COMT 109 Digital Media Pedagogy   Brian Goldfarb, Winter 2009   Dept of Communication, UCSD Overview Meetings Resources

Course Schedule:

Note: Readings are due before the class. Readings are subject to change by the instructor.
You will be notified as early as possible of any changes.

week: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  | 5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10

Week One (Jan 6 & 8):  Introduction

[Site visits begin on Thursday, Jan 8, please arrive at 1:15pm for orientation at
High Tech Middle Media Arts--see the resources page for site description and directions]   

• Course overview: scope and requirements
• Projects at HTMMA
• Sign up for school site times
• Introduction to Flash-prep for working at HTMMA

Week Two (Jan 13 & 15): Multimedia pedagogies

Reading:

Week Three (Jan 20 & 22): Youth Culture and New Media.

New Wiki: http://comt109.wikidot.com/

Reading:

• Brian Goldfarb, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, "Chapter 4: Peer education and Interactivity" pages107-139 (e-reserves)
• Joseph Tobin, "An American Otaku" , pages 106-127, Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia, edited by Julian Sefton-Green (e-reserves)

• Judith Williamson, "Engaging Resistant Writers Through Zines in the Classroom" http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/judyw_zines.html

Week Four (Jan 27 & 29): New literacies?

Reading:

  Further reading:

Week Five (Feb 3 & 5 ): Digital geographies: the "digital divide" and the world of the Web       

Reading:

Week Six (Feb 10 & 12): Universal access: visuality, [dis]ability  and digital learning

Reading:

• Patricia A. Dunn and Kathleen Dunn De Mers: "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space," Kairos, Volume 7, Issue 1 online: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/binder2.html?coverweb/dunn_demers/index.html
• Chis Abbott, "Writing the Visual" pages 31-46, in Silicon literacies : Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder , (e-reserves)

Week Seven (Feb 17 & 19): Balancing safety and independence in learning: negotiating control and monitoring access to content in classrooms, libraries and at home                   

Reading:

• Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure "Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues" in First Mondays online: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/jaeger/
• Internet Filtering Alternatives: http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/jwbrown3/EPS%20313/filter/alternatives.htm

Week Eight (Feb 24 & 26): Games, play and learning

Reading:

• Cornelia Brunner, Dorothy Bennett, and Margaret Honey, "Girl Games and Technological Desire," chapter 3 in Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat (available online through Roger when on campus or via web proxy. http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262032589 )

Further Reading:

• Justine Cassell "Story Telling as a Nexus for Change in the Relationship between Gender and Technology" Chapter 13 in Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat (available online to through Roger when on campus or via web proxy).

Week Nine (March 2 & 4): Plagiarism or collaboration: research and authorship in the digital library

• Rebecca Moore Howard, "Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach."

Week Ten (March 9 & 11): Technology in community-based learning centers

Reading:

• Antonia Stone, "Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development," in Education, Technology, Power: Educational Computing as A Social Practice (187-199), ed Hank Bromley and Michael Apple (e-reserves).

 

Finals Week (March 15-18): FINAL PAPER (take home exam) DUE on March 18