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Overview:

• Part I, Writing on the Web (2.0): Blogs, Wikis, Community, and Collective Intelligence
  
• Part II, Other (New) Forms of Writing: New Media and Participatory Culture
• Part III, Grassroots Creativity: Copyright & Building on the Past
  
• Part IV, Democracy and New Media

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Part I, Writing on the Web (2.0): Blogs, Wikis, Community, and Collective Intelligence

*Optional Reading: Jenkins, Henry, et al. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. MacArthur Foundation white paper. White paper link/PDF here.

Week 1 – Jan 23, 25

Wednesday: Intro to Course (and website) // Introductions

• In class, watch first part of Authors@Google: Henry Jenkins

Friday: Convergence Culture

• Reading Assignment: Jenkins. Convergence Culture: “Introduction.” (PDF)
• In class, watch second part of Authors@Google: Henry Jenkins

Week 2 -- Jan. 28 - Feb 1: Blogs & RSS Feeds

Monday:

• In class, watch Blogs in Plain English; TEDTalks: Mena Trott;
• Writing Assignment:
• Reading Assignment: Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepard, “Blogging as Social Action” (Into the Blogosphere).
  
• Optional Reading: Blood, Rebecca. Weblogs: A History and Perspective.
  

Wednesday: MEET IN COMPUTER LAB

• Finish Blogs Intro (about & assignment criteria & issues)
• Writing Assignment: On the discussion board, write about a paragraph or more about your previous experience blogging (if you have); what you've heard about blogging in the past and how might what you've learned this week differ; what your plans are for you blog (what's your purpose? what kind of blogging community do you think you want to join? who is your target audience?)

Last day to drop without note on transcript!

Friday: MEET IN COMPUTER LAB

• Assignment: Even if you choose to start a new blog after today's class, have a blog host, blog name, and template selected so you can follow along.
• Discuss the Process Log
• RSS in Plain English
• Blog Set Up (hosts & Google Reader)

Last day to add without departmental approval!

Week 3 -- Feb. 4 - 8: Wikis & Collective Intelligence // Wikipedia Research Project // Research Paper Project

Monday: Discuss Wikis/Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence

• In class, watch Wikis in Plain English & WetPaint wikis in Plain English
• Writing Assignment: Your first blog post!!!
• Reading Assignment: Collective Intelligence entry @ Wikipedia // "Commons-based peer production" entry @ Wikipedia // Jenkins. “Spoiling Suvivor: The Anatomy of a Knowledge Community,” Convergence Culture. //

Wednesday: Wikipedia Project Intro // Wiki markup language demo // Collaboration on Wikipedia

• Reading Asignment: Benkler, Yochai. “Introduction.” The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale, 2006. (PDF) (rest of book, if you want to continue reading) // Check out the Wikipedia Help section (great resource)
• Writing Assignment: Discussion Forum - wikis, collective intelligence, etc.

Friday: MEET IN COMPUTER LAB

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader
• Reading Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader // The Hive: Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. // The Wikipedia FAQK (humor)

Week 4 -- Feb. 11 - 15: Wiki Debates

Monday: Introduce Research paper project

• Writing Assignment: (1) Blog Post & (2) Discussion Forum: Decide on a Wiki article topic and write about where it will be; why you've chosen it; how it fulfills a need or gap; what research you expect to do (or resources you expect to need) in the process; (feel free to add links)
• Reading Asignment:Wikipedia Faces Growing Pains // Wikipedia Tightens the Reins // Assessing Wikipedia's Accuracy (NPR Audio) // Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?

Wednesday:

• Reading Assignment: What Would Jesus Wiki? // Wikipedia founder forks Wikipedia (humor?) // Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism // Intellipedia // Links: Conservapedia &Citizendium & Scholarpedia

Friday: MEET IN COMPUTER LAB

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader
• Reading Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader // Wikipedia: Five pillars // Wikipedia:Manual of Style // See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign //

Week 5 -- Feb 18 - 22: Conferences -- No Class -- Meet in my office

You will have 20-30 minutes of one-on-one, f2f time with me to discuss your research paper and Wiki Projects.

• Writing Assignments: (1)Have proposals for topic(s) for meetings. AND (2) have a blog post for Monday with (3) responses for Friday.

If you can meet prior to or following our regular meeting time, please save the conference times from 10am to 11am for those unable to meet at the other times. If none of these times work for you please let me know asap.

Monday:

1. 8:30-9:00: Rodney
   
2. 9:00-9:30: Steph
3. 9:30-10:00: Paige
4. 10:00-10:30: Bree
5. 10:30-11:00: Ryan
6. 11:00-11:30:Gina
7. 11:30-12:00: Tina
8. 12:00-12:30 Robin

Wednesday:

1. 9:00-9:30: Colby
2. 9:30-10:00:Nikki
3. 10:00-10:30: Chris
4. 10:30-11:00: Yi Han
5. 11:00-11:30: Steve

Friday:

1. 8:30-9:00: Adam
   
2. 9:00-9:30: Dane
3. 9:30-10:00: Damon
   
4. 10:00-10:30: Nicole
5. 10:30-11:00: Jia
6. 11:00-11:30:
7. 11:30-12:00: Zach
   

Part II, Other (New) Forms of Writing: New Media and Participatory Culture

Week 6 -- Feb. 25 - 29: The Transmedia Experience & Writing with New Media

Monday: Discuss Transmedia Storytelling

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post
• Reading Assignment: Jenkins. “Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling

Wednesday: Writing with New Media

• Reading Assignment: "New Media" (Wikipedia Article) // The Machine is Us/ing Us // Animator vs. Animation // Blue Surburbia
  

Friday: New Media & English Composition

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader
• Reading Assignment: McCloud, Scott. "Understanding Comics. (PDF) // Kathleen Blake Yancey, "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key" (PDF) //

Week 7 -- March 3 - 7: Participatory Culture -- Facebook; YouTube; Flickr; Fandom

Monday: MEET IN COMPUTER LAB
Participatory Culture -- Facebook // Set YouTube Account & Sharing Playlists/Videos

• In class, watch Social Bookmarking in Plain English

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post // Set up del.icio.us account & add tag cloud to blog (if your host is compatible) and link to it on the Our Links page.
  
