Week 1 January 25, Tuesday Introduction to Syllabus. Setting up individual WordPress site. Posting Bio. Workshop on Web Design: <Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/ > 1. Create pages, create posts–connect pages with posts and other pages. 2. Embed video/images, embed scribd doc. 3. Order menu, create sub-menu (parent-child), customize header, color, fonts, themes. 4. Add widgets–blogroll, Twitter, recent posts/comments. 5. Post bio. Group formation for web project
Homework: Read and blog on—“Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere: “Tactics” and Facebook” (PDF in Canvas). Send me the link to your personal site @ santosh.khadka@csun.edu by Wednesday, January 24. Also post your first blog post to your website by Wednesday, January 24.
January 25, Thursday:
Description of 5-min Group Video Project and Individual Project Space Essay Screening of a short video on Third Space:
Discuss “Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere: “Tactics” and Facebook.”
Homework: Read and blog about “Libraries as Spaces Between Us: Recognizing and Valuing the Third Space” (PDF on Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal website by Saturday, January 29. Research/visit your physical and digital spaces. Take notes of what you observe.
Week 2 February 1, Tuesday: Discussion of reading—“Libraries as Spaces Between Us: Recognizing and Valuing the Third Space.” Group Discussion around your spaces—Are your spaces public, private, or third spaces?
Homework: Read and blog on: “Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation” (PDF on Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal site by Wednesday, February 2. Look for resources for your video project. Also interview people or collect responses for your questionnaires etc. Bring your resources to the class.
February 3, Thursday:
Discussion of “Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation.” Discussion Questions on “Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation”
- What was the role of social media in “#Occupy Boston” movement?
- What is the difference between cultural logic of networking and the cultural logic of aggregation? Think of some examples.
- How did “#Occupy Boston” constitute powerful expressions of direct democracy in action?
- How did #Occupy campers attempt to redefine or appropriate urban spaces?
- What are some challenges of the cultural logic of aggregation?
Workshop on video editing.
Homework: Work further on your video project.
Week 3
February 8, Tuesday: Put together the video as a group.
Homework: Keep working on the video and prepare a rough cut
February 10, Thursday:
First screening in the class. Whole class feedback on the projects
Homework: Finalize your video. Prepare for the presentation. Embed video to your personal website.
Week 4
February 15, Tuesday
Further Workshop on Group Video
Homework:
February 17, Thursday
Final Video Presentation
Homework: Look for additional resources (scholarly articles, magazine/newspaper articles, videos/documentaries etc.) related to your chosen spaces to use in your individual essay, and bring them to class on Monday.
Week 5
February 22, Tuesday
Narrowing down the topic, synthesis heuristics
Homework: Draft 4 pages of your essay
February 24, Thursday:
Peer Review
Homework:
- Finalize your Project Space Individual Essay
- Read and blog on “Global Financial Crisis” (pp. 148-163) from Global Issues (PDF on Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal website by Monday, February 28.
Week 6
March 1, Tuesday: Project Space Essay Due. Discussion of the causes and consequences of “Global Financial Crisis” Screening of part of Earth Under Water Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrp9cFjuYnM
Homework: Read and Blog on “Environmental Issues” from Global Issues (PDF in Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal website by
Wednesday, March 2. Also start exploring your essay topic or research question/s. Remember your essay topic or research question/s should or could be on any global crisis of your choice. Try to look for something you are interested in and want to research further. Be ready to share your tentative topic/research questions to the class on Monday.
March 3, Thursday: Discussion of the reading, “Environmental Issues,” assigned for today. Synthesis Exercise–how are the two texts– “Global Financial Crisis” and “Environmental Issues” connected? How are they different? How do they relate with the issues/crises you identified during your research on “global crises.” Introduction to Annotated Bibliography Assignment. Annotations of 3 relevant scholarly sources is due to Canvas by Wednesday, March 30 (together with final draft of argument essay).
Virtual Tour of Oviatt Library: Practice locating relevant scholarly, popular and multimedia sources
Homework: Read and blog on Chapter 1 from Jack Selzer and Lester Faigley’s book Good Reasons: “Making an Effective Argument” (pp. 2-12), (Pdf on Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal site by Monday, March 7.
Week 7
March 8, Tuesday: We will unpack “Making an Effective Argument.” What constitutes an effective argument? Role of analysis and sourcing in effective argument. We will look at criteria for evaluating print and online sources. Video on Evaluating Online Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxd9iwQ_pt4
Homework: 1. Read and blog on “Global Terrorism” (pp. 99-125) from Global Issues (PDF on Canvas). Post your blog response to your personal website by Wednesday, March 9. 2. Start looking also for primary research data sources (potential interviewees, research sites, survey groups or any other sources to gather first hand data) Also locate at least 2 images related to your research topic.
