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Week 1 (Jan 21 – 23): Introduction &
Historical Overview
Readings: Burroughs, "The
Cut up Method" and "The
Art of Cut up Writing"
Tzara, "Dada
Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love"
Crowther and Woods,
Adventure (Colossal cave) online
Assorted works from Electronic
Poetry Center and UbuWeb
Writings: Review of one work from EPC or UbuWeb (Jan 24)
Weeks 2 – 5 (Jan 28 – Feb 20): Production
& Composition
Readings: Montfort and Strickland, "The
Sea and Spar Between"
Sample "House
of Leaves of Grass" and blog entry
Assorted works from
Electronic Literature Collection, Vol 1
Tools: Generators and Prompts from Language
is a Virus
Text generators from SourceForge
Writings: Review of one work from ELC (Jan 31), drafts due Feb 10, peer critiques due by Feb 13
Production & Composition Project due Feb 20
Weeks 6 – 9 (Feb 25 – March 20): Presentation
& Interaction
Readings: Crowther and Woods,
Adventure (Colossal cave) online and others from the Interactive
Fiction Archive
Ryman, 253
Andrews, selections from Vispo
Texts from Internet
Archive/Texts
Tools:
Blue Griffon (HTML 5 editor)
Sigil and
Calibre (ebook
editors and organizers)
Writings: E-Text analysis (Feb 25), HTML / XML exercises
(in class), drafts due March 18, peer critiques due by March 20
[Week 8 (March 11 – 13): Spring
Break]
Presentation & Interaction Project due March 23
Weeks 10 – 12 (March 25 – April 10):
Distribution & Attribution
Readings: Selections from the
Internet Archive
Creative Commons
Selection of Online Journals
Tools: Creative Commons Choose
a License and Creative
Commons Search
Writings: Know Your Rights exercise (March 27), Online
Journal review (April 3), drafts due April3 , peer critiques due by April
10
Distribution & Attribution Project due April 13
Week 13 (Apr 15 – 17): Review & Showcase
In class demos of student works (April 15 and 17). Begin to form groups
for Collaborative Project
Weeks 14 – 16 (Apr 22 – May 6): Collaboration
Tools: GoogleDocs
/ GoogleDrive, Dropbox,
GitHub, collaboration
tools in BlackBoard
Writings: Collaborative Project Proposals (April 26)
Peer Critiques (May 1)
Collaborative Project Demos due in class May 6
Final Presentations: JC Room
B. Tuesday May
13, 9:45 – 11:45
Note new place and time
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