Course+Schedule

Note: Your instructor reserves the right to modify this schedule as needed.
 * ==FIRST DAY OF CLASS (5/22) – Course Introduction == ||
 * //Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * Syllabus
 * Welcome Letter ||
 * //Assignments Due: //
 * Email instructor about the status of your textbook
 * Join our [|Facebook group] & Wikispaces site
 * Post your introduction to our Facebook group page
 * Take the What Kind of Tech User Are You? quiz and post your results to our Facebook group
 * Add a favorite quote to your wiki page ||

WEEK ONE (5/22) – Ways of Thinking about Technology, Technique, and Culture

 * Module Due 5/28 ** ||
 * //Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * Introduction and Chapter One: Theoretical Frameworks
 * To Understand is to Perceive Patterns - a fast-paced, fascinating video by new media scholar Jason Silva
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Day Made of Glass - Which theoretical framework(s) can you relate to this particular vision of the future? ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK TWO (5/29) – SciFi: From Frankenstein to The Avengers

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 6/5 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 4: Science Fictions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edit the SciFi file (posted on our Facebook group page) and claim your movie
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your “Tech & Culture” Xtranormal video and post the link on your wiki page ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK THREE (6/6) – Digital Art and New Media

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 6/12 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 2: Art and Technology and Chapter 3: Digital Aesthetics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your SciFi Movie Analysis wiki page ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK FOUR (6/13) – Cyborgs and Nanotechs: Possible Futures?

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 6/19 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 5: Cyborgs: the Body, Information, and Technology
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your Avatar Design on your wiki page ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK FIVE (6/20) – Thinking & Creation with Machines

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 6/26 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 6: Technology, Thought and Consciousness
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your AI **or** nanotechnology wiki page ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK SIX (6/27) – Emerging Global Cultures and Economies

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 7/3 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 7: Getting Wired: War, Commerce and the Nation-State
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your Digital Citizenship wiki page ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK SEVEN (7/5) – Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Fourth of July! //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Module Due 7/10 ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter 8: Living with the Virtual
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes and videos posted in the Blackboard folder
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post reading reflections in Facebook and participate in class discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publish your Topic Presentation & embed it on your main wiki page
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Complete the online course evaluation (check your Mercer email for the link!) ||

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK EIGHT (7/11) – Course Evaluation & Final Exam

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Friday, July 13 by midnight ** ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Required Reading/Viewing: //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final Exam Study Guide (posted in Blackboard) ||
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments Due: //
 * Course Reflection wiki page
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Course Evaluation (please participate if you have not already done so!)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final Exam (posted in Blackboard) ||