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ENG 307: New Media Literacies and the English Classroom Course CalendarSpring 2011 N OTE: Homework is due at the beginning of or before class **on the** **day** under which it is listed. *This calendar is designed to change: you will be contributing to it.* toc


 * Week One **

=__ ** Th Jan 19 ** __= Course introduction @Notes from class discussion of what this film has to do with our purpose in this class

** Week Two **

=__ ** Tu Jan 24 ** __=
 * Have registered for ds106,making sure to select "SUNY Cortland's ENG 307" from the pulldown menu under "Profile"/"Institutional Affiliation." Some of the boxes you will have to leave blank for the time being, but you can go back and complete your profile once you have signed up for accounts.
 * Then, by class time on Tu, go to the ds106 blog for Assignment #1: Domain and Webhosting. Have finished 1) purchasing your domain, 2) purchasing hosting your site, 3) setting up your blog, and 4) narrating your process in your first blog post.
 * Also sign up for a Twitter account and get an account at Tweetdeck, following the directions @here.
 * Reply to this survey by 5pm on Monday Jan 23.
 * Become a member of the 21st Century Literacies Ning, if you're not already a member (I will send you an invitation). Complete your profile there.

**In Class:**
 * Read from Richardson, "On My Mind: Teachers as Master Learners"
 * Review problems with getting blogs hosted for ds106
 * What is Twitter?
 * What is social-bookmarking

=__ ** Th Jan 26 ** __=
 * Discuss Teachers as Master Learners . Discussion starters get points for the semester.
 * Have participated in at least one "Daily Create" this week and tweet out to #eng307 with a link to your creation (and to #ds106, of course).


 * Week Three **

=__ ** Tu Jan 31 ** __=
 * Discuss why it's so difficult for students to be master learners.
 * Make sure that you have completed all the work from the last few classes. See this @checklist to make sure.
 * Have completed viewing Gardner Campbell's video lecture on a personal cyberinfrastructure and reading the corresponding essay and have made significant headway on experimenting with your blog. See further instructions regarding these assignments here. I will expect you to be finished with this by Th's class of this week.


 * In class: **
 * Discuss Twitter and tweeting
 * Continue to work on blogs and set up apps/accounts

=__ ** Th Feb 2 ** __= >
 * Be finished experimenting with your blog (see above).
 * Make sure that you have watched Gardner Campbell's "Bag of Gold" webcast and blogged about it.
 * If you are interested, check out the face-to-face address of Gardner Campbell that UMW students were privy to. Keep your eyes peeled on Jim's blog for archives of more guest lectures for #ds106 at UMW.
 * Have participated in at least one Daily Create this week. If you did not participate in the Daily Create last week, participate two times this week. Tweet out links to your work once you've finished them (to #ds106 and #eng307).
 * If you have not yet done so, create blog posts for all of your Daily Creates. See Jim Groom's blog for an example of how to title and contextualize your posts.
 * Have set up a flickr account and uploaded a dozen or so pictures (so that your photostream will pull into the ds106 site).
 * Finish setting up your wiki page on the ENG 307 Student Wiki. You will need to a ccess this site through the invitation email I sent to your Cortland email account.
 * Be following #tdc and #ds106 on Tweetdeck; make sure that you are following everyone in #eng307; and be sure that you have tweeted out your blog url (so everyone can see you on Twitter and follow you there and see your blog (we will be setting up a feed aggregator in class).
 * Have updated your profile on ds106 (to add account info for Twitter, Flickr, etc.): Go to ds106 and from the "Community" tab in the toolbar, choose "Directory" and then do a "Search" for your name, where you will find a tab for your "Profile," where you can add this information.

** Week Four **

=__ ** Tu Feb 7 ** __= Complete these DS106 assignments: Week 3 Assignments (Web 2.0 Storytelling, readings, blogging, and playing with digital storytelling).


 * In class: **
 * Watch ds106 conversation with Bryan Alexander about web storytelling.
 * Relate to ELA learning standards

=__** Th Feb 9 **__=
 * Read and comment upon "Who is Ed Parkour?"by Bill Genereux
 * Options for commenting
 * On your blog, in which you link back to the post.
 * On our Ning in which you engage with others in the class on the topic (linking back to the post and other relevant posts, too, of course).
 * Or on Twitter, when you reply to this Tweet (find it on the ds106 Twitter stream from February 5).
 * __ **@Aggregate feeds** __Follow the directions linked above to pull in the feeds from all of your classmate's blogs.
 * **Get book**: Have picked up from the bookstore or Mando's a copy of our book (which is finally in!).
 * **Check Twitter**: Double check that you are following all of your classmates in ENG307. See directions on Google docs.
 * **__ The Daily Create __** Have completed one Daily Create (by this point, you should have finished and blogged about FOUR Daily Creates. After this point, there will be no "doubling up" during the week to make up for past DCs that you did not complete). Don't forget also to tweet out links to your creations/blog posts to #eng307 and #ds106.


