Syllabus

Jan. 8: Orientation

  • What is TS 400 about? Who are you? What do you want to learn? What do you need to learn?
  • What are defining themes of course / our future?
  • Resources:
    •  Sugat Mitra, “Build a School in the Cloud”
    • https://OAC.uvic.ca/ts400

 Jan. 15: Conception

  • Exercise: Long-term thinking
  • DUE: Blog #1 and sign up for themes
  • Resources:

Jan. 22: Theme #1:

  • Guest #1:
  • Resources:

Jan. 23: Theme #2:

  • Guest #2:
  • DUE: Blog #2
  • Resources:

 Jan. 29: Theme #3:

  • Guest #3:
  • Resources:
    •    DELETE
  • DUE: Book Review posted online (text, video, audio)

 Feb. 5: Theme #4: The Virtual Self, Self-Tracking

  • Guest #4: Nora Young, host of CBC’s Spark

Resources:

    •    The Virtual Self 

 Feb. 12: Reading Break

 Feb. 19: Theme #5:

  • Guest #5:
  • DUE: Blog #3
  • Resources:

 Feb. 26: Workshop Class

  • Guest #6: Scott Amos, digital media artist
  • Resources:
    •    ARIS software

 March 5: Theme #5:

  • Guest #7:
  • DUE: Blog #4
  • Resources:

 March 12: Theme #6:

  • Guest #8:
  • Resources:
  •  DUE: Self-tracking data visualization

 March 19: Theme #6:

  • Guest #9:
  • DUE: Blog #5
  • Resources:
  • DUE:

March 26: Launch

  • DUE: Presentations of Group Projects

April 2: Launch

  • DUE: Presentations of Group Projects, part 2