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nm 142: COVID-19 PLAN
Hi all NM 142 History/Theory Students,
Here is the plan. No homework over break. Class doesn't really begin until Wednesday, March 25. Below is a list of what remains for the rest of the semester. We won't have class meeting times. We have one mini-test and your final paper. Everything else is optional.
FREE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE:
You probably won't need it for this class, but just FYI, Adobe has made the creative suite free to students during this time. Here are the instructions >>. Let ITS know if you get stuck setting up and they should be able to help you. Let me know if you're still stuck, and we'll figure it out.
TEST:
We will only have one more mini-test. It will be on exam day (May 4). I will email the mini-test questions to everyone and there will be a place on moodle for you to post your responses. Your responses will be due 11:55 pm, May 4. The mini-test will still be open book and open notes, but not open internet. It will include all of the readings from the New Media & Culture Theory section, plus the Hito Steyerl reading. There will be four questions. Here are all the readings, in order:
"CLASS DISCUSSIONS": (visit lectures and notes for class discussions >)
No zoom or google hangout or online real time meetings. I will film simulated "class discussions" about the above readings, but I will have the discussions with myself. I will give the same introduction to the reading that I would in class, and ask the same questions about the reading that I would ask class, but I will also answer my own questions as if I were a student, and I will have a simulated discussion with myself. I will send out an email with a link whenever a new "class discussion" is viewable online.
It is best to do the reading prior to watching its "class discussion" video, but if you want to do the readings after watching the videos, I won't be able to stop you. You can do the readings any time, and watch the videos any time. Just as long as you do all the readings and watch all the videos prior to the mini-test.
PAPER:
The paper is due on exam day, May 4, at 11:55pm. There is a place to upload it on moodle.
OPTIONAL PAPER DELIVERABLES:
Your thesis paragraph, rough bibliography, paper outline, and rough draft are all now optional. Your paper will be better if you take advantage of these deliverables, because they will allow you to get formative feedback from me prior to the final paper. But they are not required. You can upload any of these deliverables to moodle whenever you want throughout the semester, but go in order. In other words, don't upload the outline, and then upload the thesis sentence, because that would be backwards. But if you just want to upload a few of these things, or one of these things, or none of these things, it won't affect your grade. If you would like help pacing yourself, you may refer to the old due dates at the bottom of the rough project calendar.
Once you upload something, send me an email saying you have uploaded it. I will check all these optional deliverables on Monday once per week, so everything is due Sunday at 11:55 pm. So, for example, if you upload an outline that you want me to look at, and you upload it Monday morning, I won't look at it until the following Monday morning. If you upload it on Sunday night, I will look at it the next morning. It just all accumulates for a week, and then I look at all of it Monday of the next week.
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Hopefully all of this makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions. My goal is to give you as much autonomy and flexibility as possible during this strange season, while still causing learning to occur. The first "class discussion" video should appear next week. I will send out an email with the link when it is available. It will be about the Benjamin reading. In that same email, I will also include you your test grades from the last mini-test.
Curt Cloninger
Associate Professor of New Media
UNC Asheville
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