WEEK ONE
WEEK TWO
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FRIDAY 12 September Social Action Project Preview
Noteworthy: I have a link to your WebLog so there is no need to send me an email! (But if you did, thanks).
Readings:
Resource: Social Action Project
Discussion Three
Assignment Due: WebLog2
WEEK THREE
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MONDAY 15 September Social Justice
Reading: Le Guin, U. (1975) "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." In: The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories. New York : Harper & Row.
Discussion Four
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WEDNESDAY 17 September Gender Studies and the Internet (Digital Diversity)
Please bring your Phone with you to class based on your reading from .....
Reading (PodCast): Smartphone Apps Help To Battle Campus Sexual Assaults
by Juana Summers, August 13, 2014.
Discussion Five
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FRIDAY 19 September On Democracy
Resource:
- Toondoo: Create your own 1, 2, or 3 panel cartoons using a library of cartoons, text bubbles. Images can be uploaded and manipulated with simple tools. Created "doos" can be combined into "ToonBooks", embedded in blogs, etc. A lot of versatility.
- Pixton: Create simple or complex comics using characters, scenes, objects. All objects are highly editable, and characters can be moved into almost any pose. A future feature will allow animations to be created.
- Awesome Web 2.0 Tools
- CogDogRoo50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story
Discussion six
WEEK FOUR
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MONDAY 22 September On Democracy
Viewing: The Newsroom, episode I: "We Just Decided To."* | Class meets with Dr. Palmer's Class.
Class Meets In Dolan 201-202
*"We Just Decided To" is the first episode of the first season of the American television seriesThe Newsroom. It first aired on June 24, 2012 in the United States on HBO. "We Just Decided To" was written by creator Aaron Sorkin and directed by Greg Mottola.
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WEDNESDAY 24 September On Democracy
Viewing: In the following video lesson, Paul Saltzman, an assistant editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, discusses sourcing in news reports and offers helpful guidance for evaluating a report's credibility.
WEEK FIVE Electronic Waste
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MONDAY 29 September Electronic Waste
Lecture: Dr. Shutkin | eWaste, or the Mysterious Relationship of Humanity to Garbage |
MONDAY 29 September: Class Meets in Dolan 202-203
Assignment Due: Comic Strip (WL4)
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WEDNESDAY 1 October Electronic Waste
Announce: Let's look ahead at the calendar for scary monsters.
Reading: "Petopia" by Benjamin Crowell. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2010.
Discussion:
Discussion Three
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FRIDAY 3 October Electronic Waste
Noteworthy:
Please Choose to prepare either the essay by Grossman and/or the PBS Frontline video on Ghana
Reading: Grossman, E. (2006) High Tech Trash: Digial Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. Chapter One: The Underside of High Tech. Washington : Island Press.
Alternative viewing: Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
Discussion Four
Viewing: Greenpeace Spoof Apple Advertisement
In class discussion activity: What's in your computer?
Form seven (7) teams and research one of the seven common compounds or elements (will be assigned in class) mentioned in the Greenpeace spoof ad and answer the questions below. Prepare to present your findings before the end of the class period:
1. Where and how is it mined?
2. What is the environmental impact of the mining? Is it regulated? If so, by whom?
3. What are the human health concerns when used to manufacture consumer electronics?
4. What documented health impacts are associated with its demanufacturing?
5. What purpose does this compound serve in digital electronics?
Resource: Basel Action Network
Assignment Due: WebLog5
WEEK SIX
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MONDAY 6 October Electronic Waste
Reading: 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame? | By Joel Johnson | February 28, 2011 | Wired March 2011
Discussion:
Viewing: Design for the Dump: The Story of Electronics
Video Game: Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone's journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence.
(If you have a Droid phone, you can download the app right now)!
(Please play this video game over the weekend and prepare to discuss the experience in class today).
Discussion Five
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WEDNESDAY 8 October Electronic Waste
Discussion: Social Action Project
Reading: Byster, L. and Smith, T. (2006) "From Grassroots to Global: The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Milestones in Building a Movement for Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in the High-tech Industry." In: Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Resources (From the SAP assignment page) Project Form
Your project can vary tremendously in form depending on your interests and where and with whom you want to engage. Some possibilities (suggestive not exhaustive) are not limited to:
- Creating a Teach-in,
- Producing guerrilla art,
- Culture jamming,
- Staging street theater, or readers theater,
- Choreograph a Flash Mob,
- Engaging in civil disobedience,
- Bringing a speaker to campus,
- Starting a new student organization,
- Organizing a public debate,
- Producing a documentary film,
- Canvassing the community door to door,
- Organizing a field trip,
- Organizing a peaceful demonstration,
- Attending and documenting a political rally.
