Week 1

Wednesday (8/19)

In Class:

• Course introduction
• Website overview
• Print and sign course contract

For Next Time:

• Register account on website
• Respond to personal introductions post
• Read Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 1
• Comment on Reading Response #1

Friday (8/21)

Due Today:

• Signed course contract
• Comment on personal introductions post
• Comment on Reading Response #1

In Class:

• Discuss personal introductions post
• Discuss Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 1

For Next Time:

• Read Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 2
• Comment on Reading Response #2

Week 2

Monday (8/24)

Due Today:

• Comment on Reading Response #2

In Class:

• Discuss Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 2
• Local Mapping Project introduction

For Next Time:

• Read this Beyond Words excerpt
• Watch the trailer for the Geospatial Revolution Project
• Comment on Local Mapping Project questions

Wednesday (8/26)

Due Today:

• Comment on Local Mapping Project questions

In Class:

• Discuss Local Mapping Project questions
• Discuss Beyond Words excerpt
• Discuss the trailer for the Geospatial Revolution Project

For Next Time:

• Read "Feuds in Student Groups"
• Comment on Reading Response #3

Friday (8/28)

Due Today:

• Comment on Reading Response #3

In Class:

• Team building exercise

For Next Time:

• Listen to the "Mapping" episode of This American Life (click on the "Full Episode" link)
• Comment on Reading Response #4

Week 3

Monday (8/31)

Due Today:

• Comment on Reading Response #4

In Class:

• Begin Google Map activity (this tutorial about how to make Google Maps should help)

Wednesday (9/2)

In Class:

• Finish and discuss Google Map activity (this tutorial about how to make Google Maps should help)

For Next Time:

• Design plan draft due

Friday (9/4)

Due Today:

• Design plan draft

In Class:

• Design plan draft workshop
• Training seminar sign-up

For Next Time:

• Watch "Google Docs in Plain English"
• Watch this Google Presentation tutorial
• Read through Google Presentations help
• Read Garr Reynolds's presentation tips
• Read Guy Kawasaki's "The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint"
• Read "What is Good PowerPoint Design?" on Presentation Zen
• Look through some other posts on the Presentation Zen home page
• Watch Don McMillan's "How NOT to Use PowerPoint!"

Week 4

Monday (9/7)

Labor Day State holiday: No classes

Wednesday (9/9)

In Class:

• Local Mapping Project training seminar day
  • Adding images to Google Maps
  • Custom descriptions, placemarks, lines, and shapes in Google Maps

Friday (9/11)

In Class:

• Local Mapping Project training seminar day
  • Adding audio to Google Maps with Audacity
  • Adding YouTube or Google Video video to Google Maps

For Next Time:

• Map draft due

Week 5

Monday (9/14)

Due Today:

• Map draft due

In Class:

• Map draft workshop

For Next Time:

• Generate draft "Final Map" rubric in groups

Wednesday (9/16)

Due Today:

• Group draft "Final Map" rubric

In Class:

• Produce class "Final Map" rubric
• Online Community Advocacy Project introduction
• Complete Online Community Advocacy Project survey
• Questions posted to Online Community Advocacy Project questions

For Next Time:

• Make sure to email in your rubric vote
• Question posted to Online Community Advocacy Project questions due
• Final map presentation due

Friday (9/18)

Due Today:

• Emailed rubric vote
• Question posted to Online Community Advocacy Project questions
• Final map presentation

In Class:

• Presentation of final maps

For Next Time:

• Local Mapping Project final design plan due
• Local Mapping Project final map due
• Local Mapping Project postmortem due

Week 6

Monday (9/21)

Due Today:

• Local Mapping Project final design plan
• Local Mapping Project final map
• Local Mapping Project postmortem

In Class:

• Team building exercise

Wednesday (9/23)

In Class:

• Sign up for Critical Resource Seminars
• Discuss Online Community Advocacy Project questions

Friday (9/25)

In Class:

• Research/begin potential Individual Topic Pitches

For Next Time:

• Individual Topic Pitches due

Week 7

Monday (9/28)