• Reading Assignment: Facebook -- Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship // Cleaning Up Their Online Acts // The Many Faces of Facebook // Thoughts on Facebook // The Death of E-Mail // A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies //
  

Wednesday: Participatory Culture -- Fandom

• Writing Assignment: Discussion Forum
• Reading Assignment:Jenkins, "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture" // Rebecca Black. Online Fanfiction: What Technology and Popular Culture Can Teach Us About Writing and Literacy Instruction

Friday: Participatory Culture -- Fandom

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader // Research paper proposals due (Google Docs)
  
• Reading Assignment: J.K. Rowling's Dark Mark: Why she should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon. // Check out Lostpedia; WoWWiki; Wikitravel // //

Week 8 -- March 10 - 14: TBD (In-class project discussions)

Monday: Reflection on Blog Writing

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post //
• Reading Assignment:

Wednesday: Discussion on Research Paper Proposal

• Reading Assignment: Group member proposals (Written Feedback)
  

Thursday: Conferences (Written Feedback from Rik)

• 12:00 -- Steph
  
• 1:30 -- Gina
• 2:00 -- Jia

Friday -- No Class

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses

Week 9 -- March 17 - 21 -- NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK

Begin reading Lessig!

Part III, Grassroots Creativity: Copyright & Building on the Past

Week 10 -- March 24 - 28: Copyright & Authorship, Part I: Grassroots Creativity & Impediments

Monday:

Wednesday: Making Culture // In class watch A Fair(y) Use Tale

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post // Research paper draft due on Google Docs (Invite peer review group)
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture -- Preface, Introduction // Jenkins. Convergence Culture: “Ch. 5 Why Heather Can Write.”
  
  

Friday: In-Class Peer Review (Print out copies of papers, read, and comment on paper)

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader
• Reading Assignment: Peer Review Drafts

Last day to drop with a "W"!

Week 11 -- March 31 - April 4: Copyright & Authorship, Part I, Continued: Grassroots Creativity & Impediments,

Monday: Remix Culture

• Writing Assignment:Open Media Project Proposals Due
  
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture -- Ch. 1, 2, 3 // Shaviro. “Deconstructing Beck.” (PDF) // Watch: Learn about DJ Culture

Wednesday and Friday: NO CLASS -- RIK @ CON: CCCC

Wednesday: Piracy

• Online Reading Discussion on Wetpaint Forum for Monday and Wednesday Reading/Viewing
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture --4, 5 // YouTube Guitar Lessons Pulled in Copyright Spat

Friday:

• Writing Assignment: Wiki Articles posted // Blog Responses // Discussion Forum: Transforming Property
  
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture -- Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9 // Westbrook, Steve. "Visual Rhetoric in a Culture of Fear: Impediments to Multimedia Production." College English. May 2006 68(5) 457, 2006. (PDF)

Week 12 -- April 7 - 11: Copyright & Authorship, Part II: Harms to Grassroots Creativity & Fair Use and Copy-left

Monday: Copyright Law & Plagiarism

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post & Wiki article draft posted online // Research paper draft 2, due on Google Docs (Invite peer review group)
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture -- Ch. 10-12 // UW plagiarism policy
  

Wednesday: Copy-Left

• Writing Assignment:
• Reading Assignment: Free Culture -- Ch. 13-14; Conclusion; Afterword; Them, Soon. (209-306) // "A Spectrum of Rights" (n.d.). Creative Commons Web site.

Watch (in-class) CC: Get Creative // Reticulum Rex

Friday:

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader // Peer Review Feedback in Google Docs
  
• Work in Peer Response Groups
  

Optional Readings:

• Cone, Justin (2006). "Building on the Past." Creative Commons Web site.
• The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses
• Listen to: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Plagiarism
  

Part IV, Democracy and New Media

Week 13 -- April 14 - 18: Participatory Democracy and Civic Engagement

Monday:

• Writing Assignment: Blog Post
• Reading Assignment: Thralls. "Bakhtin, Collaborative Partners, and Published Discourse: A Collaborative View of Composing" (handout)

Wednesday: Plan for presentations & Week 14 activites

Friday:

• Writing Assignment: Blog Responses & adding new blog to your blogroll and feed reader
• Reading Assignment: Jenkins. Convergence Culture: “Chapter 6: Photoshop for Democracy.” & “Conclusion: Democratizing Television.” // "Toward a Civic Rhetoric . . .". Simmons & Grabill. (PDF)
  
  

Week 14 -- April 21 - 25:

Monday: MEET IN COLLEGE LIBRARY COMPUTER LAB CLASSROOM

Wednesday:MEET IN COLLEGE LIBRARY COMPUTER LAB CLASSROOM

Friday: MEET IN REGULAR HCW CLASSROOM

Week 15 -- April 28 - May 2: Presentations

Monday:

1. Jia
2. Rodney
3. Bree
4.

Wednesday:

1. Steph
2. Zach
3. Dane
4.

Friday:

1. Chris
2. Gina
3.Nikki
4.Robin

Week 16 -- May 5 - 9: Reflections / Presentations

Monday:

1. Adam
2. Ryan
3. Steve
4. Yi Han

Wednesday:

1. Tina
2. Paige
3.Nicole
4. Colby

Friday: Reflection & Course Eval