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WeekThree

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1101:

 

 

 

 

conversations getting started, here...how can we amplify the feedback? 

 

(one possible) answer: [http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/License-Arguments mixmasterblog!

 

linking is thinking-->creating conversations, responding to peer claims

Marissa finds resonance on Sam's compelling wiki presence

 

issues-based composition strategies, responding to peers

 


http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Week+2+Assignments

remember--linkpile everyweek!

 

we need - a list of writing actions to be repeated each week:

for example, linkpile.

 

also - for LinkPile to "compost" we need descriptions/enticements next to links

 


definition

behold, a definition argument grows

 

[http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Mikaella's+Ethnography Mikaella's interview]

 

http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Obama+for+Florida:+Ethnography+and+Interview

Jesse visits Obama for Florida

 

Scott's analysis of Guide chapter 4 emphasizes the importance of thick description

 

Going further in his analysis, Scott makes an important connection between description and one of the 3 the rhetorical appeals we introduced last week--pathos

 

http://www.cjlt.ca/content/vol29.2/cjlt29-2_art-5.html

ethnography online - interactive interviewing. chat assignment

 

Kristin visits the art center

 

Jocelyn interviews the managers at her place of employment and creates a stir


sequential art, "guttering," and mashups, and other compositional techniques

 

jessica shows a way to write with images! writing between the panels....

 

Sarah finds a compelling example of remix culture, and provides analysis.

 

They Call Me Socrates is burnin' up!

 

Jesse seems to have embedded his imeem playlist--maybe he can show Zach the hack?

 

[http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Nietzsche's+Thus+spoke+Zarathustra Jesse also shares tips for critical reading] notice the tags/a word about portfolios


1102:

 

1.wiki workshop!

moving from functionality to programmability

what can a wiki do?


2. readings

discussion and application:

Guide Chapter 4, McCloud Chapter 1, Shiva "Introduction," peer writing

 

schan's responses

 

Lauren's responses

 

Danny talks about narrative

 

Roshi7 finding older templates for sustainability discourses, "hot media"

 

Andrea zeros in on green rhetoric, and the effects of branding in green politics

 

Spencer makes connections between and amidst the issues, and reminds us that fascination is an appropriate research technique

 

mixmaster blogging - how to grow an argument in short order


3. process, remixing, and fine-tuning

 

ethos, logos, pathos and the importance of actual audiences

 

 

definitions of sustainability, green computing: who's your audience?

 

 

'zine culture: 'zine for USF CSC?

 


4. web 2.0 biz

tagging: yer it!

 

we agreed that week one was for hacking the wiki, and that it will be easy to catch up during week 2. No penalties for completing WeekOne during WeekTwo

 

 

focus assignment for this week:

 

writing to explore:

 

ethnography/interview assignment (writing to explore):

 

for this week, we will write to share and write to explore.

 

 

first, ask google (i.e. get a working definition of these terms):

 

what is community literacy?

 

and

 

what is green computing?

 

 

a) conduct an ethnography

 

 

 

visit, observe, and create a description of a community center, school, a particular space on our campus, or a nonprofit here in St. Pete. Collect brochures, mission statements, and other literature that will help you compose your description. This description will help you design questions for your interview.

 

 

b) conduct an interview.

 

 

 

From your description, script interview questions hinging on issues related to "green computing." Arrange and conduct an interview with an employee or stakeholder at your site. Record the interview by either taking notes, recording audio, or recording video. Post to the wiki.

 

 

 

c) prepare a brief feasibility report: evaluate the scenario, make a recommendation. Would your site have any use for green computing? Share these potentials with the wiki.

 

for context peruse this grant, which concerns our green computing sandbox (Davis 280). The text of this grant is also copied and pasted below:

 

