Week-by-Week Schedule Date Topic Assignment due in class Week 1 1/5 Class Introduction, Syllabus

Review; Ice Breaker; Freewriting Exercise – Writing, Discussion

Week 2 1/10 Introduce Snapshots Assignment,

Discuss Readings, Brainstorming Session

Identifying Genre, (BW 30-31) Considering Audience (BW 16-22) Journal 1 – “What the Crot”

1/12 Plagiarism and Intellectual Property, Revision, What is Effective Peer Review? In-Class Writing

Revising (McGraw Hill) Gladwell, “Something Borrowed” Journal 2 – “What do you mean, ‘Second’

Draft?”

Week 3 1/17 Peer Review Snapshots

Discuss Readings; Dialogue and Conversation

Michelangelo de Varvaggio (BW 43) Albrect Durer (BW 117) Due: Snapshots Rough Draft

1/19 Exploding the Moment; Preparing for Conferences;

Patricia Hampl, “I Could Tell You Stories” (BW 107)

Journal 3 – Oh Yeah, This Will Be Creepy Week 4 1/24 Conferences Due: Second Draft of Snapshots

No Class 1/26 Conferences No Class Week 5 1/31 Discuss Readings; Proofreading

Pitfalls; Curious Researcher Groups Sign-Up

“Introduction: Rethinking the Research Paper” from The Curious Researcher

Journal 4 – Why is Simon Cowell So Mean? 2/2 Peer Review Snapshots; Comparing

Digital Genres: Facebook, Twitter, and Text Messaging

Cluster 4.1 (BW 191-213) Journal 5 – Three Grammatical Questions or

Concerns Due: Working of Draft of Snapshots

Week 6 2/7 Curious Researcher Group 1

Introduce Visual Remediation of Snapshots. What is remediation?; Citation Workshop

“The First Week: The Importance of Getting Curious” from The Curious Researcher

Examining Media (BW 32)

2/9 In-class Work Day Journal 6 – At a Medium Pace Work on Remediation of Snapshots

Week 7 2/14 Introduce Media Research Paper;

Curious Researcher Group 2; In-Class Brainstorming

“The Second Week: Developing a Research Strategy” from The Curious Researcher

Deciding on Your Purpose and Context (BW 64-66)

Understanding Purpose (BW 24-28) 2/16 TBA Due: Visual Remediation of Snapshots

Journal 7 – Communities and Media Week 8

I reserve the right to modify this schedule as we progress through the semester.

2/21 Curious Researcher Group 3 and 4; In-Class Peer Review

Henry Jenkins, (BW 307-311) “The Third Week: Writing in the Middle” from

The Curious Researcher “The Third Week: (Notetaking Techniques, Other

Notetaking Techniques…)” from The Curious Researcher

Due: First Draft of Media Analysis

2/23 Curious Researcher Group 5 and 6; Everything is a Remix

“The Fourth Week: Getting to the Draft” from The Curious Researcher

“The Fifth Week: Revising for a Purpose” from The Curious Researcher

Week 9 2/28 Conferences Due: Second Draft of Media Analysis

No Class 3/1 Conferences No Class

Journal 8 Sp. Break 3/6 No Class Spring Break 3/8 No Class Spring Break Week 10 3/13 RiP: A Remix Manifesto Due: Working Draft of Media Analysis

Journal 9 3/15 RiP: A Remix Manifesto; Introduce

Multimodal Assignment; Final Portfolios

Choosing a Subject or Focus (BW 56-58) Reaching an Audience (BW 60-62) Use WIX.com to begin building ePortfolios

Week 11 3/20 60-second idea proposals; Continue

Creating Portfolios Choosing a Genre and Structure (BW 67-72) Choosing a Medium (BW 77-83) Due: Multimodal Concept Proposal

3/22 TBA TBA Week 12 3/27 Workshop Multimodal Project Multimedia Writing (McGraw Hill)

Visual Design Elements (McGraw Hill) Due: Multimodal First Draft

3/29 Week 13 4/3 Workshop Multimodal Project Due: Multimodal Second Draft 4/5 Week 14 4/10 Due: Multimodal Working Draft 4/12 Course Evaluations; Portfolio

Work Day Work in Class on Final Portfolio

Design/Construction Week 15 4/17 Multimodal Project Presentations In-Class Presentations 4/19 Multimodal Project Presentations;

Course Wrap-Up In-Class Presentations

Finals 4/ WE DO NOT MEET Due: Links to Final Portfolios sent via E-Mail