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Assignment Run Down for Weeks 1 & 2

Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 10.05.08 PMDomain/Web Hosting and Blog Setup

Ok, so here is what you should have done already:

 

After you have your blog setup, add the URL to your site in the “Add link” section of the sidebar.

Brainstorming & Research Assignment

The brainstorming session in Thursday’s class was excellent. You took the topics in some directions we did not expect, so we’re impressed already.

Here are the topic assignments and at the very end of this post are the images of all the brainstorming we did on the whiteboards (thanks to Emily for the images):

  • Dalina – how it works, social/economic/cultural impactsclass_board_1
  • Kaitlin – how it works, how it has evolved
  • Gabby – how it has evolved, creation/consumption
  • Sean – how it has evolved, intellectual property/fair use
  • Peter – how it has evolved, privacy/openness
  • Thomas – where it’s going, digital identity
  • Matthew – where it’s going, how it works
  • Bridget – creation/consumption, how it has evolved
  • Thomas – creation/consumption, where it’s going
  • Justin – creation/consumption, intellectual property/fair use
  • Sheldon – intellectual property/fair use, creation/consumptionTIC104 White Board Brainstorming
  • Josiah – intellectual property/fair use, digital identity
  • Campbell – privacy/openness, social/economic/cultural impacts
  • Max – privacy/openness, how it works
  • Emily – privacy/openness, how it has evolved
  • Erin – digital identity, where it’s going
  • Douglas – digital identity, creation/consumption
  • Desiree – digital identity, intellectual property/fair use
  • Christopher – social/economic/cultural impacts, privacy/openness
  • Meredith – social/economic/cultural impacts, digital identity
  • Hannah – social/economic/cultural impacts, how it works

You will be responsible for finding and summarizing 3 readings on each topic, 6 readings in all. Apply the lessons of the CRAAP test when selecting your readings. Readings that you find through the library are more likely to be good to go. Readings that you find through Google generally need a closer evaluation. Anything that doesn’t list the author will probably be rejected.

Peter Catlin from the Simpson Library put together a research guide for this course in the Spring and he may update it based on your brainstorming. This will be a very helpful tool for you.

Enter the readings you select in the form on the course site. They will populate the spreadsheet also on that page. You should be able to see if the reading has already been taken. We will mark the readings green (good), yellow (okay), or red (rejected). You will want at least half of your readings to be green.

There is further information on summarizing and tagging the readings that you should adhere to for specific guidelines. Your readings need to be entered into the form and each of them needs to be summarized in an individual post (6 posts in all) no later than 9/4 to get full credit.  Any questions, let us know.

Additionally, you should be reading and blogging about the first four chapters of Where the Wizards Stay Up Late for next week.

For Thursday, 8/28

For tomorrow, Thursday 8/28, you need to have your domain and web hosting setup, and an instance of WordPress installed. Here are a series of tutorials that will help you explore your own domain that: http://docs.umwdomains.com. Let us know if you have any questions or issues with that.

Also, in preparation for our brainstorming session tomorrow, please watch this five minute video on CRAAP:

Finally, for next Tuesday, September 2nd, read through chapter 4 (up to page 137) of Where the Wizards Stay Up Late—there were 12 copies left in the bookstore this morning.

Day 3: Research, Summaries, and WordPress

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Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Washington, 1980. (Photo: Unknown)

Hope the research is going well, let us know if you ‘re running into issues.  Here is a quick breakdown of what to expect in class tomorrow:

Be sure to bring a computer tomorrow, or let us know via email if we should bring one for you.

Day 2: Assignments, Tutorials and Slight Change of Plans


It was great meeting all of you today. and looking forward to day two. As a heads up, we will actually be meeting in duPont 215 tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th, at 10:15 AM, not Simpson library. The library classroom is undergoing some work, so it would be best to start in duPont 215. As a follow-up to today’s class, you will all be expected to watch the CRAAP video, read chapters 1 and 2 of Where the Wizards Stay Up Late, and setup your domain and install WordPress in a subdomain titled internet. Below are some useful links:

Additionally, below are tutorials for navigating cPanel, creating a subdomain, and installing WordPress through Installatron:

Have fun, and let us know if you have any question or issues.

