Summer
A: 5/17
to 6/25, 12:30-2:50 MWF
Location: CPR
202
Instructor: Joe Moxley,
Professor of English, http://joemoxley.org
Contact: Phone: 974
9469; Fax: 974 2270;
Email: moxley
at usf.edu
Skype: Joe.Moxley
Office Hours Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, 3 to 4 and by appointment
Course Website | Course Syllabus | Course Reading | Course Writing Space
Important Notes about our Schedule!
1. Please refresh this page when you revisit as I will most likely make adjustments to the readings and assignments as the class progresses.
2. In the six-week summer semester, we are clearly extremely rushed. Ultimately, it seems impossible to me to squeeze in 15 weeks into six, yet it is important and ethical to do so. Hence, as a student I ask for you to do your best reading all assigned readings. At the same time, I recognize that some of these writers become wordy or repeat common ideas; when that happens, I invite you to skim. Just don’t go so fast it doesn’t cohere. Ultimately, while I expect you to have a grasp of the big ideas—of who said what and where they said it—I’m hoping to focus more on your ideas, your responses to the readings, as represented in your blogs.
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In-class Activities |
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Meeting 1 5/17 |
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Review of Syllabus ·
PowerPoint Presentation ·
Literacy in the Age of Peer Production:
Implications for Higher by Joe Moxley In-class Technology Work·
Create your blog site: o
Create a new blog or, use existing blog and RSS
feed into Ning. Note, I’m ok w/ your
using current blog and rssing it so long as its stance is academic. o
http://kairosnews.org/
for community space or http://wordpress.org ·
Register for Ning. Join http://literacytheory.ning.com/ ·
Feed your blog into Ning via RSS ·
In blog, write a summary
post that introduces these terms: o
Commons based
Peer Production o
Social Media/Social Software o
People
Power or CrowdSourcing |
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Meeting 2 5/19 |
Theme: Literacies Past and PresentWhat common patterns
can we learn from the past regarding past responses to new literacies? ·
Baron,
Dennis. A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution.
pp 1-112 ·
Blog
on Strauss—Writing as Slavery ·
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist
Society Is Coming Online By Kevin Kelly ·
The Seven Great Debates In the
Media Literacy Movement by Renee Hobbs |
Due· Blog #1·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs In-class Technology Work·
Google Reader o
Correct Doug’s blog URL and add Dan’s—after Dan
adds his (and mine). o
Put all classmates in a folder, LIT 6934 o
Subscribe to as many of the theorists that you
can find 1.
Our first distinguished guest: http: ·
Google docs o
Go to https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcI5q-gP395YZGMyajI1djRfNmRnNXFudGZ0&hl=en
and enter missing information ·
Blog o
Make necessary edits to your blog post that
defines terms (see above). Remember to
use quotations as necessary, etc. o
Add a link to the course readings: http://writersatwork.us/sites/Joe_Moxley/FutureLiteracies/Shared%20Documents/Readings.htm For an example of this, see http://collegewriting.org/blog/
. Basically, just go to Admin, and
then under Links add the URL. ·
Ning ·
Working in a group, contribute to our Ning
Environment. Search social media
sites for some Ning links/ideas.
Here’s a start: o
http://e-wave.wikispaces.com/Collaborative+Student+Assessment+through+Google+Docs ·
Google Sites o
Create a homepage at Google sites; flow in your
blog via RSS. Activities
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Discuss readings/blogs |
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Meeting 3 5/21 |
Theme: Societal Responses to Changing Literacy
Practices
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Due· Blog #2·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs ·
Discuss readings/blogs In-class Technology Work·
Play around with your Ning site. ·
Create a google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles ·
Add your John Hancock to this
google doc ·
At your Gmail account, create your own google
doc—a place holder for Social Media Report #1 (due on 6/2) ·
Create an account at http://delicious.com/ o
Add Moxley and classmates in your network; look
for our authors o
Make some tags... o
Feed your delicious tags to your Ning site and
your blog site |
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Meeting 4 5/24 |
Theme: Changing Literacy Practices and their Effects on Cognition
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Activities·
Practice skype In-class Technology Work·
Before class, publish a draft of Social Media
Report #1 at Google Docs o
Create a link to your report on your blog site ·
Blog o
Play with categories for your blog o
Add a blog roll o
Input a video o
Try installing an app |
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Meeting 5 5/26 |
Theme: Social Software and Emergent Intelligence·
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BH-uLO6ovI ·
Siemens, George.
