September

Week 1: Thursday, September 22: Introduction to the course. Technology and course survey. Homework: 250 words due in class on Tuesday: what is rhetoric? Read: Crowley-Hawhee reading on rhetoric (handout)

Week 2: Tuesday, September 27: Homework: 500 words for Tuesday, October 4: last class we talked about rhetoric in terms of orality and written language. In the first chapter of _Defining Visual Rhetorics_, what are some of the theories and examples used to relate rhetoric to the study of images?

Week 2: Thursday September 29: NO CLASS

October – Project begins

Week 3: Tuesday October 4 (Research). Introduction to the first steps of  the major project (each of these steps will be graded). Introduction to the first major assignment: the location, analysis, and visual presentation to the class of a mobile application as a rhetorical object. We will spend a large portion of class discussing this assignment and how it will scaffold into the major project.

Week 3: Thursday October 6 (Research) minor assignment one assigned: interview someone using/talking about what/when/why/how someone uses a specific mobile application. Read chapter two of Defining Visual Rhetorics.

Week 4: Tuesday October 11 (Research) Present minor assignment one results to the class. Reading: http://mashable.com/2010/07/07/designing-mobile-apps/ Q: Given C&H & chapters one and two of _Defining_, recast this article with rhetorical concerns in mind. (a paragraph)

Week 4: Thursday October 13 (Research) Presentations on major assignment one. Reading http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/anonymous-messaging-app-vibe-gets-boost-from-occupy-wall-street/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Week 5: Tuesday October 18 (Propose) Additional presentations on major assignment one. Major assignment one is due. Minor assignment two is assigned. Donnie Sackey will visit class today and talk about his mobile application design. Major assignment two assigned. For homework read, Hart-Davidson “What Technical Communicators Should Know”: http://writingforelectronicmedia.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hart-Davidson.pdf

Week 5: Thursday October 20 (Propose) Read documentation/watch videos on http://www.redfoundry.com/

Week 6: Tuesday October 25 (Propose) Read chapter 12 in _Defining Visual Rhetorics_. Download gimp at http://www.gimp.org. Tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmwvJCfX6iQ

and http://www.creativecommons.org

Week 6: Thursday October 27 (Design)  Guest speaker Bradley Cruse will talk about his mobile applications project. For homework, download and install Axure (available for a 30 day trial on OS X/Windows) at http://www.axure.com. I want you to watch the quickstart tutorial here http://www.axure.com/quickstart and create a basic wireframe for an application designed to help first year students at UC.

November

Week 7: Tuesday November 1 (Design) Major assignment two is due.

Week 7: Thursday November 3 (Design)  Major assignment three is assigned. Read: Pederson, ““No Apple iPhone? You Must Be Canadian”: Mobile Technologies, Participatory Culture, and Rhetorical Transformation”  www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/download/2100/2023

Week 8: Tuesday November 8 (Produce) Beyond Redfoundry: http://teamtreehouse.com/ For homework read: http://engl377.rid.olfo.org/readings/usabilityarticle.pdf and http://www.usability.gov/methods/design_site/prototyping.html

note: login: rhetoric

pass: visual

Week 8: Thursday November 10 (Produce) Minor assignment three is assigned. Using the usability.gov reading, conduct a paper-based usability evaluation of your interface mockup. Read _Defining Visual Rhetorics_ chapter 11

Week 9: Tuesday November 15 (Produce) Reading TBA

Week 9: Thursday November 17 (Produce) Major assignment 3 due. Reading TBA

Week 10: Tuesday November 22 (Produce) Minor assignment three is due. Reading TBA

Week 10: Thursday November 24: NO CLASS THANKSGIVING

Week 11: Tuesday November 29 (Present) Final presentations.

December

Week 11: Thursday December 1 (Present) Final presentations. Major assignment four is due.