2. Introductions
❖ Class Introductions
❖ Discuss “Where We’re At,
Where We’re Going”
❖ Discuss Post-Class Assignment
❖ A bit about “multimodal
literacy,” “writing as
technology,” and “Web 2.0”
❖ “Teaching Tips” wiki
❖ Signing up for accounts
3. Class Intros
❖ Meet n’ greet...
❖ Syllabus questions/discussions
❖ Course as collaborative/improvisational/TBA
❖ Course as “workshop” and as “camp”
❖ Some other logistics/housekeeping matters
4. “Where We’re At, Where
We’re Going” Projects
❖ Family income/class
❖ Home computer purchases
❖ Games, chatting, home video, file sharing and “non-school”
activities
❖ Old OLD computer memories
❖ Typing matters (which actually ties in with this class....)
5. The Post-Class Assignment
❖ “Internet-based exercise/project/lesson”
❖ Something having to do with teaching and learning
(hopefully)
❖ A 1250-2500 word analysis and rational for project, including
some research
❖ Published on your wordpress.com site by August 25
❖ PS: It can’t be technology being “better” or “worse, and it
can’t be about “access”
6. Writing as Technology/
Multimodal Literacy/ Web 2.0
❖ Writing and Literacy is a Technology (quoting from Ong’s
“Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought”)
❖ “New Media Texts” defined (Wysocki et. al. 15)
❖ The importance “Paying Attention” (Selfe)
❖ “Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us”
7. “Teaching Tips” Wiki
❖ Collaborative writing exercise based on our experiences
here in Traverse City
❖ Our own ideas, links to other sites, citations, etc., etc.
❖ Hopefully, it will have a life after this, too!
❖ Teaching with Tech Tips Home
8. Signing up for accounts?
❖ wordpress.com
❖ facebook.com
❖ twitter.com
❖ google.com
❖ (and more later, too)