| COURSE SCHEDULE INFORMATION |
Tentative Schedule:
Note: I may need to adjust this syllabus and course schedule to accommodate pedagogical needs as they arise. We will discuss all changes as a class and the new schedule will be reflected on our course blog.
| Tuesday
1/24 |
Class: Introductions. Syllabus.
Home: Buy Book. Bring in one printed text (book, magazine, journal, poster, card) of your choice. |
| Thursday
1/26 |
Class: Rhetorical Analysis: Genre conventions.
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 1 |
| Tuesday
1/31 |
Class: Visual Rhetoric/ Interface Design. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/7/
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 2 |
| Thursday
2/2 |
Class: Rhetorical analysis assignment. Intro to sample sites.
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 4 |
| Tuesday
2/7 |
Class: Rhetorical analysis tools.
Home: Select site and tool. |
| Thursday
2/9 |
Class: Work time. Tool demo: using quicktime showing hypothes.is https://www.dropbox.com/s/balkstg8quoidgj/Hypothesis_instructions.mov?dl=0
Home: Finish draft. Examples: https://eng256spring16.wordpress.com/tag/rhetorical-analysis/ |
| Tuesday
2/14 |
Class: Peer review. Bring in food from your cultural heritage.
Home: Revise and post rhetorical analysis assignment by Friday at midnight. Read service learning articles http://www.dailygood.org/story/218/helping-fixing-or-serving-rachel-naomi-remen-md/ and https://heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/rhowas.pdf |
| Thursday
2/16 |
Class: Visit from Service learning director Dr. Christine Moran.
Home: Read: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syrian-refugees-private-sponsor-delays-1.3779326 and http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peace-by-chocolate-hadhads-celebrate-year-one-in-antigonish-1.3925779 |
| Tuesday
2/21 |
Class: Class visit from Bonnie Stewart.
Home: Read grant https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/foundations-announce-10-million-initiative-confront-hate and handout. |
| Thursday
2/23 |
Class: Review grant and Asylee site: http://www.asyleewomen.org/ Developing questions for your client.
Home: Read http://www.lennyletter.com/politics/interviews/a425/the-lenny-interview-four-women-who-fled-syria/?src=nl&mag=LEN&list=nl_LEN_news&date=020717. Prepare 5 questions for Asylee and post to blog using tag “Asylee” and category “blog.” Attend Letterpress workshop from 3:30-6pm in Manning Academic Center S268. EXTRA CREDIT: Write a 3 paragraph reflection on your experience and post to blog. |
| Tuesday
2/28 |
Class: Tiffany Helms from Asylee visits.
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 3. And read http://www.lennyletter.com/politics/interviews/a717/i-have-faith-this-country-will-keep-their-doors-open/. |
| Thursday
3/2 |
Class: Style Sheets.
Home: Edit grant. Writer/Designer Chapter 7. |
| Tuesday
3/7 |
Class: Edit grant. https://www.dropbox.com/s/exq5b5w4801d6kv/AWE_Grant_DRAFT.docx?dl=0
Home: Outline article. Read http://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/ |
| Thursday
3/9 |
Class: Elevator pitch. Book Traces event!
Home: Develop elevator pitch. |
| 3/14- 3/16 | Spring Break. No classes.
Write pitch (in abstract form) for one article. Post to site. |
| Tuesday
3/21 |
Class: Elevator pitches.
Home: Find 3-5 reliable sources for your project and bring them to class. Refer to Writer/Designer Chapter 4. |
| Thursday
3/23 |
Class: Cancelled.
Home: Writer/Designer Chapters 5 and 6. |
| Tuesday
3/28 |
Class: Annotated bibliography.
Home: Finish annotated bibliography. Read https://medium.com/humanities-students-get-jobs-on-the-internet/how-i-got-a-job-with-my-literature-degree-and-no-i-m-not-a-teacher-77d7d0a189e3#.25f4rru74 |
| Thursday
3/30 |
Class: Hybrid Pedagogy and Hypothesis. Join this group: https://hypothes.is/groups/jJGw5j3z/eng-256-spring-17 Career event 3/31 at noon.Home: Read one article from Hybrid Pedagogy, and http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/ post 3 questions for Chris Friend. |
| Tuesday
4/4 |
Class: Visit from Chris Friend.
Home: Find images/videos for your article. Read Kairos article of your choice: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/ |
| Thursday
4/6 |
Class: Multimodality and social media.
Home: Read introduction and one article from the JITP issue on accessibility. Comment on at least one article. http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/issues/issue-eight/ |
| Tuesday
4/11 |
Class: Accessibility.
Home: Read http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/when-spell-check-cant-help-27/ |
| Thursday
4/13 |
Class: Work time.
Home: Read http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-history-of-punctuation-for-the-internet-age |
| Tuesday
4/18 |
Class: Editing your work. Peer review.
Home: Editing. Revise. |
| Thursday
4/20 |
Class: Conferences.
Home: Revise. Post final as a new page. |
| Tuesday
4/25 |
Class: Final edits, sharing GDocs, and moving content to WP.
Home: Respond to ALL projects on the site. |
| Thursday
4/27 |
Class: Present your final project. Tiffany Nelms visits.
Home: Download the NYTVR app on your smart phone and select one video to download before class time on Tuesday. Bring in headphones. |
| Tuesday
5/2 |
Class: The future of digital publishing. VR. Final reflections.
Home: Read this article and this article, then post questions for Brent Simoneaux under tag “career.” |
| Thursday
5/4 |
Class: Guest visit from Brent Simoneaux.
Home: Final reflections |
| 5/9-11 | Reflections due during final. |