Discussion Six
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FRIDAY 10 October Electronic Waste
Discussion: Social Action Project
Reading: Hamilton, C. (2010). Consumerism, self-creation and prospects for a new ecological consciousness.Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(6), 571-575.
Discussion One
Assignment Due: SAP Introduction (this will count for weblog6)
WEEK SEVEN
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MONDAY 13 October Digital Diversity
Readings:
Discussion:
Noteworthy: Social Action Project
Discussion Two
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WEDNESDAY 15 October Social Action Project
Discussion: Social Action Project (Speed SAPs)
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FRIDAY 17 October NO CLASS FALL BREAK
Assignment Due: WebLog7
WEEK EIGHT Digital Storytelling & Digital Diversity
WEEK NINE
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WEDNESDAY 29 October Digital Diversity
Discussion and Workshop
WEEK TEN Digital Diversity
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MONDAY 3 November Digital Diversity
Discussion and Workshop: Sharing SAP Problem Statements
Assignment Due: WebLog9 / SAP Problem Statement and Literature Review
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WEDNESDAY 5 November Digital Diversity Class Meets in Dolan 202-203
NoteWorthy:
- SAP Assessment
- Codes of Gender In class collaborative project
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FRIDAY 7 November Digital Diversity
Workshop: The Codes of Gender
Assignments Due:
WEEK ELEVEN Digital Diversity
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MONDAY 10 November Digital Diversity
Workshop: The Codes of Gender
Assignments Due: DS proposal
See below for date changes!
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WEDNESDAY 12 November Digital Diversity
Workshop: The Codes of Gender
Assignment Due: WebLog11 : The Codes of Gender (Final Blog Post, double blog credit).
Class Meets in Dolan 202-203
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FRIDAY 14 November Digital Diversity
Discussion: Digital Story Final Projects
Workshop: Social Action Project
Noteworthy:
1. SAP Individual contributions
2. DS Annotated bibliography
3. DS Multimedia workshops
4. Surveillance
WEEK TWELVE
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MONDAY 17 November
Discussion:
1.Come prepared to discuss your Digital Story annotations
2. The Codes of Gender
Workshop: A few more Apps and making a storyboard
1. Storify
2. Cool Tools for Schools
3. PowToon
4. Photo Peach
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WEDNESDAY 19 November
Announce:
- Surveillance debate -- more to follow
- Surveillance game -- Next Monday
- DS StoryBoard -- 2 December
Discussion Six
Reading:
Viewing:
Discussion:
- Making a StoryBoard
- A Guide to your MetaData
- Surveillance Dragnet, Just the facts:
- Players / Organizations,
- Terms/Issues/Policies,
- Dates, and
- Actions
StoryBoard Screen Shot
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FRIDAY 21 November
Assignments Due: DS proposal
Readings:
- Multimedia Storytelling (Includes discussion of storyboarding).
- Maass, P. The New York Times Magazine. How Laura Poitrias Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
WEEK THIRTEEN
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MONDAY 24 November
Reading: Please explore the question of surveillance, should I be concerned? or Conversely, Edward Snowden: Traitor or Patriot?
Presentations: Groups Present Highlights, Experiences, Learnings about Social Activism Projects (SAPs). Include some visuals, especially documentation of your group work. (Not to exceed 10 minutes).
Assessments: SAP individual contributions.
Assignment Due: SAP
Assignment Due: Post a significant article (not from the Guardian) with a full reference to your blog based on your Snowden research.
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TUESDAY 25 November | Friday Classes Meet
Presentations: Groups Present Highlights, Experiences, Learnings about Social Activism Projects (SAPs). Include some visuals, especially documentation of your group work. (Not to exceed 10 minutes).
Assessments: SAP individual contributions.
Assignment Due: SAP
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WEDNESDAY 26 November Thanksgiving No Class
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FRIDAY 28 November Thanksgiving No Class
WEEK FOURTEEN
WEEK FIFTEEN Digital Story Final Production (Required Conference with Dr. Shutkin)
Assignment Due: Bring your DS StoryBoard to the conference
Sign-up here.
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MONDAY 8 December
conferences
12:00
12:20
12:40
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WEDNESDAY 10 December
conferences
12:00
12:20
12:40
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FRIDAY 12 December
conferences
12:00
12:20
12:40
WEEK SIXTEEN
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MONDAY 15 December
No Class
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WEDNESDAY 17 December Final Exam, Class meets 1-2:50PM
Digital Story Gallery
Assignment Due: Digital Story
Final Exam Period 1:00-2:50
Citizenfour Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Edward Snowden Documentary HD
Citizenfour Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Edward Snowden Documentary HD
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