 * Week Five **

=__ ** Tu Feb 14 ** __= =** In Class **= Introduce ISTE Standards
 * Plan to have 2 MORE Daily Creates by this Th Feb 16 (7 total by that time, with 3 created during the period beginning Tu 2/7 - Th 2/16). The photography focus over the next couple of weeks is going to help with visual digital storytelling. **Read the articles in part "a"** of ds106 "Assignments for Week 4" before doing these. IGNORE THE REST OF PART A.
 * On the same link (i.e., Assignments for Week 4), do all of Part B.
 * National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T)
 * National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S)
 * [|Crosswalk]of ISTE and NYS Learning Standards
 * Essential Conditions Necessary to Leverage Technology for Learning

=__ ** Th Feb 16 ** __=
 * Have completed 2 Daily Creates (see Feb 14) and have blogged about them.
 * Collaborate in fleshing out the wiki page about our preliminary musings about ways that teachers of Adolescent Literacy can fulfill the NETS-S and NETS-T (page is linked in the sidebar of the Student Wiki, too).
 * BRING: Richardson book


 * In class **
 * Discuss @blogs and blogging
 * Sign-up for blogging on Richardson book

**Week Six**

=__ ** Tu Feb 21 ** __=
 * Have completed the work for ds106 Week 5. ENG 307 modifications of this assignment: we will only do 10 stars worth of work for the assignment (not 15) and we will have it finished by Tu/the 21st (not Sun the 19th). Don't forget to "tweet your stuff" to #ds106 AND #eng307.
 * Blog facilitation: Tonya Tyrrell, "Yeah, You’ve Got Problems? So Solve them" (page 79)
 * BRING: Earbuds **

= __**Th Feb 23**__ =
 * Have updated your wiki page on the student wiki, according to this document, and include links to all assignments.
 * Have completed 2 Daily Creates and blogged about them

Blog facilitation:
 * Emerald Brookins - “Dear Kids, You Don’t Have to Go to College” (pg.99)
 * Samantha Bert page 51 “The end of Books (For me, At least)”


 * BRING:**
 * **Earbuds**
 * **Mics**
 * **Flash drives (for saving radio show projects)**

** In Class ** Work on radio shows
 * Introduction to using GarageBand to make a podcast (by Loren Leonard)
 * See GarageBand tutorials
 * Sign up for Sound Cloud(for sharing audio files) and join the ENG 307 group
 * If you will be working mainly on a PC for this project or don't have GarageBand on your mac (comes with the iLife Suite and all campus Macs have this), download Audacity (for Mac and PC, along with the plugins)
 * Also sign up for Free Sound for getting free sound effects. There are many other free music sites out there, but freeplaymusic is another one that teachers seem to favor.


 * Week Seven**

= **__Tu Feb 28__** =

Due: Comment on at least 3 DS106 posts

**In class:**
 * Discuss Creating Assignments and Creating Tutorials
 * View Jim Groom's blog post and video intro to audio
 * Work on Radio Shows or (if you're through) work on Daily Create and/or Audio assignments, comment on ds106 blogs, or comment on Richardson posts


 * BRING: **
 * **Earbuds**
 * **Mics**
 * **Flash drives (for saving radio show projects)**

Blog facilitation:
 * * Bridgette Metzinger “What I hate about Twitter” (page 45)
 * Antoinette Besemer “Willing to Be Disturbed” (pg 81) ||

=__** Th Mar 1 **__=
 * Do one Daily Create; at least 2 stars worth of audio assignments; and comment on ds106 blogs at least twice (can be turned in by Saturday at midnight)
 * View Jim Groom's blog post and video intro to audio


 * In class **
 * In troduce Professional Portfolio assignment
 * Work on Radio Shows (or, if you're through):
 * Daily Create
 * Audio assignments
 * Comments on ds106 blogs
 * Comments on Richardson posts on Ning
 * Fleshing out the Radio Show rubric


 * BRING: **
 * **Earbuds**
 * **Mics**
 * **Flash drives (for saving radio show projects)**

=**Mar 6 & 8: Spring Break!!! **=

**Week Eight**

= **__ Tu Mar 13 __** =
 * Group Radio Shows due (Tweet link out to #ds106 and #eng307)
 * Radio Show rubric due (everyone needs to have participated)
 * Individual reflective blog posts on Radio Show creation due (see Radio Show assignment)
 * Will Richardson meets with our class via Elluminate! PLEASE BRING EARBUDS.
 * Questions for Richardson? Let's make a list of our questions here.

