DIGITAL LITERACIES COURSE CALENDAR

This calendar contains reading and project dates for both f2f material and online material.

Week One 8/27: Introduce course, blog work 8/30: Blog response to Jones and Hafner, Lankshear and Knobel 9/2: Blog response to peers due

Week Two 9/3: Defining digital literacy, introduce literacy autoethnography On the Docket: Jones and Hafner, Lankshear and Knobel, Davies and Merchant 9/6: Blog response to Selfe Part I and Did Pencils Make Us Dumber? Blog Poster: Lisa Supplementary Material Poster: Melissa and Emily 9/8: Blog response to peers due Week Three 9/10: Technology, literacy, and moral panics On the Docket: Selfe Part I and Did Pencils Make Us Dumber? 9/13: Blog response to Selfe Part II Blog Poster: Melissa Supplementary Material Poster: Ryne 9/15: Blog response to peers due Week Four 9/17: Investment in new media literacy, introduce project proposal Discussion Leader: Melissa On the Docket: Selfe Part II 9/20: Blog response to Selfe Part III Blog Poster: Matt Supplementary Material Poster: Ethan 9/22: Blog response to peers due Week Five 9/24: Looking forward10 years ago

Discussion Leader: Ryne On the Docket: Selfe Part III 9/27: Blog response to Gee and Hayes Chapters 1-6 Blog Poster: Ryne and Ben Supplementary Material Poster: Lisa 9/29: Blog response to peers due Week Six 10/1: Language and literacy Discussion Leader: Emily On the Docket: Gee and Hayes Chapters 1-6 10/4: Blog response to Gee and Hayes Chapters 7-14 Blog Poster: Heather Supplementary Material Poster: Matt and Emily 10/6: Blog response to peers due Literacy Autoethnography Due Week Seven 10/8: Literacy in the digital age Discussion Leader: Melissa On the Docket: Gee and Hayes Chapters 7-14 10/11: Blog response to Jenkins Introduction-Chapter 2 Blog Poster: Ethan Supplementary Material Poster: Lisa and Ben 10/13: Blog response to peers due Week Eight 10/15: FALL BREAK 10/18: Blog response to Jenkins Chapters 3-5 Blog Poster: Matt Supplementary Material Poster: Heather 10/20: Blog response to peers due Week Nine 10/22: Popular culture and new media Discussion Leader: Ben On the Docket: Jenkins Introduction-Chapter 5 10/25: Blog response to Jenkins Chapter 6-Afterword Blog Poster: Lisa Supplementary Material Poster: Ben 10/27: Blog response to peers due

Week Ten 10/29: Politics and new media Discussion Leader: Ethan On the Docket: Jenkins Chapter 6-Afterword 11/1: Blog response to Shirky Chapters 1-4 Blog Poster: Lisa Supplementary Material Poster: Matt 11/3: Blog response to peers due Week Eleven 11/5: Communities online Discussion Leader: Heather On the Docket: Shirky Chapters 1-4 11/8: Blog response to Shirky Chapters 5-8 Blog Poster: Ethan and Ben Supplementary Material Poster: Heather 11/10: Blog response to peers due Week Twelve 11/12: Collective action Discussion Leader: Matt On the Docket: Shirky Chapters 5-8 11/15: Blog response to Shirky Chapters 9-Epilogue Blog Poster: Heather Supplementary Material Poster: Ethan 11/17: Blog response to peers due Week Thirteen 11/19: Small world problems Discussion Leader: Lisa On the Docket: Shirky Chapters 9-Epilogue 11/22: Blog response to Blog Poster: Melissa Supplementary Material Poster: Ryne 11/24: Blog response to peers due Week Fourteen 11/26: Graduate Presentation

Week Fifteen 12/3: TBD 12/6: Blog response to Blog Poster: Emily Supplementary Material Poster: Melissa 12/8: Blog response to peers due Week Sixteen 12/10: Project Presentations 12/15: Research Projects Due Final 12/17: Project Presentations