for Tues 7 Nov

• Chap 5: Analysis
• Due class time: Web Site Analysis Exercise using search model from chap 9 applied to top level pages of Experience Dynamics site
• come to class ready to discuss your work with analysis and results.
• for those that didn't work with Experience Dynamics, address the same exercise - Web Site Analysis Exercise - using Alexander Tech Communication Art and Design. Due Sunday, 9:00 am. I'll send you some feedback.

Tues 14 Nov

Class canceled due to illness. We should be back in class on Thursday to look at web sites and audiences.

for Thurs 16 Nov

• Read chap 6: the process of interpretation
• We'll start a look at how web sites define roles for audiences: WebSiteInterpretationExericse
• Visitor Roles from 2006

Tues 21 Nov

• Please have your work ready by Monday evening, 20 Nov.
• Present your interp for WebSiteInterpretationExericse for discussion.

Break!

Nov 28

• Tammy: Folksonomy
  • Folksonomy

Thurs 19 Oct

• finish presentations
• summary of what they tell us and setting up the problem
• Assign for Thursday, 26 Oct: DoItYourselfFacebook
• Read Chap 9. We might begin this.

Tues 24 Oct

• Read Chap 9 applied: come ready to discus elements of classical rhetoric can be applied to Facebook and what they might bring to light.
• Know your terms. Or at least mark up the text to become familiar with the terms.

Thurs 26 Oct

• Presentation of DoItYourselfFacebook
• And DoItYourselfFacebookResponse

Thurs 2 Nov

• Debrief on DoItYourselfFacebook
• Turn in DoItYourselfFacebookResponse
• Next: analysis

Tues 10 Oct

• look at descriptions of context
• discuss Barton and "Quick Guide" with respect to what we're seeing
• search model: Text-Context Interaction
• for next Tues: Text-ContextInteractionInFacebook

Thurs 12 Oct

• time in class to draw on notes to prepare a presentation for Tues Oct 17 on Text-ContextInteractionInFacebook

how detailed: One group asked me how detailed the presentation page should be. While it's not a polished essay, and it can be / should be more a report on your findings, make it detailed enough that an outside reader could follow it. That is, include in your presentation pages the notes you might be be using to present. This can be done as bullet point statements on which you elaborate further in class. Two reasons:

• People on this campus and elsewhere are looking in to see our results: Inquiring minds want to know.
• Your presentation needs to demonstrate the closeness and thoroughness of the observations you ground it in.

update Sat 14 Oct 10:00

I had a look at how the presentations were going, but they were coming on a little slowly, so I couldn't comment on them. Good luck on Tuesday!

Tues 17 Oct

• presentations of findings
• 15 mins to show us what you have. Each member of your group presents.

Thurs 28 Sept

• Start FacebookProject, Working in groups. We'll start part 1 in class. Over the weekend, you'll each be working with one more Facebook profile to add to and revise your wiki page notes.

Tues 3 Oct

update: 2 Oct: I've added some comments to Facebook2006GroupB. It's looking good, and you should start bringing in the second profile. Facebook2006GroupC is already beginning to see some similarities between the two profiles. Still looking for Facebook2006GroupA's work. Hang in there: the first couple of passes at looking at something new do not seem to go very far, but you're laying the groundwork for stuff of substance.

Remember to keep personal info that might ID the profile (name, screenname, hometown, b-day...) out of the description. We just need to know if the profile listed that info; we don't need the personal particulars.

Working with the specifics listed under favorites should be ok.

• We'll review where everyone is with the FacebookProject. Notes should be posted to your group page, and should be developed further over the weekend. No need to bring in new profiles yet, but you can if you wish.
• I'll add a couple more profiles to the mix in class.
• Your group should begin moving towards abstracting some regularities and range of rhetorical moves.

Thurs 5 Oct

• We'll get started with DescribingFacebookContext in class. (Stoner and Perkins, pp 52 - 58).
• You'll need to continue the context description over the weekend.
• Readings for Tues: We'll look at how Barton and Haskins have described Facebook elements and rhetorical contexts and have started to characterize some of the rhetorical moves and themes. These two brief articles can help you describe context and form good questions to consider about Facebook (and other social network e-media.)

