This is the capstone course for the Information Technology Studies minor. It is open to other undergraduuate and graduate students with permission. Through the course, we explore what it means to be information literate in today's world. Major themes include evolving media practices, historical perspectives, personal meanings, ethical and policy issues, learning opportunities, and community.
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| (1) Jan 21 |  Welcome
Computer help Class notes Introductions What have you learned? What are your expectations? What is literacy in the information age? Course goals & structure Communication  computer chess
steganography CPSR E$$ay Contest GSLIS Undergraduate Paper Award |
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| (2) Jan 23 | Explore the course site and think about possible course topics
Genevieve Carmichael: Some interesting topics in LIS 391 — [Part 1] [Part 2]
Try the LEEP, C-Base, and Inquiry Page login Begin thinking about your course project. Tony Lee: Inside the inquiry units |
Headrick, ch. 1 Eco, From Internet to Gutenberg (in six parts) |
Digital Cities Kyoto Mindset list Powers of 10  The role of technology
Sullivan, "America in 1900" Brainstorm issues relevant to literacy in the information age Discuss possible projects and groups past projects |
| Jan 28 |  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. |
Headrick, ch. 2 ? Supp: Headrick, ch. 3 |
Inquiry Page intro
student research template  Lessig, Internet & copyright [interview] |
| (3) Jan 30 | Bruce, New literacies
Supp: McEneaney, A hypertext history in 36 nodes |
net attacks
scholars from India (3:30-5:00, 131 LIS) What does it mean to "own" information?
Bioinformatics in education
Project ideas: Identity theft "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 | |
| Feb 4 | Sharples, Writing for the screen
Supp: Headrick, ch. 5 |
viruses
virus hoaxes Jan Brunvand Marcia Halio controversy feedback on leep, c-base project outlets: Inquiry in action, UI Current LIS Clips, Scholarly Communication, IJUR, other journals Google answers human subjects Team Action Project upcoming assignments What are the new literacies? |
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| (4) Feb 6 | Post your project proposal: (or a URL for it) in LEEP. Post the URL for that message in C-Base. Use the keyword "liasp3" for your Inquiry Unit. |
Bruce, The work of art in the age of digital reproduction | Million Books Project
Internet bookmobile Internet an integral part of college life Twenty-first century literacy
Groups discussion: What is writing? relate to readings |
| Historical Perspectives | |||
| Feb 11 | Headrick, ch. 6 | Nu shortcuts in school r 2 much 4 teachers
Richard Avedon Jackson Pollock discuss projects |
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| (5) Feb 13 | Do one of the three options in: What role have technologies played in learning throughout history? |
Headrick, ch. 7
Supp: NPR, Literacy in the 21st century. |
discuss Headrick, pp. 183-193 |
| Feb 18 | Bruce, Constructing a once and future history of learning technologies | library terror
Walker Art Museum Feb 18, Fu-Ren Lin: teachers network Feb 19, Hope Olson, classification Mar 13, George Lewis, music life on the web volunteer opps Headrick discussion project updates timeline |
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| (6) Feb 20 | Post your annotated bibliography |
Headrick, ch. 4 | end of radio drama
start of Saturday Night at the Movies: color, Hollywood, made-for-TV class notes blog video volunteers Patriot Act / Bill of Rights civil liberties |
| Personal Meanings | |||
| Feb 25 | Rheingold, Look who's talking | Google language preferences
discuss Rheingold |
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| (7) Feb 27 | Find a webcam. Find your home in Terraserver. Discuss both of these in the web board. |
Burbules, Privacy, surveillance and classroom communication
Supp: Liu, Wireless Internet for all |
LIA book
who rules Googlefight security cameras webcam/terraserver assignment |
| Mar 4 | NIIT, Hole in the wall computer
Judge, computer literacy for India's poorest kids Hole in the Wall |
Amaris: Inquiry Page the CAVE FIRST project updates |
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| Ethical and Policy Issues | |||
| (8) Mar 6 | Bruce, How worldwide is the web?
Supp: Snow, clever Cubans still get bootleg Internet Bruce & Hogan, The disappearance of technology |
my blog media images | |
| Mar 11 | Zhao, et al. Teaching and learning: Whose computer is it?
