Gunther Kress?
Customized Interfaces: Firefox, iGoogle, CompPile Original v. New

Week Four (1/31): Responses to Kress
Read: Computers and Composition 22.1 (2005)
access the journal from this library page
Special Issue on Gunther Kress
Read: Kress, Fortune, Moran, & Wysocki
In-class: typography 101, writing and collaboration tools

Week Five (2/7): Information Design
Read: Edward Tufte
In class: visual literacy
Geek: Claire, Using Online Surveys in the Classroom

Week Six (2/14): Multimodality
Selfe's Multimodal Composition
In class: Working with images, video, & audio
Video Review In-Class Assignment
Geek: Jeff, Maximizing I-scan

Week Seven (2/21): Copyright & Fair Use
Read:
Christine Tardy, "Expressions of Disciplinarity and Individuality in a Multimodal Genre." Computers and Composition, Vol 22 Issue 3 2005. p. 319-336. [available through the library's ejournals]
Martine Courant Rife. "The Fair Use Doctrine." Computers and Composition, Vol 24 Issue 2 2007, p. 154-178. [available through the library's ejournals]
Steve Westbrook. "Visual Rhetoric in a Culture of Fear." College English, Vol 68 Issue 5 2006. p. 457-480. [user:123883, pass: muncie].
http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/students/
http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/distanceed/faculty/
In class: Guest Speaker Fritz Dolak
Abstracts Due
Geek: Carolyn, Turning Point

Week Eight (2/28): Web Design
Read: Robin Williams: The Non-Designer's Web Design Book
In-class: making web pages
Geek: Tess: Gradekeeping Applications

Week Nine (3/6): Virtual Peer Review
Read: Kastman Bruech
In-class: making web pages, part two
Geek: Casey, Web Conferencing Tools

Week Ten: Spring Break!

Week Eleven (3/20): Virtual Survival/Professional Development
Read: "Where do I list this on my CV?"
"A Making: The Job Search"
In-Class: Tenure and Promotion Cases
CV Advice: Dartmouth
CV Advice: Purdue OWL
Geek: Nicole, Picnik

Week Twelve (3/27): Social Networking
Read: "Collaboration, Literacy, and Authorship" (Moxley & Meehan)
"Web 2.0: Does it Really Matter?" Journal of Distance Education 21.4 (2007) (via EBSCO host)
Using Wikis (password: wiki): http://critical.tamucc.edu/wiki/WikiArticle/Home
In-class: web 2.0, social networking, wikis
Geek: Elizabeth, SlideShare

Week Thirteen (4/3): Researching Online
Read: C & C Online Special Issue on Online Research, Fall 2007 (all webtexts)
In-class: Designing Tutorials
Geek: Hailey, Animoto

Week Fourteen (4/10): Teaching Online
Read: Hewett & Ehmann
In Class: Create a Course

Week Fifteen (4/17)
In-class: Virtual Guest Speaker Heidi Skurat Harris: our questions
In class: Workshops
Geek: Dave & Nikki

Week Sixteen (4/24): Presentations, Part One

Final Exam Meeting (5/1) 7pm-9pm: Presentations, Part Two