Knowing Knowledge, pp-1-158 ·
Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought by
Walter Ong |
Due· Blog #3; pls consider course readings, especially the Edge World QuestionActivitiesDistinguished GuestSkype Distinguished
Guest: George Siemens, 1:00 p.m. EST
George is currently affiliated with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI)
at Athabasca University. His
role as a social media strategist involves planning, researching, and
implementing social networked technologies, with focus on systemic impact and
institutional change.Prior to TEKRI, he was the Associate Director, Research
and Development with the Learning Technologies Centre at University of
Manitoba. In-class Technology Work·
Respond to this discussion of Carr’s essay: here ·
Register with Evernote |
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Meeting 6 5/28 |
Theme: The Effects of Social Media on Markets, Freedom and the Moral Development of Citizens·
Benkler, Yochai.
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom, http://yupnet.org/benkler/,
Chapters 1-4 ·
Benkler, Yochai. Commons-Based
Peer Production and Virtue, 14(4) J. Political Philosophy 394-419
(2006); with Helen Nissenbaum ·
Read Chapter 2,
Kelly, Defin, Out of Control at http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php ISBN:
978-020148340-6 $15.80 (Amazon) |
Due· Blog #4·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs Activities
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Discuss readings In-class Technology Work·
Respond to this critique of iPad: TheShiftedLibrarian o
Read your colleagues drafts—at least two of them ·
Create an account at LibraryThing. Add your 10 favorite books. Reflect ·
Create a FanPage at Facebook or a groups
page. ·
Create an account at StumbleUpon ·
Go to WikiBooks and contribute to
NewLiteracyMatters ·
Join an online social group of personal interest
to you. Participate ·
Contribute to CollegeWriting.Org – Contribute to CollegeWriting.Org – In-class Technology Work·
In groups, prepare a Slideshare on course topic Homework |
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Meeting 7 5/31 |
Monday Memorial Day Holiday |
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Meeting 8 6/2 |
Theme: Agency, Authorship, and the 80/20 Rule
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Understanding
and Identifying the Problems of Wikipedia’s Peer Governance. 3/10 First Monday ·
Sunstein,
Cass R. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce
Knowledge. Oxford University
Press, 2006, pp. 1-102 ·
Read
Intro, 1-24 and Chapter 5, “Why Heather Can Write.”Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture : Where Old and
New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006. ISBN:
978-081474295- $12.89 (Amazon).
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Due· Blog #5·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs ·
Social Media Report Activities
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In-class blogging Distinguished GuestMcmorgan08 Skype Distinguished
Guest: MC Morgan, Professor of English, Bemidji State University
In-class Technology Work·
Explore Morgan’s wikis—go back at least three
years ·
Add a slide on wikis to your group slideshare ·
Create an account at Wikipedia and contribute
something |
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Meeting 9 6/4 |
Theme: Fighting the Borg (Yeah, I know we don’t
do much of that) & the Myth of Crowds
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Sunstein,
Cass R. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce
Knowledge. Oxford University
Press, 2006, pp. 103-230 ·
Shirky’s Blog on the power rule |
Due· Blog #6·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs In-class Technology Work·
Catch up 1.
