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1

th-1.17.13

Introductions & What is Literacy?

 

 

 

2

th-1.24.13

Further Definitions of Literacy

  • Buy textbook
  • Respond to instructor's introductory email
  • Read Ong "Writing is a Technology..." [BB]
  • Read Olsen "Writing and the Mind" [BB]
  • Read Scribner and Cole "Unpacking Literacy" [BB]
  • Read Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola "Blinded by the Letter" [BB]
3

th-1.31.13

Histories of Literacy Education

  • Read Graff "Nineteenth Century Origins..." [BB]
  • Read Brereton "The First Composition Program" [BB]
  • Read Fox "From Freedom to Manners" [BB]
  • Submit Blog Entry #1 on Blogger by the beginning of class
4

th-2.7.13

Dewey's Pedagogical Philosophy

  • Read Dewey from Democracy and Education [BB]
  • Read Freire "The Banking Concept of Education" [BB]
  • Submit Proposal to the instructor as an email attachment <lastname.doc> by the beginning of class
5

th-2.14.13

Modern Literacy Education

6

th-2.21.13

Defining Multiliteracies

 

  • Read Cope and Kalantzis "Introduction" [ML]
  • Read The New London Group "The Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" [ML]
  • Read Cope and Kalantzis "Designs for Social Futures" [ML]
  • Read Selber "Reimagining Computer Literacy" [BB]
  • Read Unsworth "Introduction" & "Changing Dimensions of School Literacies" [BB]
  • Submit Blog Entry #3 on Blogger by the beginning of class
  • Pedagogical Tool Review: Cobos & Spangler
7

th-2.28.13

Multiliteracies as Pedagogy

 

 

  • Read Cope and Kalantzis "A Multiliteracies Pedagogy" [ML]
  • Read Cazden "Taking Cultural Difference into Account" [ML]
  • Read Micheals and Sohmner "Narratives and Inscriptions" [ML]
  • Submit Blog Entry #4 on Blogger by the beginning of class
  • Pedagogical Tool Review: LaVeist & Locklear
8

th-3.7.13

The Politics of Literacy Education

  • Read Gutierrez "'Sameness as Fairness'" [BB]
  • Read Lo Bianco "Multiliteracies and Multilingualism" [ML]
  • Read Canagarajah "Lingua Franca English..." [Modern Language Journal; 91.5, 2007]
  • Read Ahmad & Nero "Productive Paradoxes" [Pedagogy, 12.1]
  • Submit Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class
9

th-3.14.13

Spring Break: No Class

 
10

th-3.21.13

The New Technologies of Literacy
 
  • Read Luke, "Cyber-Schooling and Technological Change" [ML]
  • Read Kress, "Multimodality" [ML]
  • Read Sheridan "Fabricating Consent" [Computers and Composition, 27.4]
  • Read Hamilton, "Virtual Cities" [Pedagogy, 13.1]
  • Submit Pedagogy Project to the instructor as a hard copy (or appropriate media) by the beginning of class
11

th-3.28.13

Poetics & Pedagogy (Guest Speakers: Dr. Igloria & Dr. Appleton)

  • Read Showalter "The Anxiety of Teaching" & "Teaching Poetry" [BB]
  • Read Vanderslice "Once More to The Workshop" [BB]
  • Read Haake "Re-envisioning the Workshop" [BB]
  • Read Leahy "Teaching as a Creative Act"
  • Read Menand "Show or Tell" [BB]

Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is April 2, 2013

12

th-4.4.13

Professional Writing Pedagogy (Guest Speaker: Dr. Julia Romberger)

  • Read Yu "Intercultural Competence in Technical Communication" [BB]
  • Read Walsh "Constructive Interference" [BB]
  • Read Batorsky & Renick-Butera "Using Role-Playing to Teach Technical Communication" [BB]
13

th-4.11.13

WAC and WPA Mentoring (Guest Speakers: Dr. Joyce Neff & Dr. Louise Wetherbee Phelps)

  • Read Latterell "Training the Work Force" [BB]
  • Read Hansen "Face to Face with Part-Timers" [BB]
  • Read Yancey "The Professionalization of TA Development Programs" [BB]
  • Read Ashe "Fostering Cultures of Great Teaching" [BB]
  • Read Ronald "'Befriending' Other Teachers Communities of Teaching and the Ethos of Curricular Leadership" [Pedagogy]
  • Read Phelps "Teacher Preparation and Mentoring as a WPA" & "Faculty for Writing Instruction" [BB]
  • Read Russell "Where Do the Naturalistic Studies of WAC/WID Point?" [WAC for the New Millennium]
  • Read Thaiss "Theory in WAC" [WAC for the New Millennium]
  • Read Neff "Micro WAC Workshop" & Slides [BB]
14

th-4.18.13

Distance Education

15

th-4.25.13

e-Poster Session: 7:30-8:30pm

Finals

th-5.2.13

Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns

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