ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
ENC3416 WEPO--Weekly Calendar: Unit 1, Weeks 1-2, Let’s Situate the Course
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Week 1 (August 25,27,29): Welcome to WEPO...So what is Rhetoric? Composition? Twitter? Monday—Before Class: 1) You signed up, good job :)
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Read: “What is Rhetoric” Covino & Jolliffe 2) QQC #1, Submit on BB 3) Create Professional Twitter Accounts, Follow classmates
In-Class: 1) Introductions 2) Syllabus 3) So what do we know?
Friday—Before Class 1) Respond to 2 QQCs
In-Class: 1) Twitter Activity 2) Discuss Viral Campaign 3) Groups
In-Class: 1) Discussion re: What is Rhetoric 2) Set Up Website Account Week 2 (September 1, 3, 5): What Makes a Rhetorical Situation? How do we know? Monday—Happy Labor Day
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Read “Rhetorical Situation” Bitzer 2) Read “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation” Vatz 3) Do QQC #2
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In-Class: 1) So, what’s a Rhetorical Situation? 2) Freewrite: Your own Rhetorical situation. What is it? Why is it rhetorical? How do you know?
Friday—Before Class: 1) Read Twitter Article 2) Tweet, Tweet...Let’s do this. 3) Respond to 2 QQCs
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In-Class: 1) Proposals Due for Campaign Focuses—Groups 2) Twitter, a rhetorical situation? Activity
***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Unit 2, Weeks 3-5, Assignment 1: Print Text Project (15% of total grade) Week 3 (September 8, 10, 12): Genre? New approaches, beyond “categorization” Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Generalizing About Genre” Devitt 2) Read “Genre Function” Bawarshi 3) Do QQC #3, address both readings
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In Class: 1) Print Text Proposals 2) Discuss Reading 3) Find Research
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Respond to 2 QQCs 2) StoryBoard Print Texts
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In-Class: 1) Select Terms 2) Why the Public is important? Social interactions, Social Media activity 3) Genre? What is Multi-genre? 4) Group Time/Drafting
Friday— Before Class: 1) Research Terms
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In-Class: 1) Putting into Practice: Key Word Activity
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Week 4 (September 15, 17, 19): Literacy, Design, Multimodality...What does it mean for our texts? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Material Literacy and Visual Design” Faigley 2) Read “Where Meaning is the issue” (from Multimodality) 3) Do QQC #4, address both readings
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In-Class: 1) Discussions of Design 2) Discussions on Meaning 3) Prep for Wednesday Activity
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Tweets re: Assignment 1? Get on that. 2) Respond to 2 QQCs 3) Find Print Text Examples
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In-Class: 1) Expectations of Space/Design Activtiy with Print Text Examples 2) Finish Discussions 3) Present “findings”
Friday—Before Class 1) Draft of Print Text
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In-Class 1) Workshop Assignment 1 2) Self Assessment 3) Watch “The Impotence of Proofreading” & “Word Crimes”
***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Week 5(September 22, 24,26 ): RE-vision, It’s not just for editing anymore...Workshop Styles! Monday—Before Class: 1) Draft Rationales 2) Read Yancey “Made Not Only in Words” and “Intro and Chapter 1” Bolter and Gruisin 3) Do QQC #5
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Final Revisions 2) How’s Twitter going? Don’t forget your tweets 3) Respond to QQCs
In-Class 1) Workshop Rationales 2) Discuss Reading 3) Introduce Assignment
In-Class: 1) Mini-Presentations (2-3 mins) 2) Assignment 1: Print Text DUE by start of class
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Friday—Before Class: 1) Revisit Assignment 2 Description 2) List Potential Texts
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In-Class 1) Finish Presentations 2) Group Time RE: Assignment 2
! ! Unit 3, Weeks 6-10, Assignment 2: Remix/Remediation Project (20% of total grade) ! Week 6 (September 29, October 1,3): New media and the digital...But, what does it mean to create a (digital) professional portfolio? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Chapter 2” & “Chapter 3” Bolter and Gruisin 2) Do QQC #6
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Yancey-Reiterate Practice 2) Respond to 2 QQCs
Friday—Before Class 1) Submit Proposal for Assignment 2
In-Class: 3) Discuss readings 4) Group Time, Assignment 2
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In-Class: 1) Eportfolio Day 2) Discuss Yancey’s article
In-Class 1) Why remediate? 2) Examples 3) Brainstorming Activity: What Can we Remediate? Is anything “offlimits?
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***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Week 7 (October 6, 8, 10): What does it mean to “remediate” technologies and texts? How does purpose/audience surface in this conversation? Monday—Before Class: 1) “Drawn Together” Wysocki 1) Read pages 1-37 of text from Scott McCloud’s Making Comics 2) Do QQC #7
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Select song 2) Access the Comic “generator” we discuss in class, create the “shell” for the remediation activity 3) Respond to 2 QQCs
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In-Class: 1) Participatory Culture, Discussion 2) Prep for Remediation Activity
In-Class: 1) Mini-Remediation: Music into Comics
Friday—Before Class 1) Story Board Assignment 2
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1) DIGITAL STUDIO DAY FOR ASSIGNMENT 2—Meet in WMS 222
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Week 8 (October 13,15, 17): What does it mean to “remix” & how does copyright & fair use affect this kind of practice? Monday—Before Class: 1) Watch Rip! A Remix Manifesto 2) Watch Everything’s a Remix 3) Do QQC #8
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Discuss Reading/Videos Begin Compare/Contract of Remix/Remediation
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Watch A Fair(y) Use Tale 2) Respond to 2 QQCs
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In-Class: 1) Remix/Remediation… Whats the difference? Mapping Activity, points of divergence? Points of convergence?
