Course Calendar

In class: Introductions, key concepts, & course goals

Theories of Technology

• Instrumental
• Substantive
• Critical (Feenberg)
• Cyborg (Haraway)

Pedagogy & Teaching Statement workshop

Due: Pedagogy & Teaching Statement draft
Background: Assignment Design

Note: Duke University’s English Composition I MOOC

No in-person class meeting; hybrid activities
Due: Duke MOOC reflection on D2L discussion forum — due Sunday, 4/9 — informal is fine, with the goal of these posts being generative for our Week 3 class discussions

Reading: Warnock, “Introduction” — prepare to discuss in class week 3: questions, concerns, generative ideas

In class: Preliminary Writing Assignments & discuss Duke MOOC
Due: Duke MOOC reflection — due Monday, 4/17

Reading: Warnock, chapters 3-4
Preview: Innovative Writing Tool Research, Inquiry & Assessment 

Analyze:

Northern Virginia Community College:

Aurora University:

No in-person class meeting; hybrid activities via D2L discussion forums TBA

Reading: Warnock, chapters 7-9
Due:

Post your Warnock reading response — what’s new and interesting here? what’s not? what’s potentially generative in your case (future planning, teaching, administering) — by Monday 4/17

Post your Innovative Writing Tool Research, Inquiry & Assessment (post to D2L by 4/25)

Post your revised Teaching Statement by 4/23 and respond to one classmates with both encouragement and constructive criticism by 4/25

In class: workshopping Project Proposals
Reading: Warnock, 12-13
Due: Proposal drafts

 Week 6
Course Project Workshop online

No in-person class meeting:

Due: Formal Project Proposal with context from Warnock, or your pedagogy statement, or NCTE/OWI — email your proposal to Michael, due May 2 

Upcoming: initial assignment (pilot) — presented informally in class week 7

• Assignment Design (conventions)
• Assignment Design (DePaul Teaching Commons)

In class: TBA
Reading: Inclusive learning & teaching environments; working with diverse student populations (handout)

• Warnock, chapter 7, revisit on reading
• Jabr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age”

Due: Project assignment draft, presented informally in class

No in-person class meeting; hybrid activities TBA

Reading: Warnock, 12
Due: Project draft #2 is due Sunday, 5/14, posted to the draft #2 D2L discussion forum. This draft can be a revision of your first assignment or you can move on to the next assignment in your unit — it’s up to you. 

Due: respond to at least one classmate’s draft #2 — Due Tuesday, 5/16 — based on the questions they pose

In class: Course Project Workshop
Reading: Warnock, 17
Due: Project draft #3, posted to our Draft #3 D2L forum

These will be 5-7 minute presentations, where you walk us through your project, pointing out:

• Connections to your pedagogy
• Student learning outcomes: how can these assignments benefit students?
• The role of technology — how did it promote or constrain what you wanted to do OR how it functions as an “interface” between you, students, and the institution. 
• If you were starting all over, what would you do differently? 

No in-person class meeting; hybrid activities
Due: Assignment #4 — this can be a new assignment, a revised assignment, or a Course Calendar with contextualizing headnote. I’ll be giving you feedback on this one in our scheduled individual face-to-face conferences. 

Due Tuesday, 5/30