Multimodal Composition and Digital Publication:
Autoethnography
  • calendar
  • course description
    • policies
  • fall 2016 work in progress
    • gallery
  • keywords
  • assignments
    • weekly blog assignment
    • review of literature
    • presentation
    • infographic
    • interviews
    • artifact analysis
    • reflective letter
    • websites
    • Subtopic Analysis Pages
Heather Julien home

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Calendar will change: keep abreast of updates in class and via email notification.
I am in the process of breaking some content below out into "day files" to streamline the calendar and make it easier to read.
week one

syllabus, introductions
hw: ch 1, Writing and Editing for Digital Media. Read and annotate and write a list of goals for the semester;
submit tentative topics

-week two

--discuss your own writing goals and Ch1 of Writing and Editing for Digital Media
--email questions about the syllabus
-discuss 3 autoethnographies mentioned in course description

--sign up for free weebly site in class
--publish a homepage (non-blog standard page) + a blog page with a title
--publish a brief blog post about your research question (review blog criteria)
--develop a 10-second soundbite about your topic
-discuss review of literature assignment

-hw: read Writer/Designer chapter 1 and post comments/questions in a 2nd blog post
-hw: view this Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner video about autoethnography 
-hw: come to class with 5  keywords or questions from the video written down
week three
-research workshop, Dr. Katie Rawson: lit reviews and research
-be ready to share a soundbite of your topic with Dr. Rawson 
-hw: research summary=
--use library databases to research your topic
--bring a list of 5 sources to class with the following information as best you are able:
a. what type of source is it/where is it from/who wrote it
b. what is the type and/or academic discipline to which it belongs
c. what is the purpose of the source/summary of argument or findings etc
d. can you cluster your sources into different groups, and how would you do that?

-research summary due
-review of literature workshop

1 need research help?: email Katie at katie.rawson@emory.edu
example: Samah 

​-review of literature workshop cont.
​-presentation: accessible design
week 4
rough draft review of literature due
-ROL revision
-MLA in-text citation and works cited at the bottom of the doc
part two: your website

a. homepage revisions/goals
b. by now you have published a homepage with a blog page (as subpage); also another free weebly website entitled autoethnography-specifically; you now must provide a link to your autoethnography from your homepage (and back)

b. using images: public domain, creative commons, your original photography
​hw: structure,design, citation
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 introduction to infographics assignment: how to turn your review of literature into an infographic using pictochart 
hw: view infographic examples; develop criteria (what makes them good or not? what are your goals for your infographic? course/assignment goals?

week 5
rubric for infographic assignment. 
week 6
infographic lab time; introduce artifact analysis (theory, method, examples)
hw: write 500 words about an artifact; publish it to a new page in your autoethnography site
 artifact rubric development
hw: draft topics idea map for the whole autoethnography (4 more subtopics)
 autoethnographic analysis: developing your project; lab time: website development
hw: infographic published
week 7
Recap of pages you should have so far:
--Homepage about *you* (not to be conflated with your autoethnography page)
--Blog as a subpage of homepage: 2 entries: 1. research questions, 2. project development of subtopics
[should the blog be moved?]
​--on a separate site (linked from/to homepage), an autoethnography front page with links/navigation to 9 project pages, of which the following should be published so far:
----Literature Review (prose version)
----Infographic literature review
----Artifact analysis
----Interview write-up #1 (publish your questions and a bio if you have not done the interview yet)
----Interview write-up #2 (publish your questions and a bio if you have not done the interview yet)
----A link back to your homepage from your autoethnography front page
 infographic draft published 
 share infographics and recap all pages due
 image attribution/citation
week 8
 accessible presentations (Jen Sarret); 5-minute lab: captioning images (click on photo; select control . . . caption)
 slide workshop; rubric collaboration
website lab
hw: create your slide show! compose a text to go with it. rehearse it. time it. make your friends or family listen and give feedback!
​wait for your presentation date; grades
week 9
 slide workshop (audience, purpose, controlling idea - review)
hw: slide mock ups due (aka draft of slides) (on paper or in slidemaker of your choice)
-slide presentations workshop; optional meme assignment discussed
website lab (page titles, meme generator, links back to homepage from autoethnography and back to autoethnography front page from the other 9 pages)/email me what you are working on
week 10
presentations
week 11: 
presentations, interviews, conferences, interview write ups due

week 12:  completion, revision, reflection
 assignment reflection draft workshop

week 13: completion, revision, reflection
​reflection workshop  (blog prompt ); group work: what research questions have you 1. asked and not answered, or 2. asked and might answer more fully/differently, or 3. not asked. This can be incorporated into a blog post or the invention of a topic for a final page.
--blog freewrite; bolding keywords
--recap, how to cite every image: even slideshow images; bronze, silver and gold standards
--Read about cc licensing codes and what they mean here
--Search for cc images with license codes here
--format your citation with author, title, cc license code if possible
--swap out images with cc images if you can
--usability experiment: watch a user navigate your website; debug/streamline/revise
--introduce portfolio reflection letter
--homepages: is yours distinct enough from your project page?
​week 14: revision, reflection
 devise website rubric, portfolio reflection letter
portfolio reflection letter, revisions
​portfolio reflection letter, website lab, homepages sorted from autoethnography themes, works cited
week 15:  portfolio reflection letter feedback, user experiment, final navigation, linking back home, publishing and designing your portfolio reflection letter (subpage of your homepage).
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  • calendar
  • course description
    • policies
  • fall 2016 work in progress
    • gallery
  • keywords
  • assignments
    • weekly blog assignment
    • review of literature
    • presentation
    • infographic
    • interviews
    • artifact analysis
    • reflective letter
    • websites
    • Subtopic Analysis Pages