Week 1 (Sep. 7 and 9)

Due Friday, Class Time: Self Intro on Wiki

Due Friday, Class Time: Sign up for an Observation-to Analysis Group at the Wiki

Due Friday, Class Time: Read and Sign (In That Order) The Policy Sheet

Sunday@Midnight: Observation lists posted to your group's page on the wiki.

• Day 1: No Class Yet
• Day 2: Course Introduction
• Day 3: Attention and Analysis + "Fameishness"
• Due: Introduce Yourself on the Wiki + Read and Sign the Policy Sheet + Choose an "Observation" Group on the Wiki
• View: "Wikis in Plain English" (CommonCraft)
• Read: "The Multitasking Generation" (Time)
• Listen and Observe: "Fameishness" (16:34) (Steve Burns @The Moth) (This is the audio-only version.)
• View: Daniel Simons Videos
  Selective Attention Test (1:22) (By Daniel Simons/Christopher Chabris)
  The Monkey Business Illusion (1:42) (Simons and Chabris)
  The 'Door' Study (1:37) (Simons and Daniel Levin)
  Change Blindness Experiment (4:00) (Simons and Chabris) <Broken!
  "Movie Perception Test" (2:10) (Simons and Chabris)
  "Counter-Intuition" (20 minute Talk by Daniel Simons)

Week 2 (Sept. 12, 14, and 16)

Due Sunday, 11:59pm: Observ. Lists Posted to Your Group's Page on the Wiki

Due Monday, 11:59pm: Partner Feedback from In-Class Discussions

Due Wednesday, Class Time: Drafts of Your Album Reviews

Due Wednesday, 11:59pm: Partner Feedback from In-Class Discussions

Due NEXT Monday at 5:00: "Observation-to-Analysis" Essay

• Day 1: Observation to Analysis Workshop 1
• Watch: Video of "Fameishness," and add to your observation list, before posting to the wiki (so do this by Sunday night)
  
• Read "Observation-to-Analysis," Part 2, in preparation for in-class work.
  
• Due: Observ. Lists on Wiki (Sunday 11:59pm) + 4-5 Printouts for Class
  Due After Class: Feedback to Partners (by Monday, 11:59 pm)
• Day 2: Multimodality + Writer/Designer, Chapter 1
• Read: Writer/Designer, Chapters 1-2
• Read: "Shitty First Drafts" (Anne Lamott)
• Work: Get going on your Draft for Friday! But first read the Lamott, above.)
• Day 3: Draft Day!
• Due: Analysis Draft
  Due After Class: Partner Feedback by 11:59 pm
  
• Due Monday @5:00: The Analysis is Due Monday!

Week 3 (Sept. 19, 21, and 23)

Due Sunday the 22rd, Before 11:59pm: Flickr.com should be created and linked at the proper spot on the wiki.

NOTE: Due NEXT Monday, Class Time: Images Uploaded to Flickr or prepped on PowerPoint/Keynote

• Day 1: Rhetoric of Photography and Cinematography, Intro
• Read: Photo Project Assignment Sheet and Scott McCloud Handout
  Read, Quickly: Kodak's Top 10 Tips + Guidelines for Photo Composition
  Note: If the Kodak link doesn't work, here's a backup.
  View: 2 Cinematography Videos (Available in Bb, "Docs/Assignments") 
• Note: The reading for this day is not very long or complicated, but if you haven't looked at it before class, you'll be at a disadvantage.
• Due Monday (Today) @5:00: Observation-to-Analysis Essay
• Day 2: CBD (No Regular Class) + Photo Story Game (Groups; Due FRIDAY)
• Helpful Links for the Photo Stories
  - You Can Download the Assignment Sheet from Blackboard
  - This Page Illustrates "Film Grammar" Moves (Daniel Chandler)
  - Four Minute Video on Storyboarding (Indy Mogul)
  - A Site Where You Can Make and Download Storyboard Paper
  
• Day 3: Photoshop and Mise en Scene
  
• Read: "Liar, Liar Pants on Fire" (Errol Morris), NO Refrigerators, Fast Food: Ads v. Reality, "I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop." (NYT, 8.17.08), Glenn Feron's Re-Touching Portfolio (Click on the Pics)
  
• View: "In Praise of Chairs" (Tony Zhou/Every Frame a Painting)
• Due: Photo Story Game (Groups)

Week 4 (Sept. 26, 28, and 30)

Due Monday, Class Time: Photos Prepped for Class

Due Monday, 5:00: Respond to Screening Surveys (Details TBA)

