Class Topic: Technology in the classroom. Question: How does technology interface with the PWR2 experience?

• Reading Due: Luke Young, et. Al, "Academic Computing in the Year 2000" (on-line reader); course syllabus
• Assignment Due: Student Information sheet
• Writing Due: PanFora assignment #1: Logging onto the virtual classroom. Register for our PanFora and then post an introduction to your discussion group in the Forum. In your post, you include information such as your dorm, your academic and extracurricular interests, your level of expertise or familiarity with electronic discourse, your reasons for taking the course, and your expectations for the course.
• In-Class work: Overview of Wallenberg 123: working with the websters, the stylus, and networked classroom discourse. Collaborative work: meeting your classmates

Class Topic: The role of technology in education. Question: What are the benefits and dangers of using technology in an academic setting?

• Reading Due: Cathy Camper, "A Note from the Future" (on-line reader); Barbara Kantrowitz, "The Information Gap" (on-line reader); David Gelernter, "Unplugged" (on-line reader)
• In-Class work: Starting student blog; Brainstorming research paper topics.

Class Topic: E-Rhetoric and Transformations of Reading. Questions: Does electronic writing change the way thinking about reading or authorship? What exactly is a blog, for instance? An on-line diary? A form of internet journalism? How does the blog blur boundaries between public and private discourse?

• Reading Due: Ted Gup, "The End of Serendipity" (CR 250-253); Julian Dibbell, "The Writer a la Modem; Or, The Death of the Author on the Installment Plan" (on-line reader)
• Writing Due: PanFora discussion: Contribute at least one post (or response) to your PanFora section about authorship on the web -- whether in terms of webpages, blogs, ethos issues, copyright issues, how you perceive web authors vs. print text authors, etc. Be sure to use concrete examples (links) where possible.
• In-Class work: Working with blogs.

Class Topic: Invention On-Line and Writing with Computers. Question: How does using a computer change the physical and conceptual task of writing?

• Reading Due: Jay David Bolter, "The Computer as New Writing Space" (CR 270-286); Victor Vitanza, "Introductions to CyberReader: Surf's (Still) Up?" (CR xv-xviii); Research Project & Proposal assignments.
• Assignment Due: Import an image of yourself onto your PanFora profile
• Writing Due: Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Working with Pre-Writing: by hand and on-line.

Class Topic: Virtual Communities. Question: How can the internet be used to foster a sense of community?

• Reading Due: Howard Rheingold, "'Introduction' to The Virtual Community" (CR 63-77); Steve Silberman, "We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-Mail" (on-line reader); proposal presentation assignment.
• Writing Due: Research Proposal draft due (3-5 pages); posted to your PanFora groups as an attachment.
• In-Class work: Moving from proposal to project: initiating research; reviewing research techniques; searching Socrates, databases, and on-line materials

Class Topic: Diversity On-line. Question: Does the internet breakdown boundaries between different cultures or reinforce them?

• Reading Due: M. Kadi, "Welcome to Cyberia" (on-line reader); Guillermo Gomez-Pena, "The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier" (on-line reader); Colin Beckles, "Black Struggles in Cyberspace: Cyber-Segregation and Cyber-Nazis" (on-line reader); Andrea Lunsford, "Spoken Arguments" (on-line reader)
• Writing Due: Panfora Assignment: In your discussion groups, provide feedback on the proposals and suggest ways in which the authors could convert their proposals into effective oral presentations. Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Thinking about oral presentations: from electronic to oral discourse

Class Topic: Virtual Identities and Moving into MUDs. Question: How does our concept of identity change in virtual environments?

• Reading Due: Sherry Turkle, "Identity Crisis" (CR 78-94); Jacques Leslie, "MUDroom" (CR 401-405); your own research sources
• Writing Due: Research Proposal revision due (3-5 pages)
• In-Class work: Oral presentations of Research-in-progress (5 minutes); in-class evaluations of student presentations & feedback on the research project; looking at personal websites as an expression of identity.
  

Class Topic: Gender and Race Identity On-line. Question: What are the social and ethical implications of identity swapping on-line?

• Reading Due: Allucquere Rosanne Stone, "In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist" (CR 426-441); Amy Bruckman, "Gender Swapping on the Internet" (CR 418-423); Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/ For Cyperspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" (CR 442-453); your own research sources
• In-Class work: Oral presentations of Research-in-progress (5 minutes); in-class evaluations of student presentations & feedback on the research project; collaborative e-rhetoric - Designing topic pages for the E-Rhetoric Group site part I.

Class Topic: Gender stereotypes: from real-world to virtual environments. Question: Do the gender inequities and biases that these writers identify still exist in our 21st century computing environment?

• Reading Due: Deborah Tannen, "Gender Gap in Cyberspace" (CR 184-186); David Nicholson, "Cyber-Gender Stereotypes Just Don't Compute" (CR 187-189); Barbara Kantrowitz, "Men, Women and Computers" (CR 176-183); your own research sources
• Writing Due: Preliminary Bibliography of sources for research project (post on your PanFora personal space). Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today
• In-Class work: Oral presentations of Research-in-progress (5 minutes); in-class evaluations of student presentations & feedback on the research project.Designing topic pages for the E-Rhetoric Group site part II.
  

Class Topic: Gender, Race & Identity On-line. Question: What are the social and ethical implications of identity swapping on-line?

• Reading Due: Allucquere Rosanne Stone, "In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist" (CR 426-441); Amy Bruckman, "Gender Swapping on the Internet" (CR 418-423); Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/ For Cyperspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" (CR 442-453); your own research sources
• In-Class work: Thinking about hypertext; Creating topic pages; organizing an electronic document.
  

