Please check back to the schedule often as due dates and assignments will likely change.
If you miss class, check here first before enquiring, "what did I miss, and what's due?"
Last Revised 11 Sept 02
Week 1
August 26
Syllabus/ email/ timed writing
Week 2
September 2 -- Labor Day holiday
Week 3 (Education: the Idea of a University)
September 9
MOOmail/ Interviews /
Week 4 (Education)
September 16
Discuss hooks / Rose(POO)
Introductions due on MOO list
Week 5 (Education)
September 23
Discuss Spayde and student choice article(POO)
Review rubric and self evaluation form Assign first paper
Whole text choice from Whole text booklist
Week 6 (Education)
September 30
Development Workshop /Rough draft Due (#1)
ROT pp 61-71
Discuss Branham "Students' Guide to the WWW"
Assign 1st Annotated Bibliography
Week 7 (Writing Goes Digital)
October 7
Editing Workshop: Paper #1
ROT pp 72-87 and MLA format
Discuss Turkle (POO)
Week 8 (Techno Rhetoric)
October 14
Education paper due in folder with all drafts and self evaluation
Discuss Oppenheimer (POO)
How to make a web page
Week 9 (Techno Rhetoric)
October 21
Short Write on technology
Annotated Bibliography due: text file on a floppy disk
Discuss Samuelson(POO)
Week 10 (Techno-Rhetoric)
October 28
In Class Timed Writing (writing about fiction)
Web pages
Week 11 (Researching and Writing the Web)
November 4
The Matrix (part I)
change in paper assignment
Week 12 (Science: O Brave New World)
November 11
The Matrix (part II)
in-class writing
Discuss Shelley's "Frankenstein"(POO)
Week 13 (Science)
November 18
Workshop paper #2
Discuss Bishop's "Enemies of Promise." (POO)
In-class writing
Week 14 (Science)
November 25
Disuss Martin (POO) and student choice article (from popular press)
Assign paper 3
Paper #2 due with self evaluation sheet
Week 15 (Science)
December 2
Workshop Webfolios
Workshop DRAFT paper 3
Final 5:30 - 7:30
Dec 9
Timed Writing
Class Evaluations
paper #3 due
Web Folios Due by midnight -- no exceptions without prior agreement