Blog facilitation:
 * * Renee Balvin “It’s the Empowerment, Stupid” (pg 47) ||
 * * Emily Heyden “What did you create today?” page 25 ||

= __**Th Mar 15**__ = Blog facilitation: Olivia Guay, "Failing Our Kids” (pg 119)

**Week Nine**

= __**Tu Mar 20**__ = **In class:** **Bring: Earbuds so that you can participate**
 * // **ElluminateLive session with Will Richardson** //

Jenkins, H. "Afterword: Communities of Readers, Clusters of Practices" from //DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies// (Eds. M. Knobel & C. Lankhear, 2010)
 * Read:**


 * Write:**
 * Outline of Jenkins article: Accurate and comprehensive outline of Jewitt article (in outline style, with at least one accurate summary sentence for each paragraph) (hard copy to be handed in)
 * HARD COPY (i.e., printed out) Self-assessment of Radio Show: Completed rubric with score in each category + written justification of score in each category (bullet- pointed lists of evidence from your show for each category).

Blog facilitation: Michael Oliveri “So why do you only give your kids 45 minutes a day on the comp?” (pg 101)

= __**Th Mar 22**__ =

Read: Jewitt, C., "[|Jewett article on Multimodality and Multiliteracies.pdf]" (entire article)


 * Write**: Accurate and comprehensive outline of Jewitt article (in outline style, with at least one accurate summary sentence for each paragraph) (hard copy to be handed in)

Finish going over article on DIY
 * In Class:**

Introduce: @Teacher collaboration assignment

Blog facilitation: Erin Rougeux, “Don’t, Don’t, Don’t vs. Do, Do, Do” pg. 73

**Week Ten**

= **__ Tu Mar 27 __** = **Watch**: Miss Representation (from Library's Streaming Server; access directions via MyRedDragon [|here])

Presentation Ertmer, P., Teacher Pedagogical Beliefs: The Final Frontier in Our Quest for Technology Integration? (2005) (Article under "Content" on Blackboard) Presentation linked here
 * What can we do? One idea: @Teacher collaboration assignment


 * IMPORTANT NOTE (added 3/26/12): Some students have recently contacted me about problems with links on the Student Wiki page (they get an error message that looks like this when they click their link on the homepage of the Student Wiki). If you are experiencing this problem, this screencast should help you fix it. **

Blog facilitation: “What do we know about our kids futures, really? page 39 -Chelsea Backus

=**__ Th Mar 29 __**= Multimodal activity @http://urli.st/Qyr
 * In Class: **
 * ** Watch ** : Miss Representation (from Library's Streaming Server; access directions via MyRedDragon [|here])
 * Discuss Jewitt article and multimodality
 * Discuss Media literacy, NAMLE Key Questions to ask When Analyzing Media Messages and Key Questions to Ask When Producing Media
 * Analyze //Miss Representation//
 * Begin Media Literacy Assignment


 * Read:** NAMLE Key Questions to ask When Analyzing Media Messages and Key Questions to Ask When Producing Media

Blog facilitation: Ashley Keough, "Social Learning" (page 63)

**Week Eleven**

= **__ Tu Apr 3 __** =

// **Expanding your Personal Learning Network** // //Lots of short posts to read and explore//

//Personal Learning Networks// > > //Twitter//
 * Read:**
 * Personal Learning Networks Smorgasbord of Sources (explore links in order to understand what a PLN is and why they are useful to teachers and students)
 * Social Networking your Way to a New Job (read)
 * Why Tweet? (And how to do it) (read)
 * Why Tweet and How II(read)
 * The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook for Educators (read and explore)
 * Educational Chats on Twitter (**choose one to participate in before class a week from today**)
 * Another list of Twitter Chats (education and non-education)
 * How to Keep Up with #EdChat (read as an example of how to keep up with Twitter chats in general)
 * What a Tweet Can Tell You (optional: how to analyze a Tweet)
 * Ten Ways to Archive Your Tweets (**you will need to know this in order to record your participation in a Tweet Chat**)
 * 1000 eLearning Twitter Users Who Will Follow You Back (optional: browse if you're looking to build your network)

//Some social networks for educators in English and beyond (Join one? Some? Them all?)//
 * Classroom 2.0
 * English Companion
 * Digital IS (National Writing Project)
 * NCTE Connected Community
 * Global Education Collaborative

**Review**: Professional Portfolio Assignment (see March 1, above)


 * Bring: ** Assignment from host teacher for Host Teacher Collaboration.

Blog facilitation: K hrystie-Ann Clark, pg. 43 The Steep “Unlearning Curve”

=**__ Th Apr 5 __**=


 * ISTE NETS-S: Collaboration**


 * Write**: A proposal of Less than one page that describes your project for the teacher collaboration assignment.


 * Due**: Media Literarcy Assignment. Add to your self-assessment page.


