English W412/W510

17 January

• Selfe, ““Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention”“
• Krause, “Among the greatest benefactors“
• Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006 and 1982

24 January

• Brandt, “Accumulating Literacy,”
• Hawisher et al., “Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology”
• Scribner, S. “Literacy in Three Metaphors”

31 January

• Ferris, S. “The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing”
• Clanchy, M. “Trusting Writing”
• Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels”
• W510: Jigsaw section III of Takayoshi and Huot

7 February

• Rice, “Networks and New Media” (I will prepare this one–read it you have time)
• Yancey, “Made Not Only in Words” (this will be our main reading focus: see my blog’s reading guide, and carefully focus on one part of the article, although you should read the whole thing. Group 1 (Armato, Costello, and 412 students whose lastnames include Beach through Hartig) will jigsaw (present) Quartets 1 and 2; Williams and 412 students whose last names are Hockersmith through Roberson will jigsaw Quartet 3.
• W510: Jigsaw section III of Takayoshi and Huot

14 February

• Selber, “Reimagining the Functional Side of Computer Literacy“
• Hawisher and Selfe, “Global Literacy” (see Oncourse)
• W510: Jigsaw section IV of Takayoshi and Huot

21 February

• Eldred and Toner, “Technology as Teacher”
• W510: Jigsaw section IV of Takayoshi and Huot

7 March: Technologies Out of School: SURPRISE FIELD TRIP TO SEE SCOTT MCCLOUD!!!

• Scott McCloud’s website: browse around.
• McCloud’s first online comic,”Porphyria’s Lover“
• McCloud’s first two “I Can’t Stop Thinking Columns” (on the limits of the web, and diversity online)
• Hourihan, “What We Do When We Blog”
• Bloggers: Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers (report with executive summary and then longer presentation of findings)
• “In Teens’ Web World, MySpace is So Last Year“
• Etiquette for the Bar
• Advanced Reading/Resource for people interested in studying a blog or other online community for final project:
  • Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julia/Julie Project
  • Formation of Norms in a Blog Community
  • New Publishing Trends: Memoirs and Blogs (click through at the bottom to see Associate Professor of English Jenny Davidson’s thoughts and her blog, Light Reading)

28 March

• Turnitin.com forum on Kairos
• Clancy Ratcliff’s blog post on plagiarism detection services (PDS): http://culturecat.net/node/1157
• Wikipedia and credibility: Nature report on Wikipedia (and its updates and responses—see links at bottom/sidebar)
• Recent news re: Wikipedia and credentials
• Chronicle of Higher Education piece on Wikipedia credibility (the comments are particularly interesting)
• Really Useful Technology: Becky, Ryan, Britt

4 April

• Remediation, Genre, and Motivation Teaching with Weblogs

Really Useful Technology:Amanda M., Cherilyn, Robert

11 April

• Mary Hocks, Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments (see reading guide on my blog before starting)
• Anne Wysocki, Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web Pages, and the Teaching of Design
• Christine Boese, The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: The Xenaverse in Cyberspace

Really Useful Technology presenters: Amanda M., Cherilyn, Robert