New Media
in
Composition
Hypertextual
Appropriation
Juxtaposition
Imagery
Status Cloud Identity Reflection
Students will have started a Facebook account and updated their status 
at least 5 times a week for 8-10 weeks before this assignment. Using the 
Status Cloud application at http://apps.facebook.com/statustagcloud/   
students will produce a word cloud from their status updates. In the most
traditional of essay styles, they will then reflect on what the word cloud 
could mean about them. They will also need to incorporate some of the 
sources we have read in class to support what they say. 4-6 pages.
Group Activity Plan
Each student will plan, coordinate, and invite participants to an online or “real-life” activity (live chat, photo walk, party, fund raiser, service activity) based entirely on Facebook. The group will need to include at least two other members of the class, but is not limited to the number of people in that participate. They will report in an online discussion how the activity went.
Twitter Trends
Students will need to choose an emotionally charged word such as “black,” “poor,” “feminist,” homosexual,” “atheist,” and search once a week how this word is being used by Twitter users. They will always search for the same word, and compile the tweets into a corpus by copying and pasting the tweets they read into a Google Document. Around week six they will analyze what they have learned into a six to ten minute Prezi presentation. 
Visual Arguments
The students will need to create a Flickr account
and create a digital image or photo each week 
that makes a visual argument. There will be a class 
group on Flickr that they will need to add the 
photos to. 


Blog Synthesis
Students will create a Google account if they don’t have one, 
and add RSS feeds of seven to ten blogs on subject they 
choose to Google Reader. They will have to keep up to date 
with all of the blogs they choose. They will also need to create 
a blog through Blogger, Wordpress, or other Web 2.0 program 
and post weekly synthesizing what they have learned about 
their chosen subject through reading the blogs on their 
Google Reader account. Students will also need to add RSS 
feeds of all their classmates’ blogs to their Reader and make 
regular comments on each others’ entries.  
Wiki Communal Paper
The students will collectively 
write a paper on the influence 
of new media through a wiki. 
They will be responsible for 
checking the reliability of 
sources, they will decide the 
topic and thesis of the paper, 
they will format and proof 
read the paper, all together 
at the same time. On an 
online discussion board, 
students will post a reflection 
on their experience and reply 
to the posts of other students. 
Objectives
Course
The purpose of this course 
is to use the types of writing 
students participate in more 
often to learn and explore 
what makes "good writing" 
across genres, media and 
formats. 
At the end of this course, the students should be able to
-feel comfortable expressing themselves in multimodal new media
-understand basic principles of argument that transcend boundaries
of written and visual media
-feel comfortable using Web 2.0 applications in their daily interactions with others


Capstone Project
Students will produce a work of considerable depth and length combining  research and writing in the field of new media composition along with reflections on class activities and assignments. Students will be free to decide the format of this final project. Formal proposal will be submitted and approved by teacher.
Assignments
Expectations
-Students in this class will regularly participate in class activity and discussions. The                                                  

experience
is what this class is all about. 
-Students will bring their own knowledge and personal experiences with Web 2.0 applications and
their classmates how to use and get the most out of these applications.
-Students will produce 3000 level quality work
teach
This iseomthing new.