Follow the links at the bottom of this page for a schedule of assignments for each week this semester. Within each week, you will find daily listings of assignments. Each bullet point for the day is a different task for you to complete. Unless specifically noted otherwise, all assignments are to be completed before class on the day listed.
This course calendar may be updated throughout the semester. I’ll notify you about any major changes, but you are still responsible for keeping up with the current schedule.
IMPORTANT: You must visit all of the links provided within the course calendar. There are many links to follow and read. Make sure you visit all of them. Some links provide easy access to other parts of the class site which will help you in your assignments. Some links are to required readings. Others provide you with detailed instructions on completing the assignments. Eventually, you may come to know the instructions which supplement assignments that are repeated throughout the course, but it’s still a good idea to continue to revisit the instructions to make sure that you are satisfying all of the requirements.
Week 1
T:
TH: John
“Integrating computers into the writing classroom: Some guidelines” [CP]
John S. Dinana, Rebecca Gagnona and Jennifer Taylora
“Word processing in first-year comp” [CP]
Wayne Moore
“Composing and computing by the writer with head trauma” [CP]
Ann Marie Malachowski
Week 2
T: Sam
‘The computer and the inexperienced writer” [CP]
Christine A. Hult
“Keeping promises and avoiding pitfalls: Where teaching needs to augment word processing” [CP]
Ilene Kantrov
“Using what we have” [CP]
Charles Moran
TH: Tony
“Dosequis: An interactive game for composition students” [CP]
Thomas J. Derrick
“The game of literacy: The meaning of Play in computer-mediated communication” [CP]
Margaret Daisley
“Moo in your face: researching, designing, and programming a user-friendly interface” [CP]
Mark Haas and Clinton GardneR
“Intellectual property in synchronous and collaborative virtual space” [CP]
Beth E. Kolko
Week 3
T:
MOO/ Play
TH: Jen
“Reading between the code: the teaching of HTML and the displacement of writing instruction” [CP]
Nicholas Mauriello, Gian S. Pagnucci and Tammy Winner
“The changing nature of writing: prose or code in the classroom” [CP]
Alan Rea and Doug White
Week 4
T: John
“A luddite in cyberland, or how to avoid being snared by the web” [CP]
David W. Chapman
“Tinkering with technological skill: An examination of the gendered uses of technologies” [CP]
Ann Brady Aschauer
TH: Amelia
“Wired women writing: Towards a feminist theorization of hypertext” [CP]
Laura L. Sullivan
“No boys allowed: The World Wide Web as a clubhouse for girls” [CP]
Pamela Takayoshi
“Feminist interventions in electronic environments”
Mary E. Hocks
Week 5
T: Bianca
“The gender gap in computers and composition research: Must boys be boys?” [CP]
Rebecca Rickly
“Why do women feel lgnored? gender differences in computer-mediated classroom interactions” [CP]
Joanna L. Wolfe
TH: Tony
Homo Ludens Beginning-VI [CP]
Week 6
T: Patrick
Homo Ludens VI-XII [CP]
TH:
Play
Week 7
T: Jen/Ashley
“Semiotic Domains” and “Games and Learning” [CP]
James Paul Gee
TH:
Critical Play Day: Patrick
Week 8
T: OCTOBER BREAK 2015
TH: Alisha
“Procedural rhetoric”. In Persuasive games: the expressive power of videogames.
Ian Bogost
Week 9
T: Presentation of Group Projects
TH: Presentation of Group Projects
Week 10
T: Sherri
Rhetoric/Composition/Play Part I (available in library)
TH:
Guest
Week 11
T: Sherri
Rhetoric/Composition/Play Part II (available in library)
TH:
Guest
Week 12
T: Sam
Rhetoric/Composition/Play Part III (available in library)
TH:
Critical Play Day: Ashley
Week 13
T: Bianca
“Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) in the new media classroom” [CP]
Aaron Delwiche
“Not a Hater, Just Keepin’ It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies” [CP]
David J. Leonard
“WoW is the New MUD: Social Gaming from Text to Video” [CP]
Torill Elvira Mortensen
TH: Alisha
“Collective Organizing, Individual Resistance, or Asshole Griefers? An Ethnographic Analysis of Women of Color In Xbox Live” [link]
Kishonna Gray
“Where the women are. In Play between worlds: exploring online game culture” [CP]
Taylor, T.L.
Week 14
T:
Make up day
TH: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 15
T: Amelia
“New media publics.” [CP] In Always already new: Media, history, and the data of culture.
Lisa Gitelman
“Podcast.” [CP]
Steven Levy
TH: Guest
“The distributed gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, worlding, and new media culture.”
Rickert and Salvo
“Sound matters: Notes toward the analysis and design of sound in multimodal web texts.”
Heidi McKee
Week 16
Final Projects