UPDATED SCHEDULE (Google Doc)
Week 1 – Jan 14-18
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 2 – Jan 21-25
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 3 – Jan 28-Feb 1
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 4 – Feb 4-8
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 5 Feb 11-15
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 6 Feb 18-22
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 7 Feb 25-March 1
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 8 – March 4-8
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 9 – March 11-15
No classes held – Spring Break
Week 10 – March 18-22
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 11 – March 25-29
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 12 – April 1-5
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 13 April 8-12
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 14 April 15-19
Monday
Wednesday
Week 15 April 22-26
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Week 16 April 29-May 3
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Finals Week
Week 1 – Jan 14-18
Monday
- Introduction to the class, to the syllabus, and to each other
- HW: Watch Everything’s A Remix, Set up Twitter accounts
Wednesday
- Introduce Inquiry 1
- Live Blogging Expectations
- Group work: Assumptions About Remix activity
- HW: Assumptions blog
Friday
- Finding Your “Issue”
- Entertainment, Critical Critique, or Both? A Discussion About Remix
- HW: Write Inquiry 1 Proposal; Read Lessig Excerpt; Read Jenkins Excerpt
Week 2 – Jan 21-25
Monday
- MLK Day – no class held
Wednesday
- Terms, terms, and terms: how to close read a remixed text
- In-class practice (close reading)
- HW: Zero draft of Close Reading; Read DJ Spooky
Friday
- Watch Remix Example (TBD)
- More in-class practice
- Peer response expectations
- HW: Rough Draft of Inquiry 1 due
Week 3 – Jan 28-Feb 1
Monday
- Peer response
- HW due: Watch Allergy to Originality (web)
Wednesday
- Originality discussion
- “Original Sentence” Activity
- HW: Write blog, Can we be original?
Friday
- Introduce Writer’s Letter expectations
- Workshop close readings
- HW: Inquiry 1 Final Draft and Writer’s Letter
Week 4 – Feb 4-8
Monday
- Introduce Inquiry 2
- Intertextuality presentation and discussion
- HW: Start Douglass’s Fourth of July (pages TBA); Read Barthes (pdf); Intertextuality Blog
Wednesday
- Remix as Rhetorical Strategy?
- Discuss Barthes/Authorship
- Discuss Douglass
- HW: Finish Douglass’s Fourth of July (pages TBA)
Friday
- Remix as Cultural Critique?
- Discuss Douglass
- Redefining remix discussion
- HW: Complicating Remix Blog
Week 5 Feb 11-15
Monday
- Invention activity: who to research?
- In-class writing – preliminary proposal
- HW: Proposal Blog, Read Anzaldua, Borderlands/ La Frontera (pages TBA)
Wednesday
- Mestiza Consciousness Discussion
- Critiquing Culture
- HW due: Read Anzaldua (pages TBA)
Friday
- Remix as Cultural Critique?
- Remix as Acquisition of Power? (Anzaldua)
- HW: set up research blog – send link to Dustin’s email
Week 6 Feb 18-22
Monday
- Integrating secondary research
- In-class research time (with short oral report)
- HW: Publish 1st entry for research blog
Wednesday
- No class held – individual conferences
Friday
- No class held – individual conferences
Week 7 Feb 25-March 1
Monday
- Peer response
Wednesday
- Revision activities
- HW: paragraph revision blog (don’t forget about research blogs!)
Friday
- Workshopping the drafts
- HW: Inquiry 2 Final Draft due
Week 8 – March 4-8
Monday
- Introduce Inquiry 3
- Building affinity groups activity: how are you conceptualizing of remix?
Wednesday
- Invention work and activity
- HW: Proposal Blog
Friday
- Video editing demo (Wevideo/iMovie)
Week 9 – March 11-15
No classes held – Spring Break
Week 10 – March 18-22
Monday
- Video remix demo (Savevid)
- HW: read Jenkins pdf
Wednesday
- Lecture/Discussion: Making sense of remix practices (reappropriation, compilation, redistribution, modeling, etc.)
- Introduce Participatory Culture and Rhetorical Velocity (group activity based on different communities: FanFic, YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr)
- HW: Blog (what remix strategies do you plan to use? Why? Find a model online.); Read “Greifer Madness”; “Project Chanology” Wikipedia page; other activism TBA)
Friday
- Participatory Culture (cont.)
- Remix as Activism? (Culture Jamming, Memes; Political Video Remix)
- HW: Reading (TBA)
Week 11 – March 25-29
Monday
- Discussion: Plagiarism, fair use, and the law; introduce creative commons; strategies for responsible remixing
- HW: Questions about Plagiarism Blog; Reading (TBA)
Wednesday
- Plagiarism/Intellectual Property Discussion (cont.)
- HW: Rough Draft
Friday
- Peer workshop: meet with your group
- HW: Blog (what do you need to work on?)
Week 12 – April 1-5
Monday
- In-class workshop
Wednesday
- Grading Expectations discussion/collaborative rubric
- Written Reflection Expectations
- HW: Inquiry 3 Final due
Friday
- In-class presentations
Week 13 April 8-12
Monday
- In-class presentations
Wednesday
- In-class presentations
Friday
- Introduce Inquiry 4
- In-class writing -- reflection
- HW: Read Giles (PDF)
Week 14 April 15-19
Monday
- Choosing a definition discussion (strengths and weaknesses)
- In-class writing
- HW: Definition Blog
Wednesday
- Portfolio options discussion
- Reflection activity
- HW: Proposal Blog
Week 15 April 22-26
Monday
- Website builder demo (Weebly)
Wednesday
- Workshop
- Grading expectations
- HW: Rough Draft Due
Friday
- Peer response
Week 16 April 29-May 3
Monday
- Workshop
Wednesday
- TBA
Friday
- Course Wrap Up
- Course Evals
- HW: Inquiry 4 Final Due May 8 by midnight
Finals Week
- No class held – final portfolios due Wednesday, May 8 (by midnight)