ENG+307+Course+Syllabus

Dr. Cynthia Sarver  E-mail: sarverc@cortland.edu Office: 117D Old Main Phone: 607-773-2074 (o) Office Hours: T/Th 9:45-11:15 and 4:05-5:15 and by appt.

**State University College at Cortland** **Department of English** **ENG 307:** **New Media Literacies and ELA** **Spring 2012 //T/Th 8:30-9:45// Old Main G-17** =Course Calendar= **__Course Description__** Employment of a variety of computer applications and web-based communication tools, production and evaluation of new media, and study of pedagogical and disciplinary issues that inform new literacy practices for English language Arts (ELA) classrooms. Prerequisite: CPN 101 or 103. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)

**__The particulars__** This semester, we will be collaborating with a group of students at University Mary Washington and others from around the world in a Massively Open Online Course, or MOOC. The course is called Digital Storytelling 106 (or ds106) and our participation will afford you the opportunity to share your creative work with an authentic audience, create and “audition” digital media assignments in multiple modalities (that other students in the course will complete!), and, through your participation in this community (in which I will also be a participant), to consider in concrete ways the implications of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning in the English language arts.

As a participant in ds106, you will be required to create and host your own blog, which I am hoping will become the foundation of your own “digital footprint," something (as you will learn) that most leading educational scholars agree is a "must" for teachers in the 21st-century. This blog will become the hub for your participation in professional and creative communities that will extend beyond this course and ds106 and will be unique to you by reflecting your interests and involvements, both online and face-to-face. All of your work for the course will be integrated at the end of the semester in an e-folio that we hope will become something that you continue to use and develop throughout your career as a teaching professional.

Throughout the semester, we will also be reflecting in 307 on our experiences in and contributions to ds106 in order to collaboratively craft a framework for teaching, learning, and professional development in the English language arts in the 21st century. Several of our assignments will expand upon the creative and inherently multimodal digital storytelling work that we will be doing in ds106 to position solidly within the discourse, research and theory of English language arts pedagogy.

**__Course Objectives__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">By the end of the semester, students will:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Understand how critical media literacy can be integrated into ELA classrooms;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Understand how traditional English language arts (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) are extended though new media to include viewing and composing;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Regularly engage in listening and speaking, but especially reading and writing processes as they are extended to new media;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Critically analyze and produce new media;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Develop a command of key concepts and issues in contemporary media literacy, multimodal literacy, new media, and traditional media studies as they relate to ELA classrooms, students, and teachers;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Be familiar with various new media and Web 2.0 applications and practice introducing them to audiences lacking the same familiarity;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Develop media literacy skills that help them safely and successfully navigate their media-saturated lives;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Appreciate and experience the benefits of authentic, project-based learning;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">By doing all of the above, be able to extend their experiences to hypothetical situations in ELA classrooms;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recognize the benefits and challenges that schools, teachers, and students face in this shifting literacy and cultural landscape;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Understand how critical thinking and self-expression – skills needed by individuals in order to sustain a democracy – are key components of critical media literacy; and finally,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recognize and advocate for the potential for literacy potentially affords //all// young people.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Alignment with NCTE Standards and Cortland’s Conceptual Framework__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students majoring in Adolescence Education: English 7-12 will focus on acquiring knowledge and developing skills aligned with learning outcomes from the College's Conceptual Framework for Teacher Education and those established by the Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">In particular, candidates in this course will…. