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Course Calendar of Assignments and Readings
Note: Calendar is subject to change
8/28 Course introduction
In-class reading and discussion; set up of blogs and other needed accounts; introduction to course wiki
Course wikis and blogs
In-class reading/viewing:
• “The Machine is Us/ing Us” (Michael Wesch)
• “Wikipedia survives research test”
Optional:
• YouTube Intro: RSS in Plain English
• YouTube Intro: Wikis in Plain English
• “Twenty Usability Tips for your Blog” (Tom Johnson)
9/4 Foundations and histories of technology and pedagogy, Part 1
Old-Fashioned Tools on your Local Computer
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• Chapter 1 (CCCC Position Statement)
• Chapter 3 (Hawisher and Selfe)
• Chapter 5 (Selfe and Selfe)
Views from the Center:
• Faigley, pp. 298-312
• Yancey, pp. 430-456
9/11 Foundations and histories of technology and pedagogy, Part 2
In-class: Sign-up for leadership of class discussions
Old-Fashioned Tools Found on the Web
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• Chapter 2 (Ohmann)
• Chapter 16 (Palmquist, et al., excerpt from Transitions)
• Chapter 27 (Reiss and Young)
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Morreale, et al., 2006 (“The basic communication course at US colleges and universities in the 21st century”), Comm. Ed. 55.4, pages 415-437
9/18 Literacies, technologies, and access
Due: Technoliteracy autobiography
Open Source Applications
Discussion Leader: Anna Turnage
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• Chapter 6 (Selfe)
• Chapter 7 (Baron)
• Chapter 25 (Stine)
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Reilly and Williams, 2006 (“The price of free software”), C&C 23.1, pages 68-90
Library e-reserve:
• Bolter and Grusin, “The Double Logic of Remediation”
9/25 Distance Learning
(Note: We won’t have class in person tonight because I’ll be at a conference. We’ll have an online class session instead.)
Course Management Systems
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• Chapter 4 (Anson)
• Chapter 23 (Webb Peterson)
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Miller, 2001 (“A review of research on distance education in Computers and Composition”), C&C 18.4, pages 423-430
• Blair and Hoy, 2006 (“Paying attention to adult learners online”), C&C 23.1, pages 32-48
• DePew, et al., 2006 (“Designing efficiencies”), C&C 23.1, pages 49-67
Article Online:
• “Teaching oral communication online without losing the oral” (Anthony Ongyod)
10/2 Technology and Identity
In-class: Look at CFP for UNC TLT; sign-up for presentation times at end of semester
Social Networking
Discussion Leader: Shaun Cashman
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• All of Part Three (Chapters 11-14), Writers and Identity
• Chapter 26 (Pennington)
Optional:
• YouTube Intro: Social Networking in Plain English
10/9 Methods and applications
In-class: Discussion of final project assignment
Social Bookmarking
Sullivan and Porter, Opening Spaces
10/16 The role of new media
Due: Proposal for final project
YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and other Web 2.0 Technologies
Discussion Leader: Glenda Burch
Computers in the Composition Classroom:
• All of Part Six (Chapters 28-31), The Rhetoric of New Media Writing
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Lunsford, 2006 (“Writing, technologies, and the fifth canon”), C&C 23.2, 2006, pages 169-177
10/23 Collaborative technologies and their impacts on writing and authorship
Discussion Leader: Ti'eshia Moore
Readings:
Web articles:
•Online webtrend map
•“Cyber Minimalist” blog
Blackboard Vista (PDF):
•Howard, 2007 (“Understanding internet ‘plagiarism’), C&C 24.1, pages 3-15
•Rife, 2007 (“The fair use doctrine”), C&C 24.2, pages 154-178
Library e-reserve:
•Chapter 1 of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Class blogs
Technologies:
•Google docs
10/30 The role of sound and audio in communication instruction
Due: Annotated Bib/Lit Review
Podcasts
Discussion Leader: Freddi Hamilton
Articles available online:
• Pace, “Exploring Computer-Mediated Oral-Composing and its Mediation”
• Comstock and Hocks, “Voice in the Cultural Soundscape”
• Choose two articles to read in the Computers and Composition special issue on “Sound on/is Composition Space” (2006, Volume 23, Issue 3)
11/6 Technology, Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
HW for 11/13: For at least two days, don’t use your own computer. Imagine you don’t own one, and try to function using web-based apps for the week. Make this experience part of your blog for 11/13.
Web-Based Research Applications
Discussion Leader: Amy Gaffney
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Martindale and Wiley, 2005 (“Using weblogs in scholarship and teaching”), TechTrends 49.2, pages 55-61
• DePew and Miller, 2005 (“Studying L2 writers’ digital writing”), C&C 22.3, pages 259-278
• Nemire, 2007 (“Intellectual property development and use for distance education courses”), College Teaching 55.1, pages 26-30
Articles available online:
• Krause, 2007 (“Where do I list this on my cv?”), Kairos 12.1
• Warner, 2007 (“Constructing a tool for assessing scholarly webtexts”), Kairos 12.1
11/13 The changing role of the teacher/scholar
Due: Classroom Observation Report
Articles available online:
• CCCC Position Statement: “Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Work with Technology”
• Map of future forces affecting education
• Kimme Hea, 2004 (“A making: The job search and our work as computer compositionists”), Kairos 9.1
Blogs:
• Visit the following two scholarly blogs and pick one (or more) entries that you find intriguing: Shelley Rodrigo’s blog, “Confessions of a Committed Technofile,” and Alan Levine’s blog, “Cogdogblog” (What kind of scholarship is being performed/constructed?)
PDF Available in Blackboard Vista:
• Ball, 2004 (“Show, not tell: The value of new media scholarship”), C&C 21.4, pages 403-425
11/20 Project discussion and presentation preparation
Bring: Drafts of projects and/or preparation materials
11/27 Presentations
Due: Final Research Projects
Presentation: Shaun Cashman
Respondent: Freddi
Presentation: Amy Gaffney
Respondent: Glenda
12/4 Presentations
Due: Teaching Philosophy
Presentation: Anna Turnage
Respondent: Amy
Presentation: Ti'eshia Moore
Respondent: Shaun
12/11 Presentations
Presentation: Freddi Hamilton
Respondent: Anna Turnage
Presentation: Glenda Burch
Respondent: _______________________________