Aug 26-30, discussion board
Sep 5-6, symposium announcement
Class notes
Introductions
Course goals & structure
possible course units
past projects
steganography
Powers of 10
Computers & Writing, Purdue, May 22-25, due Oct 28
CPSR E$$ay Contest
GSLIS Undergraduate Paper Award
Begin thinking about your course project.
Digital Cities Kyoto
Mindset list
The role of technology
Sullivan, "America in 1900"
Brainstorm issues relevant to literacy in the information age
Discuss possible projects and groups
Login to LEEP. In the board for the first week, post a greeting to the class introducing yourself. Briefly describe your goals for the course.Then, login to C-Base and post the URL for that message in activity 1.
Supp: Headrick, ch. 3
Lessig, Internet & copyright [interview]Supp: McEneaney, A hypertext history in 36 nodes
What does it mean to "own" information?
Bioinformatics in education
Project ideas:
"Rain is not my Indian name"
spin-off a course unit
Game studies
TappedIn
Display wall
CAVE tour
Inquiry Page as a medium for the project
Supp: Headrick, ch. 5
viruses
virus hoaxes
Jan Brunvand
Projects
Research involving human subjects
Team Action Project
Groups discussion: What is writing?
Post your project proposal: (or a URL for it) in LEEP. Post the URL for that message in C-Base. Use the keyword "liafa2" for your Inquiry Unit.
Twenty-first century literacyInternet an integral part of college life
Nu shortcuts in school r 2 much 4 teachers
discuss Headrick, pp. 183-193
timeline assignment
Do one of the three options in: What role have technologies played in learning throughout history? Supp:
NPR, Literacy in the 21st century.
What are the new literacies? Life on the web: BEACHTechie
assignments
Add your annotated bibliography to the course collection. Use your netid as a keyword, in addition to "lis 391". end of radio drama, Sep 30, 1962; start of Saturday Night at the Movies
class notes blog
"updated" timeline
human subjects research
Deconstructing images from the media
Google language preferences
Geographic Information Systems; GIS for classroom (major, sign, sport)
Find a webcam. Find your home in Terraserver. Discuss both of these in the web board.Supp: Liu, Wireless Internet for all
Googlefightsecurity cameras
webcam/terraserver assignment
privacy discussion
maps as social tools (jigsaw)
Judge, computer literacy for India's poorest kids
project updates
Supp: Snow, clever Cubans still get bootleg Internet
Bruce & Hogan, The disappearance of technology
Internet bookmobile. First Monday
Computers & Writing proposals Oct 28
Otlet film tomorrow
Nobel prize stamps
Internet in India (guests: Pradip Kumar Upadhyay, Pandurang Konnur)
One of:
- Locate the "Bobby Site" and evaluate its criteria for accessible web pages. What assumptions does it make about access? Discuss in the web board.
- What is the UIUC role in ICT devleopment? Post in the History web board.
discuss assignments
project updates
Faces of Tomorrow -- new literacies, access, privacy, ...
Post your outline. Note that this "outline" is a several-page draft of your project. It may include parts in a rough form, such as lists of key phrases, but it's not simply a hierarchical structure of the parts (intro, background, method, results, etc.)Boulton, Is Microsoft watching what you're watching?
Radio UserLand
Situated evaluation
Supp: Coyle, Access: Not just wires
Gunderson, web accessibility [interview] [text])
Shade, Gender issues in computer networking
David Gunkel, "What's the Matter with Books?"
Walt Scacchi, "Understanding the Requirements for Developing Open Source Software Information Systems"
Apropiación de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en América Latina
McWhortle Enterprises, Inc.
Patriot registration
site visits; inquiry units
dimensions of accessMa, Happiness on the Chinese Internet
Anderson & Kubiatowicz, The worldwide computer
Visual thesaurus
accessibility symbols
eye scanning
Simputer
technology survey
changes in access
Project responsesChoose at least two projects and respond to them on the web board
Brown & Duguid, Universities in the digital age
Supp: Review of Noble's book on distance ed
Winner, the automatic professor
Derrick de Kerckhove
Love Machine
survey results
project updates
Janine Solberg, Visual literacy & web spaces
Schedule in-class project presentations
Undergraduate best paper award
Hiler, Google time bombs
Hole in the Wall Larry Lessig, Free culture
Academic Exchange
Jack: Virtual exhibits
Becky: How have media literacies changed healthcare today?
Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
one reading for the syllabus
Inray, Kerry: Are pop-up advertisements a "necessary evil" or just evil?
Kelly: How accessible are computers and the Internet for visually disabled users?
Who owns the media?
Mediaworks Pamphlets
Double fold
CPSR essay contest
Sarah, Patty, David: Peer-to-peer technology
Tony: Emoticons
Meenal: Relationship between technology used in businesses and the country's economy
Inquiry Unit wrappers
Grant: Representations of time
Nichole: the independent film genre
Wei, Katy, Doug: The future of copyrights
credibility unitSupp: Floridi, Rheingold's brainstorms: Disinformation superhighway?
People "turn to online library materials before printed ones"
Postman, Informing ourselves to death.
Whales in Lake MichiganGoogle answers
IJUR
Final report
Project presentations:
Dyanna: From us to you: Talk radio broadcasting in the information age
Susana, Bailey, Jeff, Paul: The effects of media in society
Meghan, Joan, Bijan: What is visual literacy?
think about the story of your writing
The Flesh Public Librarylibrary filters
draw the story of your project; see Waldmeier unit
Reflection paper Total Information Awareness, EPIC
John Poindexter, info on
Cyberatlas toolbox
China blocks news
copyright: GIrl Scout songs; cab driver music; Christmas carols
Discuss TIA
pragmatic technology
Where do we go next?
What did we learn?
What new questions?
Journals
Organizations
Instructor and Course Evaluation Survey