Tues 12 Sept

• Review BalconyViewExercise and the critical stance
• Exercise: Seeing as a Critic (was What Makes this Rhetorical)
• for Thurs, read S & P chap 3
• Seeing as a Critic

Thurs 14 Sept

• Stoner and Perkins, chap 3
• Start FirstLookAtEmail in class

For Tues 19 Sept, by 6:00 am

• finish FirstLookAtEmail

Materials

• two email messages
• for description: ListOfRhetoricalFeaturesOfEmail - to focus attention on what to look for
• for analysis: EmailAndInformality - a search model

Tues 19 Sept

• Look at work with two email messages

For Thurs

• SecondLookAtEmail

Thurs 21 Sept

Discuss SecondLookAtEmail

• Reprieve: As of 6:30 am, it looks like most didn't have time to work it through much. The HS leg of the net was down Tues 11:30 pm - Weds 8:30 am, which might have cut into access. We'll look at what we have, and extend the time for this exercise to Tuesday (we don't meet on Tuesday, but I'll review them then.)

• Start Facebook project with a tour

for Thurs 28 Sept

• read chap 4: Description

Tues 26 Sept

• no classes
• revs of SecondLookAtEmail due

Topics in the works for fall, 2006

• email: changes in interaction
• rhetoric and social software: Facebook
• podcasting and sprezzatura
• folksonomy and del.icio.us
• reading wikipedia: issues of delivery

Tues 29 Aug

• CourseDescription. Intro to the wiki.

Thurs, Aug 31

• Look at and discuss intro exercise: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint
• ThreeHundredWordsInPrintPart2: due in class on Tuesday, 5 Sept.

Tues 5 Sept

• Look at and discuss ThreeHundredWordsInPrintPart2

for Thurs 7 Sept

• read Stoner and Perkins, chap 1

Thurs, 7 Sept

• questions on chap 1
• Intro to the wiki

for Tues 19 Sept

• SetUpAWikiNamePage. For reference, see GettingStarted, and StyleGuide. TextFormattingRules explains advanced formatting.
• Before you read Stoner and Perkins, do the BalconyViewExercise. Post to wiki.
• Now read Stoner and Perkins, chap 2

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Topics in the works for fall, 2006

• email: changes in interaction
• rhetoric and social software: Facebook
• podcasting and sprezzatura
• folksonomy and del.icio.us
• reading wikipedia: issues of delivery

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• purchase text for next week

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• Course description. Intro to the wiki.

Tues, Aug 29

• intro exercise for Thursday: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint

Thurs, Aug 31

• CourseDescription - questions
• review intro exercise: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint

Tues, Sept 5

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Dates are from 2005. This syllabus page will develop as the course progresses.

Syllabus, fall 2006

• ElementsSyllabusFall2005

Syllabus,

• ElementsSyllabusFall2005

Post and review the second part of ThreeHundredWordsInPrint and look at notes.

Tues, Dec 6

ThreeWeblogExercises begins today with a look at subject, length frequency, and occasion of posting. The weblogs are

• http://www.girlhacker.com/log.html
• http://www.mommyneedscoffee.com/
• http://www.plasticbag.org/
• http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/
• http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/

Thurs, Dec 8

ThreeWeblogExercises continues.

Individual blogs appear to use links in characteristic ways, just as they seem to follow patterns of use in subject, frequency, and occasions. While we're more interested in the use of links in the large, rhetoric grounds that interest in the study of particulars. We look to the particular to tell us about the general.

Look at links using the page Links in blogging to guide your attention.

Catalog the links you find to get a sense of

• the patterns of linking you see the blogger engaging
• the range of use of links
• the effect of those links

The weblogs for today are

• http://www.girlhacker.com/log.html
• http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/
• http://www.geofftech.co.uk/iblog/
• http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/

references

• RhetoricalElementsOfWeblogs.
• WeblogIndex
• Links
• Links in blogging

Thurs, 1 Dec

Review the viewer responses to your pages and draw up some notes about ResponsesToWebRedesign. Hand in your notes with the viewer responses.

• We'll start ThreeWeblogExercises by looking at some blogs and compiling a set of notes on RhetoricalElementsOfWeblogs.

We'll start the first in-class exercise on Tues, Dec 6. (We have time left in the semester for only two exercises, not three.)

Prepare by reviewing

• chap 1: characteristics of rhetoric, esp pp. 3 - 6 intentionality and definition of rhet (p. 6): the study of messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs, and actions.
• chap 5: analysis, esp pp 79 - 82: patterns

for Tues, 29 Nov

Review the viewer responses to your pages and draw up some notes about ResponsesToWebRedesign. Hand in your notes with the viewer responses on Tues, 29 Nov.

Tues, 15 Nov

• assign ReEnvisioningTheBSUHomePage. Due next Tues
• Continue SiteVisit work in groups. Post notes and materials for your presentation to your group page on SiteVisit. Link to grrl pages. Present on Thurs, Nov 17.
• When appropriate, draw on
  • VisitorRoles
  • chap 9: especially ethos
  • chap 17: Visual Communication

Thurs. 17 Nov

• Groups present SiteVisit findings. 10 - 15 mins each.

