This class website will be our home-base. Here you’ll find our most up-to-date schedule; all course reading / screening material; all assignment descriptions; and daily agendas with links to the various platforms we’ll use during our synchronous meetings and asynchronous interactions. Those platforms include:
- Zoom: we’ll use this video teleconferencing platform for our real-time full-class meetings, for small-group workshops, and for one-on-one conversations. You’re free to join our Zoom room before class officially starts, and to hang out after it officially ends, to engage in informal conversation!
…..If you’re new to, or still not terribly comfortable with, Zoom, take a look at these helpful tips from Vanderbilt University, Cornell’s Ben Finio, and Zoom itself. - Google Drive, Docs, and Slides: We’ll be saving our recorded lectures and slide presentations to a private (i.e., accessible only to registered students!) Google Drive, hosting (optional) asynchronous discussions on a private Google Docs, and sharing our presentations via Google Slides. You’ll be submitting some assignments via Google Drive, too.
- Zotero: our class readings and supplemental resources are all collected in a Zotero repository. You might want to consider using Zotero, an open-source tool, to organize your own research materials (and automate the creation of bibliographies), too!
- Mural: we might use this digital whiteboard to allow us to engage in multimedia concept-mapping, and it could prove useful for communication within small groups and for planning your own projects.
- Others: we might use Hypothesis, Perusall, Voicethread, Twitter, Mozilla Hubs, OpenProject, or other tools if opportunities present themselves.
All readings will be hosted on a private Google Drive and accessible through the class website. If you’re registered for the class at one of the three partnering institutions, you should have access to the Google Drive; if you don’t, please contact your institution’s course faculty.