Due Today:

• Individual Topic Pitches

In Class:

• Present Individual Topic Pitches

Wednesday (9/30)

In Class:

• Begin Proposal Reports

Friday (10/2)

In Class:

• Proposal Report draft workshop
• Sign up for Technology Seminars

Week 8

Monday (10/5)

No classes

Wednesday (10/7)

In Class:

• Technology Seminar
  • Google Docs
  • Twitter

Friday (10/9)

In Class:

• Technology Seminar
  • Meetup
  • blog/forum

Week 9

Monday (10/12)

In Class:

• Develop Advocacy Materials

Wednesday (10/14)

In Class:

• Critical Resource Seminar
  • Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
  • Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs

Friday (10/16)

In Class:

• Critical Resource Seminar
  • Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider
  • Bill Wasik, And Then There's This

For Next Time:

• Advocacy Materials draft due

Week 10

Monday (10/19)

Due Today:

• Advocacy Materials draft

In Class:

• Advocacy Materials workshop

For Next Time:

• Final Advocacy Presentation due

Wednesday (10/21)

Due Today:

• Final Advocacy Presentation

In Class:

• Final Advocacy Presentations

For Next Time:

• Group Advocacy Materials rubric due

Friday (10/23)

Due Today:

• Group Advocacy Materials rubric

In Class:

• Create class Advocacy Materials rubric

For Next Time:

• Final Proposal Report due
• Final Advocacy Materials due
• Final Postmortem due

Week 11

Monday (10/26)

Due Today:

• Final Proposal Report
• Final Advocacy Materials
• Final Postmortem

In Class:

• Individual Writing and Technology Project introduction
• Comment on Individual Writing and Technology Project Questions
• Discuss Individual Writing and Technology Project Questions

For Next Time:

• Project idea due

Wednesday (10/28)

Due Today:

• Project idea

In Class:

• Project idea workshop

For Next Time:

• Design Plan draft due

Friday (10/30)

Due Today:

• Design Plan draft

In Class:

• Discuss Annotated Bibliographies
• Submit tool/technique seminar topics

Week 12

Monday (11/2)

In Class:

• Finish presentation
• Finish draft design plan discussion
• Tool/technique seminar

Wednesday (11/4)

In Class:

• Tool/technique seminar

Friday (11/6)

In Class:

• Tool/technique seminar

Week 13

Monday (11/9)

In Class:

• Work day

Wednesday (11/11)

In Class:

• Work day

For Next Time:

• Design Plan draft due
• Multimedia Text draft due





Friday (11/13)

Due Today:

• Design Plan draft
• Multimedia Text draft

In Class:

• Generate individual rubrics

Week 14

Monday (11/16)

In Class:

• Final Project Presentations:
  • Justin
  • Brandy
  • Jeremy S.
  • Maggie
  • Gabriel

Wednesday (11/18)

In Class:

• Final Project Presentations:
  • Deanna
  • Ben
  • Alex
  • Lindsay
  • Sarah

Friday (11/20)

In Class:

• Final Project Presentations:
  • Temple
  • Jeremy P.
  • Valerie
  • Meghan

For Next Time:

• Final Design Plan due
• Final Annotated Bibliography due
• Final Multimedia Text due
• Final Postmortem due
• Online Community Advocacy Results Presentation due

Week 15

Monday (11/23)

Due Today:

• Final Design Plan
• Final Annotated Bibliography
• Final Multimedia Text
• Final Postmortem

In Class:

• Online Community Advocacy Results Presentation
• Schedule exit interviews
• Begin individual Multimedia Text rubrics

Next Time:

• Finished individual Multimedia Text rubric due at exit interview

Wednesday (11/25)

No classes

Friday (11/27)

No classes

Week 16

Monday (11/30)

Due Today:

• Finished individual Multimedia Text rubric

In Class:

• Exit interviews

Wednesday (12/2)

Due Today:

• Finished individual Multimedia Text rubric

In Class:

• Exit interviews

Friday (12/4)

No classes