Class Topic: Electronic Writing. Question: How does writing done for on-line readers (whether in hypertext, MUD or IM) differ from traditional writing??

• Reading Due: Jakob Nielsen, "How Users Read on the Web"; other links of your choice from Writing For the Web; Your own research sources
• Assignment due: On PanFora, in your personal space, post a list of 10 guidelines for writing on the web
• In-Class work: Starting your visual map; from brainstorm to outline

Class Topic: The human/machine interface: Games and gaming. Question: How do these realities further develop social and individual aspects of technology that we have been discussing (think about education, gender, identity, community)?

• Reading Due: Suneel Ratan, "Game-Makers Aren't Chasing Women" (http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59620,00.html); Daniel Terdiman, "Every Sims Picture Tells a Story"; (http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59461,00.html?tw=wn_story_related); N'Gai Croal and Jane Hughes, "Lara Croft, the Bit Girl" (on-line reader); your own research sources
• Assignment due: Partial visual map for one of the sample hypertexts linked up through the Research Hypertext Assignment sheet: post to PanFora or bring in on paper
• Writing due: post one entry to your blog by today
• In-Class work: From outline to content - working with organization and expanding the visual map.
  
• Related Conference: "Story Engines: A Public Program on Storytelling and Computer Games" Friday, February 6, 9 am to 5 pm, Fairchild Auditorium, 291 Campus Drive (to view schedule, click on exhibitions, then click on "Fictional Worlds..." then scroll to the bottom)
  

Class Topic: Games and gaming. Question: How do these realities further develop social and individual aspects of technology that we have been discussing (think about education, gender, identity, community)?

• Suneel Ratan, "Game-Makers Aren't Chasing Women" (http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59620,00.html); Daniel Terdiman, "Every Sims Picture Tells a Story"; (http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59461,00.html?tw=wn_story_related); N'Gai Croal and Jane Hughes, "Lara Croft, the Bit Girl" (on-line reader); your own research sources
• Writing Due: Visual Map of research hypertext due
• In-Class work: Expanding the map; drafting nodes; work on collaborative websites
  

Class Topic: Codes of Conduct, Part I: Gender and Sexuality. Question: How does the internet offer both freedom of expression and the possibility of the abuse of that freedom?

• Reading Due: Julie Petersen, "Sex and the Cybergirl" (on-line reader); Mark Stuart Gill, "Terror On-line" (on-line reader); Stephanie Brail, "Take Back the Net" (on-line reader)
• Writing Due: Draft of three nodes due
• In-Class work: Workshopping of the research hypertext: looking at content, organization, and design.

Class Topic: Codes of Conduct, Part II: Cybersex and cybersexuality. Question: What are the ethical boundaries of on-line sex?

• Reading Due: Dinty W. Moore. "The Night Thoreau Had Cybersex" (CR 212-226); Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace" (CR 454-472)
• Writing Due: Draft of two more nodes due; Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Workshopping of the research hypertext: looking at content, organization, and design.

Class Topic: Gender and Sexuality. Question: Does the tracking of surfing habits constitute a problematic invasion of privacy or a convenience of the modern technological age?

• Reading Due: Julie Petersen, "Sex and the Cybergirl" (on-line reader); Mark Stuart Gill, "Terror On-line" (on-line reader); Stephanie Brail, "Take Back the Net" (on-line reader); Dinty W. Moore. "The Night Thoreau Had Cybersex" (CR 212-226); Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace" (CR 454-472)
• Assignment Due: A five-minute free-write on PanFora in your personal space about your ideas about the design of your research hypertext
• Writing Due: Research hypertext draft due.
• In-Class work: Collaboration and revision; peer review of the research hypertext draft.
  

Class Topic: Design & Criteria for Assessing Hypertexts. Question: What are the qualities of an excellent research hypertext?

• Reading Due: partner's research draft
• Writing Due: Peer review forms; Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Working with multimedia - using word and image in oral presentation; peer groups meet to brainstorm different modes of turning the hypertext into an interesting multimedia presentation.

Class Topic: Thinking about Delivering Arguments Question: How does the canon of delivery apply to both hypertexts and oral multimedia presentations?

• Writing Due: Research hypertext draft 2 due.
• In-Class work: Organizing multimedia presentations

Class Topic: Drafting presentations & Using Powerpoint.

• Reading Due: Envision chapter 7
• Writing Due: Presentation outline due; peer review forms for the hypertexts
• In-Class work: Evaluating Effective presentation form; Workshopping the drafts in small groups; peer review of hypertexts
  

Class Topic: Practicing Presentations.

• Reading Due: powerpoint essays
• Writing Due: Draft of Research presentation due (slides and text); contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Polishing the Multimedia presentation; workshopping the presentation drafts in small groups

Class Topic: Student Research Presentations

• In-Class work: Presentations and evaluation
  

Class Topic: Student Research Presentations

• Writing Due: Response to your PanFora partner's website
• In-Class work: Presentations and evaluation
  

Class Topic: Student Research Presentations

• Writing Due: Contribute at least one post to your Blog by class today.
• In-Class work: Presentations and evaluation
  

Class Topic: Student Research Presentations

• Writing Due: Final draft of research hypertext due.
• In-Class work: Presentations and evaluations
  

• Assignment Due: Collaborate webpage should be finished; upload the htm file and any image files to PanFora so that I can put them on our server and link them to our course page. Should be posted by 10am.

Class Topic: Class review - the future of writing and new media.

• Writing Due: Bibliographic suggestions: Bring to class an annotated bibliography containing your top one-three suggestions, from your research project, of readings that e-rhetoric students should do. You can bring this printed out, or you could e-mail it to me or post it to PanFora.
• In-Class work: Evaulations and reflection; Bringing the e-rhetoric site on-line