Schedule for Krause's English 328, Section 5
(Tuesday, 7:00-9:40)
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 "Invent your own writing technology" assignment. Discuss the class electronic mailing list. "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 an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. 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 (or, as appropriate, a photograph). 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: "Invent you own writing technology" assignment due! Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment Introduced. Discuss Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Be sure to post an original message and a reply to someone else's 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: How to HTML, part three. Introduction to Netscape Composer and HTML editing software. Discuss Booher's E-Writing, the "Introduction," "Part 1," "Part 2," and "Part 3," pages 1-132. Be sure to post an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Week 6
February 11: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 4," pages 133-286. Skim through "Part 5." Be sure to post an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. Discuss the Traditional versus Electronic Style Assignment.
Week 7
February 18: 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. 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 an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
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 8
February 25: Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment due! 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 an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. More on the personal/professional web site.
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 9
March 4: No class-- winter break
Week 10
March 11: Discuss Hawisher's and Moran's "Rhetoric of Email," Spooner's and Yancey's "Email as a Genre," and Porter's "Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique," all of which are available in the packet. Be sure to post an original message and a reply to someone else's message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. Discuss electronic peer review process which will happen next week.
Week 11
March 18: No class meeting; however, you will be responsible for participating in a peer review session of the Online Community and Discourse Assignment via email. details will be forthcoming in class.
Week 12
March 25: Online Community and Discourse Assignment due! Collaborative Web Project Assignment Introduced; In-class work on personal/professional web sites. By the end of today's class, each collaborative group needs to be established. Discuss web-based portfolio of writing assignments.
Week 13
April 1: In-class work on personal/professional web sites and collaborative web projects. Brief small group presentations about collaborative web projects. Each group will discuss the subject of their collaborative web project. 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. By about 1 pm of next Monday, April 7, your revised personal web site needs to be posted.
Week 14
April 8: 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. In-class work on collaborative web sites. Discuss web-based portfolio of writing assignments. By about 1 pm of next Monday, April 14, your revised collaborative web site needs to be posted.
Week 15
April 15: Last day of class! Wrap-up of web-based portfolio discussions; last day issues; in-class work on web-based writing portfolios.
The web-based portfolio of writing projects is due at the time of our final as scheduled by the university.