Course Schedule
Blog presentation schedule
Week 1
Wed 1/15
Blog: Remember to post a Reading Response on your Weebly blog.
Week 2
Monday 1/20: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. No class.
Wednesday 1/22
Blog: Describe how your medium affected your answer to “What is New Media writing?” Don’t just talk about the limitations of certain medium; how did it make you think differently about writing? How was your experience with each medium different from and similar to the others? When answering your question, draw from the Baron reading (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essayset.html) to inform your response. You must quote directly or paraphrase from Baron. Use MLA citation style for your citations.
Week3
Monday 1/27
Blog: Reading Response.
Wednesday 1/29
Blog: Reading Response.
Week 4
Monday 2/3
Wednesday 2/5
Blog: Reflect on the experience of writing a hypertext. What was enjoyable about the experience? What was challenging? Connect to any of the Unit 1 readings in your response by quoting and/or paraphrasing.
Week 5
Monday 2/10
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 2/12
Blog: Reading Response. Make sure you engage with both readings. Do you agree more with Nolan or with Friedman? Why?
Week 6
Monday 2/17
Blog: Reading Response. Compare the writing styles of these two bloggers. What can you tell about the writers and their readers based on the bloggers’ writing styles?
Wednesday 2/19
Blog: Reading Response.
Week 7
Monday 2/24
"Introduction to Digital Storytelling" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/index.shtml),
"Finding the Story" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/findingstory.shtml),
"Getting the Story Down on Paper" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/paperstory.shtml),
and "Refining and Completing the Story" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/completingstory.shtml).
Blog: To help you think about the story that you would like to tell in your Digital Story, in this week's blog post, describe a person, place, or event/moment that has been important to your life. Make sure you answer these questions:
1. What does this person/place/moment look like? Sound like? Smell like?
2. Why is this person/place/moment meaningful to you?
3. Describe a vivid memory you have of this person/place/moment.
Wednesday 2/26
Blog: Reading Response. Make sure you connect your response to the discussions about ethics that we have been having in class.
Week 8
Monday 3/3
Blog: Reading Response. In your response, connect Diller’s article to our discussions about ethics.
*Continue working on Digital Story script.
Wednesday 3/5
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
*Bring Digital Story script and storyboard (rough drafts are ok) to class on Monday.
Week 9
Monday 3/10
Blog: Watch 2 digital stories from the Center of Digital Storytelling YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/CenterOfTheStory). Write your thoughts on the stories. Comment both on the stories themselves and on their execution.
Wednesday 3/12
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Spring Break: 3/17-3/21
Week 10
Monday 3/24
Wednesday 3/26
Blog: Reading response.
Week 11
Monday 3/31
Blog: Reading response. Make sure you discuss both readings in your response.
Wednesday 4/2
Blog: Reading response.
Week 12
Monday 4/7
Blog: Reading response.
Wednesday 4/9
Blog: What will you write your editorial about? What drew you to this topic? What do you already know about it?
Week 13
Monday 4/14
Blog: Write a response to either the Farrell reading or Dr. Shiri's talk.
Wednesday 4/16 - CLASS AND BLOG POST CANCELLED
Blog: Write a response to Outfoxed.
Week 14
Monday 4/21
Wednesday 4/23
Week 15
Monday 4/28
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 4/30
Blog: Select a metaphor quotation from “Metaphors for Portfolios.” Discuss how you see this metaphor applying to your own e-portfolio.
Week 16
Monday 5/5
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 5/7
Finals Week
Monday 5/12
WEEBLY SITE: FINAL PORTFOLIO due at 3 pm TODAY!
No class this week.
Blog presentation schedule
Week 1
Wed 1/15
- Review the course syllabus & semester calendar.
- What is New Media Writing?
Blog: Remember to post a Reading Response on your Weebly blog.
Week 2
Monday 1/20: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. No class.
Wednesday 1/22
- What is New Media Writing?
Blog: Describe how your medium affected your answer to “What is New Media writing?” Don’t just talk about the limitations of certain medium; how did it make you think differently about writing? How was your experience with each medium different from and similar to the others? When answering your question, draw from the Baron reading (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essayset.html) to inform your response. You must quote directly or paraphrase from Baron. Use MLA citation style for your citations.
Week3
Monday 1/27
- “How Social Media Can Make History” by Clay Shirky (http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html)
- Introduce “Genre Analysis: A Hypertext” assignment
Blog: Reading Response.