Locate the "Bobby Site" and evaluate its criteria for accessible web pages. What assumptions does it make about access? |
 discuss: new literacies, access, privacy
My smmr hols discuss assignments project updates continue media discussion What is the UIUC role in ICT devleopment? |
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| (9) Mar 13 | 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.) |
Schneider, The Patriot Act: Last refuge of a scoundrel
Boulton, Is Microsoft watching what you're watching? |
Radio UserLand
391 video quicktopic great vowel shift project uupdates role of inquiry in tech age Situated evaluation |
| Mar 18 | Bruce, Access points on the digital river
Supp: Coyle, Access: Not just wires Gunderson, web accessibility [interview] [text])
Shade, Gender issues in computer networking |
Christopher Reeves
blogging zip codes firstmonday McWhortle Enterprises, Inc. schedule in-class project presentations dimensions of access
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| (10) Mar 20 | White, Six degrees of instant messaging
Ma, Happiness on the Chinese Internet Anderson & Kubiatowicz, The worldwide computer |
Visual thesaurus
accessibility symbols eye scanning Simputer technology survey changes in access |
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| -- Mar 22-29 -- Spring Break | |||
| Learning Opportunities | |||
| Apr 1 | Project responses Choose at least two projects and respond to them on the web board Project presentations: Internet Advertising (pop-ups) (Jerry) Technology and the Consumer (Paris) Bluetooth (Ben, Chris, Tina) |
Noble, Digital diploma mills: The automation of higher education
Brown & Duguid, Universities in the digital age Supp: Review of Noble's book on distance ed Winner, the automatic professor |
CPSR Essay Contest
Undergraduate best paper award media and war UN Literacy Decade NY Public Library project presentations |
| (11) Apr 3 | Keiner, Judy. (1997). Real audiences — worldwide: A case study of the
impact of WWW publication on a child writer's development.
KidPub Supp: Reuters, Monkey moves cursor! Hiler, Google time bombs |
VR-savvy
Weihong: WWW publication | |
| Apr 8 | Dewey, 3. Criteria of experience | Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
CAVE visit @Beckman | |
| Community | |||
| (12) Apr 10 | Project presentations:
Governmental Surveillance (Lori) Metaphors (Jessica and LoAn) E-Writing (Julie) |
Bishop, Communities for the new century
Who owns the media? |
Mediaworks Pamphlets
Double fold CPSR essay contest credibility unit course videos |
| Apr 15 | Project presentations:
Online Job Search (Kelly) Special Education Technology (Lisa and Kate) Web Writing: Inquiry Page (Amaris) Platform Preference (Candice) LiveJournal (David) |
Thakkar, et al. Extending literacy through participation in new technologies |
Inquiry Unit wrappers |
| (13) Apr 17 | Credibility unit: How can we learn to read critically?
Project presentations: Internet as News Source (Sooho) Technology Flops (Melissa and John) Course Website Design (Dave) |
Bruce, Digital
content: The babel of cyberspace.
Supp: Floridi, Rheingold's brainstorms: Disinformation superhighway? People "turn to online library materials before printed ones" Postman, Informing ourselves to death. |
Whales in Lake Michigan |
| Apr 22 | Hafner, A paternity dispute divides net pioneers |
Larry Lessig, Free culture Academic Exchange | |
| (14) Apr 24 | Final report
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Hawisher, Constructing our identities through online images |
no class today |
| Apr 29 | Project presentations: Microsoft/Apple Adv (Genevieve) |
Mishra, et al. Seeing ourselves in the computer: How we relate to technologies | The Flesh Public Library library filters discuss credibility |
| (15) May 1 | Reflection paper |
Kapitzke, Information literacy: The changing library | Total Information Awareness, EPIC
John Poindexter, info on Cyberatlas toolbox China blocks news copyright: Girl Scout songs; cab driver music; Christmas carols pragmatic technology
draw the story of your project Where do we go next? What did we learn? What new questions? Journals Organizations course evaluation |
| May 6 | Brunelle, Why free software matters for literacy educators | no class today | |
| Other activities:
Discuss TIA GIS for classroom (major, sign, sport) privacy discussion maps as social tools (jigsaw) | |||
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