Timetable
Summary timetables for EDUC61712: Media and Information Literacy for semester 2, 2011-12, appear here. Please ensure that you look at the correct timetable as either a distance or an on-campus student. You will just confuse yourself by looking at both (or worse, the wrong one).
Distance learning timetable
Because you are free to explore these materials in whatever way you choose, the DL timetable covers only the deadlines for activities (and one or two other key dates in Drew’s and the university’s schedule, so you know). Please remember that most of these deadlines are recommendations. The only two deadlines which ‘really matter’ are the final assignment deadline and the synchronous session 2 deadline (as by that date you need to have prepared your presentation). Although, as said in the course introduction, should you lack confidence about your self-discipline, simply stick to the recommended deadlines.
- Monday 30th January. Course begins.
- By Friday 24th February: Complete work on the Researching a Topic activity and the Problem-Based Learning activity.
- Monday 27th February, 7.30 – 9.30pm or Wednesday 29th February, 10.30am – 12.30pm: The first synchronous session, on the triadic model, will take place. DL students should attend one or other of these. Use BB9 to log into the Wimba room for the class.
- By Friday 23rd March: Complete work on the Critical media analysis activity, and watch (and reflect on) the course films [LIST TO BE CONFIRMED]: “Supersize Me“, “Information Obesity”, and “The Deansgate Library“.
- 5th – 15th April inclusive: Note that Drew is on leave during this period. The Easter weekend is 6th – 9th April.
- Wednesday 25th – Friday 27th April: The second synchronous session will take place during this time. In this session you will each make a presentation of some kind which contributes to the task of critically reviewing the IL literature. The exact date and times will be arranged via a Doodle poll nearer the time.
- Wednesday 16th May 2012: FINAL COURSE DEADLINE. All portfolios should be submitted, into Blackboard 9, by 6pm British Summer Time on this date.
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On-campus learners’ timetable
You are less free to organise your own studies than the distance learners, solely because of our need to find a narrative to structure the weekly progression of classes, which will unfold as given below. All on-campus classes, except where noted, take place on Monday afternoons, 1.30pm-4pm, in room C2.32 (the one next to Drew’s office). Please bring your laptops or smartphones to these classes.
- Week 1: 30th January. Researching a topic.
- Week 2: 6th February. Problem-based learning.
- Week 3: 13th February. Field trip to the John Rylands library on Deansgate. We will make specific arrangements for this visit nearer the time.
- Week 4: 20th February. The triadic model of informational relationships.
- Week 5: 27th February. “Supersize Me” – analysed through a Media & IL lens.
- Week 6: 5th March. Critical media analysis.
There is then a gap of several weeks in the course. It is expected that you will use this time to engage with the readings, select key texts, and begin to prepare your presentation for the week 10 class, in which you critically review two texts.
Note that Drew is on leave between 5th – 15th April inclusive. The Easter weekend is 6th – 9th April.
- Week 9: 16th April. Information behaviour and cognitive biases.
- Week 10: 23rd April. Student presentations and discussions of the literature.
- Week 11: 30th April. Information literacy pedagogies.
There is no taught class in week 12, the last teaching week of the semester.
Wednesday 16th May 2012: FINAL COURSE DEADLINE. All portfolios should be submitted, into Blackboard 9, by 6pm British Summer Time on this date.
Media and Information Literacy by Andrew Whitworth/University of Manchester is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