Tues. 22 Nov

• Studio review of ReEnvisioningTheBSUHomePage

Thurs, 10 Nov

• a look at second look
• Continue SiteVisit work in groups. Post notes and materials for your presentation to your group page on SiteVisit. Link to grrl pages. Present on Thurs, Nov 17.
• When appropriate, draw on
  • VisitorRoles
  • chap 9: especially ethos
  • chap 17: Visual Communication

Thurs, 3 Nov

Considering the role the visitor is placed in by the text and pages: VisitorRoles

• In-class review of search model: VisitorRoles - an extension of WhoAmIThisTime
• Assign SecondLookAtWebPages: description to analysis
• Due 6:00 pm Monday, Nov 7.
• Collected stuff on rhetoric of web design is now at WebDesignIndex

Tues, 7 Nov

• entry points - links - mapping - images on http://www.grrl.com/
• SiteVisit: start in class. Continue on Thursday, Nov 9. Possibly present on Tues, Nov 15.
• You might need to consult VisitorRoles
• for Thurs, 9 Nov, read S&P, chap 17: Visual Communication

Tues, 1 Nov

• Collected stuff on rhetoric of web design is now at WebDesignIndex
• treats!
• debrief on FirstLookAtWebPages
• in-class practice with methods

Thurs, 20 Oct

• Spam notes and responses due.

The rhetoric of web design

• HandlistOfWebDesign | my notes
• for Tuesday, 25 Oct: FirstLookAtWebPages: Description

Tues, 25 Oct

• FirstLookAtWebPages: Description due
• Inclass exercise: WhoAmIThisTime

Thurs, 27 Oct

• Class meeting cancelled. I'm presenting here.

Tues, 18 Oct

• DoItYourSelfSpam interpretation presentations. If they're like those JML presented last Thursday, they're gonna be good.
• Refer to DoingNotesOnTheSpamInterp

Thurs, 13 Oct

• We'll start the presentations. 10 mins. each group.
• For Tues, Oct 18: DoItYourSelfSpam

Tues, 4 Oct and Thurs, 6 Oct

• Continue the SpamProject with Analysis.
• Draw primarily on Stoner and Perkins, chap 9: forms of proof for your search model.
• For reference, especially for tropes and figures, see Glossary of Rhetorical Terms, compiled by Dr. Richard Nordquist
• HandlistOfSpamFeatures

Tues, 11 Oct

• Analyses should be ready by classtime on Tues, 11 Oct.
• Keep in mind that analysis draws on a search strategy, in this case concepts of rhetorical proof: ethos, logos, and pathos.
• Keep in mind, too, that rhetoric is more than persuading a person. Rhetors seek to affect an audience's beliefs, values, or actions (S&P,p 3). You're looking at - analyzing - how rhetors use devices to do that.
• Work in class on planning and preparing your presentation.
• Option of creating a *SummaryReport? page. Refer to the SpamProject page.

for Tues, 4 Oct

Tuesday we'll move on to analysis, so you'll need to have your descriptions developed enough to use in analysis. by classtime on Tuesday.

• Work collectively on the wiki to develop your descriptions. Aim at characterizing each group and the spam as a whole. But hang on to the details, too, as you will use them in your analysis. See SpamProject and refer to S&P. chap 4 for guidance. Refer to HandlistOfSpamFeatures for features and devices to look at.
• Read Stoner and Perkins, chap 5.
• Read Stoner and Perkins, chap 9. Valuable in this chapter will be Arrangement (144 - 147), and Three forms of proof: ethos, pathos, logos (148 - 153). You'll need these concepts as the search model for this project.

• EmailIndex

for Thurs, Sept 29

• Read Stoner and Perkins chap 4, pp 46 - 58
• on Thurs, SpamProject: Description

for Thurs, Sept 29

• Read Stoner and Perkins chap 4, pp 46 - 58

• continue SpamProject: Description

Thurs, Sept 22

• Notes on first email exercise. Notes in AdviceOnMethod thanks to Aspen. All are invited to contribute to the page: help each other out.
• Reminder: Collect spam for Tuesday
• deadline extended: SecondLookAtEmail. Due Monday, midnight.
  • I will not be posting the email exchange for this exercise online. If you need it, email me, or try my office on Monday.
• for reference and use in the second look -
  • ListOfRhetoricalFeaturesOfEmail
  • BasicSentencePatterns (adapted from Lanham)
  • AdviceOnMethod

Tues, Sept 27

as of 4:21 pm, Monday
Stuck? Have a look at Aaron's or Erin's or Aspen's work for a sense of how to proceed. Natasha and Mark are moving along, too. For analysis and interp, see if the the concepts in BaronOnEmail help you: candor, informality, and email "as a medium that doesn’t require attention to public face."

