Course Web Site

Fall 2009

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

Instructor Information

• Dr. Pagnucci's Contact Information
• Dr. Pagnucci's Office Hours

Course Information

• Semester: Fall 2009
• Banner Course Number (CRN): 13532
• Section 001
  • Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 001 (Fall 2009)
  • Graduate Student Blogs (Fall 2009)
  • Paper Conferences Meeting Schedule-Fall 2009
• Computer Classroom: Leonard Hall - Room 213
• Meeting Times: 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. Monday
• Composition & TESOL Online Community

Course Syllabus

• Course Overview, Philosophy, Goals, & Expectations
• Course Work Policies
  • Attendance Policies
    • Roster Sheet
  • Course Grading
• Course Schedule
  • Course Texts
  • Technology Requirements
  • Paper Conferences Meeting Schedule-Fall 2009
    • Paper Conferences Meeting Schedule-Blank
  • Presentations Schedule

• English 808 WebCT Course Site

• Guide: Writing Effective Dissertations

• Course Assignments & Readings
  • Course Packet Cover
  • Course Packet Table of Contents
  • Course Packet Bibliography
• Conference Meeting Schedule
• Old Course Assignments (Summer 2009)
• Old Course Assignments (Fall 2008)

Course Tasks

• Technology Paper
  • Technology Paper Proposal
• Teacher Web Page
• Research Topic Web Page
  • Sample Research Topic Web Page: Literacy
• Research Blog
  • IUP Blogs
  • Graudate Student Blogs (Fall 2009)
  • TechTool: Blogs
  • Task: First Blog Entry
  • Dr. Pagnucci's English Chair Blog
  • Wikipedia Definition: "blog"
• Annotated Wiki Bibliographies
  • Class Wiki
  • The WikiBib Project
  • Sample Annotation
  • Technology Bibliography by Topic
  • Additional Bibliographies on Technology
• Technology Presentation
• Daily Work, Readings, & Attendance
  • Attendance Policies

Course Units

Part 1: Tech Life

• Unit A: Getting Started
• Unit B: Time Travel--Part 1
• TechTool: Film Technology
• Unit C: Creating a Web Presence
  • TechTool: Home Page Technology (MS FrontPage)
  • TechTool: Web Page Builder for PCs & Macs (KompoZer)
  • TechTool: Web Page Builder for Macs (SeaMonkey)

Part 2: Tech Theories

• Unit D: Theoretical Frameworks for Technology
  • TechTool: Blogs
  • IUP Blogs
  • Blogger.com
  • Blo.gs
• Unit E: Virtual Communities
• TechTool: Second Life
• IUP Second Life
  
• TechTool: Second Life--Welcome to Second Life SLurl (Maple Grove Startup Location)
• Education Services Management Group (ESMG)
• Second Life Main Site
• TechTool: Facebook
  • Facebook and tenure article
• Unit F: Good Tech, Bad Tech (eTopias or Dystopia?)
  • TechTool: Wikis

Part 3: Tech Literacy

• Unit G: Literacy Theories (What is literacy?)

Part 4: Tech Pedagogy

• Unit H: Teaching Literacy with Technology
  • TechTool: WebQuests
  • TechTool: Course Hero

Part 5: Tech Writing (Paper Conferences)

• Unit I: New Written Forms
• Unit J: Conference Meeting Schedule

Part 6: Tech Talks (Presentations)

• Unit K: Professional Networking
  • TechTool: Time Machines (Time Travel -- Part II)

Future Parts: Other Units

• Unit: Researching Dissertations
  • TechTool: ProQuest Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts International [DAI])
  • IUP Library
• Unit: Technology, Research, & Thinking Processes
  • TechTool: Google
• Unit: Social Networking
  • TechTool: MySpace
  • TechTool: FaceBook
• Unit: The Future of Narrative Discourse
• Unit: Game Theory

Technology Tools

• TechTool: Film Technology
• TechTool: Home Page Technology (MS FrontPage)
• TechTool: Web Page Builder for PCs & Macs (NVU)
• TechTool: Web Page Builder for PCs & Macs (KompoZer)
• TechTool: Web Page Builder for Macs (SeaMonkey)
• TechTool: Second Life
• TechTool: Blogs
• TechTool: Wikis
• TechTool: ProQuest Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts International [DAI])
• TechTool: MySpace
• TechTool: FaceBook
• TechTool: WebQuests
• TechTool: Course Hero
• TechTool: WebCT Technology
• TechTool: Time Machines (Time Travel -- Part II)

Technology Journals

• Bibliographies on Technology
  • Other Bibliographies

• Computers and Composition

• Computers and Writing Clearinghouse

• Journal of Technology and Literacy: An International Online Academic Journal

• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
• Tech & Learning
• Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ)

Technology Organizations

• IUP Composition & TESOL Online Community

• IUP Digital Humanities Center (DHC)

• Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW)

• Assembly on Computers in English (ACE)

• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)

• Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)

• EDUCAUSE

• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• International Technology Education Association (ITEA)
• Online Writing Collaboration Project (OWCp)

• Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)

• Society for Information Technology Education (SITE)

• Society for Technical Communication (STC)

Technology Resources

• English 808 WebCT Course Site

• Apple History

• Computers and Writing 2008 Conference

• eduTopia
• Free Rice
• Literacy Related Links
• MyOpenID (web password security)
• School Donations Web Site
• Technology Related Links

Course Units from Prior Semesters

• How does technology impact literacy?
• Cyber Life
• Online Collaboration
  • Assignment: Technology Book Club Meetings
  • Reflection: Collaborative Technology Projects
• Film Technology
• Blade Runner
• The Name of the Rose
• Being There
• Online Teaching
  • TechTool: WebCT Technology

Course Tasks from Prior Semesters

• WebQuests
  • Finding N.E.M.O. WebQuests
• Technology Book Clubs
• Class Web Site Project

  • English 708 WebCT Course Site

• eProject
  
  • eProject Proposal

Graduate Student eProjects

• Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 011 (Summer I, 2009)
  • Graduate Student Blogs (Summer I, 2009)
• Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 001 (Fall 2008 with Dr. Pagnucci)
• Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 002 (Fall 2008 with Dr. Seloni)
• Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 012 @ 8 a.m. (Summer I, 2008)
• Graduate Student Home Pages--Sec. 011 @ 1 p.m. (Summer I, 2008)
• eProjects I (Fall 2007)
• Graduate Student Home Pages (Fall 2007)
• Graduate Student eProjects Archive
• English 708 Web Site Designed by Class
• Finding N.E.M.O. WebQuests
• 2004 Graduate Student Team Projects

    Dr. Gian S. Pagnucci -- Web Site Copyright Information

• All information on this individual web page and this entire web site is Copyright © 1996-2008 by Dr. Gian S. Pagnucci. All rights reserved.
  
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