This version of the schedule reflects the small changes I made as of January 21, 2003. Print off a new copy!

Week 1

January 7: First day of classes!  General course introductions. Discuss the class electronic mailing list.

January 9: Discuss the "Invent your own writing technology" assignment. "Personal/Professional Web Site Assignment" introduced. How to HTML, part one.

Week 2

January 14: Discuss Walter Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought" and Denis Baron's "From Pencils to Pixels:  The Stages of Literacy Technologies," both of which are in the packet.  Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

January 16: How to HTML, part one (continued) and part two. By noon on Friday, January 31, you need to email me the address of the first part of your personal/professional web site.

Week 3

January 21: "Invent your own writing writing technology" assignment show and tell.  Bring the first part of this assignment with you to class today (or, as appropriate, a photograph).

January 23: Peer Review of "Invent your own writing technology" essay.  Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today. Discuss the Online Community and Discourse Assignment. Introduction to Google's newsgroup readers.

Week 4

January 28: Peer Review, part 2. Bring written responses to your colleague's essays with you to class today. Discuss first half of Strunk and White's Elements of Style.  Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.  Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment Introduced. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

January 30. Discuss second half of Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

By the end of this week, you need to send me an email to let me know about which newsgroup you have decided to follow for the Online Community and Discourse Assignment.

Week 5

February 4: "Invent you own writing technology" assignment due! How to HTML, part three.  Introduction to Netscape Composer and HTML editing software.

February 6: Discuss first part of Booher's E-Writing, the "Introduction," "Part 1," and "Part 2," pages 1-66. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

Week 6

February 11: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 3," pages 67-132. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

February 13: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 4," pages 133-286. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.

Week 7

February 18: Wrap-up discussion of Booher's E-Writing. Skim through "Part 5." Discuss the Traditional versus Electronic Style Assignment.

February 20: Peer review of Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment, part one. Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today.

Week 8

February 25: Peer review of Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment, part two. Bring written responses to your colleague's essays with you to class today.  In-class work on personal/professional web site. Discuss "SpiderPro 100 Dos and Don'ts of Web Design" and "From Sucky to Savvy" web sites, both of which are available online. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. 

February 27: Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment due! Revisitng the personal/professional web site assignment.

By the end of this week, you will need to send me an email about your participation grade in class for the first part of the semester.

Week 9

March 4: No class-- winter break

March 6: No class—winter break

Week 10

March 11: Discuss the first three chapters of the "Web Style Guide," available on the web. This site is based on the book Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Second Edition, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. Also, browse/read Colin Mackenzie's "Web Design Tips." Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.  More discussion on the personal/professional web site.

March 13: Discuss Hawisher's and Moran's "Rhetoric of Email," which is available in the course pack.  Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.  

By the end of this week, you need to send me an email "progress report" about the discussion on the newsgroup you have selected for the Online Community and Discourse Assignment.

Week 11

March 18: No class meeting; however, by 5 pm today, you need to post two messages to the class electronic mailing list. The first should be a response to someone else's message that was posted about the Hawisher and Moran essay. The second should be a new message about Spooner's and Yancey's "Email as a Genre," which is available in the course pack.

March 20: No class meeting; however, by 5 pm today, you need to post two messages to the class electronic mailing list. The first should be a response to someone else's message that was posted about the Spooner and Yancey essay. The second should be a new message about Porter's "Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique," which is available in the class course pack.

Week 12

March 25: Peer Review of Online Community and Discourse Assignment, part one. Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today.

March 27: Peer Review of Online Community and Discourse Assignment, part two. Bring written responses to your colleague "s essays with you to class today. Collaborative Web Project Assignment Introduced; In-class work on personal/professional web sites.  

Week 13

April 1: Online Community and Discourse Assignment due!  In-class work on personal/professional web sites and collaborative web projects.  By the end of today's class, each collaborative group needs to be established.

April 3: Poster session for personal/professional web sites and peer review of brief web revisions essay.  By today's class, you need to be ready to show to others your revised personal/professional web site and the brief essay you wrote about the revisions and changes you made to that site. In-class work on collaborative and personal/professional web sites.

Week 14

April 8: Brief small group presentations about collaborative web projects.  Each group will discuss the subject of their collaborative web project.  In-class work on collaborative and personal/professional web sites.  By about 1 pm tomorrow April 9, your revised personal web site needs to be posted.

April 10: Poster session of collaborative web projects!  By today 's class, each group's site must be up, running, and enough in place in order for others in the class to review and comment on it.

Week 15

April 15: Collaborative web project due!  While you and your group members will have time today to make the "finishing touches" on your web sites, I will begin evaluating the sites after 1 pm Wednesday April 16.

April 17: Wrap-up of web-based portfolio discussions; last day issues.

The web-based portfolio of writing projects is due at the time of our final as scheduled by the university.