ENG221.000 Spring 2017
10 3/21 Midway podcast series discussion. Make sure you’ve listened carefully to all 8 episodes of the podcast series to date & you’ve read the podcast reflection posts from your classmates. If you haven’t published any reflections for episodes you […]
9 3/14 Dylan Matthews in Vox “These colleges are better than Harvard at making poor kids rich” and Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy in NYT “Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom […]
8 2/28 Sarah Hendren “All Technology Is Assistive: Six design rules on “disability” Screen reader demo 3/2 Ian Bogost “Why Nothing Works Anymore: Technology has its own purposes” Anil Dash “The Web We Lost“ This week we’ll talk about accessibility […]
7 2/21 Listening Project — reply to your peers, brainstorm questions, what are the objectives. Listen to the first two podcast episodes carefully. Be prepared to discuss the episodes, observe the lessons you can take away from them as you […]
6 2/14 Henry Jenkins, “‘Worship at the Altar of Convergence’: A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change” from Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. We’ll also discuss the reading for week 5: Glen Creeber, “Theorizing New Media” from […]
4 1/31 Writing Online chpt 2 Factcheck.org “How to spot fake news” & NYT: “Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’“ 2/2 No class Technology literacy narrative due Many of you have already posted designs for […]
3 1/24 Writing Online intro (with liveblogging) Discuss podcast & technology literacy narrative 1/26 Writing Online chpt 1 “Hello World” Rolin Moe, “All I Know Is What’s on the Internet“ I’ve rearranged the schedule for the next couple of weeks a […]
2 1/17 Get your domain and install subdomain for this class Net Smart Intro and chpt 1 Avatar sketch assignment due 1/19 Net Smart chpt 2 “Crap Detection 101”In class: begin discussing podcast During week two, we’ll begin discussing Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart. […]
