Syllabus

Date	Topics	Readings and Assignments
1/30	Class Goals and Expectations
2/6	Online discussion (from 2/6 until 2/19)	Shneiderman, Chapters 1 - 3 Garfinkel, Chapters 1 - 3
2/13	Individual consultations	Shneiderman, Chapters 4 - 5 Garfinkel, Chapters 4-5
2/20	Class	Shneiderman, Chapters 6 - 8 Brief Project Description
2/27	Online discussion (from 2/27 to 3/12)	Shneiderman, Chapters 9 - 10 Garfinkel, Chapters 6 - 8
3/6	Online discussion, cont.	Garfinkel, Chapters 9 - 11, Epilogue
3/13	Individual consultations and online discussion (from 3/13 through 4/2)	Greenfield, Intro through Section 3 Annotated bibliography
3/20	No class, Spring Break
3/27	Individual consulations	Greenfield, Section 4 through Section 7
4/3	Class
4/10	Online discussion (from 4/10 until 4/16) Sign up for a hotmail account; download the hotmail IM software and install it on your pc; make sure you add all your classmates' IM identities to your "buddy list" or whatever hotmail calls it. We will get together for trouble-shooting and "handshaking" a few minutes before 9 PM and once we've wrung out the kinks, will talk about the first half of The Social Life of Information. I will be having two days of meetings with Dr. Brown and would be happy to ask him to discuss his current views of this book with us. So use the chat time to try to think about what sorts of things you'd ask the authors.	Brown & Duguid, Intro through Chapter 4
4/17	Class	Brown & Duguid, Chapters 5 - 8 plus Afterward Literature review
4/24	Individual consultations
5/1	Individual consultations
5/8	To Be Determined
5/15	Full project proposals