Revised: January 24, 1997
Please be advised that this schedule is dynamic. Expect changes!

Week 1 (January 11, 1997) Getting Started

• Instructor introduction
• Course objectives
• Student introductions
• Lectures
• Readings and Seminars
• Research project
• Virtual event
• Schedule
• Community Space and Cyberspace Conference (Field Trip)
• Course design issues

Virtual event: First cut at topics and grouping

Lecture: An introduction to the Internet and the Web

Computer lab Introduction

Library tour

Guest lecture: Malcolm Parks, Associate Professor, Speech Communication, University of Washington."What researchers look at when they look at life on-line"

Week 2 (January 18, 1997 [half-day]) Overviews of the On-Line World

Note: Instructor will be in Oslo at the "Technology and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives" Conference. Students will still meet on this date.

Virtual event: Meet in groups and begin developing plan.

Seminar: On readings

Week 3 (January 25, 1997) What is Community?

Briefing: "Technology and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives" Conference.

Discussion: Where are we? Status on activities.

• Last week's seminar
• Accounts and distribution list
• Research project: Each student should have topic or theme tentatively identified by today.
• DIAC-97 conference
• Group project

Seminar: On readings (one hour in small groups; one hour in large group)

Lunch

Guest lecture: Russ Fox, Olympia community activist

Video: "Upon Reflection with Howard Rheingold" produced by Marcia Alvar.

Group project: Brain-storming and planning

Tutorial: "WWW, URLs, and HTML: The meaning behind the letters"

Research projects: Independent and group work

Next Week

• Each student should send me an interesting URL by Wednesday.
• Research project initial plan due.

Week 4 (February 1, 1997) Libraries

Guest lecture: "Libraries and the Net", Bruce Ziegman, Assistant Director, Fort Vancouver Regional Library.

Seminar: On readings

Virtual event: Project meeting

Guest lecture: Elle Tracy, Write Stuff, Lead Editor and Web Producer, a Microsoft web site, "Designing a Great Web Site"

Research project: Initial plan due

Discussion: Research topics, problems, and ideas

Week 5 (February 8, 1997) Community Networks

Welcome to Saturday morning, review agenda, treasurer's report. 9:00 - 9:15

Video: "If it plays in Peoria...", 9:15 - 9:30

Seminar: On readings. 9:30 - 11:30.

Video: "NETROOTS: Cultivating the Digital Park", Paper Tiger Television. 11:30 - 12:00.

Lunch. 12:00 - 12:30

Guest lecture: Walt Jorgensen and other members of the South Sound Community Computing Network planning committee. Walt is vice president of TCTV, the public access television station and a Tumwater city council member. 12:30 - 2:00

Briefest of demos - Netscape: 2:00 - 2:10
Note that we will look at the Interesting URLs that the class contributed.

Exercise: 2:10 - 3:00

Virtual Event Group Meeting: 3:00 - 4:00

Lecture (next week): "How to kill community networks"

Week 6 (February 15, 1997) "Electronic Democracy"

Guest lecture: Somebody from state government

Seminar: On topic above

Discussion: Progress on research project

Discussion: Progress on virtual events

Video: Something from Paper Tiger Television Collective

Lecture: What is democracy?

Tutorial: Java and/or CGI programming

Demonstrations: Collaborative tools like C-U-See-Me and MBONE. (I hope.)

Virtual event: Project meeting

Week 7 (February 22, 1997 [half-day]) Student Work Day

Note: Instructor will be in Munich at the Democracy and Internet Conference. Students will still meet on this date.

Seminar: Maybe!

Virtual event: Project meeting

Week 8 (March 1, 1997

Note: March 1 (Saturday) and March 2 (Sunday), we will be attending the Community Space and Cyberspace: What's the Connection conference in Seattle.

Group meeting(s) during conference: March 2, time and place TBD.

Week 9 (March 8, 1997) Technical directions

Guest lecture: Charles Ditzel, Tactical Engineer, Sun Microsystems, "New Applications: Shadows of the Future."

Guest Lecture: Erik Stolterman, University of Umea, Sweden, "Avatars and Meta Worlds: On the Screen and In Real Life."

Virtual event: Presentations (part I)

Seminar: On topic above

Week 10 (March 15, 1997) Winter Wrap-Up

Guest lecture: Andy Gordon, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, "Public Policy and the Internet."

Virtual event: Presentations (part II)

Research project: Peer-reviews

Seminar: On topic above

Lecture: "A Tapestry of Community Communication Projects"

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