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.2.1 Use their understanding of the influence of language and visual images on thinking and composing in their own work and in their teaching; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.2.2 Use writing, speaking, and observing as major forms of inquiry, reflection, and expression in their coursework and teaching; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.2.3: Use composing processes in creating various forms of oral, visual, and written literacy of their own and engage students in these processes; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.2.4 Demonstrate, through their own learning and teaching, how writing, visual images, and speaking can effectively perform a variety of functions for varied audiences and purposes; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.2.5: Demonstrate their knowledge of language structure and conventions by creating and critiquing their own print and nonprint texts and by assisting their students in such activities; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.6.1: Understand how media can influence constructions of a text’s meaning, and how experiencing various media can enhance students' composing processes, communication, and learning; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3.6.2: Show an ability to construct meaning from media and nonprint texts, and to assist students in learning these processes; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 3 .6.3: Incorporate technology and print/nonprint media into their own work and instruction; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">NCTE 4.6: Engage students in critical analysis of different media and communications technologies; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 2. Possess in-depth knowledge of the subject area to be taught; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 3. Understand how students learn and develop; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 6. Collaborate with other staff, the community, higher education, other agencies, and cultural institutions, as well as parents and other caregivers, for the benefit of students; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 7. Continue to develop professionally as ethical and reflective practitioners who are committed to ongoing scholarly inquiry; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 8. Know state and national standards, integrate curriculum across disciplines, and balance historical and contemporary research, theory, and practice; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 10. Apply a variety of teaching strategies to develop a positive teaching-learning environment where all students are encouraged to achieve their highest potential; and <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">CCF 13. Demonstrate sufficient technology skills and the ability to integrate technology into classroom teaching/learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__A Note About My Role and Our Democratic Classroom__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Our focus in this course will be driven to some extent by your interest, concerns, and expertise regarding the subject matter (as should all constructivist learning environments). On interest and concerns first: insofar as it is possible, we will adapt course material to what you find interesting, important, and exciting. Note that on the course calendar many class meetings designate (some of ) the week’s reading and writing assignments.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That said, I do have a good deal of knowledge and experience in this field and have chosen some texts and topics that I feel are crucial to your training as future English teachers. I am willing to be flexible here, however, and if you discover material that you think is absolutely essential (or just flat out exciting!), I am more than willing to consider it and, in some cases, substitute it for material that I’ve already selected.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Finally, your expertise: although I am knowledgeable in terms of the theory regarding new media, media literacy and ELA, I am by //no means// an expert in all (or most) new media applications. Not only is this course fashioned according to the constructivist principle of “learn by doing” (meaning you’ll best learn to teach something by first being a student of it yourself), but it also follows the constructivist notion that the teacher is a co-learner alongside her students. I am excited both to learn from you about all those Web 2.0 applications that you use and about which I may be unaware and to share with you what I know, discover, and find fascinating in this ever-shifting landscape. It’s my hope that with shared enthusiasm and curiosity, we can together plunge into the unknown, emerging from the experience at the end of the semester with an enhanced knowledge of and excitement for the new media in English Language Arts classrooms -- a positive and adaptable disposition toward learning, using, and creating new media that we will carry over to our future classrooms and encounters with emerging technology.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Required Texts, Materials, and Services__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Books**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 20px;">Will Richardson, Learning on the Blog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Handouts to be distributed in class or available online (will sometimes need to be printed)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">** Supplies and Services **
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Subscription to NCTE ([|Student Membership], $25)
 * Cost entailed for registering your own domain and hosting your site ($55-135, depending upon the hosting options you select)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Flash drive of at least 16 GB (bring to class each week)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Headphones/earbuds with microphone (bring to class each week)
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">If your internet device is not already equipped with one, a webcam (you can get these for $10-15)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Daily access to the internet; e-mail; course [|Ning], blogs (here’s [|mine]), wiki, and [|Blackboard site] (all Cortland students have a free e-mail account and access to internet in various campus computing centers).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cost for printing and copying of readings/handouts and your own and others’ work (~ $20)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|TaskStream] subscription (~$25+, depending upon the length of your subscription)

