Crump, Eric and
Carbone, Nick. Writing Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Online Site http://www.hmco.com/hmco/college/english/englishonline/EnglishOnline.html
Please choose one of the books from the Whole text booklist
Education: the Idea of a University
From POO:
- hooks, bell. "Keeping Close to Home: Class
and Education."
- Rose, Mike. "Lives on the Boundary."
- Spayde, Jon. "Learning in the Key of
Life."
- Student Choice
Techno-Rhetoric: Writing Goes Digital
Readings from POO:
- Samuelson, Pamela. "The Digital Rights War."
- Oppenheimer, Todd. "The Computer Delusion."
- Turkle, Sherry. "Who Am We?"
The following are webbed articles that may be of interest. While you are not responsible for writing a summary and response on the readings below, they may prove helpful in understanding how and why teachers use internet technologies for teaching. They pose some problems and solutions to online pedagogies.
- Crump, Eric, Michael Day and Rebecca Rickley. Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide Area Multiple-User Synchronous Discussions Online. (1996) http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/cnsc21/index.html (Last visited Jan 29,00).
- Day, Michael. Fear and Loathing in Paradise: Making use of Dissensus, Disorientation, and
Discouragement on the MOO (16 March 1996)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/coverweb/dis.html (9 Oct 00).
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Crump, Eric and Rebecca Rickly. It's Fun to Have Fun But You Have to Know How! or, How Cavorting on the Net Will Save the Academy *. in Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine Volume 2, Number 1 January 1, 1995. http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1995/jan/rickly_crump.html (Last visited Jan 29, 00).
Science: O Brave New World
From POO:
- Shelley, Mary."Frankenstein."
- Bishop, J. Michael. "Enemies of Promise."
- Martin, Emily. "The Body at War: Media Virus of the Immune System."
- Student Choice
Others readings will be assigned in class.
Last revised 21 Sept 01