Syllabus

COURSE SCHEDULE INFORMATION

Course Calendar: This schedule is subject to change and will be updated on our course blog.

M 8/28 Introductions and Syllabus. Get books and a notebook. Do “Literacy Modules” on Blackboard.
W 8/30 Course blog. Literacy Narratives. Read Fredrick Douglass “Learning to Read and Write”. Do “Literacy Modules” on Blackboard.
M 9/4 Labor Day. No classes. Read/listen to examples on http://daln.osu.edu/. Draft Literacy Narratives. Bring in two copies of your Literacy Narratives printed.
W 9/6 Bring in two copies of your Literacy Narratives printed. Peer review. Post on Literacy Narrative on blog under tag “Narrative” by Sunday at Midnight.
M 9/11 Present Literacy Narrative. Read “The Deep Space of Digital Reading.” http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/the-deep-space-of-digital-reading.
W 9/13 Book Traces. Social Annotation.

Register for https://hypothes.is/

Join this group https://hypothes.is/groups/oX53G59B/eng-151-fall-17

Read “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
M 9/18 Summary, Paraphrase, and quotation. Read “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens.” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/ and annotate using hypothes.is.
W 9/20 Rhetorical Analysis. Draft rhetorical analysis and bring in work in progress in digital form (USB, email, Google Drive, Dropbox).
M 9/25 Edit and post rhetorical analysis. Read and annotate Cathy Davidson’s Now You See It (Introduction 1-21). http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content2/uploads/234/CDavidson.pdf .
W 9/27 Reverse outlining. Midterm Assignment. Read and reverse outline “Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain.” http://qz.com/722661/neuroscientists-say-multitasking-literally-drains-the-energy-reserves-of-your-brain/.
M 10/2 Thesis statements. Prepare for debate.
W10/4 Debate. Work on midterm draft.
M 10/9 Fall Break. Finish midterm.
W 10/11 Conferences (W/TH) Post midterm by Friday 10/13 at noon.
M 10/16 Black Mirror.  Read Ready Player One. Level One (NOT CHAPTER!) through page 167.
W 10/18 Live tweeting. Read and annotate (using hypothes.is) “Plagarism is Dead; Long Live the Retweet” http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/plagiarism-is-dead-long-live-the-retweet/ Read Ready Player One. Level One (NOT CHAPTER!) through page 167. Live Tweet. Use #ENG151 and #ReadyPlayerOne. You must have 10 tweets or more per level, and two replies.

Bring in headphones and download NYTVR app on your smartphone.

M 10/23 Virtual Reality. Bring in headphones. Read Level One through page 167. Live Tweet. Group 1 post provocations using category “blog” and tags “Ready Player One” and “Group 1” by Wednesday. Group 2 and 3 post responses to 2 posts by Friday.

Bring in headphones and download NYTVR  and InMind app on your smartphone.

W 10/25 Fishbowl.

Virtual Reality. Bring in headphones.

 

Read Level Two through page 267. Live Tweet.
M 10/30 Ready Player One.

 

Read Level Two through page 267. Live Tweet. Group 2 post provocations using category “blog” and tags “Ready Player One” and “Group 2” by Wednesday. Group 1 and 3 post responses to 2 posts by Friday.
W 11/1 Ready Player One. Fishbowl.

Avatars. Post image of your avatar and a description of why you chose to design your gunter this way (with references to the text). Category “blog” tag “avatar.”

Read Level Three. Live Tweet.
M 11/6 Social media analytics. Watch Terms and Conditions May Apply. Read Level Three Live Tweet. Group 3 post provocations using category “blog” and tags “Ready Player One” and “Group 3” by Wednesday. Group 1 and 2 post responses to 2 posts.
W 11/8 Fishbowl. Transitions. Finish Ready Player One. Live Tweet. Prepare for essay. BRING IN JOURNAL!
M 11/13 In class essay. Turn in journal.
W 11/15 Final Assignment. Finding reliable sources. Library visit. Post elevator pitch under category “final” and tag “pitch.”
M 11/20 Elevator Pitch. Group contract. Email contract to amanda.licastro@gmail.com
W 11/22 Happy Thanksgiving. Research VR and education and post 3 sources to group doc by Monday.
M 11/27 Work on Final. Work on final.
W 11/29 Work on Final. Storyboards. Template. Work on Final. Bring in draft.
M 12/4 Work on Final. Complete storyboard. Work on Final.
W 12/6 CONFERENCES Post final project, with link to presentation, under category “final” and tag “final.”
FINAL TBD. CHECK SCHEDULE.