 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: (left justified 12 pt. type with 1” margins, not to exceed 5 double-spaced pages. See Guidelines for Proposals, p. iii, for details.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scholar and technology advocate Cynthia Selfe argues in Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century that we must pay attention to the omnipresence of technologies and the resulting economic and digital divides. Many people falling through the rift of the so-called “digital divide” already have valuable skills, technological and otherwise, but no resources for developing them into life-long learning practices in technological contexts. Given Selfe’s premise, the Co-PIs recognize the importance of providing access to inexpensive, self-sustaining, open source technology to area schools and propose to systematically examine the role of distributed technology and emergent rhetorical strategies of community-building already percolating in Pinellas schools. The benefits of an inexpensive data processing network that can run a modern graphic user interface and perform the vast majority of academic computing functions using antiquated hardware are difficult to overstate in the political climate described by Selfe. Any technology that can sidestep the expensive site licenses and constant hardware upgrades that currently dominate IT budgets ought to be explored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In select cases, Linux Terminal Server projects and similar open-source solutions have recently enfranchised a technologically underprivileged demographic of students in districts and schools that simply cannot afford new equipment. While most of these success stories are on a small scale, the case of the Atlanta Public School system demonstrates scalability. APS, an urban school system with nearly 100 school campuses, took its cue from two parents at Brandon Elementary who installed a small Linux Terminal Server lab with little effort. APS implemented a large scale pilot K12 LTSP for use by K12 students for the 2006-2007 school year. Even though this project reached 4400 students using 2200 thin clients across 233 classrooms, only 31 dual core, dual processor AMD Opteron servers were required—each school utilized between 1 and 5 of these servers, which can maintain between 70-120 computers. Co-PIs propose creating a similar network in Pinellas County. Of course, the project director and Co-PIs must first investigate feasibility of design, implementation, and maintenance of small wireless networks, including the negotiation of the precise long-term relationships between USFSP faculty and students and the students and teachers learning everyday at community lab sites. By the end of Spring semester 2008, with the connections of this civic and rhetorical “software” in place, the spectrum of potential outcomes broadens considerably.

 

 

 

Each faculty Co-PI will design, and, in Fall 2008, teach outcomes-based, writing-intensive multimedia composition courses that will provide students with the opportunity to directly investigate the capacities of connected computers as a technology of community-formation and communicative performance. Students enrolled in these writing courses will learn how to initialize small thin-client labs at local schools, where they will then collaborate with students, teachers, and administrators, host workshops, organize colloquia, and design research methodologies that address the political, technological, and pedagogical dimensions of the cultural shift, now underway, from vendor-supplied to open-source software.

 

 

 

Indeed, in order to participate in and help generate such a paradigm shift in the way K-12 institutions handle IT, a generation of educators must be trained to be conversant with the relevant technologies and their implementation. This proposal is a step towards USFSP’s role in that larger goal. This project accompanies a shift in pedagogical values from consumption to production. In such an environment, educators and English majors will learn the necessary skills to effectively be their own network administrator, allowing them to take the lead in introducing similar programs in their own environments as they begin their careers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

METHODS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building on existing research and implementation already conducted by Conner and Havasi, all Co-PIs will orchestrate assignments and exercises enjoining USF students in an effort to pilot a model lab at USF, with technical documentation and proposals for duplication. Havasi will present findings at the Undergraduate Research Symposium here at USFSP and help Conner, Gresham, and McCracken select qualified research assistants before he leaves the project in August of 2008. These pilot experiments and user-tests will provide a space for Co-PIs Conner, Gresham, and McCracken to share and revise plans and data concerning the revision of the Writing Major at USFSP. Three aspects of this larger project will come under consideration by means of this lab work:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. the potential role and specific potentials/constraints of community outreach and civic engagement in the new curriculum.

 

 

 

2. the potential role and specific potentials/constraints of open source technology on the USFSP campus.

 

 

 

3. the potential for scaling the pilot lab up into a larger multi-platform and multi-purpose communications laboratory that would be opened to the College of Arts and Sciences and other interested Colleges on our campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUTCOMES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In May 2008, Co-PIs Conner, Gresham, and McCracken will share narratives and data pertaining to this project at the Computers & Writing Conference in Athens, Georgia, “Open Source as a Technology and a Concept” (http://www.cw2008.uga.edu/cw2008/). Because the conference is attended by writing professors and will take open source as its theme, the Co-PIs expect to garner feedback of immediate value to the outreach phase of the project (Fall semester 2008).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Fall semester of 2008, Co-PIs Conner, Gresham, and McCracken will teach courses on a client-based model: Students in these courses will establish duplicate laboratories at three local Pinellas County schools and produce research instruments and narratives documenting the specifics of each case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the conclusion of this final phase in the funding period, we will

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • know more about how technology factors in the communicative performances of the next generation of students and submit our findings to flagship journals in our field.
  • work with liaisons and focus groups to collate data concerning computer literacy and the multimedia practices of teachers and administrators in the school system.
  • create technical documentation and learning modules for the maintenance of Linux Terminal server projects.
  • incorporate feedback and research in efforts to pilot and culture open source technology for a planned college-wide communications laboratory.
  • use collected data to develop community-based writing courses focused on teaching with technology.

 

 

 

 

 

back to WeekThree

 

 

 

http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/thin-client-grant

 

Comments (1)

Anonymous said

at 9:05 am on Sep 17, 2008

what are the assignments for week three? im confused

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