Readings and Schedule
Week 1: Course Introduction// Land Grant Readings (assigned)// Charismatic Online Interviews
In class- Activity: Find interviews, podcasts that are popular and resonate with you.
- What interviews/podcasts have the most hits?
- Why does something go viral?
Week 2: DRES// Screening: On Charismatic Interviewees
- Beckwith Hall 25th Anniversary publication
- Selections, Expanding Horizons: History of DRES, 1998-:
- Timeline - Legislation, Assisted Living History, and DRES History
- Tim Nugent, “Let’s Look Beyond . . .”
- The Para-Backhand Pushing Technique (1994)
Possible documentary materials to include or view in class: The Game Changer, IPM’s Illinois Pioneers interview with Tim Nugent, IPM’s Jean Driscoll interview
Week 3: Allen Hall/ Unit 1 (Educational Reform)// On Charismatic Objects
Oral History - Howard Schein
Week 4: BCL
- Bethany Anderson, "Heinz von Foerster and The Biological Computer Laboratory: A Cybernetics Odyssey," University of Illinois Archives blog.
- Peter Asaro, “Heinz von Foerster and the Bio-Computing Movements of the 1960s,” in Albert Müller and Karl H. Müller (eds.) An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory | BCL 1958-1976 (2007)
- Selections, Heinz von Foerster/Monika Silvia Broecker, Part of the World: Fractals of Ethics - A Drama in Three Acts, ed. Jamie Hutchinson, trans. Barbara Anger-Diaz
- Jamie Hutchinson, “‘Nerve center’ of the cybernetic world: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory.”
- "Kybernetik in Urbana," an interview with Paul Weston conducted by Jan Mueggenburg and Jamie Hutchinson
- The Whole University Catalog (1969)
- Stuart Umpleby, "Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment," Cybernetics And Human Knowing Vol. 10, nos. 3-4, pp. 187-190
Week 5: Archive Visit I: Finding Visual Materials
Week 6: Interview Listening Exercise // Readings on Circulation Online
Week 7: PLATO / eMusic // Assigning Documentary Treatment Exercise
- Don Bitzer, “The Wide World of Computer-Based Education,” Advances in Computers 12 (1976), 239-283
- Don Bitzer, "Use of CBE for the Handicapped," American Annals of the Deaf 124.5 (1979)
- Valerie Lamont, “New Directions for the Teaching Computer: Citizen Participation in Community Planning,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 5 (1973), 149-162
- Stuart Umpleby, “Citizen Sampling Simulations: A Method for Involving the Public in Social Planning,” Policy Sciences 1 (1970): 361-375
- Selected posts, Brian Dear’s PLATO History blog
- David R. Woolley, “PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community” (republished from January 1994 issue of Matrix News)
Week 8: Mosaic/NCSA -- Women + Visual Arts @ NCSA// Treatment Pitches// Assign Expanded Treatment
Week 9: LEEP // PraireNet / Project Gutenburg// Review Expanded Treatment Assignment
- Selections, Catherine Haythornthwaite and Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice, New York: Peter Lang, 2004
Week 10: Software Editing Workshop Part One: Marking Up Clips// Expanded Treatment Due
Week 11: Software Editing Workshop Part II: Assembling Segments // Lab Tours (Spec FU)
Week 12: Software Editing Workshop Part III: Marketing Plan
Week 13: Archive Visit II: B Roll
Week 14: Rough Cut Screening // Feedback Form
Week 15: Thanksgiving Break
Week 16: Final Screening