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Optional (bonus!)**
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Smartphone

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Greening the 21st-century classroom:** One of the great benefits of using technology is that it allows you to go paperless. Therefore, //whenever// possible, I will publish e-versions of documents that I would normally print out and distribute in hard copy (such as this syllabus). Please plan to check your email and our blog daily for updates. You may print these if you like, and in some cases, as is noted above, I will ask you to do so.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**__Graded Class Projects and Activities__**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">From ds106 (adapted): ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Meanwhile, apart from ds106, students in ENG 307 will produce:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 1.1em;">** The Daily Create (5% of Grade)  ** Regular, creative exercises are at the heart of ds106, and to this end over the course of the semester you will be expected to complete at least one <span style="background-color: initial; color: #3366bb; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">[|Daily Create assignment] each week (unless otherwise specified) [NOTE: DS106 students will be doing three Daily Create assignments weekly, as opposed to our one -- you are of course welcome to do as many as you are inspired to do]. These assignments ask students to spend no more than 10-15 minutes experimenting with either photography, video, audio, or text based on a pre-defined assignment that will be posted each and every day. In order to get full credit for this assignment you will need complete it the day the assignment was posted as well as properly tagged to get credit. You will be expected to keep an up-to-date record of your contributions to ds106.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> Digital Storytelling Assignments (20% of Final Grade) ** Throughout the semester, we will participate in a number of digital storytelling projects using a variety of tools, techniques, and technologies. You are expected to complete all of these assignments in a timely fashion and share them on your blog. Your grade on these will reflect both your success at completing these assignments as well as a detailed commentary on your blog describing your process, as well as any difficulties you encountered. In other words, you will be expected to not only complete an assignment, but also share with everyone how you did it. What's more, if you have difficulty with an assignment we will always expect you to attempt it, but you can use your blog to share insight into what you found challenging and how you negotiated the requirements. ENG 307 students are also welcome to make connections to ELA, should you be so inspired.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Keep in mind each assignment in the ds106 assignment repository has two tags. You are required to use both tags from each assignment correctly to receive credit. It is your responsibility to double check the spelling of the tags and ensure they are correct for each and every assignment you create.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> Creating Assignments (10% ****<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> of Final Grade  ****<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> )  ** Over the course of the semester, you will create four assignments for ds106. Each assignment you create must be for a different section of the course (i.e., visual, design, audio, web storytelling, video, mashup, and fanfiction). You will need to create at least 2 by the midterm and 2 more before the class ends. The assignments should be relatively short and creative, also for you to get credit you must do the assignment you propose as well as document your own process for creating it. You will submit the assignments you create [here <span style="background-color: initial; color: #3366bb; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">[] ]. **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px;">Remember, each assignment has to be tagged correctly to receive credit---and those tags will be created immediately after you submit the assignment. Don't forget to tag your example of the assignment you submit. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> Creating Tutorials (10% of Final Grade) ** In addition to creating at least four assignments, you will be required to create at least __two tutorials__ for the assignments you submit. These tutorials can be blog posts with specific instructions or screenshots, screencasts walking an audience through the process, or some other approach to helping through digital media. [Note: ds106 students will be required to create four tutorials as opposed to our two].
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Like assignments, tutorials have tags that need to be added to the post on your blog in order for it to be associated with the proper assignment. You need to check the tutorial tag for the assignment you are writing the documentation for.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;"> Final Project (15% of Final Grade) ** A digital story of your making. During Week Seven of the class (or thereabouts), you will submit a topic for your storytelling concept project. The topic may be anything you choose. You may tell the story using any of the tools or techniques discussed in the class; the only requirement is that you share it publicly on your blog and it be something you are interested in and can sustain for 6 weeks. More details will be provided.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">A **multimodal assignment for the ELA classroom** that is based in work for ds106 and is keyed to ISTE NETS-S standards. **(10% of final grade)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> A **professional e-folio** that integrates your blog, other communities and/or applications in/with which you regularly participate, your digital work, and includes a statement about teaching English in the 21st century. Eventually you will ultimately submit this as your culminating project in ENG 378 Student Teaching Colloquia (and you will continue to add to throughout your coursework in the AEN program). You will upload this project to TaskStream. //This project will be due by the end of the semester. (**15% of final grade)**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Participation and Collaboration:** You will be expected to regularly participate in online and in-class discussions in ENG 307 (as well as ds106), and you will be responsible for facilitating one discussion during the semester on the 21stcenturyliteracies Ning. You will also be working regularly in groups and respond to your classmates' blogs and work, and will be expected to pull your weight there. **(15% of final grade)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**TaskStream Assignments**: You will upload some of your work for this class into two TaskStream Assignments – (1) The **Critical Media and Visual Literacy Project and (2)** A compilation of various of the above assignments in your New Media Portfolio (see above). Details will be provided. **//Uploading assignments to TaskStream is m////andatory for getting a grade in the class.//**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Course Expectations__**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That you arrive to class on time and prepared.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That you bring all relevant texts to class on the day reading is assigned from them (having read them, of course!).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That you have assignments ready to be submitted at the beginning of the class on the due date or submitted online before class. Assignments turned in any later will have points deducted for lateness.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That you take the initiative to meet with me regularly to discuss your projects at various stages.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That you are an **//active and positive agent//** in your own and others’ leaning experiences.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Attendance__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">You are allowed one unexcused absences from class. All others require a doctor’s note or other official documentation and will be excused at my discretion. **//Each unexcused absence beyond the allowance will cost you one letter grade in the final evaluation.//** If you //must// miss a class session or be late, **//it is your responsibility to get the notes/handouts/assignments from one of your classmates//** //and to be up to speed by the time you return to class.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Late work__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date. Anything later will have points deducted at the rate of 1/3 of a grade per day (including weekends). If you know you will be absent or late, submit a place-holding e-copy on time (as an email attachment) and bring an //identical// hard copy (when applicable) to class upon your return to class. When hard copies are required, no hard copy = no grade.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">__Diversity__
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">I am committed to “creat[ing] and sustain[ing] an inclusive and supportive learning environment in which all students can engage in learning” (NCATE/NCTE Standards). Therefore, respect for individual differences – be they of ethnicity, race, class, gender, religion, ability, or opinion -- will be crucial to your success in this class. The high level of critical engagement that comes from considering points of view different from your own benefits both the quality of your own thinking and the richness of our collective inquiry.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with the Office of Student Disability Services (OSDS). A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from OSDS. Please be sure the letter is delivered to me as early in the semester as possible. OSDS is located in Van Hoesen Hall, Room B-1 and is open 8:00 am-4:30 pm, M-F. Their phone number is (607) 753-2066.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">__Office of Student Disability Services__ **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty__** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Plagiarism, a form of academic dishonesty, involves incorporating the words or thoughts of another into one’s original writing without proper documentation. Common examples include submitting a paper by another student; failing to document paraphrased, summarized or directly quoted material; or subtly altering the diction and content of a source author without documentation. The consequences for any plagiarism or academic dishonesty will be a “0” grade for the assignment and an “F” for the course. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me or consult the //College Handbook// for full details of SUNY Cortland’s policy on academic dishonesty.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**AS A COURTESY TO OTHERS, PLEASE SWITCH CELLPHONES AND PAGERS TO VIBRATE; and** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**NO TEXTING OR CHATTING DURING CLASS (UNLESS REQUIRED!)**