Course Calendar Fall 2013

The course calendar provides an overview to the topics and assignments for each week of ds106 for people participating as open students. No one is looking over your shoulders so do as much or as little of this that motivates you. Of course, we expect that you will soon be shouting "#4LIFE" like the rest of us.

Week 1 (Boot Camp)
Week of August 26, 2013

The first week of our "Boot Camp" for getting in shape for ds106; setup of your blogs and creation other social media accounts. Complete Introductions via blog, twitter. Review of a range of media with exploration question of what kind of stories do they tell. Explore concepts of personal cyberinfrastructure


 * Week 1 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/08/26/headless-ds106-week-1-are-you-ready-for-bootcamp/

Week 2 (Boot Camp cont’d)
Week of September 2, 2013

This week you go deeper into customizing your blog with themes/templates, plugins/widgets, and other key settings. Also, this will be the week you get introduced to the Daily Create. As part of Boot Camp activity this week, you will need to write blogs posts that embed media. You will also need to begin commenting on your classmates' blogs and soliciting comments on your own. This week's discussion and reflection will be around the ideas of sharing media and creative commons.


 * Week 2 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/09/02/headless-ds106-week-2-getting-through-bootcamp-personal-cyber-infrastructure/

Week 3 Introduction to Storytelling
Week of September 9, 2013

Storytelling… it’s part of the title this course, and you likely have some idea what it means from your childhood or school years. This week we will explore it in the framing of what you will be doing for the next 13 weeks in ds106. You will hone in on your own understanding of what the Digital part adds, and try your hand at a few creative exercises.


 * Week 3 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/09/09/headless-ds106-week-3-what-mean-ye-digital-storytelling/

Week 4 Audio Intro (Listening)
Week of September 16, 2013

This week in ds106 we’re going to be diving into our first storytelling genre: audio. Working with audio can be a bit daunting and unfamiliar, so we’ll be easing you into it this week. We’ll ask you to do some listening exercises as well as begin to create your own


 * Week 4 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/09/16/headless-ds106-week-4/
 * Week 4 Audio Reviews (Rochelle Lockridge) http://rockylouproductions.com/blog_wp/2013/09/22/audio-reviews-wk04/
 * Rapping, scratching and popping the Headless week 4 audio (Christina Hendricks) http://ds-ina.tumblr.com/post/62220351049/headlessweek4audio

Week 5: Visual
Week of September 23, 2013

In doing your ds106 Daily Creates you’ve already been using photography and drawing skills, plus you’ve had some practice on doing visual stories for our introduction to storytelling. In this week we go a bit deeper and give you the opportunity to practice telling stories in primarily visual form.


 * Week 5 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/09/23/headless-ds106-week-5/

Week 6: Design
Week of September 30, 2013

We’ve wrapped up our week on visual storytelling and photography, and this week we’re diving into design. You’ll spend some time this week thinking about the way the world around you is designed, as well as creating some of your own design projects. This is when we start forming groups for doing the mid term radio show project


 * Week 6 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/09/30/headless-week-6/
 * Group Audio Project Information: http://ds106.us/2013/09/22/headless-group-radio-show-specs/

Weeks 7 & 8: Advanced Audio (radio show)
Weeks of October 7 and October 14, 2013

The next two weeks are all about audio and radio. The majority of your work during this time should be working on your radio show.


 * Week 7&8 Announcement :http://ds106.us/2013/10/07/headless-weeks-7-8/

Week 9: Radio Shows Go Live and Telling Stories Within the Web
Week of October 21, 2013

All the work your groups have done the last two weeks pays off. This week you get to broadcast your shows live on ds106radio. In addition, we move to a different kind of storytelling, one that uses the space of existing web sites as a place for you to assert your own stories into them.


 * Radio Shows Live on the Air: http://ds106.us/2013/10/19/headless-radio-shows/
 * Week 9 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/10/21/headless-week-9/

Week 10: Reading Movies
Week of October 28, 2013 This week we enter what most students find the most challenging yet rewarding portion of ds106: video. Working with video presents challenges with file formats and using more complex software. But the end rewards are often the most rewarding. Before we jump into editing, we want to spend some time first looking critically at the video form and do some pre-planning for your first video editing.


 * Week 10 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/10/28/headless-week-10/

Weeks 11 & 12: Movie Time
Weeks of November 4 and November 11, 2013

It’s time to make movies! Video is perhaps the most rich of storytelling forms, and we want you to focus explicitly now on video storytelling. The only assignments on your plate are to work on video assignments, and all of which are due in two weeks time.


 * Weeks 11 & 12 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/11/04/headless-weeks-11-12/

Week 13 & 14: Remix
'Weeks of November 18 and November 25, 2013 For the next two weeks, you’ll be exploring the ideas of remixes and mashups, the artistic recasting of existing media into new forms by creative combination and editing. This will build off of your previous work in all media forms. And we will even remix assignments.


 * Weeks 13 & 14 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/11/18/headless-weeks-13-14/

Weeks 15 & 16: Final Project and Wrap Up
Weeks of December 2 and December 9, 2013


 * Final Project Specifications: http://ds106.us/2013/12/02/headless-final-project-specs/
 * Weeks 15 & 16 Announcement: http://ds106.us/2013/12/02/headless-week-15/
 * Final Project as Live Radio Show: http://ds106.us/2013/12/09/end-of-headless/