If it's helpful, take until Monday midnight to work on this exercise. We'll move right into the spam project on Tuesday morning.

• Start the SpamProject
• Bring 20 pieces of spam printed out

Thurs, Sept 15

• Finish up review of WhatMakesThisRhetorical?
• Review BalconyViewExercise and a critical stance
• for Tues, read S & P chap 3

Tues, Sept 20

• S & P chap 3: Method: getting started with email
• Start describing email in class. Continue this out of class. Follow thorough on interpretation. Tidy up your notes, arranging them under the appropriate headings (description, analysis, and interpretation). When in doubt, consult Stoner and Perkins, chap 3. Due Thursday, 6:00 am.
• FirstLookAtEmail
• FirstEMailExample
• ListOfRhetoricalFeaturesOfEmail
• BasicSentencePatterns (adapted from Lanham)
• Start collecting spam for next week's project.

• for reference, see GettingStarted, and StyleGuide. TextFormattingRules explains advanced formatting.
• assignment: read Stoner and Perkins, chap 1

• Review of a few WikiName? pages. Image - list - links as introduction.
• Review S & P chap 1: WhatMakesThisRhetorical?

for Thurs, Sept 15

• Finish up SetUpAWikiNamePage
• BalconyViewExercise (by 6:00 am Thurday) and Stoner and Perkins, chap 2.

• for Tues, read S&*P chap 3

• Review S & P chap 1 with WhatMakesThisRhetorical?

• For Thurs: BalconyViewExercise. Then read S&P chap 2: critical stance.

• discuss chap 2 and the balcony view

• In class: balcony view: Then read S&P chap 2: critical stance.

• IN class: balcony view: Then read S&P chap 2: critical stance.
• S & P chap 3: FirstLookAtEmail. Practicing method: Tues, Sept 20

• assignment: Stoner and Perkins, chap 1

• for Thurs, do BalconyViewExercise first. Then read S&P chap 2: critical stance.

• S & P chap 3: Practicing method: Email message exercise for Tues, Sept 20

• assignment: Stoner and Perkins, chaps 1 and 2

• Review S & P chap 1 with What makes this rhetorical?

Thurs, Sept 1

CourseDescription - questions intro exercise: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint

• Part 1 due in class on Thursday, 1 Sept.
• Part 2 (text and notes) due in class on Tuesday, 6 Sept.

Tues, 6 Sept

Post and review the crayon versions of ThreeHundredWordsInPrint and look at notes.

Thurs, 8 Sept

• Intro to wiki
• Inclass writing: towards the critical stance
• assignment: SetUpAWikiNamePage
• assignment: Stoner and Perkins, chap 1

Tues, Sept 13

• discuss S & P chap 1: What makes this rhetorical?
• for Thurs, S&P chap 2: critical stance: balcony view

Thurs, Sept 15

• discuss chap 2
• S & P chap 3: Practicing method: Email message exercise.
• EMailIndex

• Stoner and Perkins, Chap 1: What is rhetoric? and What is rhetorical?

• Stoner and Perkinds, chap 2: Introduction to method: gaining the balcony view

• Stoner and Perkins, chap 3: Practicing method: practice rhetorical analysis using email: EMailIndex

• Practice rhetorical analysis using email: EMailIndex

• chap 1: What is rhetoric

• chap 2: gaining the balcony view

• intro exercise: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint

• intro exercise: ThreeHundredWordsInPrint

• IntroExercise?

• Intro exercise: 300WordIntroduction

• Set Up a WikiName Page
• Intro exercise: IntroToMethod?

• Intro exercise: HelloWorld?

• DescribingEmail?
• InterpretingEmail?

• SpamProject

• InvestigatingEMail?

• Start collecting spam

• Describing email: week 3
• Interpreting email: week 3

• EMailIndex

• ...

Syllabus, Fall, 2005

Fall, 2005

• ...

• Course description. Intro to PmWiki.

• Intro exercise.

• Intros, intro to PmWiki.
• Set Up a WikiName Page

• Intros, intro to PmWiki, Set Up a WikiName Page

• Intros, intro to PmWiki, set up Elements WikiName? page: week 1 Set Up a WikiName Page

• Intros, intro to PmWiki, set up Elements WikiName? page: week 1

Fall, 2005

This syllabus page will develop as the course progresses.

• Intros, intro to PmWiki, set up WikiHome?: week 1
• What is rhetoric: week 2
• Balcony view: week 2
• Describing email: week 3
• Interpreting email: week 3
• ,,,

Syllabus to come