Course Schedule
This schedule is subject to change and does not list tall of the readings and shorter assignments. All readings are linked below or posted in Blackboard (Bb).
Date | In-class Learning/Activity | Homework/Assessment | ||
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTIONS | ||||
Th 1/25 | Collaborative icebreaker & in-class writing. Introduction to the course and our website. | Set up your site! | ||
WEEK 2: FOUNDATIONS OF COLLABORATION | ||||
T 1/30 | Collaboration has a history that complicates & compliments our experiences. Discuss Fitzgerald & Ianetta (Bb) together. Assign Bruffee groups. | Read Bruffee (Bb); groups will present next class. | ||
Th 2/1 | Discuss Bruffee. In-class writing towards BP1. | Assign Blog Post (BP) to get you writing a brief history of collaborative learning. | ||
WEEK 3: FOUNDATIONS OF COLLABORATION (continued) | ||||
T 2/6 | Work together on WordPress sites. Look together at “Writing Center as Homeplace” & “Doing More with Barely Enough” for how they model collaborative writing. | BP1 due: Collaboration within a Community. | ||
Th 2/8 | Assign Project 1: Collaborative Histories. Consider models of presenting and organizing knowledge for your Collaborative History Project. | Read Lunsford & Ede (Bb). | ||
WEEK 4: FOUNDATIONS OF COLLABORATION | (continued) | |||
T 2/13 | Discuss Lunsford & Ede. Compare published models of collaborative writing. Make a group timeline, assign roles, plan! In-class writing towards BP2. | Read chapters 2 & 5 from Team Writing. Assign BP2: What’s your group’s collaborative writing plan? | ||
Th 2/15 | In-class Project Management Time. Using terms from Chapters 2 & 5 of Wolfe’s Team Writing assign a project manager who will create a task schedule and straw document. Assign BP2 due next class. | Work on Collaborative Learning History Project | ||
WEEK 5: AGENCY IN COLLABORATION | ||||
T 2/20 | BP2 due. Report on your group’s progress & build a plan to finish project by 2/27. Introduce Nowacek & Cooper. | Read Nowacek and Cooper. Finish Collaborative Learning History Project due 2/27! | ||
Th 2/22 | CLASS FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE | |||
WEEK 6: AGENCY IN COLLABORATION (cont) | ||||
T 2/27 | Collaborative Learning History Project due. Create a collaboratively authored rubric. | Collaborative Learning History Project due! Read Nowacek & Cooper. | ||
Th 2/29 | Discuss Nowacek & Cooper. Assign BP3. | Read Brandt & complete BP3 about intra-action and agency. | ||
WEEK 7: COLLABORATING WITH NONHUMAN AGENTS | ||||
T 3/5 | Finish discussing Cooper and work on BP3 in-class. | Finish BP3 on Intra-action & Agency in Our Own Writing. Read Brandt. | ||
Th 3/7 | Discuss Brandt to expand our notions of collaboration and agency. Play with Chat GPT and other AI language models. Report back. Keep your notes. | Read Morrison & Doyal et al. | ||
WEEK 8: COLLABORATING WITH A.I. | ||||
3/12 | Play with Artificial Intelligence! | Read “How to Cite ChatGPT” & “How Do I Cite Generative AI in MLA Style?” Write BP4 Reflecting on AI Play | ||
3/14 | Assign Project 2: Writing Our Course’s Syllabus Statement for Using Artificial Intelligence. What is a Syllabus Statement? Basic internet search for A.I. statements in higher education. Genre analysis. Also search “Collaborative Writing.” Discuss “How to Cite ChatGPT” & “How Do I Cite Generative AI in MLA Style?” | Write BP5 Human/nonhuman agents & AI | ||
WEEK 9: COLLABORATING WITH A.I. (cont.) | ||||
3/19 | Gallery walk in the service of drafting the Syllabus Statement on AI. | BP5 due today. Read Metz’s and Marantz’s texts, available on Bb. | ||
3/21 | Composing our AI Statement | Assign BP6 Expanding Collaboration-The Gallery Walk (and more!) | ||
WEEK 10: COLLABORATING WITH A.I. (cont.) | ||||
3/26 | Class canceled due to illness | |||
3/28 | Composing our AI Statement part 2 | |||
WEEK 11: COLLABORATING WITH A.I. (cont.) | ||||
4/2 | Revising our AI statement | Assign BP7 Reflection on Collaboration | ||
4/4 | CLASS CANCELLED: ANDREA @CONFERENCE | |||
WEEK 12: CODING OUR COLLABORATION | ||||
4/9 | Assign final project. | BP7 due. READ Charmaz | ||
4/11 | Review Charmaz & practice collaboratively coding data. | READING Rainey and Smith. | ||
WEEK 13: FROM CODING TO AUTOETHNOGRAPHY | ||||
4/16 | Map your findings from ground theory coding alongside your own experience of collaboration this semester. Go back to BP 7 to see what you wrote! | Compose draft of autoethnography | ||
4/18 | CLASS CANCELLED: ANDREA WILL BE AWAY | |||
SPRING BREAK 4/22-4/30 | ||||
WEEK 14: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT | ||||
Th 5/2 | Review Rainey’s and Smith’s essays. | |||
WEEK 15: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT (cont) | ||||
T 5/7 | Writing Workshop. | |||
Th 5/9 | Peer review. | About page on Blog | ||
WEEK 16: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT (cont) | ||||
T 5/14 | LAST CLASS! Ask any final questions & review About pages. | |||
Th 5/16 | Final Project due! |