Week Fourteen
Monday, 30 November: Teach Us Something Digital (in action)
Workshop: Peer-teaching sessions, part 1
Wednesday, 2 December: Teach Us Something Digital (in action)
Due: Reading Response #4Workshop: Peer-teaching sessions, part 2
Read & Analyze (for next class): Marie-Laure Ryan, The Two Faces of the Virtual (extracts) & N. Katherine Hayles, The Condition of Virtuality (extracts)
Write (for 9 December): Short argument #4 (500 – 750 words): Reflection on your learning from the Information Ecology & Teach Us Something Digital projects
Week Fifteen
Monday, 7 December: The Potential of the Virtual
Seminar topic: What does it mean to be human in a digital age?
Workshop: Learning community portfolio
Wednesday, 9 December: Learning community portfolio cont’d
Workshop: Learning community portfolio
Complete (for exam. day): Learning Community Portfolio
You may submit your final portfolio at any time prior to our exam. day. There's no need to wait until next week if you complete your portfolio early
Exam. Week
Monday, 14 December: Exam. Day
Submit: Learning Community Portfolio
Completed Work
Week Four
Monday, 21 September: Being Digital
Seminar topic: “Being” digital
Workshop: Collaboration ecologies
Read & Analyze (for next class): Bonnie Nardi & Vicki 0’Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Chapter 3
Wednesday, 23 September: Being Digital, Part 2
Seminar topic: Tool, Text, System, Ecology
Workshop: Collaboration ecologies, Part 2
Read & Analyze (for next class): William J. Mitchell, Connecting Creatures & danah boyd, Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life
Write (Wednesday, 30 September): Short paper #1 (500 words)
Week Five
Monday, 28 September: The Datum & the Network
Seminar topic: Who Am We? (revisited)
Workshop: The Paratext of the Self
Read and Analyze (for next class): Bonnie Nardi & Vicki 0’Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Chapter 4
Write (for Wednesday, 30 September): Proposal for Information Ecologies Project
Wednesday, 30 September: The Choice of Ecologies (virtual class)
Due: Short paper #1 & Proposal for Information Ecologies ProjectWorkshop: Review Information Ecologies proposals & revise individual proposal
Read & Analyze (for next class): Tim O’Reilly, What is Web 2.0? & Yochai Benkler, Chapter 3, The Wealth of NetworksWrite (for Wednesday, & October): Reading Response # 2 (500 – 750 words
Week Six
Monday, 5 October: The Wealth of Networks? (session screen)
Seminar topic: Information Unleashed?
Workshop: TBA
Read & Analyze (for next class): Bonnie Nardi & Vicki 0’Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Chapters 5 & 6
Wednesday, 7 October: Strategies for Research
Due: Reading Response #2 & Group Presentation of assigned Information EcologySeminar topic: Next steps on Information Ecology projects & Group Projects
Read and Analyze (for Wednesday, 14 October): Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, and Laura Robinson, Media Ecologies
Write (for Wednesday, 14 October): Proposal for group project, Teach Us Something Digital
Note on classes next week: As a result of the Columbus Day holiday, Monday classes, such as ours, normally meet on Tuesday. As the Media Ecologies reading is long and quite complex, & you are completing a group project proposal, there will be no formal class meeting on Tuesday. I’d be delighted to read and comment on drafts of your group proposal, prior to submission on 14 October, for example, and you will thus want to use class time on Tuesday, when you know everyone in our learning community will be free, to work on that proposal. prior to submission on 14 October. You will also have time to contact me, individually or in groups, to clarify anything that you find unclear, perplexing, or that you want to discuss in detail about the group project proposal or the reading prior to Wednesday’s class.
Week Seven
Wednesday, 14 October: Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out (session screen)
Due: Proposal for Group Project: Teach Us Something DigitalSeminar topic: Discuss & apply concepts drawn from Media Ecologies
Workshop: Mid-semester Self-Assessment
Read/View & Analyze (for next class): Doug Henwood, The New Economy (extracts); Trebor Scholz, Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2, Adam Arvidsson, Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy & Richard Baraniuk, Good-bye Textbooks, Hello, Open-Source Learning
Week Eight
Monday, 19 October: The Weightless Economy?
Seminar topic: The cost and possibilities of the digital economy
Workshop: Self-study of the “new” economy
Read/View & Analyze (for next class): Articles on pedagogy TBA
Wednesday, 21 October: Group Projects Revisited
Workshop: How to Teach Us Something Digital: Pedagogy in Practice
Write (for 28 October, 2009): Short argument #2 (500 words)
Week Nine
Monday, 26 October: Group Projects Revisited
Workshop: Pedagogy in Practice & Composition for the Screen
Compose (for 2 November): A reworking of one of your existing analyses as a composition for the screen, or a redesign of a segment of your site, depending on where and how you are composing
Wednesday, 28 October: Research & Ethics (virtual class)
Due: Short Argument #2
Complete: George Mason University Human Subjects Training (online)
You need to complete the seven modules of the basic training, and send me your notification of completionRead (for 2 November): Jonas Heide Smith, Tragedies of the Ludic Commons & Kiri Miller, The Accidental Carjack
Write (for 4 November): Reading Response #3 (500 - 750 words)
Week Ten
Monday, 2 November: Gaming: the Artform of the 21st Century?
Workshop: Playing/Making Games
Research: Your Information Ecology Project
Wednesday, 4 November: Information Ecologies
Due: Reading Response #3 (by 4-30 pm)
Field Work for Information Ecology Project : No seminar meeting
Write (for Wednesday, 9 November): Information Ecology Draft
Read (for 9 November): The Economist, Mobile Marvels: Telecoms in Emerging Markets and other readings/viewings TBA
Week Eleven
Monday, 9 November: Mobile ICTs
Workshop: Guest Speaker , Cecilia Uy-Tioco
Write (for Wednesday, 11 November): Information Ecology Draft
Wednesday, 11 November: Information Ecologies (virtual session)
Due: Information Ecology Complete DraftWorkshop: Complete your Information Ecology Draft and send to me by 10-00 pm
Read: The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster & other readings/viewings TBA
Write (for 18 November): Short Argument #3
Week Twelve
Monday, 16 November: Music & Movies
Workshops: Patterns & Content
Wednesday, 18 November:
Due: Short Argument #3 (by 4-30 pm)Field Work for Information Ecology Project : No seminar meeting
Write (for 2 December): Reading Response #4
Week Thirteen
Monday, 23 November: Teach Us Something Digital
Due: Information Ecology ResearchWorkshop: Finalize Teach Us Something Digital with group members. Remember that you do not all need to be in the same place in order to collaborate intensively and productively! Review the assignment guidelines carefully to make sure that you will meet all the requirements
Wednesday, 25 November: Thanksgiving Break
No class. Enjoy your family & friends (& the turkey)