Schedule

The assignments, readings, and due dates for projects are listed on the schedule below. I've also indicated which days I will not be readily available. Make sure to check the schedule often for expanded information about our activities.

Readings listed each week are those that we'll be discussing, so make sure to read them as early as possible. We may be skip around in the course texts so that the readings are relevant to guest speakers in the class.

You'll see that the "Schedule" link in the top menu drops down to links for each week so you don't have to scroll looking for the current week.

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Week	Readings & Activities	Projects Due
Week 1 Jan 13, 15	Readings Mon: Course syllabus. Read the first two chapters of Clay Shirkey's book for Wednesday. Wed: PowerPoint and what you can do with old tools. Animation example using PowerPoint Explanation of the animation Complete the "Technology Self-Assessment" for next week (this is also posted on Blackboard--go to Course Docs or Assignments)
Week 2 Jan 20, 22	Shirkey Chapters 3 and 4 January 20 is a state holiday. Class does not meet. Wed. Start on your website for Project 2 Link to MyWeb: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/webpublishing/myweb.cfm	Technology Self-assessment DUE 1/22 (Submit through Assignment)
Week 3 Jan 27, 29	Mon: Shirkey chapters 5 More on your website development (files, images, embedding) Wed. Snow day	P1: Activity 1 DUE 1/29
Week 4 Feb 3, 5	Mon: More on your website, adding a table, image Cascading Style Sheets https://piratepanel.ecu.edu/ (my web) http://core.ecu.edu/engl/kaind/7766/notes/web/testing/index.html (web workshop) http://pixlr.com/ (Free image editor) Homework: Post about Shirkey Chapters 6 (DUE 2/6) & 7 (DUE 2/8) (added 2/3) Wed. Content Rules: Ch. 1-4 Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution Blogs and starting your blog Google's Blogger Go to ECU blog space (based on Word Press)	Project 2 DUE 2/8 (changed 2/3)
Week 5 Feb 10, 12	Mon. Discussion of Project 3 Wed. Cancelled due to Weather	Project 4 post 1
Week 6 Feb 17, 19	Mon. Talk about weather make-up days. Content Rules: Ch. 5-9 Website for Research and Creative Activity Week: http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/rcaw/ Office of Undergraduate research: http://www.ecu.edu/rgs/ur/ Research and Graduate Studies: http://www.ecu.edu/rgs/ Discussion of Project 3, get in groups, develop criteria for assessing the social media Wed. Guest Speaker Virginia Carraway-Stage Content Rules: Content Rules: Ch. 15-18	Project 4 post 2
Week 7 Feb 24, 26	Mon. Content Rules:Sections from part 3, Ch. 29 Wed. In class work on Project 3 Web publishing resources http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/webpublishing/ ECU Social Media Guidelines http://www.ecu.edu/PRR/08/10/02/ Webspace standards http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/webpublishing/webspacestandards.cfm Beginner's Guide to Social Media SEO ?? SEO Starter Guide	Project 4 post 3
Week 8 March 3, 5	Mon. Discussion of Project 3 How to write good Tweets more on Writing good tweets Wed. Discussion of blogs (Content Rules ch. 11)	Project 3.1 DUE 3/5
Week 9 March 10, 12	Spring Break
Week 10 March 17, 19	Mon. Your proposal (word doc) Planning page (word doc) Webinars and white papers (Content Rules ch. 12, 13) (POST TO BLOGS--snow day make up Wed. Case studies, stories, FAQs and other elements (Content Rules ch. 14. 15) POST to blogs during class time and begin working on the plan for research and creative week.	Project 4 post 4 DUE 3/17 (post your tool review for Project 1: Activity 2 so you're actually completing both assignments)
Week 11 March 24, 26	Mon. Visuals: Video, podcasting, and Photographs (Content Rules ch. 16, 17, 18) Wed. Monitoring deployment (tracking sheet) Plans the next few days Update stakeholders (during class) mailing list Continue discussion of visuals and podcasts Blog Talk Radio Show blogs if time	Project 4 post 5
Week 12 March 31, April 4	Mon. WORK AT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WEEK (Meet at the front door to Mendenhall at 2:00) Wed. WORK AT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WEEK (Meet at the front door to Mendenhall at 2:00) Review the checklist in Chapter 29	Project 3.2 DUE(during RCAW, by 4/4)
Week 13 April 7, 9	Mon. Video Wed. Camtasia	Project 4 post 6
Week 14 April 14, 16	Mon. Discussion of progress on your blogs (mini-presentations, informal) Link to Zing: free version of tool like Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html Wed: Send final report to Drs. McConnell, Farwell, and Carraway-Stage; cc me. Work on presentations with partners	Project 3.3 DUE 4/16
Week 15 April 21, 23	Mon. Discussion of presentation options Wed. Presentations for research and creative week shown in class Time in class to submit materials for WAC assessment (Project 1.4) Before class on Wednesday, please review the instructions for setting up portfolios under "UWPort: University Writing Portfolio -- Information for Students" at http://www.ecu.edu/qep/ You will be submitting one writing assignment to the portfolio. If you want to submit your blog, please copy and paste it into a Word document.	Project 1: Activity 4 DUE 4/23
Week 16 April 28	Mon. In-class work on final presentations, additions to blog	Project 4 COMPLETE (post 7) DUE 4/28
Exam May 2, 2:00-4:30	In class presentations about your research topic during the exam period.	Project 1: Activity 4 and Project 5 DUE at final

ENGL 4885

Digital Writing

Schedule