Friday—Before Class 1) Continue Drafting Assignment 2
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In-Class 1) Workshop Assignment 2 2) Self Assessment/Reflection
***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Week 9 (October 20, 22, 24): What are the implications of remediation and remix? Legal? Literacy? Knowledge? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read: “Convergence Culture, Ch. 4” Jenkins 2) Watch Lessig TED Talk 3) Do QQC #9 4) Have you forgotten about your Professional Portfolio? Do some work on it.
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Final Revisions 2) Respond to 2 QQCs
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In-Class: 1) Mini-Presentations (3-5 minutes) 2) Assignment #2: Remix/ Remediation DUE 3) Revisit Assignment 3
Friday—Before Class: 1) Check in with Group 2) Begin Planning the execution of Campaign
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In-Class 1) Group Time 2)
In-Class: 1) Twitter Check-in 2) Discuss Reading/Video
! Unit 3, Weeks 10-15, Assignment 3: Viral Marketing Campaign (20% total grade) ! Week 10 (October 27, 29, 31): BUT…Is Google Making Us Stupid? Dumbest Generation seems harsh? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Introduction (Dumbest Generation)” Bauerlein 2) Read “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr Make a game plan with your group 3) Do QQC #10
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Friday—
OUT OF CLASS WORK DAY (Molly @ IWCA in Orlando):
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**look for specific directions in BB**
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OUT OF CLASS WORK DAY (Molly @ IWCA in Orlando):
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**look for specific directions in BB**
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In-Class: 1) Workshop E Portfolio 2) Submit Platform Proposal ***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Week 11 (November 3, 5, 7): What is viral marketing? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Rhetoric of Network” Kilgore 2) QQC #11 3) Submit “Final” Viral Campaign Plan via BB
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In-Class: 1) Discussion of readings 2) Group time
Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Read “Anxiety” Turkle 2) Respond to 2 QQCs (#11) 3) Do QQC #12
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In-Class: 1) Discussion of readings/QQC based 2) Group Time 3) Group Check-in Where are you? What is your plan? Run your ideas by the class
Friday—Before class 1) Collect 2 blogs/articles/sites that explore or represent the readings from this week in some way 2) Read them 3) Respond to 2 QQCs (#12)
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In-Class 1) Share and discuss the artifacts you collected
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Week 12 (November 10, 12, 14): What are the consequences (+/-) of the democratization of media and text technologies? Monday—Before Class: 1) Read “Publish then Filter”, Shirky 2) Read “Here Comes Everybody” Shirk 3) QQC #13 4) In-Class: 1) Discussion of readings 2) Group Time
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Respond go 2 QQCs
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In-Class: NO CLASS OUT OF CLASS WORK DAY--Viral Campaign
Friday—Before Class 1) Compose 3 questions (as a group) to pose to the class RE: your campaign (for revision/ completion purposes)
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In-Class: 1) In Progress Presentations 3-5 minutes per group
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***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***
ENC3416-03
#FSUWEPO
Florida State University
Fall 2014
Molly E. Daniel
Week 13 (November 17, 19, 21): Activism? Invitations? How do we use traditional and networked space? Monday—Before Class: 1) “Visible Guerillas” Springsteen 2) QQC #14
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Wednesday—Before Class: 1) Read “Invitational Rhetoric” Foss 2) Do QQC #15 3) Respond to 2 QQCs (#14)
In-Class 1) Discussion of reading 2) Group WorkDay
In-Class: 1) Discussion of reading 2) Eportfolio Day
Friday—Before Class: 1) Select ONE component of Campaign to “workshop” full group 2) Respond to 2 QQCs (#15)
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In-Class: 1) Full class Workshop Campaign Sections 5-6 minutes per group
Week 14 (November 24, 26, 28): Gone Viral? And… Professional Representations, the Portfolio (again). Monday—
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OUT OF CLASS WORKDAY Follow Directions on BB QQC #16 AND Respond to 2
Thanksgiving Break Happy Turkey Day
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Thanksgiving Break Happy Turkey Day
Week 15 (December 1, 3, 5): And it all Comes together Monday—Before Class 1) Final Touches, plan presentations
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In-Class 1) Course Evaluations 2) Usability Tests on Eportfolio 3) GroupTime?
Wednesday—Before Class 1) Tinker with Portfolios 2) Fill out “Self Evaluations”
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In-Class 1) Presentations: Campaigns 10-15 minutes
Friday—Before class 1) Fill out Reflection/Evaluation
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In-Class: 1) Finish Presentations 2) Return Reflection/Evaliation, signed.
Week 16 (December 8, 10, 12): Whats Left? End Scene—Portfolios DUE Wednesday December 10 at 12:00 PM ***Any alterations to due dates, reading assignments, and other calendar events will be updated via Black Board and email. Students will always be informed of any pertinent changes to this calendar of events. The nature of our course may create fluidity in this schedule.***