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Tuesday

Thursday

Week 1: Sept 8-11

Introductions, Survey/group formation, Syllabus, Reading Assignment

Group Project: TWT Publishing

Group Project: TWT talk, view Anne Kitalong-Will's TWIT web page, schedule drafts of TWT project

Hackos/Williams Discussion

Week 2: Sept. 14-18

Group Project Planning: review workshop & Baldridge materials, set up interviews with audience representatives

Technology demo/workshop

Hackos/Williams Discussion

Group evaluations (see Hackos, Chapter 28)

Interview Assignment

In-class interview of Karla Kitalong

Week 3: Sept. 21-25

Task analysis and Site analysis for TWT projects, Gannt Chart samples 1& 2

Individual Assignment

Hackos/Williams Discussion

Technology demo/workshop

Week 4: Sept. 28-Oct. 2

TWT Project: Draft review (see Hackos, Chapter 9 & 14): Revise over weekend

Interviews with Professionals Pub. Managers about working conditions outside of classtime.

Interview users of Professional Identity Project (HS & first-year students interested in STC/STA) outside of class

TWT Project: Draft review (see Hackos, Chapter 9 & 14): Revise over weekend

Interviews with Professionals Pub. Managers about working conditions outside of classtime

Institutional Autobiographies due

Week 5: Oct. 5-9

TWT Project Proposal Due

Professional magazine exercise

Hackos/Williams Discussion

Professional email list presentations due and given in class

Week 6: Oct. 12-16

Individual Project Proposals/Content Specifications due

Group presentations on interviews with TC Professionals--job

Interview Professional Managers out of class on production process for their publications

Hackos/Williams Discussion

Group presentations on interviews with TC Professionals--job

Interview Professional Managers out of class on production process for their publications

Week 7: Oct. 19-23

Professional magazine exercise

Interview Professional Managers out of class on production process for their publications

Hackos Discussion--Usability Testing

Interview Professional Managers out of class on production process for their publications

Week 8: Oct. 26-30

Group presentations on interviews with TC Professionals--production

Beta version of TWT Project due

Begin usability testing

Hackos Discussion

Group presentations on interviews with TC Professionals--production

Continue usability testing

Week 9: Nov. 2-6

Professional magazine exercise

Beta versions of Individual Projects due

In-class reveiws of Individual Projects

Ong/Kalmbach Discussion

Week 10: Nov. 9-13 In-class reveiws of Individual Projects In-class reveiws of Individual Projects
 Finals Week Final version of TWT Projects due by Tuesday of Finals Week. Hand them in w/ cover memo and evaluation of group members' participation (For more info. on this last item, see Hackos, Chapter 28) Final version of Individual Projects due by Tuesday of Finals Week. Hand them in w/ evaluations of time estimates and publishing process analysis. (For more info. on this last item, see Hackos, Chapter 27)

 


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