 * Read**: "[|The process of online collaboration]"

Blog facilitation: A bby Hanrahan pg. 117 “The Bigger Shifts, Deal With it”

**Week Twelve**

= **__ Tu Apr 10 __** =


 * ISTE NETS-S:** **Information Fluency**

Information Fluency (Slideshow) Information Fluency (steps and related resources) Core Competencies (elaborated) Tutorials on Aspects of Information Fluency
 * Read**:


 * Write**:
 * Blog about online collaboration. Add to your self-assessment page.
 * Blog about your participation in a Twitter chat last week. Include link to archived chat. Add link to post to our self-assessment page.
 * Have participated in one Tweet chat (see April 3) and blog about the experience. Archive the former and link both to your Self-Assessment page.

Blog facilitation: Victoria Guaragno “It’s the parents’ fault. Not. (97) ||

=**__ Th Apr 12 __**=


 * ISTE NETS-S:** **Digital Citizenship (focus on Copyright and Remix)**

A Remix Manifesto (trailer) [|Protect IP Act Breaks the Internet] Stanford's Site on Copyright and Fair Use
 * In class: **

> **View**:
 * Read:**
 * Erasing your Digital Footprint
 * " Have you Checked your Facebook Apps Lately ?"
 * Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
 * Everything is Remix (about an hour's worth of video -- manage time accordingly)
 * Screencast on Creative Commons and how to attribute sources with Creative Commons Licenses here: __[]__
 * Slideshow __[]__


 * Write**: Blog about Information Fluency. Add to your self-assessment page.

Blog facilitation: Sarah Messmer, "Get off paper” page 27

**Week Thirteen**

= **__ Tu Apr 17 __** = **Write:** Blog about Digital Citizenship. Add to your self-assessment page.
 * **Submit**: Teacher Collaboration Project

Blog facilitation: Nicole Morello, "So What is the Future of Schools?" (49) ||

=**__ Th Apr 19 __**=

This will be a page in your e-folio that is linked in your navigation bar (aka Statement on 21st-Century Literacies).
 * Due:** Draft of Technology Statement for Professional Portfolio
 * For this draft, abide by principles of web design and basically respond to this question: **What does it mean to be a teacher in the 21st century?** In your concise statement, discuss the important role that technology plays in the classrooms of tomorrow. You may want to link to authoritative sources on the subject such as ISTE's NETS T and NETS S and other seminal resources that we have read together this semester (review the course calendar for these). Remember to be mindful of readers who may lack the same level of enthusiasm for and expertise in technology as you; and don't forget your role as an "ambassador" of these ideas.


 * Read**:
 * Literacy Learning in the 21st Century
 * Definition of 21st Century Literacies
 * NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment

Blog facilitation: Lindsay Kenney, "A Summer Rant: What’s up with Parents?" (105)

**Week Fourteen**

= **__ Tu Apr 24 __** = Blog facilitation: Victoria Heney, ??


 * DUE: Teacher Collaboration Project (link to finished LiveBinder due to me by noon on Monday April 24, but you can make updates till class time on Tuesday) **


 * Multimodal Assignment (Teacher Collaboration Project) share out**

= **__Th Apr 26__** =


 * Read:

Blog facilitation:
 * Greg Musselman: Why is it so hard for educators to focus on their own learning? (17) ||
 * * Stephanie Kalan: ??? ||
 * Portfolio share out**


 * Deadline for uploading Multimodal Assignment and Digital Portfolio to TaskStream**

**Week Fifteen**

=** __ Tu May 1 __ **=
 * In-Class **
 * Finish Teacher Collaboration Project Presentations
 * Portfolio Final Salon
 * Reflection


 * DUE:**
 * Teacher Collaboration Project (Due Friday April 27 by 11:59 pm)
 * Add "Title" and "Summary" to Teacher Collaboration Information Page
 * On your LiveBinders Teacher Collaboration Project "Preview" page, add Title & Grade Level in Heading and "Unit Overview" blurb as modeled in template
 * Add images to your LiveBinder, edit, and generally prepare the unit for ** sharing with a professional audience ** by omitting all grammatical and typographical errors, working on format, revising the document for a general audience (as well as your collaborating teacher), providing context (if need be), **providing helpful links,** etc.
 * If you are not going to keep your self-hosted blog, please either a) **move it to a free site** (by following these simple steps linked here) and/or b) **indicate whether you would like your e-folio, self-hosted or free blog linked on your LiveBinder page instead on** **this Google Doc.** If I do not hear from you, I will assume that you would like me to link your blog.
 * If you have not yet done so, this is your last chance to upload your materials to TaskStream (see sidebar to the right of this page for details). //Remember: grades will not be given for the course until materials are properly uploaded onto TaskStream.//