Perfect blog ·
Create a site at Google Sites ·
Create an account at slideshare and work in a
group on a few slides about ·
Explore Morgan’s wikis—go back at least three
years ·
Make a comment on a journal such as
insidehighereducation.com or Chronicle of Higher Education—or some other
social space |
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Meeting 10 6/7 |
Theme: The Future of Text and its Implications for Higher Education
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In-Class Activities·
Discuss Matt’s texts and other readings. Distinguished Guest
In-class Technology Activities·
Make a contribution to Class Wiki, http://writingwiki.org/index.php?title=Literacy
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Contribute to a public
wiki, such as Wikipedia.org ·
Update your blogs and
make comments on one another’s blogs ·
Experiment with Slide
share. In a group, do a slide
regarding collaboration ·
Update your Google sites
or other public site. |
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Meeting 11 6/9 |
Theme: Open Source Ideology/Pedagogy
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[carefully read}
Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media
Education for the 21st Century (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) (Paperback or free: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF) [fyi: about 117 pages sans references] ·
On 6/5
Educause will have a new edition on Cloud Computing. Let’s skim it... http://www.educause.edu/eq |
Due· Blog #7·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs In-class Technology Work·
Flickr. Find a topic/theme of interest and look
at how narratives form around it. ·
Add a slide on wikis to your group slideshare ·
Activities
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In-class blogging |
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Meeting 12 6/11 |
Theme: Open Source Ideology and the Community of Learning
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The End of the Age of Literacy by Walter Ong
(59/69...etc) ·
Envisioning
the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott |
Due· Blog #8·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs In-class Technology Work·
YouTube.
Search Mashups related texts.
Create your own Mashup using Audacity. Distinguished GuestMarc Santos, “The
Values of Late Electracy” Activities
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In-class blogging |
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Meeting 13 6/14 |
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To discuss w/ Prof. Lowe: Steven Weber's
"The Political Economy of Open Source Software": ·
Go ahead
and skim this book but do take a more careful look at chapter 2: Bacon, Jono. The
Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice) ; Free Online:
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/downloads/jonobacon-theartofcommunity-1ed.pdf ·
Just skim
these two additional books—to know they are here: ·
James Boyle, The
Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, http://www.thepublicdomain.org/thepublicdomain1.pdf ·
Willinsky's The Access Principle: The Case for Open
Access to Research and Scholarship, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10611&ttype=2 |
Distinguished Guest
Skype Distinguished
Guest: Charlie Lowe, assistant professor of writing, Grand Valley State
University Charlie Lowe is an Assistant Professor of Writing at
Grand Valley State University where he teaches web design and professional
writing. He is a member of CCCC-IP and the CCCC Committee on Intellectual
Property; the former Documentation Coordinator of Drupal, an open source
content management system; and the Co-Editor of Writing Spaces: Readings on In-class Technology Work·
YouTube. Search Mashups related texts. Create your own Mashup using Audacity. |
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Meeting 14 6/16 |
Theme: Intellectual Property, Remixing, and Open Source Culture
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Due· Blog #9·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs Activities
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In-class blogging and work on google sites |
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Meeting 15 6/18 |
Theme: Intellectual Property, Remixing and Open
Source Culture
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Due· Blog #10·
Respond to Peers’ Blogs In-class Technology Work·
Let’s use google docs and collaboratively
brainstorm on the future of learning institutions ·
In-class blogging ·
Inclass report on Project 2. |
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Meeting 16 6/21 |
Theme: The Future of English Studies
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Due· Peer Production ReportDistinguished GuestJa Dept. of Writing and Linguistics CV: http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/cv.pdf Activities
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In-class blogging ·
Ck out Miller’s video on changing English |
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Meeting 17 6/23 |
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Catch up on your blog, website, and social
bookmarking ·
Respond to other class members’ blogs ·
Finish your social media report. ·
Work on getting a presentation together in
SlideShare ·
Work on a shared summary of what we’ve learned or
what we think about social media and peer production in terms of
reconfiguring teaching and learning: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcI5q-gP395YZGMyajI1djRfOWN0ejNxdGhy&hl=en |
In-class Technology Work·
Work on https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcI5q-gP395YZGMyajI1djRfOWN0ejNxdGhy&hl=en The goal here is for us to synthesize what
we’ve learned about social media and peer production. ·
Upload your final report to Google Docs ·
Continue commenting on colleague’s blogs and
google docs |
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Meeting 18 6/25 |
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Pls write a brief email to me discussing your thoughts on your
peer’s blogs/websites; include a paragraph on your reflection of/contributions
to https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcI5q-gP395YZGMyajI1djRfOWN0ejNxdGhy&hl=en |
Due· Presentation on Social Media Report/Peer Production ReportIn-class Technology Work·
Read and comment on peers’ reports in ·
Course Evaluation |
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