DO: Watch Athens, GA, Inside Out Before Class NEXT Monday

Due NEXT Monday, Class Time: Athens, GA Screening Notes

Due Friday at 5:00: Photo Essays, Completed/Posted Online (Link Posted at Wiki)

Due Friday @5:00: Photo Projects

• Day 1: Photo Project Check In + Catch Up
• Read: Writer/Designer, Chapter 5
• Day 2: Photo Project Work (See Workshop Handout)
• Day 3: On Critical Reading, Claims and Reasons, Stasis Questions
• Due: Photo Project @5:00
  
• Read : Corbett/Eberly, Chapter 1 (pp 16-17 ONLY) and Corbett/Eberly, Chapter 2 (pp 26-37 ONLY) (@Bb)
• View: "Laws That Choke Creativity" (TED/Larry Lessig)
• Ask yourself: What "stasis" questions are at issue in the Lessig video? What reasons does Lessig offer in support of his claims? And also: How is he effectively using images, including using what we've called "anchorage" and "relay"?

Week 5 (Oct. 3, 5, and 7)

• Day 1: Athens, GA Day
• Watch: Athens, GA: Inside Out, Before Class (May be watched @Amazon for a fee, or at a TBA scheduled screening.)
  Due: Screening Notes
• Read: Film Analysis Assignment Sheet
• Day 2: Enthymemes and Binary Oppositions
• Read Offline: Corbett/Eberly Chapter 2 (pp 37-43 ONLY) (@Bb)
  Read: "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" (Prensky) (PDF)
• Day 3: Sound City Day
• Watch: Sound City, Before Class (May be watched @Amazon for a fee, free @Hulu for subscribers, or at a TBA scheduled screening.)
  Due: Screening Notes

Week 6 (Oct. 10, 12, and 14)

Due Wednesday, Class Time: "Bad Draft" of Critical Analysis

Due Wednesday, 11:59pm: Partner Feedback and Chore List

Due NEXT Monday, Before Class: 2-Track Audio Snippet, with Audacity or Garageband

Due Friday, 5:00: Critical Analysis, with Prewriting, Chore List, and "Bad Draft"

Due Sunday (10/13), Midnight: Sign Up for Conference Time at Wiki

• Day 1: Evidence Workshop
• Due: Assigned Prewriting
  Recommended: Read this on freewriting as a concept and this on how to do it.
• Day 2: Bad Draft Day
  
• Due: "Bad Draft" of Your Critical Analysis
• Not Required, but useful help thinking about revisions:
  Praxis, Chapter 6, "Revising Rhetorically" (Bb)
• Day 3: Audio Day
• Read: Slideware Project Assignment Sheet
  
• Download and Experiment With Audacity (PCs or Macs) Before Class OR (Mac Users) Open and Experiment with Garageband Before Class
  
• Bring a laptop with Audacity (PC or Macs) or Garageband (Macs) on it.
• Listen: "Making the Hippo Dance" (RadioLab, 30 min.)
• Due at 11:59pm: A Two-Track Audio Experiment, Created with Audacity (PCs or Macs) or Garageband (Macs)

Week 7 (Oct. 17, 19, and 21)

ON WEDS: No Regular Class BUT You MUST Come to Your Conference Time

ON FRI: No Regular Class BUT You MUST Meet with Your Support Group

Everyday: Advance your research a little every single day.

• Day 1: Introduction to Research, Library, MLA...
• Day 2: 1x3 Conferences **No Regular Class**
• --Sign up for a research conference time at wiki.
  --Do the assigned conference prep work (available via Bb).
  --Read this on freewriting as a concept and this on how to do it.
  --Watch "Plagiarism Explained by CommonCraft."
  
• Day 3: Support Groups Meet at Library **No Regular Class**
• Meet with your research and tech help group or duo. It may work best for you to meet at your scheduled class time. You'll need about an hour and a half to finish up.
• You have four jobs: (1) Work together to figure out how Screencast-o-matic works. (2) Explain your research subject to your partner(s), along with your ideas about how your research is going to get started. (3) Spend about an hour researching at the library, then compare notes, at the end end, about how you found your best material. (4) Email me a snapshot of your duo or group in the library together, holding up some kind of evidence of your time spent working.

Week 8 (Oct. 24, 26, and 28)

Due NEXT WEDS by 5:00: 10 Sources + Research Update 1, w/Screencast-o-matic.

