Set up twitter account

Begin set-up for Pitt website

Read: Pitt Policy on Academic Integrity

Guest speaker: Molly Sauter. Taking notes and in-class diagnostic essay.

Bring in design concept sketches, autobiographical text, and image (on memory key) to class.

Have read & taken notes:
"How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live" from Time Magazine, June 5, 2009, by Steven B. Johnson.

Have read & taken notes:
"What Should Colleges Teach? " from The New York Times, August 24, 2009, by Stanley Fish.

Have completed : setting up your Pitt Website Index page (make sure you know your URL-web address)

Bring in rough websites (including all assigned writing already made into xhtml: such as the Manifesto on Copyright & in-class writings), secondary design concept sketches, text, and images (on memory key) to class.

Have read the "The New Literacy" from Wired by Clive Thompson

Have watched: "The Machine is Us/ing Us"

Have watched the "The LIbrary of the Future"

Virtual classroom: you must be logged onto and able to watch broadcast of CNN during classtime

Have researched & posted on: the history of the G20 Summit

Following & making major news on the global G20 Summit in Pittsburgh: Microblogging & Citizen Journalism

Final Websites Due

Present & Workshop Websites

Discuss & Begin Photo Essay

Bring in: Image Files for Photo Essay & Ideas for Researched Podcast

Bring in: Rough Podcast Script & Production List

Workshop: Photo Essays [Due Today] & begin to workshop Podcast scripts

Go over Production: capture, editing, mixing, exporting

Have listened to: any episode of This American Life

Schedule Mid-term Evaluation Meetings with Prof. Bianco

Bring in: Final Podcast Script & Sound Files for project

Workshop: Continue viewing Photo Essays

Work on Completing Podcast: editing, mixing

Start brainstorming for your topic for the Video Assignment: Bring in 3 ideas

Final Podcast Due

Present Final Podcast

3 proposals for Video/Multimodal Essay Due

Have watched: Terra video series (download from iTunes)

Final Script for Video/Multimodal Essay DUE!

Bring in first elements for Video/Multimodal Essay: photos, video clips, sound, music

Have watched: YouTube & Boing Boing (bring in 3 videos that relate to your project in style/form)

Work on videos in class

Final Videos Due: Must have uploaded to YOUTUBE or to your website PRIOR to class & have an exported copy on your memory stick (will be collected)

Enjoy the break!

Work on your Final Digital Portfolio & Annotations

Final Videos & Rough Final Digital Portfolio & Annotations DUE

Public Presentation of Final Digital Portfolio

Final Digital Portfolio due -- Must provide Prof. Bianco link to all online work