March 10, Thursday: A brief 1 min. reporting on your progress. Small Group Discussion on “Global Terrorism.” We will discuss the components of research proposal (I will have handouts for you). Research proposal Assignment Distribution Practice Generating Two Potential Research Questions for your Argument Essay.
Homework: Complete data collection (interview or field visit or site observation or location of scholarly or popular sources). Please write a 250-word research essay proposal. Submit proposal to Canvas by Sunday, March 13.
Week 8 March 15, Tuesday:
- Narrowing the focus exercise
- Discussion of Argument Essay Evaluation Criteria (PDF in Canvas)
- Prepare the first full draft of your argument essay. You must share your draft with a designated partner for peer review on Wednesday.
March 17, Thursday: Peer Review
Week 9
Spring Recess (March 21-27)
Week 10
March 29, Tuesday: Revise your essay draft responding to your peer’s feedback and submit the Final Draft of your Argument Essay through Canvas link by Wednesday, March 30.
March 31, Thursday: No Class–Cesar Chavez Holiday
Week 11
April 5, Tuesday:
- Read and annotate Text-to-Remediation Assignment
- Watch Immediacy, Hypermediacy and Remediation Class Presentation:
https://youtu.be/ZE167KUiM5E 3. Read and Annotate Paul V. Anderson’s chapter “Creating Reader-Centered Websites” (on Canvas) 4. Also Read and Blog on “Manifestation of Culture in Website Design” (article on Canvas) Post your blog response to your personal website by Wednesday, April 6. 5. Each one of you, look for resources on your topic/theme—scholarly articles, magazine/online articles, videos, audios, animations, images, interviews, cartoons etc. for your text-to-web remediation project.
April 7, Thursday:
- Set up your remediated website either in WordPress, Wix, or Weebly. Create tabs, sub-tabs; learn to embed video, audio, and images. Post your brief bio and a professional picture (This website is separate from your digital portfolio set up at the beginning of the class).
- Generate the content for your website from the essay (what could you possibly borrow from the essay for the website–would the essay content, as it is, fit the wider audience? Do you need to make a change in the style or level of the essay writing for the bigger internet audience? Brainstorm and generate actual content for your remediated website.
Week 12
April 12, Tuesday: Create a structure for your remediated website–what are the tabs? What goes into each of those tabs? What text, images, videos, animation, audios, interviews? What additional resources do you need? How can you get them? Put content and visuals into your remediated website.
April 14, Thursday: Read and post a Blog on “Testing Drafts for Usability and Persuasiveness”(Chapter PDF in Canvas) by Saturday, April 16. Week 13
April 19, Tuesday:
No Class: Conduct a usability testing of your site with at least 5 people (physically or virtually). Please don’t forget to ask them to sign a consent form for clearance (Sample consent form is available under file in Canvas). Revise or further develop your website based on the feedback you receive during usability testing.
April 21, Thursday: Peer Review of remediated websites. Week 14
- April 26, Tuesday:
Prepare 10 slides for presentation around the process and experience of remediating an essay into a website. Questions to consider in your presentation include:
- What topic does your website cover? Why did you pick that topic?
- How is your website organized? What are the tabs and sub-tabs and how are they related?
- Who is the primary audience of your website? Who is secondary?
- What did you change in the remediation process? Did you work on the level of language and word choice? Did you add more visual media? Why?
- What did you learn about the dynamics of media, content, style, audience, context and purpose during the remediation process? How did the website as a medium shape your content from the argument essay? Why didn’t you put everything from the essay into the website?What were your considerations for this decision?
- How did you locate and evaluate additional media for the website? What did you consider during the evaluation of the media?
April 28, Thursday
- Presentation of your slides in the class
2. Finalize your remediated website around peer feedback and submit the link through Canvas.
Week 15
May 3, Tuesday: Back to your digital portfolio–Start putting together your final portfolio. Without submitting the final portfolio, you won’t be able to pass this course. Please keep in mind, your final portfolio specifically includes–project space essay, project space group video, argument essay, link to your remediated website and a reflection paper for the remediation project, and an overall course reflection (1-2 pages) for the whole semester. You can also include your bio, CV, blog posts for this course, and anything else you want to showcase online. You can revise any of these projects, if you like. Good luck!
May 5, Thursday Revise Essay 1, and 2
Week 16
May 10, Tuesday Draft reflection paper, revise remediated websites. Course Evaluation
May 12, Thursday No Class–Finalize everything in your portfolio (Final portfolio is due today) Course Evaluation