• Day 1: Evaluating Sources
• Read Damned Lies and Statistics (excerpt) (Bb)
• Progress: Make some real progress on your research. Work at least 2-3 hours!
• Intro'd in Class: Formal Proposal Assignment
• Day 2: Intro to Visual Design + Formal Proposal for Research Project
• Bring: A printed copy of the most recent resume you've made, no matter how out-of-date or messy it is. I won't pick these up, but you will be working with them in class.
• Due: A formal proposal for your research project. I’m looking for good thinking here, not super-clean grammar and writing. Please see the assignment sheet (available at Blackboard) for more info, but the basics you'll need to include are these: 
• 1. Your Research Subject
  2. A statement (a sentence or two) about what seems, at this point, to be the key stasis question you’ll be addressing in your researched argument.
  3. A statement of your probable claim (at this point), stated as an enthymeme.
  4. A paragraph explaining how you expect (at this point) to defend or explain your claim. Include some specific ideas about how you’ll be appealing to the specific audience you have in mind.
  5. A few sentences noting both your best evidence and sources so far and some additional resource and information gathering you’re planning to do.

• Progress: Make some real progress on your research. Work at least  2-3 hours!

• Day 3: No Class (FALL BREAK). But keep working on your research.

Week 9 (Oct. 31; Nov. 2 and 4)

• Day 1: No Class (FALL BREAK). But keep working on your research.
• Day 2: Slideware Design, Day 1
• Read: "Organization and Preparation Tips," "Top Ten Slide Tips," and "What Is Good PowerPoint Design?" (All these links are from Garr Reynolds)
• Due: Research Update + List of Ten Promising Sources in MLA Format, with Brief Explanations. (Do your best on MLA style, based on the handbook and on my handout. See also, for help, the Purdue OWL's MLA section.) UPDATE: You may have until Thursday at noon to complete the "screencast" update. See the course wiki for instructions on this.

• Day 3: Slideware Design, Day 2
• View: An Exemplary Slide-Backed Presentation: Scott McCloud's "The Visual Magic of Comics" << The content is interesting, but pay attention especially to the style here--McCloud's use of simple images to elevate and enhance his complicated talk. That's your goal!
• Due: "Bad" drafts of at least five potential slides for your slideware project. Print a copy to turn in to me, and have your a copy of your "bad" slides, either on a screen or as a printout for yourself. Draft these a bit after you watch McCloud, or maybe pause McCloud now and then so you can work out a slide design for yourself.

Week 10 (Nov. 7, 9, and 11)

FOR WEDNESDAY: Meet with a Resume/Slide Design Support Group

Due FRIDAY at 5:00: Resumes and Corpus Accounts

• Day 1: Intro to Corpus Account Assignment / Using and Incorporating Quotes
• Note: The Composition Commons is doing a resume workshop tonight (Monday) at 7, Weyerhaeuser 111!!
• Day 2: Slide Design and Resume Conferences
• Due: Report on Support Group Meetings
• Day 3: Discussion of Moving from Slideware Project to Traditional Persuasive Paper / Preview Your Slide Presentations
• Useful Link!: MLA Style Center Online
  
• Due @5:00: Habeas Corpus Account (Print)
• Due @5:00: Resume (Print)

Week 11 (Nov. 14, 16, and 18)

Due WEDNESDAY at 5:00, on Blackboard: w/

• Day 1: Cohesion/Coherence + Intro Persuasion
• Day 2: Slideware Project w/Audio DUE! + In Class: Persuasion / Ads
• Useful Link!: MLA Style Center Online
• Day 3: Rhetorical Strategies Workshop Day

Week 12 (Nov. 21, 23, and 25)

• Day 2: Persuasive Research Bad Draft Due + Intro to Handout Assignment and Remediation
• Day 2: No Class: Thanksgiving Break
• Day 3: No Class: Thanksgiving Break

Week 13 (Nov. 28 and 30; Dec. 2)

• Day 1: TBA
• Day 2: TBA
• Day 3: PERSUASIVE ESSAY DUE

Week 14 (Dec. 5, 7, and 9)

Due Friday: Handouts (Class Time) + 4-Minute, 4-slide Presentations

• Day 1: Intro of Final Essay Assignment + "4-4" Work Day
• Bring: Have access to materials you need for building your 4-4 presentation.
• Day 2: TBA
• Day 3: Mini-Conference (Presentations!)

Week 15 (Dec. 12 + Final)

• Day 1:Mini-Conference (Presentations!)
• Finals Week
• 9:05 MWF Class Final: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 10:30-12:30 PM