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NMP Calendar Spring 2010

Spring 2010 Calendar
Date Description Assessment
Jan 25 New Media Communication. The New Media Ability framework. Begin review of new media. What do we mean by new media? The academic and professional context of new media.
Jan 27 Concepts and ideas continued: examples of everyday new media and how they reflect general principles. Read Vannaver Bush and this Wikipedia Article on New Media.
Feb 1 Nuts and Bolts: ePortfolio and the iGoogle system. Trend Watch and Information Literacy
Feb 3 Observing systems: using Twitter to think about what systems are doing
Feb 8 Social Media discussion. Observing systems continued. Observing Systems assignment due.  Use this paper as a formatting model.
Feb 10 Snow Day
Feb 17 Metaphors of new media: mapping and representing space. Mapping Space discussion. Submit Idea for Trend Watch
Feb 22 Interface, interpretation, and interaction.
Feb 24 Course review. Self-assessment. Representing Space Assignment Due.
Mar 1 IF Block: Interactive fiction project: Concepts and examples.Download and install Inform 7 on your own laptop and/or home computer. It comes in both Windows and Mac OS versions. Readings: Introduction to IF & Nine Points
Mar 3 Readings:

Interactive Fiction Shorts

Spend at least 15 minutes playing through five (5) or more of these works to get yourself familiar with the form and the possibilities.

In-class demonstration of writing within the Inform 7 authoring environment.

 First Trend Watch Report.  Follow this set of questions to complete the assignment.  Use this format for your essay, as you did with Observing systems.
Mar 8
Mar 10 Concept Maps due
Mar 15
Mar 17
Mar 22-28 Spring Break
Mar 29 End IF Block Completed IF Projects due.
Mar 31 Hypertext block: Read about an hour’s worth of Susan Gibb’s Smile and Adrienne Eisen’s Six Sex Scenes. Discussion. Readings Assessment Due
April 5 The writerly, readerly text. Links and hypertext. Read about an hour’s worth of 253 Second Trend Watch Report
April 7 Building hypertext documents. Come in with notes you’ve taken for another course. Discussion.
April 12 Building and editing links in text.
April 14 Building coherent paths.
April 19 Building coherent paths continued
April 21 Sharing documents. Document collections
April 26 New Media and Entrepreneurship
April 28 Past, Present, and Future Project Third Trend Watch Report
May 3 Subject discussion continued Project Proposals due
May 5 Subject discussion continued
May 10 Solving problems
May 11-17 Past, Present, and Future Presentations Oral Presentations and Descriptions due. ePortfolios complete.