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| ENGLISH 5362: Computers and Writing |
| Professor Susan Wolff Murphy |
| Spring 2006 |
Please note: all readings are expected to be completed on the date listed. Discussion questions based on these readings are due before class begins, and must be posted on that day's discussion page. Please be careful not to erase another student's work, and to save your work to another location.
Also, I will add a "daily plan" to each class day by a link on the date. When you get to class, please get in the habit of logging on, coming to the schedule, and clicking on the date to see the daily plan.
Week One: Jan. 11
- Who Am I?
- Discuss major assignments, course/student/teacher introductions, create wiki pages
- Freewrite on technology, teaching, and literacy: why are you here?
- Read and discuss
- Blalock selections on literacy, learning, & the future
- Lemke, Metamedia Literacy (p. 77)
- "Why Teach Digital Writing?
- TWWC, Dewitt and Dickson, "Fools Rush In" (69-78) skipped-no time
- Browse Kairos, Computers and Composition,, CompPile for topic ideas to revise reading schedule
- week one discussion
- topic list brainstorm and keyword vocabulary questions
Week Two: Jan 18—teaching in an computer/online environment
Read
- OWC, Krause, "Why Should I Use the Web?" (105-127)
- TWWC, Mauriello and Pagnucci, "Balancing Acts" (79-91)
- TWWC, Selfe, "Techno-Pedagogical Explorations" (17-33)
- Loudermilk & Hern "Using Wikis as Collaborative Writing Tools: Something Wiki This Way Comes--Or Not!"
- Brainstorm research topics, discuss sources and keywords
- week two discussion
Week Three: Jan 25—teaching, resources, technological choices
- Please note: research plan draft due Jan. 24th by midnight
- TWWC, Eldred and Toner, "Technology as Teacher" (33-54)
- OWC, Stedman, "Hooked on 'Tronics" (15-18)
- OWC, Barber, "Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom" (243-264)
- OWC, Coffield et al, "Surveying the Electronic Landscape" (285-309)
- week three discussion
Week Four: Feb 1--Distance Education and blogs
- Walker "So You've Decided to Develop A Distance Education Class . . ."
- For teaching Macromedia Dreamweaver in the classroom as a form distance learning. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/features/walbert.htmAdam
- How long-distance communication is affected by advanced writing technology such as blogs. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05359/627794.stmMelissa
- "A Role for Blogs in Graduate Education: Remediating the Rhetorical Tradition?" In Computers and Composition.
- Krause "When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion, and Interaction" Kairos 9.1
- week four discussion
Week Five: Feb 8—Diversity and Culture in the Computer Classroom
- After having reviewed my comments on their plans and having had an additional week to explore their topics, students will introduce their tentative research questions to the class
- OWC, Kolko, "Cultural Studies In/And the Networked Writing Classroom" (29-43)Butch
- Jin--one of the articles below:
- OWC, Gay, "Improving Classroom Culture" (147-158)
- OWC, Harris, et al, "Fostering Diversity in the Writing Classroom" (159-186)
- week five discussion
Week Six: Feb 15—Inclusion, participation & play in online/virtual environments
- Please note: Midterm Research Portfolio #1 due Feb. 13th by midnight
- TWWC, Blackmon, "'But I'm just white' or How 'other' pedagogies can benefit all students" (92-102) Chelsey
- OWC, Condon, "Virtual Space, Real Participation" (45-62)
- OWC, Matthews-DeNatale, "Teach Us How to Play" (63-80)
- week six discussion
Week Seven: Feb 22—digital discussions: form and function
- Olaf
- TWWC, Yancey, "The Pleasures of Digital Discussions" (105-117)
- TWWC, Blythe, "Meeting the Paradox of CMC in writing instruction" (118-127)
- week seven discussion
Week Eight: Mar 1--Gender and technology
- Black, Introduction (class handout)
- TWWC, Hawisher & Selfe, "Teaching Writing at a Distance: What's Gender Got to do with it?" (128-149)
- TWWC, Tulley and Blair, "Ewriting Spaces as Safe, Gender-Fair Havens: Aligning Political and Pedagogical Possibilities" (55-66)
- "The Efficacy of Online Self Expression" "The Efficacy of Online Self Expression"
- week eight discussion
Week Nine: Mar 8--computer mediated communication, gender, and identity
- Anne & Brigitte
- Herring, Johnson, and DiBenedetto, "'This Discussion is Going Too Far!' Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet." on electronic reserve
- Attach:Sussman.pdf & Tyson, "Sex and power: gender differences in computer-mediated interactions"
- Houle, Kimball, and McKee?, "'Boy? Girl? You Decide': Multimodal Web Composition and a Mythography of Identity" In computers and Composition, Fall 2004.
- week nine discussion
March 13-17 is Spring Break—have fun!!
Week Ten: Mar. 22--computer mediated communication, humor and hate
- Please note: I will be attending 4C's this week, so I will not attend class. Discussions will be online.
- Kate Eichorn "Re-in/citing linguistic injuries: speech acts, cyberhate, and the spatial and temporal character of networked environments."
- OWC, Cogdill, "Indiscipline: Obscenity and Vandalism in Cyberclassrooms" (81-103)
- Holcomb, "A Class of Clowns: Spontaneous Joking in Computer-Assisted Discussions" on electronic reserve.
- week ten CLASS ONLINE
Week Eleven: Mar 29——conferencing, technology, learning disabilities
- Email checkup
- Read:
- OWC, Bowen, "Composition, Collaboration, and Computer-Mediated Conferencing" (129-145)
- OWC, Watts and Taniguchi, "Writing a Narrative" (187-206)
- "Accommodating Specific Learning Disorders in the Classroom: Minor Effort, Major Benefits"
Week Twelve: April 5—visual rhetorics/literacies
- TWWC, Section 4:
- Gruber, (153-165)
- Handa, (166-181)
- Wysocki, (182-201)
- Hocks, (202-216)
- week twelve discussion
Week Thirteen: Apr 12—Assigning and Assessing Student Writing
- Peer response workshop on research essays (bring at least a partial draft and outline to class)
- Bring me your titles!
- TWWC, Section 5:
- Kitalong et al (219-233)
- Anson, (234-246)
- Moran and Herrington (247-257)
- week thirteen discussion
Week Fourteen: Apr 19
- Editing workshop (bring complete, revised draft to class)
- Course evaluations
- No discussion questions due!!
Week Fifteen: April 26-- Last day of class
- Oral/Multimedia Presentations, 7-9:30 pm, faculty invited, room TBA
- No discussion questions due!!
May 1, midnight
- Research Project due!!
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