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This document provides a schedule for a digital literacy class that includes weekly readings, class activities, and assignment due dates from January to April. Each week covers topics like digital citizenship, analyzing digital rhetoric, composing tweets and poems with constraints, making comics and videos, and creating a final Prezi portfolio. Students will analyze viral trends, write blog posts, and develop multimedia projects including a twitter story, constraint poem, PowerPoint comic, edited image, concept video, and culminating Prezi presentation. The schedule outlines the progression of skills and genres covered each class meeting to build students' digital and multimodal composition abilities.
Schedule
- 1. Date Jan 8 Wednesday Readings Due Jan 10 Friday From Socrates to Wikis (Carmen) Digital Renaissance Jan 15 Wed Backpacks vs Briefcases Jan 17 Fri Ted talk: Why Videos Go Viral (Carmen) Share This Jan 22 Wed Jan 24 Fri Jan 29 Wed The Mathematical Muse (Carmen) Class Activities --Introductionwhy we are in this class and what we expect of it --Digital Literacy --Email and messaging etiquette and voice --Discussing digital Citizenship and the Classroom --Over view of major assignments -- Creating a Blog and thinking of focal topic --What is rhetoric? --Rhetorical analysis --Digital rhetoric and sample (ungraded) rhetorical analysis --Discussing analyses -- Discussion and assignment of Weekly Viral trends analysis --Buzzwords for analyzing and composing for digital media: interactivity, hypertextuality, affordances, constraints -- Sample twitter story and constraint poem --Composition Assignment a.1: Writing Twitter story --Post the story to your blog by the end of the class --Discussing electronic literature and textuality --Composition Assignment a.2: Writing Constraint Poetry using worksheets Assignments Due Links to your blogs due in my e-mail box by 5pm. Post the Twitter story to your blog by the end of the class Post the poem to your blog by the end of the class
- 2. Jan 31 Fri The Multiple Media of Texts (Carmen) Feb 5 Wed Feb 7 Fri Vocabulary of Comics (Carmen) Feb 12 Wed Feb 14 Fri Feb 19 Wed Feb 21 Fri --Introduction to Powerpoint Comic -- Reflecting on the skills being built -- Discussing Powerpoint comics --Start working on your Powerpoint comic Studio time Studio time Studio Time Feb 26 Wed Reading Sounds (Carmen) Feb 28 Fri March 5 Wed Approach, Shooting (Carmen) March 7 Fri March 12 Wed March 14 Fri March 19 Wed --Discussing algorithmic poetry, its purpose and aesthetics --Photoshop Workshop -- Relation between Image and Text --Start Composition Assignment b)- Image Editing Studio time --Introduction to Concept in 60 -- Analyzing Concept in 60 videos -- Recording voice --Introduction to Audacity --Audacity Workshop Studio time --Recording with zooms --Intellectual property and ethics --Introduction to Video editing using iMovie -- Sample video editing Spring break Spring break --iMovie tutorial and troubleshoot continued Image Editing assignment due in your blog by the end of the class.
- 3. March 21 Fri March 26 Wed March 28 Fri April 2 Wed April 4 Fri April 9 Wed April 11 Fri April 16 Wed April 18 Fri April 23 Wed The Secrets in the Storyboard (Carmen) --Storyboarding your concept in 60 video --Gather assets: Image, video, audio, text --Gather assets: Image, video, audio, text --Studio time to start working on your final video Studio time Studio time Watch the Prezi tutorial: http://prezi.com/learn --Introduction to Prezi --Studio time for Concept in 60 + Prezi portfolio --Studio time for Concept in 60 + Prezi portfolio Studio time; SEI Concept in 60 due. Needs to be uploaded on youtube/vimeo by 11:59pm. Prezi portfolio due by 11:59pm. Reflection post due in blog