Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, readings can be found in the “Course Readings” folder on our class site at eCampus

Week 1: Jan. 10, 12: Course Introduction

  • What is multimedia? What is writing?
  • Readings
    • Jenkins, Convergence Culture, Introduction

Week 2: Jan. 17, 19: How writing changes the way we think

Week 3: Jan. 24, 26: Style

  • Readings
      • Lanham, The Economics of Attention, ch. 1 (on eCampus as a pdf) & ch.3: “What’s Next for Text?” (online here; click on the Table of Contents link then read through all of the resulting pages; also, be sure you have Quicktime installed in your browser so you can access all of the video content)
      • Tufte, Visual Explanations, ch. 7, “Visual Confections”

    Week 4: Jan. 31, Feb. 2: Writing place

    Week 5: Feb. 7, 9: Who gets to write online?

    Week 6: Feb. 14, 16: Narrative and fiction

    • Peer review for first submission of multi-modal text due on Tuesday: be able to access copy in class
    • First submission of multi-modal text due before the start of class on Thursday: email copy of text or link to it to me before the start of class
    • Readings

    Week 7: Feb. 21, 23: Remix

    Week 8: Feb. 28, Mar. 1

    • Multimedia Workshop: Introduction to tools for creating audio and video projects
    • Peer review for second submission of multi-modal text due on Tuesday
    • Second submission of multi-modal text due before the start of class on Thursday

    Week 9: Mar. 6, 8: Authorship and code

    Week 10: Mar. 13, 15: Video Games

    Week 11: Mar. 20, 22: Electronic Books

    Mar. 27, 29: Spring recess: no class

    Week 12: Apr. 3, 5

    Week 13: Apr. 10, 12

    • First submission of for multimedia project due before start of class on Tuesday
    • Group work/assemble text of collection

    Week 14: Apr. 17, 19

    • Group work/assemble text of collection
    • Peer review for second submission of multimedia project due on Thursday

    Week 15: Apr. 24, 26

    • Second submission of for multimedia project due before start of class on Tuesday
    • Finalize collection