ENG101 is a practice of college writing. Students focus on critical and analytical skills through reading and listening and study aspects of argumentation including formulating theses; researching and identifying sources; evaluating and documenting sources; and communicating persuasively across contexts, purposes, and media.
Why Digital Literacy?
Digital Literacy: “[t]he capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it.” --Mike Ribble, "Passport to Digital Citizenship."Is the internet the same as the world-wide-web? How does the online world work and how has it changed? What are some useful, proper, and safe ways to navigate it? What is my role in it?
This course intends to help you become better educated about the internet and the world-wide-web. Thus our definition of “digital literacy” includes the capacity to decipher online media, how to behave and communicate properly in online environments, and how to manipulate online tools to create content on the web.
Why Wikipedia?
- With its global reach and circulation, Wikipedia is one of the current social experiments where people who care about making knowledge accessible to everyone can help disseminate information that is presently available only to a minute part of the world.
- Because editing Wikipedia is
- implementing and practicing 21st Century writing, which may be defined as a) web-based; b) social and collaborative; c) a work in perpetual progress; d) immediately visible, thus prompting immediate feedback; e) easily available and accessible.
- shifting from being knowledge consumers to being knowledge creators on the internet
- experiencing the pleasure and pain of real-world publication
- becoming involved in a community of smart, caring, helpful, sophisticated people
The Professors
Ximena Gallardo C. (a.k.a. Dr. X) is a gender and film scholar who has published and presented widely on issues of representation in popular culture. Her book, Alien Woman, a study of the representation of women and gender in the Alien film series, was co-authored with Dr. C. Jason Smith.Dr. X has been a Wikipedia editor since 2012 and a WikiEd instructor since 2014. With Ann Matsuuchi, she is currently coordinating two Wikipedia projects at LaGuardia: the first, to have LaGuardia students improve the entries of famed American speculative writer Octavia E. Butler, the "grand dame of science fiction." The second, in partnership with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, to improve Wikipedia coverage of the history of New York City.
Ann Matsuuchi is an instructional technology librarian and associate professor at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Her research interests include gender issues in science fiction, comic books and the work of sf writers Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler. Ann has been involved in educational outreach with the Wikimedia NYC chapter and has worked with instructors using Wikipedia in their courses at various colleges and in areas such as English, psychology, art, anthropology, and digital humanities.
Contact
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu amatsuuchi@lagcc.cuny.edu
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