Community Information Systems -- Spring 2001 Schedule

The Evergreen State College

2000 - 2001
Part-Time Program
Community Information Systems
Spring, 2001 Schedule

http://www.scn.org/edu/tesc-ds/2000-2001/spring/schedule.html

Change history (Updated: April 19, 2001):

(April 19, 2001) Added information and link on Plato lecture, April 25.

Unless otherwise noted, class meets in Lib 1612.

[Week 1]
Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Introduction to CIS spring quarter; 1 hr.

Workshop: Project review, self-diagnosis, and scheduling; 1.5 hr.

Project meeting; 1 hr.

For April 11 presentation, read The Engaged Campus: Report and Recommendations (http://www.evergreen.edu/user/csldtf/report.html) the final report of the Evergreen Community-Based Learning DTF.

For April 14 seminar, read Tanzania: A life-saving clinic in remote Chanika, by Anthony Ngaiza, Kenya: The Parking Boys of Nairobi by Dorothy Munyakho (both are from Against All Odds [1989], edited by Donatus de Silva and published by the Panos Insitute). Also read The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric, Harry Cleaver, http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zapeffect.html and/or Computer-lined Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism, Harry Cleaver, http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/polnet.html.
Journal Question #1 (due April 14):
Discuss the opportunities and challenges in applying the techniques discussed in the Cleaver article(s) in assisting communities in third world countries

For June 2 seminar, read Distraction by Bruce Sterling (available in Evergreen book store) over the quarter.
Journal question #4 (due June 2):
In as an imaginative way as you'd like, portray a future that has more or less (or different) social control (and more or less [or different] social capital) than we have now and present how "community information systems" might play a role in that future.

[Week 2]
Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Systematic development of software: Graphic design for the web (DS); 1 hr.

Presentation: Jacinta McCoy and Lin Nelson from Center for Community Partnerships; 1 hr.

Project meeting; 1.5 hrs. (meeting with faculty advisory)

Notes: Randy is not here today. Additional CIS credit students meeting; 5:00 - 6:00 PM outside of Doug's office.
Saturday, April 14, 9:15 AM - 4:00 PM.
Note: Class meets in Lecture Hall 5; seminar is in Lab I 2033 & Lab I 3033

Systematic development of software: Porting (RG); 1 hr.

Workshop: Porting; 1 hr.
Project meeting; 2 hrs.
Seminar; 1.5 hrs.

Assignments due: Journal entry #1.
Readings: For May 5 seminar, read Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics: Introduction, chapter 1. from Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998), by Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink; Cornell University Press.
Journal question #2 (due May 5):
Using one or more concepts from Keck and Sikkink discuss how community systems in general (or your partnership project in particular) might help meet community objectives.
Handouts:
Notes:
[Week 3]
Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Systematic development of software: Debugging (RG); 1 hr.

Project meeting; 1 hr.
Tech Clinic; 1.5 hrs.

[Week 4] Meet in Lecture Hall 3
Wednesday, April 25, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Plato Lecture: Paulina Borsook, author of CyberSelfish. On the Religion of Silicon Valley... the strange land of technolibertarianism
Project meeting; 1.5 hrs. (meeting with faculty advisory)

Readings: For May 2 presentation, scan the Laptop Moratorium Now! (http://www.scn.org/commnet/laptops) campaign web site and read at least four of the letters.
Notes: Additional CIS credit students meeting; 5:00 - 6:00 PM outside of Doug's office.
[Week 5]
Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Systematic development of software: Documentation; 1 hr.

Project meeting; 1.5 hrs.

CIS Fair Planning; 1 hr.

Saturday, May 5, 9:15 AM - 4:00 PM.
Note: Class meets in Lib 1612; Seminar will be in Lab I 2033 & Lab I 3033

Seminar; 1.5 hrs.
Project meeting; 1.5 hrs. (meeting with faculty advisory)

Presentation (DS): Laptop Moratorium Now! campaign; 1 hr.

Tech clinic; 1.5 hrs.

Assignments due: Journal entry #2
Readings: For May 19 seminar, read Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations: From Demobilizers to Agents of Change, and The Internet: Mobilizing in Cyberspace, from Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National Activism (1999), Randy Shaw. University of California Press.
Journal entry #3 (due May 19): How have you seen community based organizations use -- or misuse -- information in pursuit of their mission?
[Week 6]
Wednesday, May 9, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Plato Presentation: The Automatic Professor Machine, Langdon Winner; 1.5 hrs.

Project meeting; 1 hr.

Video: Chelyabinsk; 1 hr

Notes: Additional CIS credit students meeting; 5:00 - 6:00 PM outside of Doug's office.
[Week 7]
Wednesday, May 16, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Systematic development of software (RG): Testing; 1 hr.

Workshop: Testing; .5 hr.

Project meeting; 2 hrs.

Saturday, May 19, 9:15 AM - 4:00 PM.
Note: Class meets in Lecture Hall 4; seminar is in Lab I 2033 & Lab I 3033

Seminar; 1.5 hrs.
Project meeting; 4 hrs. (meeting with faculty advisory)

Assignments due: Journal #3
[Week 8]
Wednesday,May 23, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Systematic development of software (DS): Maintenance; 1 hr.

Project meeting; 2.5 hrs.

[Week 9]
Wednesday, May 30, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Group presentations; 3 hrs.

Notes: Additional CIS credit students meeting; 5:00 - 6:00 PM outside of Doug's office.
Saturday, June 2, 9:15 AM - 4:00 PM.
Note: Class meets in Lecture Hall 4; seminar is in Lab I 2033 & Lab I 3033

Group presentations; 3 hrs.

Seminar; 1.5 hrs. (in morning) -- Distraction

Assignments due: Individual portfolios, Journal #4
[Week 10]
Wednesday, June 6, Noon to 5:00 PM.

Web Application Expo; Library mezzaine (third floor), Noon to 3:00 PM

Reception - All invited! Fourth floor of Library, room L4300

For more information please visit our website http://grace.evergreen.edu/cis/webexpo/ We now have photos from the event!

Assignments due: Project Final Report
Notes: The CIS Fair details need to be worked out. We're hoping to be able to hold the fair between 12 noon (or 1) and, say, 3, followed by a reception for all of us and guests on the fourth floor of the library. That's the idea. Don't know if we can actually meet during this time...
[Evaluation Week]
Wednesday, June 13, 4:00 - 9:00 PM. tentative!

Evaluation Conferences

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