Course Calendar Spring 2013

The course calendar will provide an overview to the topics and assignments for each week of ds106 at the University of Mary Washington. Each week features a live internet show on Tuesdays as a review of the week's content and online open labs on Thursdays.

Each student will have requirements to participate in the weekly live video starting in week 3

Week 1 (Boot Camp)
all work is due midnight January 20, 2013

The first week of our "Boot Camp" for getting in shape for ds106; setup of your Wordpress 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.


 * Week 1 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/01/14/week-1-ds106-bootcamp/
 * Week 1 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/01/15/ds106-show-week-1-episode/
 * 'Week 1 Open Lab :http://ds106.us/2013/01/17/from-the-open-lab-week-1/

Week 2 (Boot Camp cont’d)
all work is due midnight January 27, 2032

This week we go deeper into customizing your blog with themes, plugins, 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/2013/01/21/week-2-getting-through-bootcamp/
 * Week 2 Show : url http://ds106.us/2013/01/22/ds106-show-week-2-episode/
 * Week 2 Open Lab : http://ds106.us/2013/01/24/open-lab-week-2/

Week 3 Introduction to Storytelling
all work is due midnight February 3, 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/2013/01/28/week-3-what-mean-ye-digital-story/
 * Week 3 Show : url http://ds106.us/2013/01/29/ds106-show-week-3-episode/
 * Week 3 Open Lab : url TBA

Week 4 Audio Intro (Listening)
all work is due midnight February 10, 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/2013/02/03/week-four-audio-listening/
 * Week 4 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/02/04/ds106-show-week-4-its-audio/
 * Week 4 Open Lab : cancelled

Week 5: Visual
all work is due midnight February 17, 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/2013/02/11/ds106-show-week-5-visual-storytelling/
 * Week 5 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/02/11/ds106-show-week-5-visual-storytelling/
 * Week 5 Open Lab :http://ds106.us/2013/02/15/open-lab-week-5-visual-stuff/

Week 6: Design
all work is due midnight February 24, 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.


 * Week 6 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/02/18/week-6-its-all-designed/
 * Week 6 Show :http://ds106.us/2013/02/21/ds106-show-week-6-its-all-by-design/
 * Week 6 Open Lab :http://ds106.us/2013/02/21/open-lab-week-6-designing-gimping/
 * Group Audio Project Information: http://ds106.us/2013/02/18/radio-shows-details/

Weeks 7 & 8: Advanced Audio (radio show)
all work is due midnight March 17,, 2013

The next two weeks are all about audio and radio This time wraps around Fall Break (March 4-March 8). The majority of your work during this time should be working on your radio show which is due Friday, March 15th by midnight.


 * Week 7&8 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/02/25/weeks-7-8-audio-and-radio-show/

Week 9: Radio Shows Go Live and Telling Stories Within the Web
all work is due midnight March 24, 2013

All the work your groups have done the last two weeks pays off as your shows will be broadcast on ds106 radio (March 18, 2013 As the last part of our audio segment, your task this weel will be to evaluate the show from another team and also self evaluate your own team’s show. 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/2013/03/17/spring-is-for-radio-shows/
 * Week 9 Announcement : http://ds106.us/2013/03/17/week-9-stories-inof-the-web/
 * Week 9 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/03/21/ds106-show-week-9-radio-shows-live-and-web-storymaking/

Week 10: Reading Movies
all work is due midnight March 31, 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/2013/03/25/week-10-how-to-read-movies/
 * Week 10 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/03/26/ds106-show-week-10-reading-movies/

Weeks 11 & 12: Movie Time
all work is due midnight April 14, 2012

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/2013/04/01/weeks-11-12-making-movies/
 * Week 11 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/04/02/ds106-show-week-11-making-movies/
 * 'Week 11 Open Lab : http://ds106.us/2013/04/05/open-lab-week-11-video-editing/
 * Week 12 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/04/09/ds106-show-week-12-more-making-movies/

Week 13 & 14: Remix
all work is due midnight April 28, 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/2013/04/15/weeks-13-14-ximer-and-mashup/
 * Week 13 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/04/16/ds106-show-week-13-remix/
 * Week 14 Show : http://ds106.us/2013/04/22/ds106-show-remixing-the-remixed/

Week 15: Final Project and Wrap Up
all work is due 7:00pm May 3, 2013


 * Final Project Specifications: http://ds106.us/2013/04/08/spring-2013-final-story-project-specs/
 * Week 15 Announcement: http://ds106.us/2013/04/22/week-15-the-end-is-near/