[Sp23] Community Innovation - IS/MACS266: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Assignments, Readings and Schedule

Course Week: Date – Lecture
Assignments: are listed for the week they are assigned, and due the following week
Reading: Same as above (i.e. week 1’s readings should be read before week 2's class)

 
W1: 1/17 – Introductions to the Class & Instructors
Reading:W1: 1/19 Thursday Lab: (Independent) Documenting Campus Spots

W1: Assignments (Due 1/23): Documenting Campus Spots Report & Reading Response

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W2: 1/24 – Innovating Landgrant
Reading:In Class Resources:W2: 1/26 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Visit to Alice Campbell Hall Alumni Center, 601 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana

W2: Assignments (Due 1/30): Alice Campbell Hall Report & Reading Response

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W3: 1/31 – Innovating Accessibility: DRES
Reading:W3: 2/2 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Visit to DRES (Disabilities Resources and Educational Services), 1207 S Oak St, Champaign

W3: Assignents (Due 2/6): Historicizing Research Ethics and Documenting DRES

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W4: 2/7 – Historicizing the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Documenting Accessibility on Campus
Reading:

W4: 2/9 Thursday Lab -- (Independent) Documenting Accessibility on Campus

W4: Assignments (Due 2/13): Historicizing the IRB and Documenting Accessibility on Campus

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W5: 2/14 – Archive & Research Methods 
Reading:
W5: 2/16 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Visit to the University of Illinois Archives,  146 Library 1408 West Gregory St, Urbana

W5: Assignments (Due 2/20): Reading Response and University Archive Visit Report

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W6: 2/21 – Social Reform, Accessibility, Safety, & Inclusion: Project 500 & Nevada Street
Reading: 

W6: 2/23 Thursday Lab -- (Independent) Visiting and Documenting UIUC Cultural Centers

W6: Assignments (Due 2/27): Reading Response and Documenting UIUC Cultural Centers

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W7: 2/28 – People and Data -- Surveys & Data Bias
Reading:
W7: 3/2 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Visit to the Student Live and Culture Archives (SLCA), 1707 S Orchard St, Urbana 
W7: Assignments (Due 3/6 ): Reading Response and Preliminary Proposal


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W8: 3/7 – LLCs & Alternative Education Programs 
Reading:
W8: 3/9 Lab -- (Group) Visit to the Main Library, Room 220 (1408 W. Gregory Dr.)
W8: Assignments (Due 3/20): Reading Response and Secondary Sources

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W9: 3/14 – SPRING BREAK! 

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W10: 3/21 – Survey Refinement and Release
Reading:
W10: 3/23 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Consent, Interviews, and Project Discussion, in 1047 Sydney Lu.
W10: Assignments (Due 3/27): Reading Response and Interview Prep

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W11: 3/28 – Student Movements -- Alumni Visit 
Reading:

W11: 3/30 Thursday Lab -- On your own - Use this time for interviews!W11: Assignments (Part 1 is Due 4/3, Part 2 is due 4/10): Reading Response and Interviews

 
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W12: 4/4 – Plato and Alternative Education 
Reading:
Fernanda ViĆ©gas,  Martin Wattenberg "Design and Redesign"
Josh Cottrell-Schloemer, "Excel is your most overlooked design tool"
Explore the visualizations on this site: The Atlas Of Redistricting
Explore the visualizations on this site: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?

W12: 4/6 Thursday Lab -- -- (Group) Visit to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801. Advanced Visualization Lab. Map to NCSA from Sidney Lu Bldg.

W12: Assignments (Due 4/10): Reading Response and Interviews

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W13: 4/11 – Visualization Styles and Goals
Reading:

W13: 4/13 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Vis with Excel in 1047 Sidney. Lab worksheet here.
W13: Assignments (Due 4/17): Reading Response and Outline/Slides


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W14: 4/18 – Data in the Community
Reading:
(Skim if interested)

W14: 4/20 Thursday Lab -- (Group) We will go over the five slides and work on visualizations in 1047 Sidney.

W14: Assignments:  Work on your final projects!  Presentations begin 4/27.

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W15: 4/25 – NCSA's MOSAIC
Readings: none

W15: 4/27 Thursday – Final Presentations (Papers Due 5/9)
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W16: 5/02 – Final Presentations (Papers Due 5/9)

The final paper is due by email to the teaching team at IS266TeachingTeam@gmail.com at 9am Tuesday, May 9th.