Wednesday 1/29
- New Media genres & hypertextuality
Blog: Reading Response.
Week 4
Monday 2/3
- Genre Analysis
Wednesday 2/5
- "Genre Analysis: A Hypertext" – peer workshop.
Blog: Reflect on the experience of writing a hypertext. What was enjoyable about the experience? What was challenging? Connect to any of the Unit 1 readings in your response by quoting and/or paraphrasing.
Week 5
Monday 2/10
- GENRE ANALYSIS: A HYPERTEXT due on D2L dropbox before class begins TODAY!
- Introduction to stylistics.
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 2/12
- Introduce “Blog Style Analysis and Presentation” assignment.
Blog: Reading Response. Make sure you engage with both readings. Do you agree more with Nolan or with Friedman? Why?
Week 6
Monday 2/17
- New Media writing style.
Blog: Reading Response. Compare the writing styles of these two bloggers. What can you tell about the writers and their readers based on the bloggers’ writing styles?
Wednesday 2/19
- Blogs!
Blog: Reading Response.
Week 7
Monday 2/24
- Ethics in New Media writing.
- Introduce “Digital Story” assignment
"Introduction to Digital Storytelling" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/index.shtml),
"Finding the Story" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/findingstory.shtml),
"Getting the Story Down on Paper" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/paperstory.shtml),
and "Refining and Completing the Story" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/completingstory.shtml).
Blog: To help you think about the story that you would like to tell in your Digital Story, in this week's blog post, describe a person, place, or event/moment that has been important to your life. Make sure you answer these questions:
1. What does this person/place/moment look like? Sound like? Smell like?
2. Why is this person/place/moment meaningful to you?
3. Describe a vivid memory you have of this person/place/moment.
Wednesday 2/26
- Digital stories
Blog: Reading Response. Make sure you connect your response to the discussions about ethics that we have been having in class.
Week 8
Monday 3/3
- Digital storytelling
Blog: Reading Response. In your response, connect Diller’s article to our discussions about ethics.
*Continue working on Digital Story script.
Wednesday 3/5
- Digital storytelling
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
*Bring Digital Story script and storyboard (rough drafts are ok) to class on Monday.
Week 9
Monday 3/10
- Digital stories workshop – day 1
Blog: Watch 2 digital stories from the Center of Digital Storytelling YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/CenterOfTheStory). Write your thoughts on the stories. Comment both on the stories themselves and on their execution.
Wednesday 3/12
- Digital stories workshop – day 2
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Spring Break: 3/17-3/21
Week 10
Monday 3/24
- Digital story presentations – day 1
Wednesday 3/26
- DIGITAL STORY due on D2L dropbox before class begins TODAY!
- Digital story presentations – day 2.
Blog: Reading response.
Week 11
Monday 3/31
- Politics and new media writing.
Blog: Reading response. Make sure you discuss both readings in your response.
Wednesday 4/2
- Introduce “Editorial” assignment.
Blog: Reading response.
Week 12
Monday 4/7
- Writing new media editorials.
Blog: Reading response.
Wednesday 4/9
- Researching the editorial.
Blog: What will you write your editorial about? What drew you to this topic? What do you already know about it?
Week 13
Monday 4/14
- Guest speaker: Dr. Sonia Shiri (http://menas.arizona.edu/sshiri)
Blog: Write a response to either the Farrell reading or Dr. Shiri's talk.
Wednesday 4/16 - CLASS AND BLOG POST CANCELLED
- Film: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s Warn on Journalism.
Blog: Write a response to Outfoxed.
Week 14
Monday 4/21
- Class cancelled for individual conferences.
Wednesday 4/23
- Class cancelled for individual conferences.
Week 15
Monday 4/28
- Revise editorials
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 4/30
- EDITORIAL due on D2L dropbox before class begins TODAY!
- Introduce “Weebly Site: Final Portfolio” assignment.
Blog: Select a metaphor quotation from “Metaphors for Portfolios.” Discuss how you see this metaphor applying to your own e-portfolio.
Week 16
Monday 5/5
- Work on Weebly Site.
Blog: No blog today, unless you feel like you have something to say.
Wednesday 5/7
- BLOG due after class is finished TODAY!
Finals Week
Monday 5/12
WEEBLY SITE: FINAL PORTFOLIO due at 3 pm TODAY!
No class this week.