Week 1 (June 7 – 12): Pre-Digital Shenanigans
Wednesday June 8: Course Introduction.
Cut ups and word generators
Burroughs: "The Cut Up Method"
Burroughs Cut-Up poems (from Minutes to Go) via RealityStudio
Public Domain/Open Access resources: Public Domain Day 2022, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Creative Commons

Async: Play with the text generators

Tools: Text Generators from SourceForge and UPenn
(Local install of the SourceForge generators).

Assignment: Create a cut up or generated text. You should use your own material, or works which are in the Public Domain or CC-licensed for Derivatives

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Week 2 (June 13 – 19): Made Digital
Wednesday June 15: E-books
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
Calibre Demo

Async: Begin working on an ebook using the Calibre software (or other software if you are familiar with another tool, such as LibreOffice or Pages.

Tools: Creative Commons Choose a License and Creative Commons Search
Calibre (ebook editor and organizer)

Assignment: Review one work from Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg.

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Week 3 (June 20 – 26): Workshop
Wednesday June 22: Demo & review ebooks

Async: Edit E-books

Tools: Calibre (ebook editor and organizer)

Assignment: Post E-book to BlackBoard as .epub file

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Week 4 (June 27 – July 3): Forking Paths

Wednesday June 29: HTML
Creating web content: pages, links, sites

Async: Create a webpage on Mason, Neocities, or another hosting service.

Tools: GMU Web Resources
W3CSchool
Neocities

Assignment: Create a personal webpage, with links to content.

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Week 5 (July 5 –10): Born Digital
Wednesday July 6: Samples from Electronic Literature Collection.
Moulthrop: Hejirascope
Sample: House of Leaves of Grass

Async: Strickland: "Born Digital," Electronic Literature Collection, Vol 3 selections

Assignment: Review of one ELC, volume 3 work. Post to your webpage.

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Week 6 (July 11 –17): Gamification
Wednesday July 13: Text-Based games
Crowther and Woods, Adventure (Colossal cave) online
Games from IFDB (search for tag=Twine)

Async: Download and explore Twine.
Begin Twine story

Tools: Twine

Assignment: Twine draft

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Week 7 (July 18 – 24): Workshop
Wednesday July 20: Demo and workshop drafts of Twine stories

Async: Edit and revise Twine stories

Tools: Twine

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Week 8 (July 25 –30): Beyond Digital
Wednesday July 27: AI writers
EleutherAI and other GPT-type text generators
AI Dungeon

Async: Finish and upload Final Portfolios

Assignment: Final Portfolios

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