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).

DateIn-class Learning/ActivityHomework/Assessment
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTIONS 
Th 1/25Collaborative icebreaker & in-class writing. Introduction to the course and our website.Set up your site!
WEEK 2: FOUNDATIONS OF COLLABORATION 
T 1/30Collaboration 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 2/1Discuss 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 2/6Work 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 2/8Assign 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 2/13Discuss 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 2/15In-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 2/22CLASS FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE 
WEEK 6: AGENCY IN COLLABORATION (cont) 
T 2/27Collaborative Learning History Project due. Create a collaboratively authored rubric.Collaborative Learning History Project due! Read Nowacek & Cooper.
Th 2/29Discuss Nowacek & Cooper. Assign BP3.Read Brandt & complete BP3 about intra-action and agency.
WEEK 7: COLLABORATING WITH NONHUMAN AGENTS 
T 3/5Finish discussing Cooper and work on BP3 in-class.Finish BP3 on Intra-action & Agency in Our Own Writing. Read Brandt.
Th 3/7Discuss 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.  
3/12Play with Artificial Intelligence!
Read “How to Cite ChatGPT” & “How Do I Cite Generative AI in MLA Style?”
Write BP4 Reflecting on AI Play
3/14Assign 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.) 
3/19Gallery walk in the service of drafting the Syllabus Statement on AI.BP5 due today. Read Metz’s and Marantz’s texts, available on Bb.
3/21Composing our AI StatementAssign BP6 Expanding Collaboration-The Gallery Walk (and more!)
WEEK 10: COLLABORATING WITH A.I. (cont.)
3/26Class canceled due to illness
3/28Composing 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 TBD.
WEEK 13: FROM CODING TO AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 
4/16Map 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
4/18CLASS CANCELLED: ANDREA WILL BE AWAY 
 SPRING BREAK 4/22-4/30 
WEEK 14: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT 
Th 5/2 In-class peer review & writing workshop 
 WEEK 15: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT (cont)  
T 5/7 TBD 
Th 5/9 CLASS CANCELLED: ANDREA AT CONFERENCE About page on Blog
 WEEK 16: COMPOSING THE FINAL DRAFT (cont)  
T 5/14Final Project due!