last updated: 01.17.00

readings subject to change

FTF = Face to Face meetings - Thursdays - 1:40 - 4:30 - Payne Hall Conference Room

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Welcome!

Download FirstClass

Jan. 20

FTF
Introduction, Class Website, Using FirstClass, Course Structure - overview of topics, Basic HTML, Listserve assignment. 

Exploration: Recognizing Bias 

National Public Radio, GO TO: Programs / All Things Considered / Archived Programs / January 2, 1998, archived audio: Whiteness Studies (via REAL AUDIO)

Weis and Fine, pp 119-139.
Tiffin, Foreword, chapts. 1,2. pp 1-47.

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discussion topic:

Getting Started & Moderating

 

Jan. 27

 

 

 

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FTF
Review of Computer Conferencing; Moderating a Discussion; Traditional and Virtual Classrooms; Guest speaker: David Winograd on Moderating Online Discourse.

Reading Focus: The Invisibility of Power and Silenced Voices
 

Tiffin chapts. 3, 4. pp 48-86; 
Weis and Fine, pp 273-288;
McIntosh, Peggy: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack


View PBS Documentary "DIGITAL DIVIDE"

Computer Classes/Virtual Diversity

SUNDAY!! JANUARY 30, 2000

KAET - CHANNEL 8

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.


-Assignment #1 - 

- Autobiography - due on-line Jan 30.

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discussion topic:

Recognizing Bias in Media

Privilege, Power, & Silenced voices

Feb. 3

FTF
FirstClass update, html review. Discuss Digital Divide Program & readings. Listserve information due today!!

Reading Focus: Multiculturalism and Ethnocentrism
 

Tiffin, chapts. 5, 6 pp 87-125; Weis and Fine, pp 289-308

Asante, Molefi: Multiculturalism and the Academy

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discussion topic:

Multiculturalism, Ethnocentrism

Feb. 7-13

ONL
Reading Focus: Diversity and Education
 

Weis and Fine, pp 45-73; 309-323

Bamburg, Jerry: Raising Expectations to Improve Student Learning

 


Assignment #2 CASE STUDY DUE ON-LINE Feb. 13th! 

The Banning of The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn

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discussion topic:

Diversity and Education

Feb.14-20

ONL
Reading Focus: Diversity and Education

Jervis, Kathe: "How Come There Are No Brothers on That List?: Hearing the Hard Questions All Children Ask

Sautter, R. Craig: Who Are Today's City Kids? Beyond the "Deficit Model"

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discussion topic:

Diversity and Education & online access

Feb.21-27

ONL
Reading Focus: Using Technology

 

NCREL Monograph: Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students

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MIDTERM

March 2nd

Feb28 -

Mar 5

ONL

Assignment #3

- Midterm Exam -

Reading Focus: Language Diversity
 

Tiffin chapts. 7,8,9 pp 126-187;

Asante, Molefi : In Defense of My First Language 

Mukerji, Chandra: Language Politics and Social Class in America

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discussion topic:

Language Diversity

Mar 6-12

ONL

ONL
Reading Focus: Affirmative Action

National Public Radio: All Things Considered, December 8, 1998, archived audio:Post Affirmative Action (via REAL AUDIO)

Applebome, Peter: Minorities Feel Pain of Affirmative Action Bans

Williams, Scott : On Affirmative Action

Duster, Troy : They're Taking Over: Myths about Multiculturalism


Assignment #4 Team Paper DUE ON-LINE Mar. 12. 

- Listserve Evaluation -

 

E N J O Y !

March16

 

S P R I N G   B R E A K

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discussion topic:

Gender

Mar 20-26

ONL
Gender and Communication

Herring, Susan: Gender Differences in Computer Mediated Communications: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier
 

Shields, Stella & Concetta Stewart: Communication: Policy, Power, and Participation


- Assignment #5 Due Online March 26 -

-TBA- in collaboration with University of Surrey Dept. of Performance Studies

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discussion topic:

Gender & Online Communications

Mar 27-Apr 2

FTF
Gender and New Media 

Maisel, Andrew: Software for Girls: A Market is Discovered

Discussion of Research papers topics.

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discussion topic:

Gender and Educational Product Development

Apr 3 - 9

ONL
Individual research

 


Assignment #6

Content Outline for Final Paper due on-line April 9th.

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Research

Apr 10 - 16 ONL
Individual research.

14

Research

Apr 17 - 23

ONL
Individual research.

 


Assignment #7 

 

Annotated Bibliography due on-line April 23rd.

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Research

Apr 27

FTF
Class presentation of research

 


Assignment #8

 

Completed research paper due online April 30.

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Research

May 4

FTF
Class presentation of research

 


Assignment #9

 

Class Presentation of Research