Week 11: Social, Economic, and Cultural Impacts

This week our student panel will be discussing the social, economic, and cultural Impacts of the internet—a broad swath of potential topics. To focus the discussion, the summarized readings provided by this week’s panelists can be found here: http://theinternetcourse.net/category/impacts/

Also, for this week’s discussion, I want everyone to blog about at least one social, economic, or cultural impact of the internet and how it has directly effected your life by before class tomorrow, Tuesday march 25th. Be specific, tell a story. Don’t write a technology down and be done, narrate specifically how the one particular emmanation of the internet you chose has effected you. Tag this post “impact” (no quotes).

Panelists:
Jack E
James
Melissa
Will

And here is the Google document containing the panelists specific sub-topics, talking points, resources, links, and discussions questions. It is empty yet, but I’m sure this panel will rectify that shortly, or reap what they sow!!!

See you all on tomorrow!

Week 10: Digital Identity


This week our student panel will be discussing digital identity as it pertains to the internet. Summarized readings provided by this week’s panelists can be found here: http://theinternetcourse.net/category/digital-identity/

Also, read this interview with author, researcher, and digital identity theorist dana boyd in which she discusses teens, identity, and the future of digital communication.

Panelists:
Elizabeth
Amber
Kim
Eun Jung
Melissa

And here is the google document containing the panelists specific sub-topics, talking points, resources, links, and discussions questions.

See you all on tomorrow!

Week 8: Privacy and Openness

Welcome back from Spring Break! Hope it was enjoyable. This week our student panel will be discussing privacy and openness as it pertains to the internet. Summarized readings provided by this week’s panelists can be found here: http://theinternetcourse.net/category/privacyopenness/

Panelists:
Alison
Lauren
John
Eun Jun
Isaac
Maddie

 

And here is the google document containing the panelists specific sub-topics, talking points, resources, links, and discussions questions.

See you all on tomorrow!

Week 7: Intellectual Property and Fair Use

3ae45761This week our student panel will be discussing intellectual property and fair use as it pertains to the internet. Summarized readings provided by this week’s panelists can be found here: http://theinternetcourse.net/category/ip-fair-use/

In preparation for the dicussions we would like the entire class to watch [[Lawrence Lessig]]’s TED talk “Laws that choke creativity.” The talk should make a nice bridge from last week’s discussion of consumption and creativity on the web. Once you;ve watched the video we’d like you to so a blog a reflection on the ideas he discusses. Tag the blog post “ipfairuse” (no quotes).

Also, it might also be useful to take a look at the actual copyright rules:

Additionally, the video Everything Is a Remix is both highly entertaining and instructive about the implications of copyright on creativity.

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Panelists:
Alexa
Kimberly
Sierra
Jack
Amber
Samantha

And here is the google document containing the panelists specific sub-topics, talking points, resources, links, and discussions questions.

See you all on Tuesday!

Week 6: Creation, Consumption and the Internet

Welcome to Week 6 of the Internet Course wherein we’ll discuss a variety of themes around the topic of Creation/Consumption and the Internet. Paul Bond has gotten us started with a great primer post on the topic, and you can find the summaries with links to the articles for the week here.

In preparation for tomorrow’s panel Paul and I would like to have the entire class watch two videos. The first is Jon Udell‘s “Heavy Metal Umlaut” which provides a fascinating case study in 2005 of how knowledge is collectively created on Wikipedia. [Click here to watch video.] Additionally, we want you to watch Michael Wesch’s video “The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)” to consider the implications of digital media and the web on our culture more broadly.

We would like the entire class to write a quick reponse to these videos keeping the topic of creation/consumption in mind. What does the web do to our cultural ideas of creation and consumption? How do these videos frame that shift? This is due before class tomorrow. Use the tag “creation/consumption” (no quotes).

Finally, linked are this week’s Google Doc that the panelists have prepared. Unfortunately, as of now this panel’s work on the Google Doc is meager at best. That said,  we hope that this will be recitified shortly as they fill-in topics, talking points, discussion questions, links to resources, etc.